Recent content by M_Natas

Maybe as an adjustment: If you cast the spell normally, it is the normal action, but you can enhance/upcast it, but you have to wait for beginning of the next round to finish casting (or 2 rounds, 3 rounds ...). You can sling a fireball as an action, or you wait a round and do Max. Damage on the...

So, lets see if my arcane blaster-idea can scratch the Itch of a "simple" caster class (limited to 10 Levels, right now): Arcane Blaster An Arcane Blaster is a soldier trained to wield raw magic as a weapon. They are not taught theory, spell formulas, or arcane traditions. Instead, their bodies...

This, when I started out playing with my Nephews who were 5 and 8 at the time - the younger one played a sorcerer. And it worked, because I went with him trough his spell casting choices and what his character could do ... like, if you have a more or less experienced DM or Player helping the...

Actually ... ^^ Some monsters have those cooldown abilities (Recharge 5,6). But yeah, PCs don't have those.

Hrm, I mean, it is true. Even if we just look at generic combat ability as the thing we want to focus on, looking at DPR from a single character in a vacuum is pretty pointless. When I reverse-engineered the 5e 2014 monster math using Champion Fighter and Wizard as a baseline for an average...

It was asked who should be the simple caster, not who is. And thematically Sorcerer (and also Warlock) fit a simple casting class. Because both didn't earn their magic in the fiction, they either just have it, because of daddy's genetics or it was given to them by their daddy patron. So it is...

Yeah, the dnd Legacy makes that hard. Thematically, a Sorcerer or Warlock would make sense as simples, because both didn't got ther magic trough Training and Hard Work. One is just Born with it, the other toon a short cut trough a pact. But the current Player base would reject the notion to dumb...

For casting, I would totally add different Casting Times. Like always Bonus Action, Reaction and Action, but also: An action and the effect takes place at the beginning of your next round (so when you cast this, it can be interrupted by attacking you akin to concentration between the two...

I mean, not really. With my system, instead of one optimal spell list (90% of all wizards take the same spells) there is now one for each school of magic. So 8 different optimal spell lists, because you can't access the other schools of magic better spells, because they are gated behind...

This is my proposed solution to the wizard class: https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-specialist-wizard-the-wizard-2-0.700649/ The problem is, that they basically don't have much choice. When you go tona burger restaurant, you will pick one of 10 different kind of burgers (classes with...

Thats why my system locks spells behind proficiency and expertise requirements. The 5e Wizard has the big problem that, no matter what subclass you pick, any wizard player will pick the same 90% of spells and only like 10% of unique spells that fit that subclass. The base wizard class is so...

My 6e would be... a heavily modified 5e. Design principles is to make running the game at the table as easy as possible. So focus in support for In Person Play. Fixing Rests: A good night's rest gives you 1hp+Con and the lowest spent spellslots / or 1 mana + spell casting ability modifier. Add...

Read the rest of the post, maybe? I apply that to DM-players and PC-Players. And if anyone has a red line that is incompatible, he can't play with the person who wants to cross that red line.

Evil PCs, certain races, R Rated games, that are all okay on their own. Some DMs just don't want to do that and thats okay, too. Wr are talking here about a game about pretend and everybody has different red lines. Personally in my games you can play a tortle guy. My settings are full of...

One GM has chelonaphobia.