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Mannahnin reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with
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Two (related) thoughts while driving home just now: A very common complaint is about monsters sometimes feeling like "just big bags of... -
Mannahnin reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Level Up's skill specialties, expertise (and hindrance) dice, and the journey systems with their exploration challenges are to me just...
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Mannahnin reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I've expressed my feeling about backgrounds as a substitute for skills, so I shan't belabor it. But even backgrounds are adding...
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Mannahnin reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Its not a question of introducing "granularity" though; it was a question of introducing a resolution system for them at all. The...
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Mannahnin reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Depends how long you expect combat to go. There are D&D adjacents where you might roll 3-5 rolls in a given combat. There are...
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Mannahnin reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Says who? The numbers, and the expectation that you won't go through characters like cordwood. Even if you avoid combat when possible...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+].Is being, say, 1 level ahead not "being better"?
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Mannahnin reacted to Artamo's post in the thread Your most pointless TV/movie/book nitpicks with Like.
My favorite nitpick is when a movie has an implausible chase scene in a famous city that ultimately takes people from one end of the...
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Mannahnin reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Characters are expected to succeed in the majority of combats they get into too, but that doesn't mean you don't go through process, for...
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Mannahnin reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I think you're vastly overoptimistic in how often one can avoid that sort of thing. And rolling against an attribute is a poor man's...
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Mannahnin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Eh, if your table is having drama over whether someone's soldier background should give them advantage on a roll to recognize the flag...
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Mannahnin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
You don't need to base it on actual granular skills, though. In Shadowdark, characters get advantage on anything they might reasonably...
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Mannahnin reacted to JohnSnow's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I think I would like Level Up if I were not pathologically opposed to making 5e (especially combat) more complex and tedious. I’ve...
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Mannahnin reacted to Tesral's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Yes. Especially by the 3e skill system. Again D&D is a "No" system. Put down that interesting idea and get back in your box. You...
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Mannahnin reacted to Staffan's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Marvel Super Heroes, in various versions. They pretty much all have both rules for rolling your own supers and for translating ones from...