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Difficulty Numbers: Scaling, or Static?
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One problem with just rolling skill checks is - when do you stop? How often do you need to roll stealth to sneak through a town or into...
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What Does Your Cosmology Look Like?
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Ever since I saw the 4E cosmology, I liked it the most and am mostly taking that as a base assumption for my ideas. I think the main...
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Difficulty Numbers: Scaling, or Static?
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That reminds me of something from Night's Black Agent (or Gumshoe as underlying core system?) had: You had Investigative skills where...
Tuesday at 8:34 PM
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Difficulty Numbers: Scaling, or Static?
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I tend to prefer static DCs for fixed tasks. But I also like to know how hard something is relative to the players, so being able to say...
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I am also not sure I would call that a railroad, but I really don't like pure puzzles and riddles, either. They always involve guessing...
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I seem to remember reading this one, or about it, because i don't seem to have it. Maybe I borrowed it from another player? The part...
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I've been a player of 4th Edition since 2011, returning to it several times even since 2014 where getting a 5e game together is...
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It never occured to me that the plot "your stuff got stolen" was particularly common, I've not had any adventures involving that yet. I...
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I think almost stealing the tuning forks probably caused more afront than if you had simply stopped planar travel magic working because...
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1) He's not wrong that that's railroading, imo. Because to me one of the most classic forms of railroading is "DM changes the rules/way...
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Today, I played a bit of Cleared Hot. A helicopter action game. Don't know what the genre is actually called, but you have a top-down...
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But does that mean that more rules need to be devoted to the non-combat stuff, or just that combat needs less rules and everything else...
Feb 7, 2026
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I think the players I played with never dumped INT. You wanted the Combat Expertise chain, it had some very useful feats to get extra...
Feb 7, 2026
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I don't really know enough about the situation and the way you communicated, but as a player, I could see the following reason why it...
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