Recent content by Neonchameleon

This confuses me because AD&D 2e is dead, buried, and rotted. It's not relevant to anything. There has arguably been at most one 2e splatbook this century (the Priest's Spell Compendium Volume 3 came out in 2000). By using AD&D 2e as your basis for comparison when even the quarter of a century...

Game balance is information. There is nothing inherently unbalanced about either a goblin or the Tarrasque (or one of your ultra big dragons). It's not even imbalanced to throw the Tarrasque at a level 3 party and watch them run - that's what the fiction indicates should happen. It would be...

Which came first? The chicken or the egg. (I know, I know. It's the chicken). But do you have a game if you don't have the framework of a story? With no objectives is it even a game? But I'm seeing a category error here; I believe you taught computer game design rather than tabletop roleplaying...

And there are explicit healing spells for curing actual injuries.

But the "healing magic" required of course neither repairs even remotely significant injuries nor cures disease. You need spells like Regeneration and Lesser Restoration for that.

What? A group of people who can't agree what their acronym stands for disagree on what the play is? Surely not! And long live that disagreement and willingness to try new things.

But there's a reason I call Pathfinder APs the Ideal Homes magazine of ttrpgs. It's not about pure creativity but also vibes and imagery.

As an aside modules are almost absent from the "post-Forge" PbtA/FitD end of the hobby. You create your settings as a part of character, and points of the setting have conflicts with the PCs. And the adventure spirals from. the potential consequences on every roll, tied far more closely to the...

It's a power pick, certainly. And one of the power picks for multiclassing. At Tier 1 there is no problem at all. Druids get some scout forms. They've flexibility. The Tier 2 Pouncing Predator form isn't overpowered compared to a normal PC with a tier 2 weapon. But as most PCs don't get tier 2...

Which applies every bit as much to a tortured mess of 3.5 prestige classes, when you're not making choices level by level but making them in advance as it does to monoclassing when you aren't making choices level by level but making them in advance. Meanwhile IMO if you aren't making choices...

Which is exactly the problem. If your character grows but the growth is on rails then you are playing the build not playing the character. There is precisely no fundamental difference between deciding in advance "I will play a cleric to level 20 or as far as the game goes" than deciding in...

As player? Currently Brindlewood Bay As GM (and possibly as player)? Some of my own homebrews. Possibly getting them to publishable level. Also I want to actually play Draw Steel before working on Major Property Damage.

This ties into my big beef as a player with 5e. If you do not multiclass then for most classes once you have hit level 4 you can reach level 11 and have made a grand total of a single choice about how the character grows as opposed to what equipment you use (and divine spells are equipment...

If (a) 5.24 had been interesting and (b) Daggerheart hadn't come out I might have stuck with 5.24 as my "D&Desque". But when running Daggerheart does everything I want to use 5e to do significantly better while being both simple enough and near enough that it's not a huge leap. If someone else...

I don't see how it could have. If there was a large demand for simulationism then people would have found or made a simulationist game with less toxic associations than ACK has or a less toxic OSR game would have drifted that way. And e.g. GURPS still exists. If there's only one major game doing...