Paul Farquhar's latest activity
-
Paul Farquhar reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General 5e System Redesign through New Classes and Setting. A Thought Experiment. with
Like.
You're conflating role-playing complexity with mechanical complexity. They are not the same. Forcing them to strategize - i.e. adding... -
Paul Farquhar reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General 5e System Redesign through New Classes and Setting. A Thought Experiment. with Like.
Not seeing a lot of faith in your fellow gamer here. We were all new once, and we all worked through to get better.
-
Paul Farquhar reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D General 5e System Redesign through New Classes and Setting. A Thought Experiment. with Like.
5.5 has already removed encounters per day. Its an art form not a science. We've had 3 editions in a row essentially suck at it...
-
Paul Farquhar reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
D&D isn't a board game. Even then people ignore rules Monopoly comes to mind. The people who designed 5E and gave feedback were...
-
Paul Farquhar reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D General 5e System Redesign through New Classes and Setting. A Thought Experiment. with Like.
Even older D&D didn't do that. They're finally figuring out thr CR system along with encounter design rules are bad. Main reason...
-
Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General 5e System Redesign through New Classes and Setting. A Thought Experiment..The biggest factor that determines the difficulty of an encounter is the skill of the players.
-
Paul Farquhar reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General 5e System Redesign through New Classes and Setting. A Thought Experiment. with Like.
Does any book that uses CR refer to it as a training system you should eventually wean yourself off of?
-
Paul Farquhar reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
And a tighter design might disrupt that whole spectrum.
-
Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D General 5e System Redesign through New Classes and Setting. A Thought Experiment..What does your gut tell you? Since 1st edition that has been the most reliable method.
-
Paul Farquhar reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D General 5e System Redesign through New Classes and Setting. A Thought Experiment. with Like.
CR doesn't do that anyway. You can win vs almost double your level.
-
Paul Farquhar reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
XYZ encounters per day was a bad idea in 3E as well. Idea hung around for to long.
-
Paul Farquhar reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General 5e System Redesign through New Classes and Setting. A Thought Experiment. with Like.
People managed to muddle through before 3e introduced CR. It's not IMO needed.
-
Paul Farquhar reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Hellfire Club Starter Set with Like.
Based on the theme of the starter set, and the "author" being Eddie it kind of makes sense that it's dungeon crawls since it's an 80s...
-
Paul Farquhar replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Hellfire Club Starter Set.In that it’s marketed to Stranger Things fans who may have never played D&D before. They couldn’t really say in small print “you must...
-
Paul Farquhar reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) [+] What does a non-spellcaster Psion need/look like? with Like.
Definitely. So I agree that psionics should not require material components (well perhaps some focusing crystals or something like...