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I just moved to San Diego recently and am looking for a group in the 92107 area. I've been roleplaying forever, in my early 30s now. Lots of experience with a variety of systems from Amber Diceless to Fate to D&D of all editions. I'm open to pretty much any game potentially but the things...

What you're missing is that actually picking and choosing 70% of your wealth vs. getting random or DM assigned stuff is very, very powerful. I've found that the characters who choose their own stuff are much more powerful.

I sorted this out in my game by using a different standard array -- A good starting array of stats for example by the rules is: 17 14 14 10 10 8 Characters in my game all assign: 17 15 14 14 10 8 This results in broader, but not particularly more powerful characters. It basically gives you an...

In my game, the characters level every session and choose new gear every few sessions (per the DMG rules on higher level characters). It's too much book keeping to give out as much treasure as they are supposed to get per level in a session. We do not keep track of money at all except in terms...

Just to update everyone with what we decided: In my game, double weapons are losing the "defensive" quality and the double sword will count as only a light blade or a heavy blade (per the user's preference). That way it's essentially exactly like a scaled up short sword, which is how it should...

The fighter can threaten multiple with his challenge -- but he only gets one immediate a turn so ought not to be able to get more than one challenge attack in a turn. so he challenges 4 guys with an AOE, but if all of them shift/move/attack someone else he only gets one attack. Also, the...

Wow, you're right. That is absolutely brutal. Welcome to craghammer town. It's the others that require paragon.

The whole shocktrooper thing seems irrelevant since it requires paragon multiclassing, and a paragon path, and you can't have both.

Does a scourge count as both a heavy and light blade? It's that + defensive that is so good. Plus the savings on getting two weapons of course.

I think that, if you remove double weapons, they seem balanced. -3AC is a significant price to pay.

I imagine this may have been discussed to death, but recently one of my players has been fiddling with a tempest with a double sword, and it feels - if you do it by the book - that it's a little overpowered. I'd be interested if anyone has a link to the numbers on comparative damage and defenses...

Pg 143 of the DMG. One level 13 item, one level 12, one level 11, and a level 11's worth of gold to spend on other items/rituals/expendables/etc.