Recent content by Reef

Your choice, but you are missing out. If Boba Fett and Kenobi were the karmic price we had to pay for Andor, I’d happily pay it again. Not only was Andor the best Star Wars I’ve seen in decades, it was one of the best shows I’ve seen…period. And so eerily relevant, I’m amazed they got away...

Fair enough. I’m not necessarily good at parsing trailers, it seems :)

In isolation, this looked interesting! On the other hand, I’m having a hard time imaging how this is going to work, since we’re talking about (at least one) Green Lantern. I mean, on one side it seems we have a corrupt small town sheriff. And on the other, someone who routinely deals with...

But...but...her knees! And she's just a sock away from baring ankle! 😀

Just when I thought I was out... I'm not sure what you want me to say here. Intended or not (and to be honest, I don't believe a comment during the Playtest necessarily applies to the final rules, but for the sake of argument, lets say it does), it's a done deal. All that we can do now is to...

Well, I certainly feel chastened. I’m obviously mixing up rules, either from other versions or other games. As I have a clear memory of a Rule Zero style sidebar in either the PHB or DMG. Clearly I am wrong. And I apologize for any confusion or consternation I may have caused.

That's fine. I appreciate the quote, as I hadn't seen it. It still doesnt change the fact that you are allowed to ignore it if it is not right for your game! That's also an explicit rule. That's not being adversarial, if it is making for a worse game for your group (which it sounds like it...

And..that's where you lose me. Because that's awfully convoluted to get on average 1 extra point of damage a round. And sure, mechanically it works, and some players will kill for 1 extra point of damage. But I can't help but ask the rogue why exactly their character is putting away their...

They obviously would! But none of that requires any weapon juggling.

I can see that. And draw cuts are cool :). I guess it’s just that draw cuts are cool at the start of the fight, but resheathing three weapons just so you can do three draw cuts every six seconds is what kills my disbelief. I guess that’s what I think was intended by the draw rules…allowing...

Were they clear that they expect you to be able to juggle multiple weapons every round to maximize masteries? Or were they just clear that they didn’t want players to stress about having a weapon available when they attack? Two different things. And I’m not being rhetorical, I’m generally...

Movies do have crazy fight choreography, and I wouldn’t be adverse to having incredible feats show up occasionally. But it’s the constant, robotic routine of weapon juggling that destroys it. It’s not a cinematic, climatic moment of the hero slashing with his great sword, dropping it...

I’m going to have to respectfully disagree here. The DM is not being adversarial by saying “Stop abusing the rules”. Or, if you are willing to die on the hill that weapon juggling was 100% RAI, there is nothing wrong with the DM saying “Hey party people, this rule (while 100% legitimate) is...

I love martials. Prefer them to casters much of the time. So I’m certainly not sad to see them get interesting things. It’s one of the reasons I was glad to see Masteries. But what you are suggesting is having fighter stop and choose a different mastery on every single weapon swing. That...

I’m pretty sure that example is why it’s not agnostic. That just sounds like a nightmare to run to me. If players could do that, I’d switch over to the side who are against Masteries (and I currently love them)…