Recent content by robocoastie

I know your posts are quite old but if anyone still is looking for these I second doing Reavers of Harkenwold. The problem though is straight conversion 4e to 5 is a real problem and it's not 4e's fault. The MM takes no consideration for "level" of monster but instead returned CR, which I hate...

If you want to fight and heal then you need to be a Paladin or (even better) a warpriest. I really despise the anti-cleric and anti-fighter movement. I've never even been a fan of Paladins and Rangers because they take away the fighters job. All a "paladin" should be is a fighter who is...

I agree partly. I actually like most of 4e. I've never been a fan of Vancian magic but there has always been houserules to get around that. Also many of the "at will" spells 4e gets criticized for are really no different than carrying multiple magic charged wands around, if you want to re-create...

So far Next seems to be a slightly revised 3.5 which is what 4e should have been. I don't agree that Pathfinder is what 4e should have been though, I find Pathfinder incredibly complicated, character creation takes almost as long as GURPS does for example. If Next is truly more "OD&D/Basic play"...

you've become too restricted to the anal retentive skills introduced into 3.x and which permeates MMORG's. MicroLite20 takes after the philosophy of original D&D in which rules were fudged or even ignored and more was left up to the PLAYER than the character. RP done correctly would allow the...