Recent content by rocket1969

Hey--i'm new here and I don't mean to go with the snark right away...but I started with the first ed and have been playing pen and paper for 35 years. I left DnD a long time ago and only recently have come back with 5E. And while 5e is light years ahead of the previous versions IMO--it still has...

Yeah--but that is in essence the problem i have with DnD. It isn't really an RPG "system"...it is a very particular set of rules that works within a very particular setting. It is DnD. And it is what it is..y'dig? Right now I'm working on a post apocalyptic world for 5E--with exactly the same...

With respect--I wouldn't like to see psionics as a class. I could see them as a set of feats.

OOo Ooo--so much of this is in my new 5E campaign. First off...a small outpost of goblins that were not evil were routed and killed by elves when they were driven to the surface. a) So far the low level magic is really not game imbalancing. Though admittedly we have only a bard as caster. The...

hmmm...i'm gming a bunch of 5e campaigns in a homebrew world. and i hate dnd for a number of reasons--5e is getting there to bring me around but-- 1-clerics. clerics bug me---healing with a touch is an amazing power--a cleric would be a founder of a cult in and of himself...but in this...

i'm playing it as written. Ready serves the purpose good enough and frankly a melee is a confusing messed up clash of individuals. a druid, fighter, rogue, bard and monk are not a spartan phalanx. To put it another way--as my coach (stealing it from somewhere else) told me before i got in the...

Well thought out. i guess the main difference in the arguments is one of rules versus reality. A shield in reality is very much a weapon. in the game not so much. I'd play it as a two weapon fighting circumstance with the shield not being a light weapon. Point of fact--a sword and shield wielder...