Recent content by SilentBoba

Derren, I agree with your response. It just seemed like quite a number of responders here were essentially coming up with impregnable defenses for protecting the evil mage. A DM can always do that. I hope what the DM does is come up with a reasonable plan based on the mage's level of...

Is your goal to challenge the party or screw their plan royally and probably kill them? While I agree they shouldn't be able to just swoop in, grab the mage, and swoop out, thus breaking an entire army's morale, I also don't think you should punish their creativity if they still come up with...

It seems to be an issue of scope. WotC seemed like it wanted to go all in with a digital initiative, but either doesn't or can't pay for the level of development needed to get to that point. I wish they would start smaller, frankly. Provide some bare bones tools and expand upon them as...

evilbob-- agreed completely. Casting low level spells all day long in previous editions was the bane of a point system because the effective power of the spell was not tied to points, but rather to caster level. A 9th level wizard slinging Magic Missile was paying minimum points for a 5d4+5...

Mouseferatu: I want to make sure I understand correctly that you don't have the mental energy to do simple math, but you have the mental energy to play a caster. To Lanefan: I like the "everybody uses open slots" idea, but are you giving the sorcerer anything to offset the fact that now the...

If you could unlearn 30+ years of D&D, I think you could readily digest spell points and mana if you were a reader of fantasy or a gamer who has played any game of resource management. I think spell slots would come across as bizarre and non-intuitive in comparison. However, add all that...

I could see hitting exactly the AC needed could result in the weapon doing only base weapon damage, if that's how a group wants to house rule. But regardless, winging it like this when you move beyond a colorful way of saying "you barely missed" into "you kind of hit, but..." with no structure...

I just started playing Dragon Age: Inquisition. At one point I was exploring a few rooms of a castle that looked reasonably realistic as a design. Aside from one big knot of defenders and a few outlying ranged attackers, there was nothing of interest in the castle. Or perhaps I should say the...

I didn't see in the DMG listing that DEX modifiers apply. It seemed to me it was the straight die roll modified only by the action you were taking. Or was the DEX assumed by the "roll initiative" part? I would think when presenting options that something like a DEX modifier would be...

The only thing I'm certain of changing at this point is the Skill & Background system: I say "thing" and not "things" because I want to integrate the two more closely as 13th Age does backgrounds: basically each character can have a primary background that allows them two areas of interest (a...

The arguments for and against delaying are quite interesting, if a bit heated. I think for our group we might go with a "slot" approach for round 1 only. Each PC or monster group/named NPC rolls initiative as normal, but the result is an open slot at that initiative count. When the slot comes...

Seems like it might be helpful to do simple group initiative if your players work well together. Let them make a battle plan as a group and then figure out their own order each turn, which is a bit more engaging than waiting for their number at the crowded deli line. Likewise this makes the...

The best company for dice is a beer and a bag of Doritos.

I think if you envision more open spell lists, you essentially have to reinvent the classes accordingly, and probably remove most of them because they'd be redundant.

Whether the long rest takes a day or multiple days, whether the short rest takes minutes or hours, if the party isn't pressed for time somehow, why would they choose to press on? And if they are pressed for time, the best they can probably hope for is a short rest anyway. The DM can always...