Recent content by Steady Vane

It is a failure of the game design when it no longer caters to the community that used to play it. This is the 4e arguments all over again. No matter how much it is belittled, not "feeling" like what you want out of D&D is a valid complaint, and always has been. Perhaps I am a grognard, but I...

His reticence on the 2024 rules reminds me a lot of A Knight At The Opera, another 5e blog that found themselves not liking the new edition's moves despite wanting to. It takes guts to say you aren't jiving with the direction the ruleset you've made your name on is now going. I think people are...

As for not valuing the conditions properly using this system, short answer yes. You are totally right, the quirks lead to undervalued status effects in general it sure looks like

Hey so I was using the average real values by CR from Blog of Holding and Forge of Foes. That was the data points lol, the DMG guidelines are kind of skewed from what monsters turned out to be. You can technically get to the printed monster stats by following the DMG guidelines but it takes a...

Spell design does follow the 2014 DMG table rather closely. The notable exceptions are that 1st level spells tend to do slightly more than the table suggests, so as are not outclassed by cantrips; and that at every spell level around two spells do more than the table because WOTC felt like it...