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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General Design issues with 5e.Citation needed! That sounds a lot the kind of sage posterior wisdom that did tsr in. You say that "modern players" quite... -
tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General Design issues with 5e.Buying items in town is pretty much the point. The auctions happen when they happen a the table avoids descending into a shopping...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General Design issues with 5e.On this tangent is somewhat solved by between session "Vickrey auction". It's a sealed bid auction where the winner pays the second...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General Design issues with 5e.The big problem with trying to price magic items and make that into z gold sink or any sort of motivating upgrade chain sorta thing is...
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tetrasodium reacted to rmcoen's post in the thread D&D 5E (2014) Do You Start At Level 1? with
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Starting at level 1 allows the players to understand their characters' abilities better and internalize their starting place. Even if... -
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned is the crappiness of treasure in 5e. Not the magic items I think those are generally fine (as...
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In reading over the entire thread, so far it seems the most common answer is the skills system. I agree with that, so if we are looking...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General Design issues with 5e.Your personal heartbreaker trrpg house rule collection is not particularly relevant l, but you very much seem to be using it to defend...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General Design issues with 5e.We are talking about PC race choices https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostWritersAreHuman What the heck does your table look...
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tetrasodium replied to the thread D&D General Design issues with 5e.One of those is extremely more valuable than the others. I think that the point was the fact that without the +2/-2 [+racial boons]...
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tetrasodium reacted to Steady Vane's post in the thread D&D General Design issues with 5e with Like.
Simplicity and granularity is a scale, but I think 5e is slightly, not very, too far to one side. If you have every character trying to...
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tetrasodium reacted to W'rkncacnter's post in the thread D&D General Design issues with 5e with Like.
i don't really care for "humans as quick versatile learners" tbh. i prefer "humans are cockroaches", but "humans are lynchpins of...
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tetrasodium reacted to UngeheuerLich's post in the thread D&D General Design issues with 5e with Like.
On a different note : Hit points as someone else mentioned... gygax got it right: capped HP after name level... or at least better...
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Not to pick on you here as others upthread have said similar things, but giving only bonuses or improvements without at the same time...
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tetrasodium reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D General Design issues with 5e with Like.
i'm sure we could find a form of granularity that doesn't take multiple hours, overly simplistic combat doesn't appeal to me.