Recent content by tetrasodium

Optional and variant rules. A better skill system, the missing tactical grid combat that 5e simplified away, and rules with a higher standard than "Crawford had a ball" that recognize not every player is going to self moderate like he did. Just as a few examples

Citation needed! That sounds a lot the kind of sage posterior wisdom that did tsr in. You say that "modern players" quite authoritatively without any source or data for the claim l, is it just an N=1 survey of your own personal experience in your personal circle of players? In my experience...

Buying items in town is pretty much the point. The auctions happen when they happen a the table avoids descending into a shopping session where the party's diplomancer or rogue just makes the pain worse for everyone else. When it comes to the party saying "huh none of us want this, let's sell...

On this tangent is somewhat solved by between session "Vickrey auction". It's a sealed bid auction where the winner pays the second highest bid. The auction type encourages bidders to bid around the actual value and the gm can manage results somewhat with NPCs bidding above bids that aren't...

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 the fact that 5e was designed in a way that results in magic items overloading the math starting with the very first magic item.. that's not a trivial fix to...

Your personal heartbreaker trrpg house rule collection is not particularly relevant l, but you very much seem to be using it to defend the published official version everyone else is discuss as if they are one and the same. There is and it's about a quarter century old by now...

We are talking about PC race choices https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostWritersAreHuman What the heck does your table look like where it's not humans creating the PCs? You ignored the entire point about nonhumsn races not having the budget for distinctive racial stuff that still...

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] humans wind up having their fluff/lore cake's niche and every other race's because PC's are always specialists. That's important because the -2 gave the demihuman...

Since your entire point about boring bag of HP is being ignored and dismissed with silly debate over if people dislike the potential long term impact of negative levels a party could be terrified of but not particularly impacted by in the long term due to many system differences that kept it a...

It wasn't as big of a deal as you suggest. On top of the experience scaling needing more and more each level 3.x experience award rules had a multiplier or something that applied to lower level party members to catch up quickly it would pretty quickly have little more impact than missing a...

4e had bounded accuracy but the 5e bounded accuracy is broken by design. Monsters are bounded but PCs are expected to exceed the math monsters assume. Likewise with skill checks and the dc ladder There is a lot of detail on it here...

No assumption needed.youwrote something that only really applies to pre-3.5 negative levels. This right here: There are probably other examples but the "-1 effective level (whenever the creature’s level is used in a die roll or calculation, reduce it by one for each negative level)" is going...

Hardly. I used the wrong url for the negative level link and fixed (it was linking to the wight instead of negative level writeup),but you are thinking about old-school negative levels that actually removed levels. 3.5 negative levels resulted in: A creature takes the following penalties for...

I did but wanted to give you a fair chance but since you like images It's hard to find a better example than ghouls for of a monster going from interesting with a somewhat unique & terrifying role that doesn't depend on being a cthulu in power armor analog or having a Terex scale load of Hit...