Recent content by THEMNGMNT

I'm hoping this book includes the stats for Felf.

I'm more of an Elmore guy.

Welcome to the suck. I ran a 122 session 5E 2014 campaign that ended with 20th level characters with 7 epic boons. It was a bit much. At high levels, the game doesn't break. But the characters have so many resources that combat takes longer to arbitrate at the same time it takes more enemies...

Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight.

This is advice I posted in a similar thread a while back... Storm King's Thunder can be a great adventure, with some work. I ran a 1-20 level campaign that mashed up Lost Mine of Phandelver, Tyranny of Dragons, and Storm King's Thunder. Sort of. I changed just about everything. But those...

At what point are we going to talk about GAMMA WORLD? I'd be perfectly happy with a 5E version.

A few thoughts on this topic... In 4E, WotC released a two volume campaign setting for the Forgotten Realms. It was hated. They also released a single volume campaign setting for the city of Neverwinter (which is in the Realms). It was loved. My point being, campaign settings can cover a very...

My 13th Age "Eyes of the Stone Thief" campaign just celebrated its 2nd anniversary. We have about 60 sessions done and 10 to go. My next campaign will be a 5.5E Dalelands campaign that should go to about 12th level.

I think a lot of these d20 fantasy games could have been grouped together, but whatever... I voted for 5E (which I've probably played more than any other game at this point), Cortex (I've only played Marvel Heroic Roleplyaing a handful of times but I found the system mind-expanding), and Shadow...

How else can you evaluate it?

Yes. But I almost never see that. It's a combination of unbalanced classes plus system mastery. I have a few players who are always looking for the exploit and a few players who don't make character decisions based on numbers. But every player notices, eventually, when one player is dominant in...

For me, it's character-focused.

This is basically what I do in every campaign and system. I watch to see which characters are dominant and which are not. The ones that are struggling get magic items to bring them up to parity. The other characters...don't.

My biggest (?) critique of 5E is 1) full casters have too many spells and 2) too much overlap in their spell lists. Another way of phrasing this is that spellcasting takes up so much of their power budget that they all feel the same. So I really like the idea of 3/4 casters. Which is...

Circle of the Sea is a cool subclass, but should have been called Circle of the Storm. It's a good mechanical fit for a "Thor" or "Storm" inspired character.