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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Well, in my case because I don't think the basic combat system in D&D improved much over time. Virtually all the things that made... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.This is a bad example here. Almost all animals, and certainly humans, can do a basic dogpaddle style swim if they don't panic when in...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Yeah, it becomes pretty clear over time that treating knowledge skills like task skills doesn't really produce things that meet the...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Incenjucar's post in the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again. with
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Pathfinder Society play has quite a bit centered on hero points, with various boon effects based on your faction. Pathfinder actually... -
Thomas Shey reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Yes. Yes I did. Exactly this.
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Well, as the most absolutely basic element regarding the question the thread poses, it kind of is the benchmark as far as I can see...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Yes. The trick is getting the balance right, so that it's a non-obvious decision in either direction.
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.You wouldn't have to do that as a roll, though. You could have "Anyone with Skill Total X in Skill Y knows this particular piece of...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
False. Making the roll, and failing, doesn't leave the character worse off than not "trying". Zero risk to trying. (In quotes because...
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Thomas Shey reacted to soviet's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I think 'roll to see if you know something' is itself poor design. 'Everyone has at least a 5% chance to know anything' is also bad...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.The problem with this is it turns into a degenerate case where the roll is almost pointless a lot of time because ot the probabilities...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.There are things your chance of success approaches nil if you're untrained in, though most of them are post-industrial. But someone...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.I'll be upfront here: "combat" and "as exciting as in OD&D" are two phrases that don't go together IME. Its one reason I bailed out of...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.You only tend to see that when the risk of making things worse is higher than the chance of making them better really. I.e. fumbles...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.It was, however, a houserule when used; it wasn't baked into the system. And you could always question how much the fighter in the...