Recent content by TigerDude

I think that as a player I want to adventure, not spend my efforts shopping for things I can't afford. Obviously if you make you players righ quickly they'll have plate mail as soon as they can afford it. If you let them buy magic items then they'll be decked out with everything if you let...

I think everyone has covered it, but in summary it's neither inefficient nor useless. Yes, a rat or spider is a great scout. And yes, scouting means splitting the party. Sorry cleric, keep your heavy plate mail where you are, I'll go see what the enemy camp is like. Note that your spider or...

You can't use a longbow without 13 str, which seems like a good compromise to me. Longbows are fantastic, it's bad to avoid them.

Good observation. In effect, it buffs two handed weapons if you make better magic shields harder to find.

Elven Chain is either a +1 Chain Shirt or +1 Chain Mail and thus is either Medium or Heavy armor. It is defined as being either in the 2024 DMG, but also specified as such in the basic rules: "Armor (Chain Mail or Chain Shirt), Rare."...

Archetypes built via tech trees are still archetypes

A fighter with 6 int could be fun, but back then we didn't have a choice on where to put the crap stat. My 6 Str Thief sucked.

No lack of distinction between Warlocks and the other 2? Really? Because Warlocks sure play differently. I look at Wizards and Sorcs as different species in the same genus like lions and tigers. Warlocks are a different biology family, they just do some of the same things, like tigers &...

I'm out, the rules of the game seem to have changed: "Chromatic Orb is super strong because paralyzed targets." Wow.

I don't understand your paralyzed comments. If CO is better against Paralyzed opponents, that's a bit of a different argument, though now FB gets auto-fails on saves. The thread isn't "FB vs CO Late Tier 2 against paralyzed targets thoughts." Getting back to straight rolls, at L8, I expect to...

But why? The damage doesn't support this conclusion. I've seen "But I can add metamagic to CO" but how about you can metamagic FB as well. The key thing that makes FB good is it always does damage. To-hit spells miss and do nothing. Sometimes you need to do damage.

So the consensus is damage is probably not the thing to do for spells, but the original premise was somehow that Chromatic Orb was good. Still haven't seen how that is the case.

How many did you hit? 7? Level 4 fireball = let's say 23 damage per critter, either ~ 31 or 16. That's a lot of damage. L4 CO is 6d8, 27 if you hit, maybe you hit another couple, but it sucks when you miss and as a True Strike Cleric, you do miss. How is this so much better exactly? Burn...

Too hard to stay alive, too hard to level, race restrictions, MC restrictions.

I for one would prefer to adventure instead of being a craftsperson or contractor. Are you building it on top of an ancient tomb?