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Yeah, alternate rules give options to tweak and adjust a game to preferred tone; using both hypothetical sets like that could...
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Nothing wrong with having a gritty set of optional rules. Massive damage, Healing Word as touch rather than ranged, etc. Likewise, it is...
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So here's the thing: sort of, but also not. What determines heroism? In my mind, the monsters' capabilities vs the PCs. 5e characters...
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I think you may actually be missing a large part of my own point: I am enough of a third-party publishing cheerleader than I sat down...
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I think the heroism peaked at 4e and at least dipped for 5e. A5E also has less-fogiving rules about survival and massive damage, lower...
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Options are fine, but insisting the base system be changed so everyone's game gets less heroic doesn't seem like an ideal solution to...
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I can't agree with you on this. I think being able to quickly heal someone up off the ground at range is very much in keeping with the...
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Yes, technically the compatibility logo license prohibits that title. If ENP wanted to them to change the title they could. But that's...
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I actually want to build on this in a couple of ways because not only are you correct, you're possibly more correct than you even...
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I don't even know where to begin with this weird take. ENP was not given a "broken" version. That was the only version at the time. Many...
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In this case, the creator improved on their own concept.
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Why? ENP does not own the rights to creations published in the GPG, they simply retain exclusive publishing rights for one year, after...
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A new version of the PDF with revised prerequisite language should be available in the next hour or two; it should remove any lingering...
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The prerequisites for these are are intended to only be to take the feats, not to continue to benefit from them. So yes, rules as...
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I think this "Feat for a Heritage Gift" sounds like an idea for a beefy GPG article, if not a "Special Issue". My take from this is that...
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