Recent content by TwoSix

Post 29.

Oh, and the actual best method to generate stats: Stat Draft. https://www.enworld.org/threads/playing-through-a-sample-stat-draft-completed.684265/

Because time is a flat circle, and every topic at ENWorld has been discussed before. :) https://www.enworld.org/threads/geniuses-with-5-int.482860/

The fact that you want to put a normative judgment on it tells me we have very different perspectives on its relative importance.

I'm happy to do that if the players want. I don't have anyone shameless enough to give themselves 14,15,16,17,18,18 or something like that. The majority of my players actually prefer having moderate rolls, or some low rolls to add character texture. Most of my DMs who prefer rolling let us...

A disparate collection of vagabonds and strays. Oh wait, that wasn’t what you meant.

I try to comfort myself with the knowledge a lot of companies would have made the patch 8 subclasses a paid DLC.

I think we all would have preferred a robust set of DLC for BG3; unfortunately, that's not the timeline we landed in. :)

GoT was very much a low-level D&D type of setting, to me. (Although I think D&D would be a poor system for GoT.) Barristan Selmy at his peak might have been something equivalent to level 10; I'd put Jaime Lannister somewhere around level 6 or 7.

Yes, but I still BOUGHT them. I haven't bought a WotC product on my own since 2021 (Mordenkainen's MotM).

3e and 4e managed to put out multiple books a year that I was interested in for their entire product line.

I view Community so I can see everything. I always set the posts per page to the maximum.

I mean, if a flesh and blood creature is type elemental, than that means the game mechanic “elemental” doesn’t mean immortal spirit, right?

Generally love it, as long as it's attached to at least one interesting high stat. 3,10,10,13,16,17? Love it. 3,10,10,12,13,14? No way.

Fortunately, both online discourse and the industry as a whole have gotten a lot better about explicit design goals over the last decade or so. Most books I've received over the last 5 years or so (and some before) have provided a lot of sidebars focused on design goals and intent.