Recent content by UngeheuerLich

As I said in a different thread: ability modifiers are stupid in a point buy system. It is just a tax you pay. You try to get good in your main stats anyway. If you roll, +2 bonus to something can also meaningfully increase a very bad roll to okish. There are way better methods to enforce...

It really is the question what the optimizers want from the game. Do they want extra challenges, do they want to tell the story how they killed the CR 10 Dragon at level 4, do they want to have a good fight they barely survived, or do they want to go in, kill and back off, denying most enemies...

As a DM I try to play by the book, no matter the difficulty, so I voted no. I don't want DnD to be an arms race. I rather try to mix up hard and easy encounters and let players decide how to approach an encounter or if they want to approach it at all. I can however appreciate what you...

Without reading the pathfinder rules, I guess that would be the easiest way to handle it. You can have troops of 4 or so, and with enough damage, you kill more than one of them at once: Cleave, pierce through, several small stabs can be used to describe to killing them,as well as killing one...

I can go to a kids club and can do sparring. And a kid would learn something. I am no grandmaster, but the difference would be high enough that it does not matter. Kids will be happy to have the chance to play against a grand master, and losing is not always bad for a chess player. It would be...

[... ] Never denied that. And you can try and search the forums and realize that I actually said the same elsewhere. As the grandmaster: yes it is fair. Rules are the same. It is only that you don't expect them play 1 vs 1, but rather 1 vs 20. (Simultanschach). And there might even be a kid...

That I said anything about playing differently is wrong. And I never talked about 2 sides. And I was there when the terms popped up. But I never understood them as edition warring. They always helped me to understand two different approaches to the game, I experienced. I like the terms because...

No. It can be fair even if chance are not 50 - 50. When you talk about a fair coin, yes. When I talk about playing fair, I can play chess against someone 200 points higher and still win fairly, although my chances are lower. In DnD I want to just take away his queen, if he looks away.

Never did I deny that. But 4e was concerned about roles (as it was written explicitely in the rules), for players and enemies, just like in a team sport. Also HP were quite high and damage comparably low, so a fight took a few rounds and it was hard to take someone out with a single round of...

I didn't think about edition war. That is probably something that triggers you and disables your ability to read properly. I can talk about my personal experience in a forum. I even said it was no general critique. I own nearly every 4e book. We played it for a very long time. I defended it...

Thank you @TheSword

What again? Anyone can play as the want and prefer what they want. I only talked about our games. Read the first post... Edit: and quote, where I actually said, what you claimed.

What? I experienced 4e as I have played it from the beginning up to the playtest DnDnext and my experience was that setting up an ambush was not rewarded well enough for example (edit: of course for our tastes) . And my understanding of the 4e encounter setup rules was that the fight should play...

I think we don't have anything to talk about as you clearly don't want an opinion and just dismiss another ones experience as a strawman. Not a nice trait. Edit: and I never talked about "those" people, but our group. So get your things straight.

They are powered by the artificer's magic. So they are controlled by him if they are in his vicinity. And even i if they were just a companion npc, I would still let a player control the actions, because as a DM I usually don't want to play against myself. In this case however I would object...