Recent content by Vael

I'm only at 4 ... and I just saw Alien3 this last week. (Others being Social Network, Seven and Fight Club)

I really enjoyed the book, looking forward to the movie. They've redesigned a lot of stuff, but that's cool.

It helps that Eberron can support a lot of frames. Depending on what you want to spotlight, you can borrow from 5 Banners Burning for a political intrigue campaign between the 5 Nations, Expeditions into Xen'drik or the Mournlands can focus on dungeon delving, can do a more noir-ish urban...

And not just because Eberron is my fav campaign world. Artificer is the main miss, I'd also write up a new ancestry for Shifters (I hadn't thought of using Katari, which would work in a pinch), Changelings and Kalashtar. Dragonmarks are a challenge ... I'd suggest pulling from 4e again and add...

I do wonder if the size of the GM pool should scale with more/less PCs? 2 PCs vs 6 PCs are vastly different. I guess having getting more Fear means the GM is more pushed to spend them.

Well, plans are actually moving on me running a short Daggerheart one-shot/couple of sessions adventure to test out the system. I'm going to run a short Robin Hood esque adventure that could be extended to a campaign if players dig it. (I blame finding Robin of Sherwood on Tubi and rewatching...

I have to second @Ruin Explorer here, this is conflating optimizers with munchkins. There's also a difference between theory-crafting and table experience. I know a lot of gamers that know about Pun-Pun and other cheesy character builds, but would never bring one to the table unless that was...

And specifically for Druids ... I would want to bank Hope for those stress free augmented Beastforms.

... Now you'll have to define your terms because to me, an optimizer is someone who works within the rules, I don't recognize this as the same thing you're describing. So then what's the problem? Net deck is primarily an MTG term, but it implies bringing a character (or in MTG a deck) that...

In a word ... YES. TTRPGs are a social game, part of that is following Wheaton's Law. "Don't be a dick." And tbh, I dislike the blanket assumption that optimizers are inherently out to ruin games. Pun-Pun dates back to 3.5 DnD and was a theoretical build of ... IIRC, a Kobold Wizard that could...

I saw this on the Daggerheart subreddit and think it's solid advice.

That implies Character optimization and spotlight hogging are the same thing, which I don't agree with. In any event, theory crafting and building optimized PCs is a fun part to do when one isn't at the gaming table.

Eh? Building super over the top characters, ie, char op, is something Daggerheart supports. But I do think that social game conventions, narrative focus and the way hope/fear are generated gives DMs more tools to deal with that. (Hopefully? Lol, I've yet to sit down and play so I'm still...

To thread the needle ... 4e has one of the best combat engines in any edition of DnD. It's where the game shines, IMO. But to say it lacks non-combat is also untrue, skill challenges actually provided a system that has been iterated on and used later on for managing social and exploratory...