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Round by round tactical maps

Round by round tactical maps

Round by round tactical maps

Round by round tactical maps

Round by round tactical maps

Round by round tactical maps

Let me know where you have a specialty that provides sufficient differentiation to effectively create even two different classes out of one. Because the specialties in the Playtest document don't do that.

Things that don't make sense are the foundation of DnD.

Well yes. OTOH, there are numerous ways to map fluff to mechanical expression. The Dying Earth RPG has little to do with DnD. There's the traditional 1-3e Vancian magic system. A wizard packing 1-4 dailies in 4e maps pretty well with Turjan level wizards who prep at best a fistful of serious...

Picking Warmage is a very clear statement that you are there to blow things up, not solve problems, or cast helpful buffs. I mean, it's not a very good class, but it provides a lot of blasting and some battlefield control in a pretty simple package. And there are a lot of classes that aren't...

Hey, that's a great example. Let's take a closer look. Social situation where fighter feels weak: benefits provided by Fighter class: ???? Dungeon guarded by golems where wizard has "lack of opportunity:" Stuff wizard class provides: Divinations like Clairvoyance and Prying Eyes to gather...

Here's Brash Strike: It seems like poorly made, incorrect pregens are a problem for the Encounters line, considering how many characters you had to discard. Depending on your level though, that 12 Con is actually a real possibility. Starting with a 18 before mods is really expensive.

Okay. Brash Strike is really good; the +2 attack and +Con to damage are a pretty significant offensive boost. Granting combat advantage to enemy encourages them to attack the fighter, supporting their defender role. A power that grants the enemy a free attack does not support that role, and...

Okay, fine. And magic is a bit of knowledge and a lot of scam. An ogre is brutish guy you don't like. And a giant is a person with a gland disorder. A dragon is a bigger than normal snake or lizard. Etc. It seems really strange to use an extremely stripped down version of a myth when other...

When a game is unbalanced, one subset of strategies will dominate (or get dominated). So it's easy to predict that those strategies will win - or be way more likely to get used in the first place - so the outcomes are fairly predictable.