Recent content by WhammeWhamme

Mate, I specifically included the notes on naval conflict in the same post you're quoting. I'm not "backing up". You skipped important context. Either engage with the post in context, or don't, but the sentence you quoted was never meant to include naval warfare and that exception was right...

If we look at the 5e CRPG, we see that short rests seem intended (or were found to work best by a pretty well-respected team of game devs, I wasn't in the room when they were talking) as roughly a 2/day resource (or at least, that's how it looked briefly playing it). One could use that for...

So: - Spain vs. the Aztecs involved local allies and unpopular rulers. This wasn't particularly won by any kind of technological superiority; they were just part of a winning coalition. - The three examples you give for the Portugal/Malay wars are naval engagements. I specifically mentioned...

War games have no trouble including plate armour and guns side-by-side. Bullets are good but people do survive getting shot, and plate armour actually does help against most bullets. Guns changed warfare on a logistical level. European armies ballooned in size because guns are great for...

Yeah, I think this kinda undercuts arguments about guns being impossible to include. Fantasy wargaming tends to include guns these days. D&D not doing so is an aesthetic choice, not an impossible mechanical design choice. And I think it can be fun to make the opposite choice. And to support...

Thanks guys!

In the sentence "I mean, there already contemporary 5e clones, and futuristic 5e clones" I was assuming "contemporary" meant "set in the present day".

What are these "contemporary 5e clones"? (It's proving kinda hard to google and specifically find, y'know, "D&D-ish in a modern setting" rather than other uses of the relevant keywords, so I swear I'm not just being lazy.)

This specific post made me think of magic systems that, well, didn't use resource tracking. One is my vague memories of the... Dragon Warriors? Mystic? Basically: You cast a spell. Then you roll to see if you're mystically exhausted. Stronger spells make the roll less likely to succeed. It's...

A 1400+ page 5e-compatible setting and ruleset, released free under Creative Commons. Download it here. The Ninth Age is a full fantasy setting adapted for 5e / Fifth Edition play, designed to be fully playable on its own while still slotting into existing games. One of the main goals of...

I would recommend the MET Masquerade LARP rules (By Night Studios, the version BEFORE 5e) as a basis. They still don't do CR, because CR is very much a feature of games where characters of level X have fixed ratios of combat:non-combat abilities, but I didn't find it that hard to balance...