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1. Yes - when they choose to. 2. Yes - when they choose to - although foes abilities are not increased, they are paid for with Doom in some (the minority) of cases. Doom is however their Momentum in many ways, as they don't get that at all. Question - why do you think this system is a...

My experience was entirely different. I mistrusted the mechanic from reading it, I don't like metagame mechanics in general and the LOVE Conan - so was doubly ready to throw any attempt to spoil it out of the window. I am perfectly capable of understanding rules by reading them, and like you...

You are indeed operating under assumption as you so clearly state... and to go from there to a 'fix' is entirely illogical - like assuming that your won't like chocolate cake because someone else doesn't and before you have ever eaten chocolate, suggesting that it instead taste like coffee...

I can see that in some of your assumptions (that Doom doesn't already increase with numbers of players as it actually does...) and the interplay of Boon and Doom you suggest as a fix, that you have not played the game. You haven't bought it even... have you at least read the free starter rules...

Impending doom and the ultimate pointlessness of the effort to carve out civilisation from barbarism, honour from savagery and compassion from a pitiless cosmos are at the very heart of Conan - the Conan set in the middle of the Cthulhu Mythos, the one where the most awful sorceries and inhuman...

I really don't think you have played the game considering the details of the post, and further, you've made the naysayers central assumption that the GM is the kind of person who plays against the players, and isn't interested in making the game fun, but a contest for dominance. The rules talk...

Ilbranteloth You seem to be agreeing with me for the most part, with some parts at odds. So, forgive me, but it does feel like you only read the start and end of my post rather than the whole thing...

OK a few pertinent facts if I may. Been rpg'ing since 1978, GM'ing since ~1979, loved D&D and LOVED Runequest, CoC, think GURPS is fantastic and yet swing back to D&D periodically and very much like 5th Edition. I playtested from the get-go for Mophidius on Conan. Conan was my obsession as a...

Really? Human assassins and thieves have for millennia been sneaking around in the dark successfully taking people's lives or possessions. Sure, in a darkvision ubiquitous world they would struggle by comparison, but level the playing field more with my (and others) Low Light Vision variant and...

I think GM screens are important due to the need for privacy of reference materials and of course the need for the DM 'fudge factor'. I don't fudge very much at all, but I do once in a long while for reasons I can justify considering that my players always know that character death is a real...

How interesting, understandable, and frankly, odd... There seems to be an assumption made by more than one person that Underdark races would use light in Underdark warfare because of the perceived advantages. Is this right, or could it bely a lack of experience in night fighting as it is done...

My homebrew rule for it is; Low Light Vision: You can see in dim light as if it were bright light. That's it - no Darkvision element to it. As previously stated, this makes such things as having the Warlock's 'Devil's Sight' more exotic and useful and makes darkness a thing to be feared...

Ah but our opinions are shaped by our experiences and are thus functionally joined at the hip, making a reference to one a reference to the other... :p

Warning: Doesn't work on Red Dragons...

That's why Trump likes it eh?

There are two things about Darkvision. Firstly, mechanically it's fine. Secondly, it is FAR too ubiquitous! Everyone and their dog has it, leaving the likes of Halflings and Humans as the kind of sad 'also rans' that would never get invited to dungeon delves or underdark missions. What is...

Use the basic construct as baselines (don't use golems with their magic resistance unless that's a important thing) and scale them up using the DMG rules on monster modification. Then come up with rules for the pilot and gunner being hit. Let's say a critical does half damage to the mech and...

I was responding to a personal opinion without any evidence base whatsoever, so at least my response had some, however snapshot it might have been. :)

Indeed! There is, to coin a phrase "a huge problem" with people making broad sweeping claims about there being general problems with 5th Edition, expressing these as universal truths everyone should recognise as valid, and then, when called on it, rapidly redefining their position as merely...

Then following your reasoning, please explain then how stating that there is a problem doesn't invalidate the opinion of the people who don't see that there is a problem? In this very thread I initially offered simple solutions to the issue of what to do with gold in a game only to have my...