Search results

Use Castles & Crusades Prime Attribute system. Problem solved.

Or, even better, learn by playing the game. By your third or fourth character, you'll probably be pretty good at it. ;)

In short, yes, I want all of that for 5th edition. Perhaps not the specific mechanics, but the spirit they embody. The Magic-user was the 'high risk, high reward' class in AD&D. The payoff of surviving as a wizard and finding creative uses for spells and magic items was a great attraction to...

No. In Dungeons & Dragons, the official title is Dungeon Master (which is also a trademark). It is wholly appropriate. Why would you even ask this question?

I have no sex* preference for my GM. *Human beings don't have 'gender,' which is a grammatical concept.

Did your character not have a high enough Intelligence score to think of what you wanted to do? :p

I was a long time DM for a group of players, all of whom I had taught how to play. They did the usual annoying things as players, so occasionally one would want to try DMing. And I would deliberately act like a dick player and 'grief' their session as 'payback.' Childish perhaps, but I think it...

Michael Jordan taking 20 is the number of steps he gets to take while traveling without being whistled.

The picture I get is a roll-playing game instead of a role-playing game. Players: We know there's a secret door here somewhere! We search for secret doors. DM: Where do you search, and how? Take the dice out of the equation (and the auto-success "take 10" nonsense).

I do, I do.

Cardinal Richelieu

I prefer "Combat as War" in D&D because in a role-playing game, 'rules should fade into the background,' giving the 'spotlight time' to player imagination, spontaneity, resourcefulness, and ingenuity in overcoming obstacles in an imagined environment. It is desirable that participants...

I want to thwart the evil priest's plan by producing a document in his own hand authorizing whatever I do. And then have the evil priest promote me into the king's guards.

Fighting-men fight. Others don't. (Clerics being seen as a form of multiclass fighter/spellcaster with restrictions) In a role-playing game, non-combat is the soul of the activity. I said, get that video game language (and thinking) outta my role-playing game. Here's a non-exhaustive list of...

Roles: Combatant or non-combatant. Eject the video game terminology from the game.

My magic-user met Bigby once. He had quite a handshake.

Tony Stark used to be just a smart millionaire womanizing alcoholic that invented the Iron Man armor and associated tech. Now, his whole body is a brain, making him hypersmart and able to interface and hack any computer on the planet. With his mind. Including tech invented by Reed Richards...

*enters thread*

It is.

Anyway Celebrim, the subject at hand isn't 'what class is Aragorn,' but 'what is an Aragorn-style Ranger in D&D,' in the context of the rules changes over the various editions. Of the Ranger options available, it's clearly the Strategic Review or 1e version (with or without Unearthed Arcana).