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That's a really interesting distribution. I definitely think E6 characters will be more common, not less (and therefore heroic again). The difference between heroes and normal people that reach E6 is that the heroes will do it more quickly for whatever reason, whereas most of the other E6s will...

Magic Magic is an interesting topic in E6. D&D settings necessarily have to worry about magic all the way up to 20th level and beyond, and the insanely powerful magic items they can create. One of my biggest criticisms of the new edition was the bookkeeping aspect of magic items and the link...

Society and Adventuring Preface D&D is a bit wonky in its assumptions regarding society, adventuring, and class levels in my opinion. You've got PC classes which all get really kickass abilities, but are generally only gained by people that go into dark dungeons to fight dangerous foes...

I'm cross-posting this because it wasn't getting much play elsewhere (and I've been busy completing a project so I haven't had much time to post on it either). This is very much a brainstorm, an unfiltered blog, so if I say something stupid it's probably because I thought it, typed it, then...

These are the kind of general questions I'm thinking about in the thread I started elsewhere. That thread's going nowhere so I'm going to move it over here. :)

Ryan, do you mind if I do some public brainstorming on an E6 setting at a different website?

Alliance is here, so getting games isn't an issue, it's finding players that's seemed tough so far. :) We're looking for some sane board gamers and possibly a D&D group to meet every other week. Anyone around these parts?

Am I correct that you are recently divorced?

Sweet, man, sounds awesome! I'm going to point some fellas this way that might want to yoink this for their campaigns!

I am so peeved that I missed this game. I don't suppose you wrote up the adventure?

<grumbles in a gruff voice> Aye, laddie, all dwarves are Scottish in my world! *drinks dwarven ale out of a big mug and wipes froth off his beard*

Cool, you used to be Djetar Thenadia right?

I agree with you, and my original designs were almost all flavor/utility effects, like granting skill bonuses when dealing with evil creatures for Evil spells or additional concealment when hiding for Darkness spells. If anything they might have been a bit underpowered considering they required...

They were lucky that they kept trying no matter how much the chips were stacked against them? They were lucky they have a strong character that's little seen in the NFL? Great teamwork and spirit? I think saying they got lucky takes away from one of the great football performances of all time...

D&D is what it is, it's not Diablo, and it's not sword and sorcery literature. If you want D&D to mimic Elric or Gandalf, as Felon said, then you're going to have to make a whole lot of changes to the system to make yourself happy. Reserve feats were my way of making the game a little more like...

Exactly. I enjoyed the days when your party would literally push as far as they could all day instead of shooting their wad every encounter and then resting. Whiny wizard players and wizard spell power and slots are one reason the game is shifting toward the blow your wad paradigm, I think it's...

I can't say that my inspiration for reserve feats *wasn't* psionic focus feats (whereas I can definitely say it wasn't locus feats or whatever, because I've never heard of those), but I don't think I'd taken a close look a the new psionic book when I was conceiving these. It was in the middle of...

Yeah!

That's fun for a while, but at some point it becomes a drag on the game, in my opinion. I know Sam Witt and I probably bored the ever-living hell out of our group after a few sessions of trade talk and game design mumbo jumbo.

I dunno, that's exactly how I feel when I write FR adventures...I love plotting evil things to do to the Realms. :D Actually, I like plotting bad things that happen to my characters in fiction as well...maybe I *am* just a bastard.