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The thing that annoys me the most is that the double standard is not presented upfront. We'll see in 5e but in past editions when you read the entry for Fighter you got something like: A Fighter is a master of the battlefield and weapons. He can stand toe to toe with the most powerful of...

Can anyone fill me in on the 20th Anniversary Mage: The Ascension (and the other lines)? I haven't played WoD since the original in the 90s and missed the NWoD entirely. Old Mage was by far my favorite. What the deal? Are these straight reprintings? Are they revisions to the rules? The...

Very cool. Again, what's the rationale behind both a skill check and an attack role? Or am a misinterpreting? If the skill check has a reasonable chance of failure then you are effectively "penalizing" the attack. If the skill check is trivially easy, then why have it.

Super helpful!! Exactly what I was looking for. I looked at a few random Bard encounter powers from the PH2 today and was surprised to see that they actually looked like they did damage closer to the High normal damage values rather than Medium.

Great idea for making things easier on the fly. The problem I see is that the p.42 table doesn't have differentiated damage every level but rather in buckets of three levels. Level 1-3 = X damage, Levels 4-6= Y, etc. You can still do what you are proposing but need to "weight" the effects...

Great topic! I am starting a 4e game soon and want to encourage this sort of stunting. I know one player had a 4e experience of 'people staring at their power lists' too much instead of thinking out side the box, so I have decided to give everyone an extra encounter and daily power as follows...

I think this is a pretty good summary of the solution set. My take is a) is unlikely for D&D since part of the D&D identity seems to be detailed combat and magic subsystems with lots of fiddly bits. We have systems like FATE that we can use to play D&D like fantasy with a unified mechanic...

We'll see when we get the PHB, but so far I don't get what the designers are doing. They've called out the 3 pillars as being important and then don't provide all classes features to contribute to the pillars. I agree with a poster that said that skills alone can probably work if the non...

This thread title is misleading. Are there any proposed fixes in this thread? (Besides the always helpful -- play something else...)

As always, there are prob. dozens of takes on what tactical is. I certainly don't need a battle map and precise movement for a game to be tactical (although this can be an element of tactics). For me, the biggest part of a game feeling tactical is if the player often has multiple effective...

Just got 13th Age. Took a quick read but haven't played yet. Overall looks pretty awesome with lots of nice additions. As usual, from just I read I can't get a good feel for how some things will pan out in actually play. For those of you with play experience, I had a few questions: 1)...

I’ve had the One Ring for a while but picked up Tales from the Wilderland and might actually get to play some soon. I love what the system had done for emulating the genre, in particular: * Dividing things into adventuring phase and fellowship phase to mark the passage of time * Creating...

I’d say yes and no on this. Fate doesn’t have a lot of mechanical moving parts for differentiation. Where in d20, with the heavily armored two hander and the lightly armored two weaponer you might have differences in damage dice, str modifiers, number of attacks, feats that apply, movement...

Not sure if I’m the audience for the compilation or not. I have the pdfs from an EnWorld subscription but have not had the chance to run it yet. Loved reading it though and on my list to run. Is this compilation being sold separately or will it be available to subscribers? Revisions /...

This is closely related to questions like: Why do mental attacks, illusions, taunts, etc. all do HP damage? Seems like everything just does HP damage now? How can the warlord inspire wounds closed without magic? 4e was unfortunately saddled with the terminology of older additions. HP...

Assuming the dice roll (modified by skills, etc.) is the mechanism that determines the reality of the in game fiction, then I actually prefer to let the dice influence what I say. I find this actually supports good roleplaying. Roleplaying defined as “making decisions, taking actions...

I just got FATE Core and it is awesome! I was surprised, however, to not see a version of Diaspora's Social Combat in Core? Maybe I missed it as I have just done a skim so far. IMO, Disaspora's Social Combat is one of the most innovative structures introduced to rpgs in a long time. For...

Hey pfooti, I am also mid 30s and live in SF (Noe Valley). I am an experienced DM and player looking for a game in SF (or within ~30 min drive). Sounds like we'd be in business if we can get a few more people. I would be willing to DM one campaign if someone else DMs another campaign where...

Hedgewizard. I would definitely be interested in a FFG Star Wars game depending on time and place, so please give me an update as your plans develop. I was waiting for the full game to come out but FFG Star Wars was on my list to check out. Thanks for the EndGame suggestion. I think I...

Thanks, would love to connect with them!