Search results

Calling them "a bunch of yahoos" sounds like a personal insult. The "your game sucks" sounds like unnecessary exaggeration to me, but otherwise yes, a lot of people deny there are "roles" in 5E, in which "roles" refers to an overt 4E-style mechanical chassis for character design as well as...

I've only attempted to read a fraction of the 1000 posts, so yes, there was some sort of engagement but pragmatically limited for time constraints. I wrote: And, for 4E, discussing "roles" under those labels still seems to be a correction assumption: I'm confused, I thought the debate with...

When anyone talks about roles in context of 4e, it's fair to assume they're thinking controller/defender/leader/striker. When anyone talks about roles in other editions of D&D or other rpg, it's fair to assume that roles applies more generally, like healer or Face or comic relief or whatnot. If...

Maybe the term "races" is a misnomer that throws me off. The word "race" (by a modern definition) leads me to believe there should be clear biological and cultural divisions. That should be true for dragons and beholders, but demi-humans and humans share more kinship than not. Perhaps dwarves...

Speaking of elves, it's not fair that elves only need 4 hours of sleep. They already have more than enough time on their hands. Considering that elves aren't any more productive than humans, I have no idea what they do all day with all that extra time.

1. A fantastic setting that IMO feels more grounded and sensible than, cough cough, FR 2. Relatable characters caught in an epic struggle 3. Tinker gnomes, love those guys Edit: 4. One can pretend the canon ends at the end of the War of the Lance

Recap please of the previous 90-something pages before this starts up all over again

The 5E fluff implies to me that (excluding a high magic campaign) more magic items are being found than created. Which items are most likely to be found by adventurers? Magic items are very durable, so durability wouldn't seem to be a factor. Powerful items are harder to create in the current...

Canon schmanon. Wikipedia says that "The premise is that, long ago, the Earth and the world of the Forgotten Realms were more closely connected. As time passed, the inhabitants of planet Earth have mostly forgotten about the existence of that other world—hence the term Forgotten Realms". My take...

Well, I didn't emphasize "seemed" because it's hard to dispute what seems to be true to you. (If you wrote that I seem to be angry, I'm better off responding "I'm not angry", instead of arguing "I don't seem to be angry".) Everyone's different. Some people's take is that jumping up off a cliff...

I was thinking maybe something more like an Optional Reboot Guide where the FR setting provides a table of different options (Time of Troubles, Spellplague, etc.) detailing the events and repercussions, and the DM can pick and choose which elements to incorporate into the setting.

This might be a newbie question, but why couldn't D&D do for Forgotten Realms what J. J. Abram's Star Trek did for the original Star Trek? At least as an "official option".

Note the emphases. This is the second time a reply to my subjective experience seems to nudge towards some supposed claim about objective or general statement about 4E and immersion. I had no intention or motive to extrapolate to general claims about other people's 4E game, and I don't wish to...

Surely not, but that's quite a different beast than the case of the Raven Queen intervention. Just for starters, there are no mechanics implying that the spell ended due to any circumstantial fictional positioning. ie., the paladin didn't expend, say, a use of Channel Divinity, or make a Will...

Note the emphases... Are you asking about my immersion? And no, I never claimed "any sort of general tendency to intrude on immersion", so it's not necessary to lead with that question. The answer to the non-tangential question: My immersion would be spoiled by the player making an in-character...

FWIW, the 5E Basic Rules attributes clerical spellcasting to being a "conduit for divine power" which isn't exactly clear. Only Channel Divinity specifies "the ability to channel divine energy directly from your deity, using that energy to fuel magical effects". EDIT: "The spells of clerics...

That's why I as a player in that group would feel uncomfortable with the fiction of the Raven Queen ending the spell. Because I know that spells are formulas for discrete expressions of magic, with duration being a component of that discrete predictable effect. My imagination would naturally and...

It is conjecture unless confirmed by a Commune spell or something of that nature. That mode of player authorship strikes me as an example where a player feels there is an "arbitrary space" (ie., the effect ends at the end of the next turn) and fills in the blank. However, as a fellow player, I...

That sort of advice doesn't detract from how I would want to roleplay a magic-user, so that sort of guideline doesn't strike me as a good example of an "arbitrary space". I can imagine it being an arbitrary space for a player who emphatically wanted to roleplay Gandalf fighting the Balrog. I...

What struck me as interesting was this one: "Gard also warns against the use of 'arbitrary spaces': environmental features that are obviously included for gameplay challenge and serve no purpose in the 'reality' of the setting: "When a player enters a temple that has no space for worship, or a...