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I agree, El Gallo Negro. I'm probably going to leave the ACs alone, for now. I've offered to play some 1E with the player in question rather than houserule 5E so quickly without more experience with it. Right now, I think any change in AC would need to be from an in game perspective of better...

Good point, Jester. The expectation and range of accuracy definitely varies across the editions. 5E's expected range seems a lot different than OD&D, BECMI, AD&D, 2E, or 3E. I also recently realized that the player who brought up that it was too easy to hit may not have realized that I wasn't...

I agree, Hemlock. Re-writing the Monster Manual is out of the question. If I go this route, I might not even change the ACs. Might just change the total required to hit an AC (so PCs would have the same effective AC increase). So, it would require a total of 14 to hit a 10 AC or 24 to hit a...

Hi, Jeff, I never had the opportunity to play by the Little Brown Books. AD&D1E and the Basic Red Player's book were my intro to D&D. Played AD&D for a long time, but we often skipped mid levels and played top end characters with the best equipement (we were kids and had fun, but it was by no...

No. There's no plan to increase saving throws, at this point. We did discuss restoring some niche protection for some classic rogue abilities that rogues should be better at than fighters in plate. Even with disadvantage, the fighter was still making her stealth checks through a combination...

I never played 4E, but I think I understand your point about the slog of too many hit points. I mentioned giving the white dragon (mentioned earlier in the thread) more hit points. It was just a slog. The outcome was obvious. The white dragon's only chance would have been to flee during its...

If I were to boost AC, I think I'd definitely drop hit points, some. Not sure how much.

I would do that and have tried that, but it doesn't give the same effect as increasing AC. We had a white dragon in part of our adventure. The group knew about it going in but even with giving it double hit points, the dragon was running for its life. It was a relatively low level group...

Yeah... I have no problem beefing up a boss monster. Started doing that, regularly, in 3X/PF. Especially, if the boss is going to be a solo monster.

Interesting ideas, but I'll probably not increase monster attack bonuses.

I agree with the fun factor. And that's one of the reasons that I'm hesitant to change anything.

So, our group recently got to play several sessions of D&D 5E over the past few weekends. More than we've gotten to play consistently in quite some time, so that is good. Lots of fun. However, one of the players has noted that it's very easy to hit the monsters. It seems a lot easier than...

We've also been using the optional flanking rule. It works well at out table.

Just thought I'd report back. Our group got together for several multi-day marathon sessions over the past week or so and we used these rules. We played in a homebrew world where we'd been trapped in a Dwarven Kingdom that had collapsed after the 99% of the dwarves had been turned to ash after...

Agreed. 5E's backward compatibility and the ease with which I can use older material along with a lot less cumbersome math than PF/3X is what sold me on it. And, I really don't like the splat book treadmill of previous editions. 5E's release schedule is perfect for me.

Looks very similar to the Witch Hunter, released a while back.

I like this idea for a game that mimics how characters in the stories the game is based on seem to be good at a lot of things without necessarily being high level (Conan seems to have a lot of feats/skills and high scores, but is arguably never more than 5th or 6th level in any tale).

Hi, Connorsrpg, Thank you. The name is Nordic and roughly means Famous Spear Rim (of a shield) Wolf. I found quite a bit of the advice useful. And, I'm glad that many options were presented that I hadn't thought of as well as what folks had to share about their experiences with offering a...

Good explanation. Thank you.

Thanks! I like those. We used flaws in 3X to buy extra feats.