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If you're moving silently and invisible, how would the foe know to even look for the you? If you've already beaten the passive perception with a stealth skill, which I would think would be at an advantage because of the invisibility, you shouldn't need a vs skill check, right? I mean, I hear...

That sounds pretty cool. Last night, I bought an old Thieves World guide, which is a world based on the novels and anthologies from the 80s. The game ran on D&D 3.5 rules, but I figure it would be easy enough to convert any ideas that caught my fancy. Haven't opened it up, yet.

If you, a grad student, wandered into a dungeon, would you need to map it the entire way to find your way out? Some are more complicated - labyrinthine - but most aren't. With possible Ranger and Dwarf abilities in the group, it's almost impossible for a party to get "lost" in a dungeon without...

Wow... just... wow. Are they 12? Has puberty hit? When they play Monopoly do they have to start with Boardwalk and Park Place before the dice are rolled for the first time? They use cheat codes on home MMOs, don't they? Do they first read the last chapter of new books before reading the...

that's interesting... I like that. It allows more variance in racial picks.

I personally like the array of 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8. Along with the racial bonuses, those lead to very capable modifiers and unlike previous versions, players can raise ability scores as they gain levels. A +5 to hit at 1-4th level is VERY sufficient - which usually happens if you're combining...

Totally agree. But if there are degrees of success, they can work. If a failure due to dice rolls still allows forward progression but creates a future problem, they can work. If the players fail because of poor roll-play and are penalized as they go forward, sometimes they understand and accept...

Hehe... well, I wouldn't put that into a skill challenge. A mundane skill challenge like that seems a bit micro-managing. :) But I do prefer the dice to show a variant of success or fail instead of just the players fumbling around in limbo and eventually letting them succeed because I got tired...

Not ever having played WoW, this makes no sense to me. What, then - in D&D I suppose - would be primary role for fighter classes if not to be the primary damage maker in melee? I always think of rogues/thieves as being opportunists lurking in the shadows for single attach strikes, not on the...

I've converted a couple of 4e adventures one short, one long and both had skill challenges in them - which I kept after changing the DC to be more in line with the lesser bonuses of 5e. I thought skill challenges in 4e were an unusual and interesting thing to DM and role-play and broke up the...

One of our dragon eggs hatched a black dragon, who's attached himself to the parties wizard. After a week in game - 3 sessions - it's basically as powerful as my 4th level Ranger. I'm not sure I'm in love with NPC rules. That might be a DMing thing though... I think he enjoys watching the dragon...

So what will you do when a fighter wearing Gauntlets of Ogre Strength uses a +2 battle axe to attack with? Will you only allow the ogre strength modifier? To stay consistent, you'd have to judge it that way. If a character is wearing +1 armor and puts on a +1 ring of protection, will you only...

thnx guys. I'll look into it.

I'm thinking of running a giant centric section of our campaign and wanted to convert boxed material. I have both the 1e G1-G3 (along with the Qs, which I'll likely not use) which I've played some but not finished, and the 4e Revenge of the Giants, which I've not finished reading through. Has...

yep. Although, fighter classes getting girdles of strength would create the same issue with melee weapons. Which, if a DM is giving out +3 ammunition and a +3 bow - he ought to be giving out to the melee guys. So the amount to which the ammunition stack overpowers the bounded accuracy and how it...

To the original poster, I think it was 4e - when the rules makers decided to divide combat needs by controller, striker, defender, etc instead of by class. It was in 4e where I think the preferred rogue players used it as a striker. And a striker of any class put out pretty much the same high...

I've never played a version when they didn't stack... I cannot find where any argument that they don't comes from. Well, you get a bonus to hit and a bonus on damage.... just like a +N sword, hammer, battle axe, etc.

I just hit 4th in the Encounters campaign and have been trying to choose which option is best to optimize my combat output, since I'm the striker of the group... Do I up the strength for extra damage every time? Up str and dex for damge and AC help? or Dual Wield for 2 longswords, which has the...

I just opened these up to convert for later in the campaign! I think I'm going to run Tomb of the Lizard King, too. That looks like a pretty straightforward conversion as well.

In Webster's Common Dictionary, aNvil comes before aZer.