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What I find to be somewhat ironic is that the OP, while telling people not to play "stupid" characters, comes across to me as a moralizing paladin, preaching to their fellow party members and issuing commandments about How Things Should Be Done So That You Do Not Become Evil instead of using...

3E gave us magic item values and wealth by level tables. Many people saw that most PCs had the same magic items, and said it was bad. 4E gave us better guidelines for how to balance PC and encounters. Many people saw that the guidelines advised that PCs of the same level should have equipment...

I'm working on a campaign in which shadows and shadow-tainted creatures feature prominently, and I've replaced the shadows' strength reducing effect with a condition called shadow blight that has six levels, similar to exhaustion: Level Effect 1 When making weapon damage rolls, roll...

Honestly? It may just be observational bias. However, I do know that the discussion about how important it was to have a 16 in a class's primary ability score instead of a 14 at 1st level annoyed me enough to suggest that for the purpose of calculating your saving throw and other DCs and your...

Back on topic. I have no problem with floating ASIs. Within the fiction, I can see it as a character's efforts to improve their abilities in a particular direction. At character creation, it represents the efforts they have made before the start of their adventuring career. What I find dissonant...

The opposite POV (which, in the interest of transparency, I admit that I subscribe to) is that some of you have really high bars for what you call "an effective character".

I think my current preference is for each race to have access to one or two racial feats (or "gifts" to use the A5E term) at character creation. Ability score increases, or a package of ability score increases and decreases, or a +1 ability score adjustment plus a minor feature, can be...

As I said in another thread: Because it's the second favorite edition of a lot of people, it gets a lot of criticism. But different people criticize different things.

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 46 B/X Dungeons and Dragons 25 -2 =23 BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 50 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 47 Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 49 Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition 11 + 1 = 12 Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition 35 I'm...

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 54 Basic Dungeons and Dragons 16 -2 = 14 B/X Dungeons and Dragons 26 BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 50 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 47 Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 55 Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition 22 + 1 = 23 Dungeons &...

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 54 +1 = 55 Basic Dungeons and Dragons 30 - 2 = 28 B/X Dungeons and Dragons 28 BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 55 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 51 Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 55 Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5 Edition 7 Dungeons &...

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 56 Basic Dungeons and Dragons 40 - 2 = 38 B/X Dungeons and Dragons 34 BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 57 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 51 Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 55 Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5 Edition 17 Dungeons & Dragons, 4th...

Original Dungeons and Dragons 6 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 60 Basic Dungeons and Dragons 44 - 2 = 42 B/X Dungeons and Dragons 40 BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 58 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 50 Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 56 Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5...

Original Dungeons and Dragons 19 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 59 Basic Dungeons and Dragons 48 - 2 = 46 B/X Dungeons and Dragons 41 BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 56 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 53 Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 57 Dungeons & Dragons, 3.5...

Original Dungeons and Dragons 31 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 55 Basic Dungeons and Dragons 52 - 2 = 50 - Wasn't this the version with just three levels? Downvoted for lack of content B/X Dungeons and Dragons 47 BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 57 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd...

Original Dungeons and Dragons 37 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 61 Basic Dungeons and Dragons 52 B/X Dungeons and Dragons 49 BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 56 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 58 Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 56 Classic Dungeons & Dragons 13 - 2 =...

I think the criticism that there are many similar powers is fair, and I hope you don't mind that I take a bit of time to unpack them. I think this was caused by a number of factors. First, within a class, there were sometimes powers that were just higher-level versions of the same power that...

Original Dungeons and Dragons 38 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition 59 Basic Dungeons and Dragons 52 B/X Dungeons and Dragons 50 BECMI Dungeons and Dragons 55 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 2nd Edition 56 Dungeons & Dragons, Rules Cyclopedia Edition 56 Classic Dungeons & Dragons 31 - 2 =...

Actually... 4E version: 3E version: We ought to make it a tradition every time there's an edition change.

For me, I haven't been upvoting Essentials because I see it as an expansion or supplement to 4E, and not a separate "edition". I probably didn't catch a lot of the negativity surrounding Essentials because I wasn't involved in Encounters. That said, the abbreviation for "Heroes of the...