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For anyone who read the subject line and doesn't know, Yugoloths are the neutral evil fiend. Devil LE, Demon CE, Yugoloth NE. In settings with the demon-devil Blood War, yugoloths are mercenaries, willing to fight for anyone who can meet their price.

The bounded accuracy does mean there is less wiggle room in many situations, making finding the balance quite difficult. In my current game, us PCs are constantly at risk of dying and waxing the bbeg faster than expected. Last fight two characters were bouncing around 25% hp and eating Heal...

I will counter with more common foes A 1e & 2e troll was 33hp (hd6+6), 3e was 68hp (6d8+36) and a 5e troll is 84hp (8d10 + 40). Kobolds in 5e have 5hp (2d6-2) vs 1e 2.5hp (1/2 d8), or 3e 4hp (d8) Hit points inflation is the norm, of not a rule.

I play a Bard, what do you think? Oh, I could have power gamed a 2014 bard but I picked story. Even my "power" choices were story driven Magic initiate...sorcerer/warlock? Of course not. Druid! Fey touched....after GM sends us to Feywild to muck around with a fey court Shadow...

From memory they dropped 2 nukes plus artillery. The "artillery" was when the re-education camp fences blew down and all the guards' weaponry bounced off. Nuke #1 was when a large military force, including aircraft, was destroyed by tornados and other freak weather. Nuke #2 was blowing 4...

Plant Growth, is, oddly, one of the best defenses against terrestrial invaders. Quarter movement means defenders get so many more chances to use ranged weapons. Add caltrops to create blockages. Even when they get to the edge, you only have to fight one rank at a time. Earthdawn has blood...

Yes and no. The walls of Constantinople are super expensive. An earthen berm, moat and a hedge is cheap. Mold Earth can make a surprisingly big moat and berm in a matter of days. Plant a hedge on the exterior face. (Or get someone to cast the Instant effect of Plant Growth). Will it stop an...

That changed last century. Spell Locks were removed from the game in 1998 with SR3. Shall we also say d&d rules are a mess because of ThAC0, Saving Throw vs Wands and Strength percentiles? Those were around until 2000 when 3e d&d came out.

Back to the topic, SR was both divergent history and fictional future. SR's SAIM (sovereign American Indian Movement) was loosely based in the real world American Indian Movement (AIM), which was tarred as terrorists by the FBI in the 70s, not to mention betrayed by the Nixon administration...

Oh, SR1 was a mess of beautiful potential. SR2 threw out most of the convoluted stuff and SR3 was way easier to teach newbs than d&d in the era of ThAC0. Even after 3e, SR had a more compact set of magic spells, fleshed out by summoning, that made it easier to pick up. Over 30+ years of...

Really? SR has always been one of my favorites. Dice pools make for bell curves and counting d6s is easy for new players.

This is sort of true but was less so in earlier editions. In <=3e, casters didn't have "concentration" so casters could fire all their spells with duration when heroes trigger an alarm. (Like....the Alarm spell...) The invisible, flying caster was a thing. 5e eliminates most of those (and...

In the 1400s China's Imperial Examination would test 2-3 million people per year(ish), and only 1% passed. The exams weren't held on a steady schedule and varied by region so this is an annualized average. The "typical" official took the test 2 or 3 times before passing in their 30s. Giving...

Gandalf pretended to be low level and avoided casting powerful magic to keep Sauron from noticing. He had to punt when the Balrog showed up. The Gandalf-simulacrums can cast Wish, being a copy of full-strength Gandalf. Those could try to do the stress-inducing uses of Wish without...

So Gandalf (wiz23) agreeing to teach Dresden (wiz13) Maginificent Mansion but requiring Dresden to create a Gandalf-Simulacrum as payment is verboten? That last part is a setting decision. There's no benefit to not leveraging those people with potential. I see no reason there wouldn't be...

Sure. So let's cut those in half and compare to jobs that people have a feel for their frequency 5% - all the active and former members of the military, minus the coast guard, or the entire healthcare industry (physician down to medical record specialists) 2.5% - every physician, nurse (nurse...

10% is a huge number. In comparison, 0.8% of Americans are active military and 6.2% are veterans. Then 4% of Americans are employed in healthcare. Which means your exemplar country could have a military that was 100% casters plus an all-caster health care system. Alternately, 8% of...

A Treant can animate two non-sapient trees for an entire day. So 10 Treants can move 20 normal trees up to 30 miles a day (assuming huge trees aren't concerned about making perception checks while fast traveling). Or more accurately, can move 20 trees 30 miles every other day after walking...

Unless you do cheese like a Simulacrum to Wish for you, these quasi-immortal casters are only going to burn a Wish that way if it is truly life and death. Each non-spell use of wish has a 33% chance of losing the spell permanently. So one third of casters lose Wish the first time they do it...

As long as they understand it. Had GMs pull out some monster combo they got off Reddit, we blow through it without breaking a sweat, then hear the GM say "oh, dang, forgot to use the special! That would have gone completely differently!" And the flip side, some "invulnerable annihilator" that...