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I'm still around, still overthinking things... one of several conclusions I've come to is that if the party could use a rogue-equivalent, Alchemist looks TOTALLY COOL and still fits with my intelligent, skillful, charismatic Bipper persona. (Wizard is still the best wizard-equivalent, though ;)...

A pensive facial expression briefly flickers over Bipper's face before the usual jovial grin reappears. "Drat, sounds like I may miss out on some easy money, there. Ah well, I would've squandered it on something stupid, I'm sure." He looks at Anna. "Well then, since you have my axe for the...

Ah, he's a useless fluff designer, not a useful crunch designer! Heh, those fluffers always expect the game to flow as smoothly as fiction would... they don't realize real gamers prefer confusion and trap choices to carefully work around! I'm actually pretty strongly considering just...

Er. I agreed to help Anna, but the guy with the Warehouse thing wants all level 1s to join his game. Being that I'm new here, someone tell me wat do? *EDIT: Having gotten some helpful advice, I think I'll stick with what I said first. Bipper would want to go on the more daring, dangerous, or...

Ah, I thought you personally followed these guys, and would thus know them well enough to jot down a sentence or two about them. This is a list of big names thing, not a "check these guys out, I vouch their Tweeting is great!" sort of thing?

Yes, the fluffy parts are completely unnecessary, of course. I like game rules that imply or create narration and roleplay.

It would be helpful to know what they tweet about, moreso than their professional credits. F'rinstance, doesn't actually tell me whether I should follow him or not. "Friendly guy, interacts with other tweeters frequently, music buff" or "Occasionally disperses succinct, pithy analyses of game...

So the rules make you succeed automatically if your ability score is 5 over the DC. Often, the GM calls for a check or the player rolls a die instinctively before they realize the check is going to be an auto-success regardless. With a minor tweak, you can "keep" that die result as well as make...

That covers 50% of the important social skills now and 50% later, if I choose the correct pair of perform skills for versatile performance (instead of ones that suit my character) that don't overlap or give a useless skill like Handle Animal or Fly. So I'm either waiting til 6th level to get 1...

Aight, that frees me up to take Daredevil or Archaeologist - I was loath to lose Versatile Performance, but now I'm eager to replace it with something simpler. Time to spend a few more hours messing with numbers, haha

Yep, 3e gave people new shinies: Giant In the Playground Games

Does James Jacobs' gaining of Versatile Performance count against your once only ever "oops"? Should I take no social skills for now and hold out for later gaining them via Perform at later levels? If so, I need to change my skills around, but otherwise I think Bipper's ready to be submitted.

Thanks again! That actually brings up two issues I wasn't 100% certain on. In 3.5, a buckler was always providing its AC bonus except when you're using your hand for something else, but unlike other shields it did leave your hand free for spells or 2H weapons or whatever. (or at least that's how...

Thanks, I'll take a look. Character creation is always such a chore - like Monte Cook pointed out, you make a couple of meaningful decisions up front (class, race, personality) then you're left with the massive chore of making a bunch of fiddly, tiny decisions that don't matter a ton, but DO...

Bipper Hammergleam, half-orc bard 1 I narrowly decided on Bard instead of Wizard. Very narrowly. I knew I wanted a intelligent, skilly fellow with buff spells. So if the party needs a wizard I can leave Bipper in town and roll up my other, wizard PC idea. Either way, I'm more than up for...

These are pretty solid, workable numbers, relative to each other. It's a system with good parity. I do wonder, though, if you need to shave 1 point off across the board. Otherwise, a 16ish AC is going to be normal for most players at first level, which feels a little on the high side. Some...

I'm surprised no one has said this yet: add the Reddit Enhancement Suite to your browser. It has MANY quality of life enhancements for when you're browsing reddit - particularly for AMA threads such as this. Just below the original post, you'll see several gray links you can click on to rapidly...

Bipper raised his eyebrow again. He couldn't really move the right one, so he always raised the left one. For a brief second he debated rushing to her aid or even joining the defense force at the tavern door. On second thought, she opened the door and entered on her own two legs. If anything's...

The problem is that each additional point of AC you add is more powerful than the previous. Therefore, giving people with the best AC possible a way to raise their AC 1 point higher yet means that such characters should do everything in their power to get it. If an orc hits you on 11-20, 1...

For many of us, if 5e succeeds at its goals, it means we get our friends back - whichever friends clung to the other edition that we don't enjoy playing.