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AoE spell vs single target is wrong tool for the job. Fireball is crowd control, you use it to dispose bunch of low hp minions (or burn down village or two). If you mostly fight 1 big monster or couple of decently strong ones, then yes, Fireball sucks ( as do other damaging aoe spells). Same is...

In person only. Played on line during covid, but wasn't for me. Big part of ttrpg appeal for me is hanging out with friends and having screen free group activity (and having some me time with friends without wife/kids around). Between on line gaming and no gaming, i would rather just not play at...

I wouldn't go so far as to say they are nearly unintelligible with one another. House rules are there mostly for people to tailor base game more to their desired experience. But unless they seriously alter core mechanics, they are still just variations on base 5e. If you learn to play RAW 5e...

TBH, commom is just placeholder language and one of convenience. It's there to represent language all the players speak so their characters can communicate without trouble regardless what characters backgrounds are. Sure, if all the characters are from the same place, your "common" might be...

@Lanefan Just to clarify, you play 5e, right? Since this is tagged as 5e, not general, i would assume we all talk about same edition. I mean, everyone is free to do at their table what they like. That's the beauty of this game. We all technically play same game, yet with house rules, every...

Xp if you play with xp. If you don't ( most people i know don't and have switched to milestones ages ago), no loss there. Loot is also insignificant, at least in 5e, if you can't buy magic items. After level 3-4, you got best mundane items you can have. Also, if you are short of cash and morally...

One solution is - don't even bother. That's what i do. Dropped trash encounters. Only fights party get's into is meaningful fights and fights that make sense in setting. No more bunch of small encounters whose only purpose is to force players to spend some slots or other abilities and then force...

5e is setup to provide challenge trough the grind. Monsters have inflated HP so they stay longer, and they are designed like that to slowly chip away at PCs expendable resources and not go down too fast.

Magic items. Without them, you get best gear by level 3-4 and then you are stuck with what you have for the rest of the game. I played and ran games without feats and it was ok, even with feats, most people still took ASI over them. Since most games end at about level 10, you get 2, maybe 3...

Before Bo9S came out, my go to for melee was 2 levels of fighter, then cleric all the way. For fun, oversized weapon, plus Monkey grip. Enlarge is good until you get Righteus Might ( +4 str, +2 con, +2 natural armor, DR 3/evil that rises to DR6 at lv 12). For dex builds and exotics, i used...

I'm not familiar with classes from dragon magazine. But from reading this, it's mediocre class at best. Best martials, hands down, are Crusader and Warblade from Bo9S. Stances and manouvers make huge difference. They are almost on par with casters. Exotic weapons in most cases aren't worth it...

Yeah, been a while. Sorry bout bugbear. Try to find template or low LA (+1/+2) race that gives you STR and CON and doesn't give penalty to INT if you go Warblade route. Other option, take human for extra feat, 10 levels Crusader/Warblade and 2 levels of fighter. Exotic weapons usually aren't...

Don't waste levels with level adjusted races. Or, if you are going melee route and want to max damage, take Bugbear. LA1, +4 str +2con +2dex -2cha, +3 nat armor. Then 11 levels of Warblade. Bugbear also gets some racial levels, that are nice. Other option is 2 levels of fighter and 10 lv of...

Straight up 12 levels of Warblade from Bo9S. 3.5 fighter is good for 2 or 4 level dip ( 4 levels for specialization). After that, you take another better class. 169k PO? You mean 169k gold for items and such?

5e combat can be rather quick, if you want it quick. But you need to pick, do you want challenging tactical fight or you want quick and epic. It boils down on what makes combat fun for your group. If they like combat so they can use their cool powers, it's very easy to design encounter, even...

Combat can be tedious slog or can be fast and furious. It largley depends on group ( how well people know their characters, how well they synergise together ) and on DM's encounter design. One thing you can't control is dice. I had sessions where everyone rolled piss poor in medium level games (...

I also enjoy running survival horror. But managing limited resources is part of fun in that kind of games. Will you use arrow/bullet at range, thus reducing risk, but loosing precious resource or you save ammo and go for melee at higher risk of injury is meaningful choice in survival horror.

Same here. We stopped when we switched to 5e, which was around time when our sessions became shorter and more sparse due to real life stuff ( career, starting families, that sort of things). We don't track anything that isn't crucial for story/campaign.

I like languages as a spice. In our campaign, there is common which would be latin ( old empire that spanned whole continent was very rome like). Now, every kingdom has it's own language, which all stem from latin (like romance languages, same root, but evolved over time with influences from...

Bijeli opasači,a? :D No one else used Ero if i recall correctly. 300 m with iron sights, prone. Don't know if Horwath was professional or he is referencing mandatory service, but AKs were without any optics, and let's be honest, those aren't very good for that distance with front sights...