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  1. James Gasik

    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Gladiator: The Narrative Dissonance

    I'm sorry to hear that, because that path is a lot harder to work with. I played d20 (3e and Pathfinder) for two decades and encounter building was such a chore. I basically had to stop using humanoid foes entirely because it was much more work to build them and gear them than it took my...
  2. James Gasik

    D&D General Weapon Mastery - Yea or Nay?

    That's what I've been doing- I'll have everyone roll and say "these are the arrays you can use to build your characters".
  3. James Gasik

    D&D General Weapon Mastery - Yea or Nay?

    I've had this debate with people I play with for years. They insist point buy is the way to go, even though point buy for one class can be very different than another class. And I've been making this argument since 3e, lol. Go on, build a Monk and a Fighter with point buy in 3e. Let alone...
  4. James Gasik

    D&D 5E (2024) 2024 Gladiator: The Narrative Dissonance

    Ah the Gladiator. How often I've used them as an example. I'm amused that most of the time, when I do, people tend to dismiss me, but here we finally have a thread about him (I'm not misgendering him, he's not a Gladiatrix, after all!). That NPC's are built different is an unfortunate...
  5. James Gasik

    D&D General Weapon Mastery - Yea or Nay?

    Now me personally, I'm of two minds when it comes to the "streamlining" of classes. My mental picture of a Monk isn't some skinny dude in robes that would never survive the "Training from Hell" that's common for martial arts movies- I'd want Monks to have 13 Strength (or more!) as a matter of...
  6. James Gasik

    D&D General What if we gave dragonborn four arms?

    Settings used to be more fluid, I've noticed. Back in the TSR days, if a new supplement or Dragon magazine article came out and said "hey, here's this new class or race" and provided lore for what campaign settings it could fit in, an individual DM might not allow it, but I don't recall anyone...
  7. James Gasik

    Why do the Actors Matter?

    Heck, they had two different actors for Howard Stark pretty much at the same time!
  8. James Gasik

    D&D General What if we gave dragonborn four arms?

    Yeah you'd need a special trait to attack with extra limbs beyond the first, like Multiattack. So it really comes down to being able to carry/equip more things than normal. That's still problematic with a shield giving +2 AC at times when it shouldn't, like wielding a bow, but you're not going...
  9. James Gasik

    OD&D Why is AC 2 the best armor class?

    2e Red Dragons: "our AC goes to -11!"
  10. James Gasik

    D&D 5E (2014) Sorcerer vs. Wizard: Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better?

    Just wait until 7e, when Wizards add "spell effects" to weapon attacks and can only use so many "spell effects" before they have to take a nap. Maybe then everyone will feel like being a Fighter.
  11. James Gasik

    RPG Buzzwords that have effectively lost their meaning due to poor over-use

    Or people who have to be "right" or "wrong" concerning how they use words.
  12. James Gasik

    D&D 5E (2024) Skill Mastery as an idea

    I immediately thought of this, and I really liked their implementation. 4e Skill Powers a bit less so, since, as far as I can recall, either just being a power that had a skill as a requirement (like making enemies who don't target me suffer -5 to hit because I'm proficient with Intimidate, the...
  13. James Gasik

    RPG Buzzwords that have effectively lost their meaning due to poor over-use

    Fair. I still don't like it though, since to whom the language is natural for is undefined, and can be interpreted in multiple ways.
  14. James Gasik

    D&D 5E (2014) Sorcerer vs. Wizard: Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better?

    I always found the "everyone is a spellcaster in 4e" to be a bit odd. Last I checked, before 4e, casters didn't have at-will spells (cantrips were limited in daily use outside of Pathfinder. I guess you could count the 3.5 Warlock and Dragonfire Adept? Maybe?) and didn't have encounter...
  15. James Gasik

    RPG Buzzwords that have effectively lost their meaning due to poor over-use

    "Vancian" to describe any magic system that puts a limit on how different many spells one can use (I prefer "Zelaznian" anyways). "Gygaxian" too, since over the years, Gary contradicted himself enough times that almost no-one can even say what Gygaxian even is (outside of Gygaxian Prose)...
  16. James Gasik

    D&D General What if we gave dragonborn four arms?

    Since the rules don't give you an attack for each limb, I think the only possible downside would be maybe using two versatile weapons at once? Dual-wielding with a shield or with a bow equipped? I guess being able to have a hand free for spellcasting, carry a shield, and have two free hands...
  17. James Gasik

    D&D 5E (2014) Dispel Evil and Good cleric spell 5th level in use

    I find it a little unusual that you don't need to roll to hit someone to end a condition with the spell, but you do in order to banish them outright. However it's true that the spell does not make that a condition. That an unwilling creature cannot make a saving throw or Dodge someone coming...
  18. James Gasik

    D&D 5E (2024) The Undead Army Necromancer is not Designable

    There is, however, a vast amount of DM's who complain about unbalanced things in the game. A lot of complaints about the balance fixes that weren't made for 2024. Even before, you heard (and still hear) a lot of complaints about Feats, Multiclassing, overpowered spells, and more. So what are...
  19. James Gasik

    D&D 5E (2024) The Undead Army Necromancer is not Designable

    While it may not be a great idea to create options that give one player infinite minions, that doesn't stop game designers from doing so. I mean, simulacrum exists, and there's no cap, sane or otherwise, for how many minions you could create, beyond how much money you have to work with at 13th...
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