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There is a 10% chance when meeting an NPC for the first time the wearer triggers the "Shunning" curse of the armor and will thus be forever more shunned by that NPC.

Hehehehe... An actual conversation over chat in Diablo 2: Friend: Hey 'evile' why is your Barbarian just standing there getting wailed on? Me: I dinged... hang on I'm almost done leveling up. Friend: What? In the middle of... @&%$@ swarm! It was fun to play the Endurance Barbarian...

I'm pretty sure the Mistophecy says you will buy 5e and play it.

No it was a slang term that arose in the Grand Old Days of the MUD. I remember using back in Gemstone (I think it was Gemstone III).

PREACH IT BROTHER! Let our voices ring out from swamp to cave! Let them know we shall be held down no longer! Yeah... I've never been fond of the "generic fantasy" treatment of 'humanoids' in most game systems, let alone the "color coded for your convenience" attitude of D&D.

Not to give the Anti-DoaM crowd ammo... but... There is a massive difference in the way ranged combat in TBT/S video games works versus TBTRPGs. So having melee unit (which are traditionally not as "potent"*) able to literally never miss, isn't as big an advantage. It's a welcome advantage if...

Sure. I'm not spitting on the notion of a guide, if such a guide helps Ruin Explorer, so much the better. (I'll ignore the guide, but I live dangerously like that) What's digging at me that I see as unnecessary is the need to count every grain of sand in the guidelines to make sure that the...

By 'people' you mean you*. And really, and I'm serious now, you really don't want to start down the "Let's remove things that make people not want to play this game" path. Cause like, I'm all for ditching levels and classes. And Alignments. And Vancian magic. And... well we're not playing...

I have to plan for "Can I do this without rolling dice and if I have to roll dice succeed in some fashion regardless?".

Heh... funny enough I never made that connection*. Now of course I have to make that character for the next Boffer LARP I play in. * The throwing fish was part of the "We were interrupted in the midst of dinner" combat set my ex and I made: Turkey leg 'dagger', beer stein 'shield', frying...

I do have a NERO-legal throwing trout. Just saying.

Well either the PCs retreat from superior forces or they don't and they die. Nothing really new about that. But yeah, when I'm setting encounters they are meant to succeed at, I consider what they can reasonably handle and I build towards what I want the outcome to be: easy success...

Oh sure, so it's okay to pick on those of us whom LARP! :.-( See! See the repression inherent in the system! :mad: :devil:

Not in this thread, no. I never ran 3e D&D and the campaign I ran for 4e... I did what I always do, I ran it my way. Which is to say the PCs got exp when I thought it was needed, they fought monsters I felt were right and etc, etc. Encounter balance? I never did cotton to that idea But...

No, no... I get it. i don't agree with the "ideal" but I get it. I just think it's... something special when DM's complain that the "system isn't balanced" or whatever, and they can't rely on it blindly to "craft encounters" the way they want. Probably just me being curmudgeonly and...

"The system" has to account for this? Isn't that what a DM is for?

Hey, I hate D&D* and even I'll belly up to the table and roll some d20 if it's the game we're playing. * It burnssss usssss it doesssss....

What tradition? There's a whole heap of different traditions in D&D some stretching back nigh on 40 years.

Oh I get it now. It's a matter of *cringe* verisimilitude. Some people demands heaps of it, some people don't care, and some people freak out and leave the movie when a Skorpion starts dropping M16 shell casings...

My only complaint with 5e* is how it's handling skills. IMHO 3e got skills "just right". No other edition has done it as well. However, I temper my 'disappointment' in 5e's skill treatment by noting at least it's a vast improvement over OD&D. * I will leave aside my other dislikes of...