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I'm amused by the early posts that boil down to "just roleplay better, stats don't matter." While I agree in part, it would be nice if there was a mechanical bonus to help offset the Cha casters' inherent advantage. Likewise, backgrounds can be leaned on for skill access or cool fluff based...

Aaaaaaaah. I missed that. Pretty psychopathic CE stuff.

I skipped a couple pages, so correct me if I misunderstand this, but your players are attacking the giants, encounter a giant, try to communicate with a giant they stumble onto, and then the paladin doesn't allow them to kill their fleeing foe. Does that about sum it up? Ruling: paladin is a...

I could see paladins, warlocks or clerics as templars, but my preference would be for temolar to ba a background option rather than a class.

I'd love to see something set much earlier in Athas's history. A Dark Sun prequel, if you will. A few of the sorcerer kings have begun their transformations and the dragon hasn'tachieved final form yet, but he's close... it would be a good way to allow most of the 5e staples without unending the...

This may be pushing the conversation a bit, but since it has wandered so much already... What if, instead of floating bonuses or eliminating stat bonuses/penalties 6e built roles instead of classes and left bonuses in place? For example a dwarven "tank" might be con based, but an elven "tank"...

I don't entirely disagree, but I am still generally in the physical = racial camp. That being said, my opinion is not set in stone and I would be happy to play a system that focused on the ideas that upbringing played a larger role in character generation than genetics (or...

It doesn't need to be exclusive. It needs to have options. I guess you could achieve the same result by giving each race multiple cultures of their own, but with the bloated number of race options that could get old quick. Example from one of my campaigns: 1.) Northerners are pastoral farmers...

The obvious solution is to do away with monolithic racial cultures. Replace them with poly-racial cultures revolving around regional, religious, or mercantile divisions. You can use generalities like, "orcs tend to act more impulsively than others in their culture," or "orcs are often pushed...

In what game is a 10 minute short rest a problem for your group

As someone currently running a campaign using Incursion, I feel obligated to point out that it is only an outline with some stat blocks and the DM is required to build the actual adventures, and is heavily catered to githyanki, although it did give suggestions for using other races. Personally...

I may have shot my argument in the foot by using Crouching Tiger as my reference point rather than something more mundane, but your responses to it have opened my eyes to something (and that is rare enough in online conversations to be noteworthy.) I always assumed that the monk was a "martial...

I most certainly am not. The BANDIT leader is lawful because he learned how to fight? The girl who trains in martial arts without her parents' knowledge, lies, steals, trains in secret from her master, and abandons a marriage arranged by her family is lawful because she learned how to fight...

And here we have the usual problem of English. Discipline in this instance refers to a particular tradition, not to actual self-control.

I hear what you are saying, but im not entirely sure I agree with you. Tying discipline to an alignment fails to take into account the hyper-focused, hyper disciplined villains that are obviously psychotic and fall easily into CE.

I'll keep my not-lawful monk examples to one movie for simplicity. In CTHD: Dark Cloud (and his bandits) Jade Fox Jen Yu And the guy at the inn who wants money to protect the Green Destiny and gets owned. Thats 3 of the 5 most important characters in the movie (and I guy who's name i can't...

So, what I've taken away from all this is that I need to play a bunch of one sots with sorcerers of different builds at different levels in different party compositions to see how I really feel. There are some interesting fixes suggested and some of them sound like good options in a vacuum. It...

I'll do you one better. I'll point out that no one cares. Well, almost no one. You obviously care a great deal. That's fine. You have other options. For those of us who enjoy resource management, and more accurately mismanagement, the sorcerer is awesome! It's one of the few character options...

I do not think this word means what you think it means.

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