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Why is this bouncyness necessary for the PCs to ride in to save the day? To make the flow of the story more plausible? What I (and I think pemerton and others also) are saying is that if this one result is plausible why should the DM not simply decide it to happen without rolling the dice? The...

I can see that some people might have a problem with the believability of the situation. But that has nothing to do with freeze-framing in itself. JamesonCourage posted a freeze-frame with a beggar-girl upthread that is completely believable. So if your quarrel is with the believability of a...

Man, I am late to this very interesting and entertaining thread. I see many similarities in the different playstyles but after reading through 114 pages I am sure we now know where the differences lie. A few questions and remarks to clarify this for me, if that is ok: As far as I can tell, the...

I find it hard to sell 5th edition to somebody who really likes 4E. But one of the things that can be tiresome in 4E, as others have already mentioned, is the length of combat. And the length of combat is reduced in 5th edition. Also, there are a lot of interrupts in 4E that can be hard to...

You can use a grid if you like. Although 13th Age can be played without minis or a grid, we play with minis and use WorldWorks stuff, which has a grid. The grid is not a point of reference because the game does not use feet or meters. It uses engaged, nearby and far away. There is no tactical...

For up to 3rd edition, I agree with the OP. I think that this edition was designed to be able to do exactly this as this was the target group. That is where WotC thinks the money is. I don't think you can emulate 4E very well with it, though. At least not without some serious (too much) work...

I think they went into the playtest expecting there to be large different groups of players. Then the 4th edition players saw the rules of the first couple of playtests and thought: mmmh, how is this supposed to turn into something that resembles what the current edition excels at? And I think...

I had thought that "healing options in the DMG" would not only include a more grittier version of healing, but ideas/concepts on a full martial healer class as well. As far as I understand the rules, right now there is no martial equivalent to the healing options of the cleric. And, as others...

5 out of 5 rating for 13th Age Core Book I really like this book because... in every chapter the designers give sound advice on their rationale behind the mechanics. They offer options for different playstyles. The rules are very transparent, which makes for easy DMing. Classes are different...

I appreciate the effort. But it is the chassis that is not appealing to me. I do not believe that this can be pimped by enough "modules" to make me want to drive this car. And if I want to play a simple game That I get for free, I will play 13th Age, which has very modern mechanics. Just take a...

Aramis. The three musketeers are Athos, Porthos and Aramis. D'Artagnan joins them to fight against Cardinal Richelieu and his minions. Aramis joins a cloister at the end of the story.

I am underwhelmed I read the rules and I am truly underwhelmed. This ruleset looks and feels really old-fashioned to me. We are back to almost 30% of the rules containing spells as class features for the wizard and the cleric only. Spells are walls of text again with fluff caked into the spell...

My advice: when playing older versions of DnD, I always thought about what my PC would do in a specific situation. As a martial character I did not have many written-out options, though, besides "I attack with my sword" or "I charge and attack with my sword" or "I move around this opponent...

So, do I understand this correctly regarding responsibilities and who did what: Ron Richardson says that R&D people were treated well by members of the brand team, but designers were not? So is he talking about Ryan Dancey (former brand manager), Liza Stevens (former M:tG brand team), Joseph...

I think that a d20 does not spread out the probabilites enough. In the OP chart, it ist just as likely to hit the face as it is to hit the right arm, altough the area of the face is much maller than that of an entire arm. I am thinking about using a d100 and factoring in any worn armor. After...

Yeah, players should not be able to choose too much. When I play 5e, almost everything will be determined randomly: race, class, stats, height, hair and eye color, hp, heck, even armor. I will not stop with treasure tables! I want everybody to roll as much as possible. And I will make sure with...

... said the jock to the nerd while stuffing him in the trash can, long before he became a senator after a career as a great athlete.

Not in a modular system you don't. Let me put it this way: 50.000 (or 60.000?) people subscribe to DDI. This could be an argument for every 4E mechanic. But it is not. Because if you talk about specific mechanics and how they work, it does not matter how many people actually pay money for 4E...

This thread has somehow turned into a discussion about whether 4E was a failure or not. I am of the opinion that it was not. Because people who were completely dissatisfied with 3.x and would have discontinued playing DnD altogether kept playing DnD with 4E. The publishing cycle is not too bad...

I doubt that the design goal for 5e is to be the best rpg out there. I think the design goal for 5e will be to make a game that DnD gamers of all editions will like. And the question is: what do they like? All of the things I am reading about the 5e design effort is revolving around the question...