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Outside of England, 'clever' doesn't mean 'intelligent', so I'm drawing no equivalence between play style and mental capacity. If the DM can't improvise an in-game, in-character penalty that makes taking a 1 hour rest dangerous enough to limit its use, then I wouldn't expect the DM to improvise...

I like his rule about hit dice, but the limiting short rests like that is silly. If this DM isn't clever enough to find a way to make those hours spent resting have a their own inherent cost, then he's probably not clever enough to make a game worth playing anyway.

My fighter (with the feat that gives combat maneuvers and a d6 superiority die) had just reached 2nd level before the Half Dragon offered his challenge. Both me and the dragon rolled a lot of misses, but I eventually won out. My character is a duelist by nature. I accepted the challenge, since...

I don't think the battlemasters needs unarmoured defense to fill the swashbuckler role. I don't understand the insistence that swashbucklers be unarmoured. Take leather armor and two-weapon defense.

A whole new edition and some of us still demand a martial controller?

Often enough, the published adventure is BETTER than what a newbie DM can improvise. I would suggest new, or recently reactivated, DMs run published adventures by the book until they have a strong understanding of the edition they're running.

It stops being rediculous when you consider the fact that 0 hit points doesn't necessarily mean "laying on the floor". There's no reason to assume that after taking a sword to the gut, your character next finds himself laying on his back, sleeping. It's more reasonable to assume he's dropped...

I will often have the players take up the roles of legendary or historic figures in the setting to have them play through some significant past event. These events are almost always done in a different system, not even necessarily a previous version of the same system. I once ran an arc of a...

More damage spells is not something that interests me. I would like to go through the 2E Spell Compendium and update some of the utility spells.

Heavy Armor Master sort of covers this anyway.

I have the same issue going on in the Classes chapter. It's all still readable. I also saw the same thing in the 4e player's handbook.

I never said they weren't common, just that they're poorly designed.

Personally, I think a 1st level adventure that involves fighting armed humanoids to the death is a poorly designed adventure.

Player looking for a regular 5th edition D&D group in NYC, preferably in Brooklyn, Manhattan or Queens. I am not interested in D&D Encounters, or Pathfinder, or (at the moment) any game other than 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons.

I would look into some way of weighting sources. Blogs are probably more valuable than forum posts. Blogs that are gaming oriented but rarely call out specific games by name are probably more valuable than gaming blogs that regularly call out games which in turn are more valuable than...

Given the size of the sample and the secrecy of the "secret algorithm", I don't think it would be possible for anyone to intentionally significantly effect a given game's rank.

Huh?

When I did this, I removed the +1/2 level to attacks, skills and defenses. Magic items all had a +1 enhancement bonus, other powers and the critical die scaled by the item's level. For the monster side, I reduced attacks, skills and defenses by an amount equal to 1/2 level. I also reduced...

Similar to my previous request to get a group started in Brooklyn/NYC, but this time, online, and I'll take GM duties... Looking for players for an online Marvel Heroic Roleplaying group. The game will involve all original characters, created with the random character generation document on...

I've fallen in love with the new Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game, but none of my current roleplaying partners is even remotely interested. I would like to get a group started with the following caveats... * All original characters, created using the Random Character generation docs released by...