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That, and the more effective in-combat healing becomes, the more it pushes characters who can heal towards looking at all their cool options, sighing wistfully and casting yet another healing spell.

When I worked at an epilepsy charity, we got a LOT of bizarre emails, and I saved a lot of the weirdest ones. Compensation for the money I lost to Nigerian email scammers (so long as I send my bank details to this address), one telling me that I'd been declared dead and someone called Genshon...

The principle behind third edition's system is good, though I found the execution to be very clunky. Basically, characters have things that are important to them with three degrees of intensity. To get someone to take a course of action, you need to play on a tie, with the importance of that...

You'd probably need to say it can't reduce someone to zero, though the idea of dissing someone so damn hard that they pass out or just straight-up fall over dead is pretty funny.

This thread about the social combat system in Exalted 2e is a good (and pretty funny) breakdown of how a detailed, crunchy social system can go horribly, horribly wrong.

So much this. The fetishising of Intelligence as the only mental stat that matters and high-Intelligence characters as having effective precognition gets wearying. What are his other stats? If he has a low Wisdom score, he's going to come up with elaborate and intricate plans that are...

So what I'm taking away from this thread is, if I want to play a STR-based fighter, check if the DM is a weapons nerd. If he is, roll up a DEX-based fighter or a caster instead to avoid getting pummelled with "realistic" consequences for using my class abilities.

The biggest one I use is "short rests take 5-10 minutes, but you can only benefit from two fo them between long rests" and "you get an extra feat at level 1, from a list of feats that have never appeared in any optimisation guide". Apart from that, it's very much an as-and-when thing, since I...

As well as EGW, I also really liked how it was handled in the Eberron book, where as each region / faction / religion was detailed, there was a focus on "Here's stuff you can use to detail a character with this origin.", rather than a gazeteer that would probably give a broader picture but...

I've seen a few things that gave me that vibe. Symptoms include: --The world lacks any obvious reason for PC groups to form in the first place, or any indications of what a typical group would actually do. This is why the Scion 2e books I kickstarted got a look through and then sat undisturbed...

I'm the same--there's a lot of cool stuff here that I'm looking forward to using in some capacity. Again, I think a lot of it comes down to people having spoiled their appetite with the UA versions.

That's the ideal, yes. But I'm not sure it's even a viable form of communication nowadays in the Twitter Age. People have just been trained so much to respond to glib, rapid-fire slogans with a superficial veneer of reason smeared over them.

Indeed--it's a better and healthier option than just hanging around like a bad smell, still using the system but complaining about every single aspect of it.

It seems that about 99% of the hate for TCoE comes from people angry that their UA-based "build" got nerfed. They'd have been so much happier if they'd never looked at the UA version.

We really need a snappy insulting nickname for easily offended, hyper-sensitive, not-bigoted-BUT people who pretend that "I want less representation where I can see it!" is somehow NOT a political stance. I propose "Status Quo Warriors".

Well, if you choose as the DM to let your players have all of those items, then I assume you want to have them throwing around unbeatable spells?

You noticed that too? I think this forum just plain doesn't like the current edition of D&D that much, despite being nominally about it. There's some interesting discussion that makes it worth dipping into, but I have to remember to check out before the negativity gets too draining.

It's also unnecessary. The DMG says 6-8 encounters of medium difficulty. It has started driving me batty when people start quoting "6-8" like it's holy writ, when that just plain is not what the book says anywhere, and anyone could look it up for themselves. My actual play experience at a...

I'd guess that hearing 3.24 billion tales of paladins losing their powers for not petting a cute kitten might have led them to leave out "the DM can switch off your class features on a whim" element for any future classes, and I like the freedom to determine what the pact actually is. That said...

We could call it the SORCERER KING or something like that?