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Drat! I thought this was going to be about a spell-less ranger using the fighter chassis.

I took my players directly from LMoP into Princes of the Apocalypse (PoTA). It's a good adventure, though it has a less social and exploration encounters and more combat encounters than I prefer. Of course, that's also partly due to the playstyle of my players, who tend to be kill-first, talk...

If you want to go the fewer stats route, the only system I've seen that really whittles them down is the Tri-Stat system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-Stat_dX

Nikola Tesla I know he was real, but a lot of his inventions (like his fabled death ray) put him in modern myth status in my book. I think a magi-punk artificer version of him would be really cool.

I had to Google it too.

I carry on mostly because I have a mother who may one day need me as my father did. The last time I seriously contemplated suicide, it was only my obligation to my parents (who did for me when I couldn't do for myself, and who deserve the same in kind) that kept me from doing it. One down now...

That's definitely true. A quick look at real world mythologies will show how petty, vain and capricious a pantheon of gods can be, even those gods considered to be "the good ones."

Do petrified adventurers dream? I'm sure there's a Phillip K. Dick joke in there somewhere.

Took is not misleading. From the point of view of the son coming home to find his stuff is gone and other stuff is there in its place, and with the op painting a picture of not telling his son where the books are until the shock of them being missing wore off enough for him to ask, took is...

I'm glad the Giff made it in, but let's be honest here, it's just a single monster entry; and the "I'll let you speculate wildly" thing is just a glorified way of saying nothing. I'd love it if we got Spelljammer, but we probably won't. This news doesn't even raise my hopes for it. And, being...

If that's how it happened, without the kid coming home to find all his 4e books gone, I don't think anyone in this thread would've had a problem with it. The OP paints a situation where he never even spoke to his son, just took stuff away and replaced it with an alternative.

Thank you for your sympathies, and the compliment. Regarding your situation, we each do what we can for the people we love. Unfortunately, life doesn't give us encounters balanced against our emotional, physical or financial capabilities. If you did everything you could bear to do, then you...

You can if you want to.

The "was an option only in 4e" thing is a meaningless comment. It doesn't matter what edition it came from, it's a core element of what most warlord fans consider to be a must-have ability for the warlord. And, to be frank, it's almost a net zero benefit. It's at best, a 7.5 damage benefit...

Nice. Don't you have a thread to start about how people are playing the wrong way, or about how bless, sharpshooter, and GWM are broken? Not by a long shot. It's a good thing my version of warlord would be its own class then, isn't it.

No Zardnaar, it doesn't need 4 attacks. It should have at least three, but it doesn't need 4 (my version would have only three). Yes, it needs attack granting. And who gives a crap that the battlemaster doesn't have attack granting? The battlemaster is a fighter, not a warlord, and the...

Situationally. If the warlord does slightly more damage (i.e. 4 attacks) or slightly less damage (i.e. 3 attacks), then action granting is best used at a distance and for acceleration. A good example of this would be if an enemy is farther away than the warlord can move, but an ally of the...

The paying for Exp thing is crap, and that store should be reported. As for the other part, if we assume a 3-4 hour session, $2.50 to $5 is pretty cheap for that kind of entertainment. That's paying less than going to a movie, for about as much certainty that you'll enjoy it, and for more time...

Oh, come on! There will always be optimal and sub-optimal uses for abilities. That those exist doesn't mean the warlord feature (or any other feature with optimal and sub-optimal uses) is bad. And not every party has a rogue in it. The party I'm running an adventure for doesn't have one, and...

The comparison needs to be between what the warlord gives up and what the ally acting on her behalf can do. So, assuming a warlord gets the extra attack feature, you're not comparing a single attack to a single attack. The right comparison is what the warlord could do with her attack action...