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Yeah my current 5E reforged homebrew is very SWSE inspired right down to some borrowed talent trees. A few are basically 5E archetypes. Also kinda wish evolved 5E went in that direction. Trained +5, skill focus+5 is a bit much imho.

6E or homebrew. So I'e started a stretching Bounded accuracy thread. This one's about conceptually ditching archetypes. Main reason is you're the one writing this and its more work. Do you prefer a one true way design a'la OSR/Shadowdark or something sort of build options (feats, talent...

Read 4E PHB lately or played it?

So I 5.5 my players are hitting lvl 11 probably tomorrow. Assuming they defeat Banes avatar. 5E conceptually was to reduce number porn. 3.5 needed this. ACs however are still fairly low on CR 13+ monsters eg 18 or so. If I was doing homebrew or 6E I would stretch it a bit. Thoughts on...

Cheers. Seems decent.

I ran a 1E druid to level 12 in the 90s after reading a Dragon article. That spell table lvl 3 spells at 3rd level and everything else was nice. Ended up with a scimitar of speed and -7 AC. Loved it.

Nice conversion. Using that as a base how anout more generic bhaalist weapon bs undead bane? Extra poison damage eg 2d6?

Pathfinder Weapon Badly converted to 5.0. I'm tweaking an adventure (level 11). Its a Bhaalist weapon vs a Vampires weapon and the level 12 part has a few fiends. I want to dump the must be used by a Rogue part. The Hollow Blade Very Rare Weapon (requires attunement) The hollow blade is a +3...

We had clerics that got items like that. Usually as a second tier behind warriors though.

Very rare though. Greek hoplutes were somewhat unique but very few had full set of armor. Minimum requirement was shield and spear. Front line has best equipment. Roman legions had the big shields. Most of their opponents lacked heavy infantry. Alot of society only the elite had it...

It became obsolete once armor and shields were being used.

Amazon reviews are a 4.0-5 rating. Drop the 4 the reviews make more sense. Its also selection bias. You like a product enough to buy it.

The fighter nerf originates in the 2E to 3.0 transition. Universal xp tables, no nerfs to spells some got buffed. No engine used. Big disparities in saving throws, BAB. Poor saves scaling. Fighters saves were fast in AD&D. Spell DCs based on intelligence scores and level of spell. DCs...

Yeah +3 weapons could be low expert levels while +2 were late basic. Not just Gygax adventures either. Frostbrand might drop level 5 you would still be using it 5-10 levels later.

We figured out they're a better mage at levels that matter. They usually ended up draped in bracers, cloaks etc and using whatever left over. Then as now few people played wizards so wizard type loot usually ended up on fighters, thieves and bards or druid.

Our one gave everyone something like +8 to hit and damage. Early on +4. She missed something and it was gonna be +16. Party full of archers with rapid shot for two or 3 of them. Just straight bard.

Bard is just a fancy word for Gnome.

You broke it you bought it.

I rated all the D&Ds earlier. I gave 5.5 comparatively high rating in a vacuum (judged by itself, ignoring WotC corporate stupidity). BUT because its a revision its hard to get excited after 10 years of 5.0.

We optimized one in late 3.5. Switched on very early 0ne if the more OP builds. Think we used 4 or 5 splits to do it. It was Uber powerful level 8 and good before that. No one new anout the build. I think I posted it but it flew under the radar. It was comparable to the 3.0 cleric...