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Seems pretty good to me. I'd probably add some organisation that works for him too. Perhaps some bardic spy org. They might not even know who they're really working for. Edit: In fact I'm a strong fan of making things really messy, so I'd have two separate organisations working for him. One...

I'm perfectly aware of everything you are saying, and I mostly disagree with it. I agree that it's possible to play courtly intrigue stuff without rules to support it, but at that point the GM needs to cover for all the things that can go wrong playing something that the system does not...

D&D is pretty bad at intrigue because you need more than a minimalist ruleset for it. It doesn't need social combat rules, but it needs some kind of system that lets you concretely influence organisations without being in direct contact them. Blades in the Dark can do this, as can Wicked Ones...

But that's exactly what I was saying in my post. I was saying that you have been saying that balance is a bad thing and that D&D should not be balanced and that it is good that casters are superior, as the status quo. But you just said in the previous post that you believe that you don't think...

That is an absurd argument. People will play what classes are available.

Not going to bother digging up your posts on the subject because I don't have the time, but I am fairly certain I have seen you in multiple threads on the subject of how crappy class balance in D&D is, and I remember your nickname in particular because unlike most people who argue against class...

And while you haven't seen that irl I have seen it, in fact I know several people who actively dislike D&D for this specific reason. You might think "you've searched these people out" or "it's confirmation bias" or something but no. One of them in particular had this opinion before I had it. I...

If you want to be able to have great impact outside of combat you must be a caster? This seems bad, because it gatekeeps influence behind class and it says that if you want to play a martial all you care about is DPR.

Thanks! The local library seems well stocked. They have several, including the first book of Lankhmar.

Fafhrd and Grey Mouser must be really obscure characters, or perhaps locally popular only in the US or something? First time I ever saw their names mentioned was in some forum thread here about 5E and everyone seemed to treat them like their names were common knowledge. If one wants to check...

I agree. As someone who did not like 4E at first, but came to like it once I actually tried playing it, one stumbling block was actually the look of it. It looked very minimalist and abstract compared to the older edition books

I think there might be one way to change concentration in such a way that it would actually benefit martials, though. One problem concentration has is that it forces casters to be stingy with spells, unless those spells are instant. Since they can only maintain one spell they need to cast...

The difference being that in D&D it is not possible to build a character who relies on using the legendary sword of valor, because the legendary sword of valor might not be the loot that the player finds, and heck they might find it, but what if they find a better sword? Casters get to pick how...

I think D&D has gotten players used to a weird kind of thinking about how to interact with the world. You're either interacting through skills or through spells (or class abilities). Skills are the least influential, they're 100% "mundane" and they're weak. Then you have spells which are the...

This seems unnecessarily punishing to non-casters, since the primary resource burned by a melee martial is HP, while the primary resource burned by a spell caster is magic.

As a sidenote this really does sound like something from the Nobilis rpg. It's a bit hard to use in d&d though I think. It would benefit from a lighted system with more leeway for weird rule interpretations.

I mean purely non-magical as in no spells and nada magic, but that isn't really a requirement, personally. I'd be fine with it as long as they're not spells, but to me it also does not need to involve magic whatsoever. I personally don't care. I'm talking about things like a fighter so good at...

I'm having a difficult time replying to these because of the split quotes. In my opinion it is essential that martials are also competent. My problem is with the way this is currently handled (they're not) and also that a lot of people seem to want martials to suck. I suspect we are talking...

It becomes very difficult to reply if you don't cite the entire post or leave things out and cut the quotes apart too much. I never said he can't have fun. What you need is to make sure that the system isn't as over the top with magic as it currently is. The quantity of magic and the power of...

Personally, I'd prefer if we didn't care about the second player at all. Because I want to be able to play awesome martials who don't use magic but who are still competent and influential.