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I'm very intrigued by Strike! and I'll have to give it a go, I think. Sounds like lots of fun.

Getting back to the actual topic, I just ran a very fun session this weekend that had my players visiting a favourite haunt - the city of Mataya, which is known colloquially as the City of Thieves and is basically like New Orleans during Mardi Gras. It's full of colourful characters, dangerous...

Yep. I'd likely be pretty happy with it if 4e hadn't already been released. I'd certainly play 5e before going back to the broken mess that is 3.x (IMHO), but that isn't saying much. If I wanted that 'retro' feel, I'd play some flavour of AD&D. Now that we have 4e though, until something I like...

How can we be vocally working against it? Any criticism made around here concerning 5e, warranted or otherwise, gets shouted down with such fervor that we don't have the chance to produce any meaningful work from our effort. Even if that work is constructive criticism. I'm afraid I don't get the...

That's certainly a prevailing attitude around here, and it seemed to me that a lot of the anti-4e ranting and the "it's not D&D!!!1!1" reaction was born from that gut reaction. A lot of people hated it because it seemed different, and didn't even give themselves the chance to judge it on its...

I think it has to do with geometry and the platonic solids, etc, with the exception of the d10, but they're so useful for generating 1-100 that they pretty much needed to happen. It's cool if you want to use other quirky dice though, I'd just present it as very optional, as in, make it a...

Somewhat. I'll grant that it's more unified than it was under 4e, but 5e has also left several camps outside the big tent, and the prevalent attitude seems to indicate that's not likely to be addressed, at least not anytime soon. Is it enough to prevent them from branching out with the brand...

Well off topic.

Indeed. I've learned that there are some conversations on these boards that are simply not worth joining, and 4e-centric conversations that are either CONSTRUCTIVE, or friendly, or both, are often in short supply. I have no wish to engage trolls and haters; there are better things to do with my...

I didn't realize that the doc was so short. I read it, and have a few points of feedback. The first thing that jumped off the page for me was the use of D16 for some damage rolls. It's an odd die type that I've never seen before, so I don't think it will see much, if any, use. I expect most...

I want to read this, because it's in my wheelhouse. I'll do my best to make time for it.

These two things were transformative for my game when I started doing them. The first point more than the second, but both were certainly impactful. The extended rests thing should really have been better spelled out like that in the books. I think that DMs failing to properly leverage that one...

I'm not sure if it's just me (because I don't truck in 5e circles), but I've noticed a definite, well, I wouldn't call it "pushback" exactly, but perhaps, nostalgia (?) for the "good bits" of what made 4e great. Maybe the community at large (not the echochamber of ENWorld) might be ready to...

Savage Tide was the last thing I did in 3.x - I was playing in it on a PbP that turned into an in-person game, which we converted to 4e. The DM lost interest after a while, but it seemed fun while it lasted. My character was enjoyable to roleplay under both systems, but much more satisfying...

Glad to hear it. My games are still running, though we had a rough patch of scheduling near the end of the year. I think we'll be getting back into it now.

The +2 Shield bonus to AC from the class feature does not actually require you to use a shield, so you can still use both hands for a bow, or as was the intent of the feat, two-handed melee weapons (not as useful here), or dual-wielding like you would with any melee ranger.

One that I've gotten a lot of use out of lately is Inspiring Fortitude (Endurance Skill Utility 2). My Bard (MC Paladin) didn't have many compelling choices at that level, and granting all my allies a heaping pile of thp when I use my Second Wind seems like a no-brainer, even if it is a Standard...

Love it or hate it, Come And Get It is iconic and character-defining for a Fighter.

I've been chewing on an idea for some years now. Basically a mashup of Darksun with Golden Axe; sword-and-sorcery set in a blasted land of powerful tyrants and oppressed peasants, focusing on a pivotal (near-apocalyptic) event in my campaign world's history. Lich-kings, city-states, hostile...

I think this is where you'd have to try and logic your way through it. It seemed that the parting blows were considered "freebies" in that it didn't count against the normal attacks/round economy, but maybe that is just how we played it. This was maybe just something we allowed as part of the...