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Wow...you managed to post a message that was nothing but quoting what I've already read back to me while simultaneously calling me bizarrely angry. That may go down in history as the least helpful post ever. Here's why it isn't "bizarrely angry": Let's say I've got 20th level PCs in 3.5e, I...

Here's the deal though. You don't hit with every attack. You miss with a bunch of them. So, let's say you hit 50% of the time. The numbers I was using were that someone with a greatsword and 20 strength would do 12 damage on average. 13 with the sword. That's an 8% increase. I was...

Because no one in game knows any of those things. No one in the game world is sitting around saying "I can only cast this spell once before taking a short rest. How come he just cast it twice?!?!" Instead both of them are saying "I'm a wizard. I cast spells. This round, I believe I will...

That requires a lot of math and a lot of playtesting to even come up with guidelines for it. And, for the most part, it'll say "If the PCs are getting too powerful, add another monster". The numbers are so small, as I mention in my post above, that the difference between having a +1 item and...

I apologize. A copy and paste error apparently. It has been corrected.

Yes. +1 to hit and damage? They increase the damage of one party member by about 8% or so....the math is more complicated than that, but it's a rough estimate. Which means the damage output of one party member in 5 goes up 8%. Which means the entire damage output goes up about 2%(assuming...

But they don't add +6 to hit and damage. They don't add 6 points to your Strength(Except maybe Gauntlets of Ogre Power and they are only useful for people who already put a high number in their strength). They give a small bonus that is nice to have. The point the designers were making when...

Except that's not how math works. A 5% chance of something can happen 20 times in a row. It's random. The only way to know how it would have happened if you followed all the rules is to actually follow all the rules. Saying that things happen only precisely statistically is even worse...

It helps. But even rolling for stats doesn't fix the problems. In fact, it can make it worse depending on what people roll. Most of the problems come from combining choices during the game. For instance, my character who was a Warmage/Dragon Slayer/Spellsword/Eldrich Knight who bought a +6...

The monster math in the playtest was a placeholder. They said a couple of times that they didn't actually DO the math required to balance monsters vs the PCs. That math was going to happen later. The playtest was designed to assess whether the class abilities appealed to people. They said a...

Here's the deal: That means the campaign isn't for me. They've chosen to offer me something I can't use. It's like offering a taxi service to someone who already owns a car. They aren't going to use it. But it isn't designed for them. This campaign isn't designed for me...on purpose it...

Yeah, between regionals, metaregionals, and cores for the last couple of years, we always had things to run. We repeated adventures, as well, with low level characters when there weren't enough high level characters to play or there were new people who had no high level characters. Our primary...

It doesn't alter the math enough to be significantly overpowering to the game. They've said the game and all adventures assume no magic items. The original poster was saying "You can't have magic items that affect the math of the game while simultaneously assuming no one has any." Over the...

I don't really think it is. The problem with the "bag of rats" was that it was using a rule technicality to do more damage. It was an abuse that needed to be stamped out to prevent low level PCs from using it to kill extremely high level monsters. This let's you recover your full hitpoints if...

I scrutinize it a lot. When I play a character in a game, I look at all the numbers to give myself the best numbers. I notice when one option is clearly better than another. As a DM, I can't help but notice it. When you go around the table and people yell out their damages and they are 8, 7...

My original group was 14 players and a DM(though on most days we only had 8 players show up). We used a caller and a mapper as well. Though, more recently we've pretty much done away with the mapper because we don't often go through dungeons big enough to warrant it. Even if they did, it...

It's because magic items don't GIVE math. They give a +1 to hit and also the ability to breath underwater. Or a +1 to hit and the ability to sense oranges in a 30 foot radius. When all magic weapons are adding +1 and something else, the focus then shifts to the something else. Thus, being...

That's my real concern. I was Triad in LG and Admin in LFR, I played almost every weekend for 7 years straight. If AL isn't for me, then why isn't it? Why was it designed to not appeal to those who love OP. Here's the deal, though. From my experience playing LG, people like that were in the...

I agree with this for the most part. But I believe the community feel is lost with the new rules put into effect. Most people feel that in a campaign where 10,000 people are playing and the results of any particular storyline are entirely decided by the 500 of them that go to Origins, Gen Con...

Let me say that I still like most of what AL is doing and will definitely be a part of it. However, as far as I can tell from everything presented that AL is still very much 'play and forget'. You can play through the main adventure at home while still having a legal AL character. And from...