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It’s early days for house rules in LU: A5E, since it already brings so many great changes to D&D. My groups have mostly now converted to A5E and are loving it. We’ve tweaked our usual rules to fit in with some of the unique features of A5E and we’ve found the transition really easy going. Our...

Yeah, that's why I'm less keen on the second table - it doesn't look symmetrical because the sum-of-3 isn't intuitive. The only way to make it symmetrical around 10.5 is to have a 2 point gap between 10 & 11, which scales all the other costs up to around double and generates the first table...

Thanks, that's really helpful stress-testing and feedback. I had a long-time character with 3d6 rolled straight down the line of stats - had a 17 and a 3 (neither in a key stat) and there were lots of opportunities to bring both into the role-playing.

"Zero" sum charts below for the 3d6 distribution, with a 10.5 balance point. That 0.5 is pain, it means I either need a 2 point gap between 10 & 11 (and some BIG score costs): Score Cost Score Cost 3 -41 11 1 4 -29 12 3 5 -21 13 6 6 -15 14 10 7 -10 15 15 8 -6 16 21 9 -3 17 29...

That was careless of me, especially with the correct numbers in the posts from everyone else! Is of course 10.5, will correct in the original to avoid further confusion

It's relatively straightforward to adjust the zero sum chart for a different balance point. To set the "0" for 11, you just re-write the table adding 1 to all the costs. To set the "0" for 10, you would instead re-write the table adding 3 to all the costs. So you bring the score you want to the...

Thanks both, food for thought (and impressed by the gritty/heroic callback and the GMBinder link!). You are very right - the truth is that the inherent skew of the 4d6-and-drop-the-lowest distribution is always going to struggle with the purchasing power of having access to the lowest scores...

@tetrasodium You may or may not want to match 4d6-and-drop-the-lowest probability but, if you do, here're a couple of options for that:

Yes, possibly would have had more obvious body modifications if it was an Annis. So Night Hag it is for now. Standard illithid or fancy ulitharid, I think Mind Flayer's got us covered for Mind Minister. Thanks hivemind!

It's all about the great art really, and some name changes

Love it, that's a keeper

Right peeps, our work here is done: 1 Great Dalmuti - just a crown 2 MInd Minister - Mind Flayer 3 Solicitor - Rakshasa 4 Baroness - Medusa 5 Occultist - Night Hag 6 Templar - Hobgoblin 7 Spinner - Drider 8 Artisan - Stone Giant 9 Apothecary - Harpy 10 Breeder - Goblin (with abyssal chicken!)...

I was down the wrong track with Artisan - was blinded by the idea of a golem but stone giant's the right call

Two votes for the harpy and I love the link with the hair on the 4e picture. I kinda feel the art would have had more obvious talons but it's the winner for now

Good call on both of those. Horns on the night hag, backwards hands on the rakshasa.

So, all you clever people, I hope we can all agree that the Great Dalmuti is the greatest card game WotC produces [ducks-and-covers]. Can I enlist your help in working out which D&D creature each of the 13 D&D Great Dalmuti card represents? Here are the card pictures (all in Harry Conway's...

I suspect WotC won't, but it'd be an amazing 3rd party DMsGuild product. If the differences are big enough, I'm a sucker for new books, but if the differences are small, a conversion book would have my money!

Brilliant, I missed the Kickstarter for this print run and have been waiting for direct orders to open!

I'm a big fan of that too. We call it Heroic Effort (I didn't realise that was something else in 4e) but it's a temporary benefit to avoid a few exploits we ran into: "You may spend one Hit Die (or level of exhaustion [will need to update to fatigue/strife!] if no Hit Dice left) to: Add to any...