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Not very realistic. Piercing attacks are good to , well, pierce armor. Against full plates, you are better using a crossbow than a sling. I'd rather use a lance than a club. So did the medieval warfare. Wouldn't you? That's why in real world they developed things like the war pick (which is...

One thing I do not understand, is why Poison Inmune Dwarves get so attention and that much debate, while Sleep and Charm Inmune Elves do not. Are elves "special" and deserve inmunities, while dwarves do not?

The rules of football /soccer are made by the FIFA. The referee is the one who adjudicate them in the field. It's not the same. Which rules? 5e? It clearly describes helpless being "cdgraceable". Some paralized creatures might be helpless. Some others might not. Charles xavier can levitate...

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Welcome back to DM adjudication. Your DM says if paralyzed is helpless. Or sleeping. Or tied. On the bright side, he can also declare that someone is helpless even if he does not fulfill some rule criteria. For example: an executioner can now coup de grace their living, untied, unparalized...

If the modifiers are higher than +20 in a d20, there is too much difference between "good" and "experts". When the DM set a DC, the "expert" in the team will be unable to fail (even with a 1) what the rest of the group can't achieve (even with a 20). That make the game trivial for the expert...

A Str 10 first level rogue has BAB +0, and no ability bonus. He is about as useful as a commoner. No, scratch that: the commoner will have STR bonus to add to attack and damage (even if it is only +1). It is about as useful as a wizard with no spells. Or the commoner wimpy daughter.

A skeleton has DR 5/bludgeoning so your rogue wielding a rapier does 1 point of damage 16.6% of the rounds (half that actually, since he can miss the attack as well) Sneak Attack is not the rogue only class feature. But it is the only one in combat, which is what this thread is about: "effect...

I think I've read in old posts by Mearls and Cook, about using re-rolls as part of the skill system. If so, 45% success with reroll means 69,75% chance of success.

A few other posters already answered this, but you are wrong. Tell me something a rogue had in combat, that a commoner does not (yes, commoners can buy tanglefoot bags and caltrops too). Level 1 rogue, in a standard array, with a regular build (that is, not a 20 STR great axe-wielding half orc...

A important difference is when two characters are from different classes. A dwarf fighter will heal 10d10 (or whatever) with the new system, while an elven wizard will heal 10d6. In 1-3e, the wizard will heal faster, because he was weaker. That did not make a lot of sense. The new system is...

A default setting make things much better for game design and adventure design. Pathfinder is great partially because of Golarion. D&D does not have that luxury though. Whatever world they take as "default", somebody is going to complain.

Most 4e buffs last "until end of your next turn". It's in 3e where you had them all the time (in 3.5 the durations are nerfed, though). 4e problem was there were too much different modifiers, and you needed a lot of re-calculation because they lasted just a few rounds, so you couldn't have...

I disagree. A rogue who can't sneak attack does not fight "with no problem". He is completelly useless in a fight. Rogues in 3.0 were completelly useless wen fighting undeads.

But Rogues do not learn new stuff. They have sneak attack, which is "at will", and it goes up with level (depending on the edition). Quadratic Wizards means that when they level, their abilities (that is, spells), goes up by level. But they also get *new* abilities. A 3rd level rogue can...

Double that with metamagic extend, and 7 hours is your workday shift. :)

At 3rd level, Sleep is on the verge of obsolescence. Fortunatelly, you have a couple level 2 spells and several level 1 spells now, so not really a issue ;)

"minute/level" or "hour/level" was part of the quadratic wizard problem. When a Wizard goes from level 6 to 7, not only he gets more spell slots, but also the spells he has are more powerful. Hence, while the non spell casters advance linearly (they learn new abilities), casters advance...

The fun part is I understood it ^_^ To Gary: I think a truly urban adventure would be incredibly. Specially if you spice it with some cool backstabbing from lovely NPC in a very well detailed City. It does not need to be swashbuckling to work. Just Urban. I'm thinking on Paizo's Curse of...

that's true, but an Hexcrawl also tend to have this "15' workday" appereance of "unleash all your grenades" fight.