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D&D always have supported low level gritty style of play. A first level character can die to a single great axe chop. What it does *not* support, so far, is to stay like this for a long time. Your zero level commoner will be a zero level commoner 1st level fighter as soon as he starts to play...

I've already said in other threads that the "wuxia" aspect of the game should be a Dial. If you want to play a Diablo II style of game, your Fighter should be cleaving and then using whirlwind and leaping over huge pits and your archer should shoot volleys of incendiary arrows almost from level...

I disagree. It does teach you, because it helps you to do so. A group of newbie players in 3e or 2e might easily fight several 1vs1 fights when facing a group of goblins. I know I did when I was newbie. In 4e, however, bonus are situational. They rarelly last for long. When your warlords hit...

The question is not if Paizo could set up a game system to play their D&Desque AP on. The question is if it would be as sucessful as Pathfinder is. We have no way to know (my crystal ball isn't working today), but I'm highly confident it won't. Reading Paizo forum, one could say that a very high...

I'm not sure about the question. Are you asking "are the abilities needed for a RPG"? Then the answer is not. Song of Fire and Ice RPG is a good example. Ability scores are needed for D&D though. They are part of this game. Actually, i'll go as far as saying you need 6 ability scores ranging...

I already conceded that point. You could go as far as saying that regular LotR orcs are level 15, uruk hai are level 25 elite, mordor flies are level 30, and regular rats are level31 solo if you want. It wouldn't make a lot of sense, though, and claiming that a baby rock troll is CR 10 by D&D...

There's a kind of formal fallacy called fallacy of the single cause Just because they have inner problems it does not mean there aren't external problems as well, that can be, and should be, dealed with regardless of the inner auditory. There's evidence that they built a new 3.5 edition after...

That's assuming the only problem D&D had is the recent Paizo overtake. It might not be the case. While it's obvious that Paizo did beat them out, we don't have the market share values or selling power of WotC. They do. It's perfectly possible that 3.5 went out because they felt their selling...

Yeah, that's right. I mean, I know a car door is not a guy with plate & mail :P But the thing is, physics are the same. A thrust has more penetrating power than a cut, that's basic. You could *not* cut a car by half with a sword. But you *can* pierce it with a thrusting power. You might use a...

I think this video gives an idea about how you should attack a plate armor with a zweihander. And yes, I'm fully aware that is not a plater armor. But whatever, I rest my case. Minute 7'51'' Two Handed Great Sword - YouTube

I can tell you that my 10th level Barbarian can be tied, sleeping, and found helpless by 5 regular level 1 bandits, those can go, and coup de grace him, and he will not die. with average +1 str bonus, 2d8+2=11. I can make that save. And 55 hp is nothing. So yes, leveling make my character able...

This. This is completelly the solution and the way to go, imho. Goblins with crossbows won't threat High Level PC. But Ranger 4/rogue3 goblins with poisoned crossbows? That's another matter. And if your players don't know which goblins are garbage and which goblins aren't, they will be wary in...

No, but the Baron has alredy paid the equipment (and in all fairness, if they are militia, they probably came with their own weapons. That's why they are militia, not professional soldiers). In any case: EXACTLY. And that's the reason they can survive 12 crossbows as well. That's easy...

I don't find it unbelievable. No more than the fight the manticore exists. What I find it, is unappropiate. Because the game is about a group of heroes that do heroic things. If those things can be done by ordinary men, then the entire game is flawed. Why would the Baron pay 1000g to a group of...

Again, that works for a strict small niche of creatures (those with damage reduction). A fire giant does not have DR. A flight of Manticores do not have DR. If 12 crossbow bolts shot by peasants are so deadly as to have decent chances to kill a level 12 player and burn a level 12 fighter hp...

But if the Hydra says bite +8, and then the player can survive those 12 attacks becouse his AC (or hp) is high enough, then he would survive 12 soldiers with +8 attack too. You want him to (be able to) die when 12 bolts are shot against him. That make 12 manticore spikes equally dangerous. If...

Ars Magica and 4th editon seem to be ice and fire. I don't know what JT and RH can pull together, but it will be interesting, no doubt of that.

I think this blog will brief my opinion about the matter much better than I could do with my lowbie english skills. Fantasy armor and lady bits

That's the point. Manticores are, and should be, more dangerous than 12 militia. That's why when a pair of manticores terrorize a village, the mayor calls adventurers. Becouse the local militia *cant* take the manticores down, because they are not threat enough. The problem is not that much the...

That makes some monsters, like manticores or hydras, incredibly more powerful than others, like Gorgons or Dragons or Balors, based stricktly on the number of attacks. It's a strage assumption, imho. You can easily defeat a high level titan, becouse it only strikes once, but you are defeated by...