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I think bards are too 'Jack of All Spells' in this Edition. I never saw them as being a magical-power-level competitor with Wizards or Sorcerers, but now they are. They can even steal the Shtick of other arcane spellcasters, which is not silly, but OTT. I would rather have seen them as a...

I run two games currently, one which is once a week on Thursday evenings and goes reliably from 7pm until 10pm. The other is once a month with old friends from the area I moved from for work, and we run from 12noon on the Saturday to anything from 12pm that day to 3am on the Sunday morning! I...

The Greyhawk they go with should be a reboot of the post Emridy-Meadows period of the Red Box. This fits in with the dungeons in Yawning Portal don't forget, and extricates the setting from the conflated and complex FtA onwards. The 2nd Edition material could be mined for all the fluff one...

It in no way whatsoever takes the first step out of the GMs hands. if the skill cannot be used, the effects flowing from the skill will not occur. Skill uses are both codified and flexible, and nothing about any of these feats changes that, except to give the users specialisations that are more...

I don't feel Danny actually answered your question. Sure, different subsystems of GURPS use different power levels, but you don't usually see them in the same campaign. It's a menu, not the meal...

An evil Sun God assassin cult that used intense light to blind victims rather than using darkness to sneak in, and who exposed the target to faerie fire to ensure they could not easily escape their attacks.

I have seen in real life, people act stupid as all hell when charmed by a few honeyed words skilfully delivered, and been frightened enough to physically shake at the mere verbal outburst of someone who had a bone to pick with them. A well delivered line can stop a riot from happening, and a...

You answered your own question - you ran a hack'n'slash game. Game of Thrones has as many female fans as male because it caters to everyone - hack, slash, sex, blood, family, betrayal, intrigue, dragons, tragedy, loyalty, underdogs and ruthlessness. It's nuanced, and a basic dungeon bash game...

Forgive me, but there appears to be a measure of guesswork in your post. Have you played or run both gameworlds? For my own part, I've been playing since 1978, and can confirm (merely due to being there) the following; Greyhawk is grittier - less forgiving and far more morally ambiguous. FR...

Greyhawk is a child of the first two editions, and these punished you more for making mistakes, required more advanced planning as things were not balanced and CR didn't exist yet, not to mention it was grittier and less light vs. dark and more grey versus grey with only the very worst things...

It should be changed to something scalable and appropriate. +10 damage at lower level is ridiculous, and -5 to hit at high level is not significant. The penalty should be half of proficiency bonus and the damage should be equal to proficiency bonus, so it would scale from -1 to hit, +2 damage...

Yes, more nuanced thought required, but a good idea generally. For instance, I would have the three rolls for Pit Fighting be as follows; Melee Attack Roll - whichever melee combat style is yours, you will use it in the Pit. Constitution Roll - however you fight, being tough enough counts in...

Which is why a post-magical apocalypse story more like Dark Sun would work better.

I understand various people have their own preferences, including me of course. However, you need to see this from WoTCs point of view. First of all the setting is going to be Forgotten Realms. Anyone genuinely thinking otherwise is deluding themselves. WoTC have this product to push and...

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Swings and roundabouts - if you made Saves like AC, then there would be just as many rolls - but they would all be active, not reactive (every ability or spell used to attack would be rolled for rather than the DM rolling for the monster's save) so there would be no more or less 'agency' in it...

I would give INT the following additional punch to make it as useful as it is in real life and stop it being a dump stat; Half a character's INT modifier (round up to the next highest numeral whether a positive or negative modifier) is applied as an additional permanent modifer to Initiative...

This is one of the primary design flaws of 5th Edition I'm afraid. The idea that INT isn't the stat for every knowledge check, most non-physical skills not involving perception is a travesty. There should also be more INT saves, but hey ho. If you look at any skills progression (rather than...

The :P meant I was joking btw...

Common to where I guess... and thus. although somewhat imprecise, it is right to say it's commonly spoken... in Cimmeria! :P