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No more Bonus Actions. So part of the idea, here, is to streamline combat a bunch. Something like Barbarian Rage would go from being a bonus action to an encounter ability activated with either a weapon attack or a strength check and the expenditure of an exertion. But that does leave us with...

The majority of tables, these days, use Milestone progression rather than individual XP rewards. So it wouldn't work for most players.

Totally get that. It was also hell on wheels to try and build anything for because of the powers structure. SO repetitive to make a 30 level class where you're re-writing upgraded earlier material and trying to add more flowers to it. That just nerfs casters on a per-round basis... Oh, nah...

So here's what I'm thinking would be a decent place for the kind of powers the different classes get to pull out: Martials get 4 exertion per encounter. Their class provides them abilities that cost an exertion to augment what they were already doing with a weapon attack or whatever. So you...

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Listen, I get this is a heated debate about how useful you, personally, find CR as compared to a wholly new DM or whatever, but that's really not what this thread is about and I'd appreciate it if we could stop this particular derailment, please?

I think the easy way is just to have the DM run a round tracker at the top of the DM screen, or a round-tracking die. On initiative count 0, it goes up by 1. After 5, you get 1 exertion/spell slot/psi dice/whatever back. Start the counter over. If you haven't used any of those things, you...

I actually really like this thought, and think it could really help differentiate the classes if their encounter abilities are in different numbers and power. Like a fighter getting four exertion/ki/etc per fight, with a recharge of 5. On every fifth round you get one back. So a fighter could...

So if there were an in-narrative reason for an AEDU structure you would be more receptive to it? Like a structure where it relied on not just expending nebulous "Spell Slots" but actual narrative 'energy' or 'power' that wound up resulting in a comparative weakening? Like, say, a Psion being...

I mean... y'all've seen how I did it, right?

I would love to hear your description of a "Sim Crowd" and how they function! I'd love to know your particular interpretation for how things work and why, and in what way an exhaustion track would improve things! I'd also love to know what your idea of an exhaustion track is in relation to this...

insert video, here, of Travis Willingham having problems with 'reverse math'

If the game was designed to emulate the prose, one player could take down a dragon, solo. And also the dragon would be his son. Because he banged the hot mom of the twisted monster he killed. That is not the case. The game is meant to play into the feel of fantasy stories, for sure. But not to...

Ahh... Yeah. Okay. Still irrelevant because that's not a game, that's prose. We can talk about prose in another thread. This one is about a game.

1) "Common aversion to a death spiral" is a separate discussion. We're not talking about levels of fatigue, here, adding constant increasing bonuses to characters. We're talking about player tendency to dump more power than is needed into a given fight, then rest to recover before taking on...

I didn't say the game is "Bad". I said the game is inherently imbalanced because the original designers didn't take into account the potency of novas and the 5 minute adventuring day. Based on Mike Mearls, one of the people who designed the game in the first place, openly admitting that they'd...

Also the Price. The amount of art you'd need to buy to fill out a 320 page book is huge. Following it up with a pair of 384 page books just to get the PHB, DMG, and MM finalized is so very, very, high. The workload of the material is something a small group of people could easily work together...

Not the balance of 4e. The pacing of 4e. The existence of encounter-abilities ensures you can't dump -everything- into a single fight and have no resources for the rest of the day. It creates a functionality floor slightly higher than "I'm out of spell slots to smite, so I just hit him with my...

Just to be clear: Designing the classes to fulfill a role does not mean "This is the only thing this class does or the only way to play this class". A Paladin is designed to be a tank as far as D&D terms go. So's a Barbarian. But you can play them both as tanks or skirmishers or whatever. Or...

You don't "Need" to do anything. But I think you misinterpreted me saying "some differentiation" with "This is the only thing that makes the classes different at all and otherwise they all function the same way" Power Source alignment was just so that classes with the same power source have...