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Complete Fighter's Martial arts was the one where each roll on d20 did a different 'move' with different base damage (ranging from 0 to 3), with each level of martial arts specialization allowing you to shift the effect up or down one, along with +1 hit/+1 dmg, and an extra attack (just one...

Thanks for the catch. Naturally, when I did a cursory scan to see if it was in 1e, I checked the PHB. I did point out the Survival Guides, so I was acknowledging that this was all starting to be fleshed out pre-2E. It is minor knowledge, but the point remains -- what you did before becoming an...

Preemptive disclaimer: As always, unless otherwise stated, all of this is 'In my opinion'/'It is my position that...' Like most things about the olden days, exactly what the zero-to-hero concept really means is not entirely consistent. I think the overall premise, at its core, stems from PCs...

Hey all, Having trouble with EN World crashing chrome, so might not be able to stay long. Just wanted to thank people for the suggestions. I ended up going with a noble barbarian 'Teddy Orcevelt.' It was fun...ish. People mentioned the downfall of level 1 one-shots above, and they are spot on...

Noted. Mods? Any possibility we can get 'Character ' shoved in front of the thread title? Yes? I mean, 2 of the 3 ideas I posted included that and I stated fun trumps effectiveness. What distinct personality or character hooks come to mind for you and/or would you suggest? Barbarian is...

Wow. 135 views and no responses. Okay, let's simplify it -- If you were going to do a 1st level one-shot, and didn't need to care about your long term advancement, what would you choose? Thanks!

So tomorrow one of my main groups is doing a first level one-shot due to one DM being unavailable and the other active DM not wanting to run their adventure down a person (a position I support). It is three player, I have no idea what others are picking, and the rule is only material from the...

Yes (If I wasn't clear, 10 years ago is when I last had an update on him), he was lead designer on City of Villains, which along with City of Heroes was one of the few computer games I played in the ~2000-2005 era. Apparently he also worked on Fallout 2 (no strong opinion, but certainly part of...

Certainly not disputing this, but what have we heard from/about Zeb? Last I knew (like 10 years ago) he'd basically left RPGs for computer games and after ~2013 (Elder Scrolls online) kinda gone radio silent.

Ooh. I'm thinking made-for-tv disaster movie.

Honestly, I'd take that any day over the rest of the nerdosphere social media I partake in, where things always devolve into Star Trek-or-Wars grievance matches. This is definitely the big issue for a Dune interpretation. If you don't end the series after the first book (and boy is that a...

Please do not interpret this is telling you you can't have your own opinions, but I do want to raise a point. Mystara was the line that rewrote magic users to get name-level followers when a new kingdom's Gazetteer came out, created new (race-as-) classes never previously playable creature...

Everything proceeding from the statement seems to indicate that they weren't, up to the point of telling us what Tolkien would have thought of the movies.

I've had chrome hang a couple times in the past week. EnWorld would definitely have been open, but so would other tabs.

Here's my thought: We could do the complex interplay of ranged having first go only if knocked and ready, and then reach weapons, and so on. Barring that -- and assuming the combat is a hesitant skirmish* where everyone is jockeying for position or tentatively feinting and pulling back when the...

Re: flight-- Flight impacts the game in two main ways -- Eliminating challenges that can be solved simply by being avoided (melee only enemies in the way but not guarding something important, a canyon). Eliminating challenges caused by being unable to access a location (the lever to open the...

I did not have the same experience. That might have been because my groups had a lot more BX and BECMI influence to them, though. Particularly Mentzer -- when 3 of the 5 boxed sets don't start until the mid-teen levels, it does subtlety communicate to you that maybe these levels are supposed to...

I suspect what it means is that each type of disease that does exist in the game will spell out how it is removed (varying from trivial- to quest-level). Which, given (as others have pointed out) the number of times cure disease/restoration spells/paladin abilities have been excluded throughout...

Also, OP states we are comparing it to all time. Is 2024 worse than 3E's CoDzilla (or hulking hurlers or initiates of the 7 veils or Pun-Pun or...)? Worse than in 2E's putting a Player Options or Fighters and Priests of the Realms character alongside a base 1989 PHB character? Worse than 1E UA...

Fireball is fine*. Sleep and Hypnotic Pattern and Hold Person are fine. They all have uses. Call Lightning and 2014 Witch Bolt and Chromatic orb and so on -- those, not as much. The actual value of area affect direct damage vs crowd control and shutdown spells varies wildy. The direct damage's...