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One thing I thought about ages ago but never implemented was having spell slots level up. Meaning at a certain level, all of your 1st-level spell slots become 2nd level spell slots and some level after that, they become 3rd-level spell slots so that at caster level 11 (as an example) you might...

I've bought some PDFs of old thunder rift modules that I had when I first started playing that I knew full well that I'd never run in BECMI. Adapted them to 5e and ran them for my friends during the dark times of 2020-2022.

We used the bonus action potion fairly early on. In regard to healing potions, it was a bonus action to drink it yourself, an action to give it to a downed comrade. In another campaign, not sure if this was a house rule or one picked up from 5.5 or another game, but if you drank a healing...

It's been a while since I wrote the fireball analysis (and I didn't have the math know-how to get the exact odds), but I think the ogre in 2e had a saving throw of 16 which would make it a 25% chance to save, still close to the final result but a little closer to that coin flip.

This is how I do it in BG3, I don't bother with a rogue, just use guidance and a high dex score then burn a few inspiration points as needed.

I compare fireball against ogres to show how powerful it is, basically, how good is a 5th level wizard's fireball against a band of ogres. I wrote the following ages ago but never posted it. Fireball by the editions Basic. A fireball back in BECMI could deal up to 20 dice of damage, that is...

Maybe, but perception often still seems to take place of survival, often it's only a single roll so as soon as you slot the tracks, you're off.

I'm not sure exactly where I'd place the skills, but ones I'd rate near the top based on games I've played are athletics, arcana, perception, persuasion. I've often wanted to add medicine or animal handling to a character but they'll often end up being cut if I have other skills I feel take...

I find it can be good as a finisher when you really need to do damage without worrying about missing. They should probably up the damage to d6+1 though.

I think that can be a good way to do it, makes the survival trained character feel like it's more worthwhile. I often don't call for a roll if it is something a PC is trained in, I think it comes from me beginning in older editions whereas newer DMs will rely a lot more on calling for rolls.

Ithibk the tracking element also falls prey to the overuse of perception. DMs will often call for that instead of survival to see if you spot the tracks.

Might as well put investigation at the bottom since every DM seems to forget about it and call for a perception check instead.

I'm mostly a planner where I have enough to go on (ideally by asking what the players intend to do next session) but having enough of an idea about the area of the PCs are in to be able to adlib if necessary. One time I assumed too much (I hadn't asked), the session I had planned was completely...

I read somewhere, ages ago, that skills and powers was a test bed for some of what would become 3e. I used to like specialty priests but now I'm somewhat against every god having their own church hierarchy, I'm sort of halfheartedly working on unifying the FR pantheon into something that feels...

Yeah, but the people I'm playing with aren't. To be fair, sometimes it's just due to how late it is; 4 hours into a game and I suck at maths.

Yeah, I'm fine with thac0, never found it difficult and I will defend it as being fine and not as difficult as people make it out to be; however, ascending I think is better due to being generally easier for a lot of people. Mind you, a lot of people I've played with have trouble adding a...

It's funny, because I read your comment regarding 2e vs 3e and, honestly, it feels like you could be talking about either edition. with 3e it's the bonus types and how they overlap meaning sometimes a spell only affects some of the party and perhaps offering different modifiers (a mass bull's...

I could have sworn these threads were new last year, but they're from back in 2020 which is also when I first posted. Maybe I have early onset dementia...

Definitely had some fun moments in 2e, but would I play it nowadays? Yes, yes I would. That and BX/BECMI are probably my favourite editions. I could play 2e completely as is, but I know I'd end up tinkering with it. Since those old editions didn't have a lot of moving parts it was easier to...

I'm pretty sure that's what the basic sets do, you're a champion fighter which just builds the subclass in (or perhaps just limits it to a single subclass and still keeps them separate), but, if wotc builds a class, it is definitely going to have subclasses so they'd need to come up with some...