Search results

I never got the impression he or anyone else could take a dragon in melee, and a high level fighter in DND can objectively carve their way through an army without going down. There's no way Jaimie Lannister should have been captured by Robb Stark's men if he was high level.

Even if we accept they're fireballs, he can cast 3 of those right at level 6 so its not like multiple large scorch marks would make him any higher level than that.

Those weren't fireballs, otherwise he'd be able to blast most of them with one shot, that was the Produce Flame cantrip, maybe you could interpret it as a scorching ray if you wanna get particular about the fact that he does more than one in six seconds.

What justifies them as high level? None of them can take even young dragons in a sword fight, and they go down if a handful of other dudes attack them at once.

if i was specifically told to deduce his level from it? yes, especially if that was the case while his life and the life of his friends was in danger. Imma nip this in the bud though, we're discussing the feel of his level in the story, you aren't simulating the hobbit if you use Gandalf's...

Generally, when people talk about Gandalf's power they're discussing things he did on screen during the novels when he was in an adventuring party, like throw flaming acorns at wolves who would have killed him had the eagles not bailed him out.

Mundane Fighters really don't fit the 'level' of DND, they belong in lower magic settings like Westeros or Middle Earth where magic users are also much more restrained, or are more limited by cast times, or at the very least where armies they can lead at higher level are a more important part of...

Specifically, in a setting where ki exists (acknowledged or otherwise) there's no real reason the martial tradition of fighters / rogues etc, wouldnt draw on it especially at the higher end. Its just the energy of the body in that context, and part of the world's natural laws, achievable through...

In my settings there are ambient sources of magic either in the air or related to someone's life force, as someone trains or learns techniques for cultivating this, the limits of our world's physical capability can be broken: In a way, this is kind of default-- if primal magic is magic, then...

Martials should level into anime, imo, the everyman against the world is a low level fantasy, a level 10+ everyman is an oxymoron. The games more or less already work that way, like, how is your dude actually hurting this thing? in any game 9+/10 times its going to be by swinging his sword into...

heheh, they keep sucking you back in somehow don't they?

Yup, the GMG has two fleshed out variants for changing the tone of item usage, depending on how: Automatic Bonus Progression, which is probably what would fit the best. High Quality Weapons and Armor, which I personally just think is neat.

PF2e does do a really great job of this because martials can have techniques beyond just attacking and can do some appropriately 'approaching demigod status things' at high level but there's still a lot of options for someone who is just attacking really fast or whatever even at high levels. The...

So, some of you might be aware that for the past six months, I've been running a Pathfinder 2e West Marches on my Discord Server. Since many of our players recently hit level 5, I thought it was a good time to talk about how that's gone so far, since I know several members of the community are...

This thread reminds me that I should write an update on my West Marches when I've got the spoons, its doing very well sans a few personal issues we've run into that don't really have anything to do with system.

I've got a pf2e west marches on a discord server that we're thinking about recruiting for, it IS a sandbox buuuuuuuut it might still be a better fit, has player scheduling, openings are usually 7ish on saturday/sunday EST. Explicitly LGBTQ+ friendly (but plenty of non-players as well) honestly I...

For uh unrelated reasons, may I ask what timezone you're in and when you like to schedule games?

Dedicated Healing or Champion's Reaction or Shield Block generally fixes that up, since they can undo a lot of the damage, that's what our parties tend to do.