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why would lightning only harm enemies? Of course you just described chain lighting but it arcs over friendly targets in the path. I'd be ok with that if it's a few levels above chain lightning. As a Higher level spell or something a specialist wizard could do at higher levels it would be ok...

Ahhh so we are back to DM the way I say or you are a bad DM. nice to be such an expert you get to decide the official designers were the bad DM's. Completely ignores the fact that D&D is as big as it is because there is no one required playstyle or DM'ing style. Don't think we'll ever...

Today I learned there is a mushroom in china that if you don't cook it long enough will cause you to hallucinate little people. Every single time you eat it. Apparantly there are historical documents indicating similar things in other parts of the world as well though no one has been able to...

well some of that is for simplicity of play. If you had to roll a die 8 at every hex of the lightning bolt that would really turn into a pain. If the player can control the lightning bolt then you end up with min max drawing the bolt around the map hitting everyone. (which if table is ok is...

as long as there is a maximum players are going to try to get there so it does matter. Pretending that it doesn't matter to most people who are all about how they measure up to others, because you don't care is ignoring human nature. And Video Games trained almost all new players that maximum...

no magic items were the slider of whether you wanted a gritty crawl through the desert or a high powered game or anything in between. If as a DM you wanted the players to take on high level things than thier levels might suggest you could buff the players with magic items. Magic Items also...

Sorcerer/Warlock and honestly I consider the Warlock effectively the Divine/Infernal/fey sorcerer. They both fill the same kind've niche just one is arcane one has patron providing spells.

Its not too far off the cyberpunk vibe. There's not a lot different between mercenary vs mercenary and the whole western theme. Throwing in the Deadlands areas makes it kind of Spaghetti Western/horror territory but lots of places for people to hide, look for old tech etc. I think that...

Actually I just ignore attunement. I think it was just a solution in search of a problem.

I love that they made it easier for players to multiclass. I HATE HATE HATE the idea that paladins/clerics can take a class like warlock that is often the opposite of their diety or ethos. While alignment never did work well I would like to see stricter rules for classes that get powers from...

mages had 1d4 hitpoints. Thieves had 1d6 unless you were playing Gygax's special greyhawk thieves. that for some unexplained reason only got 1d4. I always thought that was bit odd.

Humanoid monsters have had skills forever. In fact now many of them are races. we've had versions where monsters had skills, we've had versions where they didn't and that doesn't even scratch the surface of all the stuff done by 3rd parties. There is nothing new just variations on the same...

hmmm... with superman like powers, I'd come up with a robot costume in the short term. when I wasn't compulsively saving people I'd dig up some gold, Gems etc, cash them in play the stock market. I could absorb ridicoulous amounts of data and could do trades faster than any supercomputer on...

I don't think that's exactly the problem. Things have to change to sell new books and pdf's. The game has been out a long time. Most options have been tried out in some shape or form. So they aggravate people by rinsing washing and repeating the same kinds of things with different coats of...

no they won't pick more things. you are seperating things and trying to force them to broaden choices but in the end no matter how you lay the above out there will be a few optimal choice paths and it will most likely end up just like the current wizard. In a game there are always optimal...

I've tried similar things before. before and the best we came up with was flavor spells for each school that in effect had the same damage or similar effects. Because otherwise players all optimized and created very similar wizards Not knowing what's coming almost always defaults to blowing...

I.loved the ACT chart system of Gamma Worlds 2nd version. It put everything on the bell curve so when numbers started getting stupid thier strength of effect started slowing down. And to a mere mortal anything high up the bell curve was deadly. I'd use that and make all affects be done the...

They have to win more than they lose. No infinity war crawls through glass where after losing for 12 games you finally win please.

Good post. It also has to be things that resonate with the players. I've seen many DM's with a story to tell or a book to write that don't care what their players are into. Then they fail and try to fix what was wrong with the lore or the story. But usually it was the DM shoving what they...

we played a vampire/werewolf/mage/changeling game and those are supposed to be seperate worlds not one mushed up mess