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Oh but they can! Action surge doesn't ask you to take first your standard action, then the action surge. You can totally put them in any order you wish. Action surge and its restriction are there to say "well, in the fiction, fighters are so good at fighting they sometimes can act very fast, but...

So what is the goal of the readying part, if not circumventing the limitation? That what I was saying: give me a meaningful trigger ("if he get close to the prince", "if she draws her sword"), manifest it in the fiction (make it even more meaningful), then you have another goal than "doing this...

That fighters are good at doing fighty things. Less good at doing magicky things. So, what is the fictionnal difference between readying your spell and casting your spell, up to the point of, but not including, the release?

Doesn't the infamous "sneak more than one time per round" rely rather on opportunity attacks? Maybe you're thinking via the Haste spell? It would indeed be quite similar, as you can't Ready an action with Haste, so you'd have to rely on a specific ordering of your actions ("first I ready, then I...

I don't have a problem with the trigger in abstracto. If someone says "I ready my attack, as soon as this guy move, I react", it's perfectly fine, because delaying is the point. I could have acted earlier, but didn't do it, maybe because I'm not sure this guy is hostile. The fiction is...

You do make sense @Charlaquin But here's why I think it's rules-lawyery: it doesn't in any way concern itself with the fiction. Its only concern is the rules. You cast it as normal, meaning your character makes the same moves, says the same words, as if you were taking a Magic action. It's the...

I've got nothing against close readings of the rules, really, when that's fruitful and leads to surprising or pleasantly unwelcomed outcomes, but that quoted part, "making sense in the fiction", is the crux, for me, in a ttrpg, the final arbiter in this kind of debates. I get, too, that 5.24...

You seem quite sure you got the right reading and if it works for you and your table, go ahead! It just seems super rules-lawyery to me, requiring a very careful parsing of each magic objects' verbiage each time you use them in order to juice out a quite specific interaction based on missing...

It changes the DC.

I'd say because they modify the spell. The cape leaves behind a cloud of smoke, the axe conjures an Earth Elemental (so it's not the spell Conjure Elemental). So they are not exaclty the spells listed in the PHB, they just use their definition to encapsulate the effects produced. Or it might be...

For a thing to be a hit for me, it needs to be at least equal to my armor class.

As a long time player and enjoyer of City of Mist, though somewhat disappointed in Otherscape, I'd say Legend in the Mist will (and already began to) occupy a lofty slot in my gaming schedule for years to come. The core of what I like in the Mist games is perfectly preserved: a system designed...

I wouldn't say Legend in the Mist is rules-light, it's rather dense in rules and mechanics, and Daggerheart even more so. What LitM is, that D&D or PF are not, is fiction-first, ever working on a (mostly) unified roll without any subsystem (where numerous spells in DnD use subsystems), and...

I vote "for intent", though I'm more familiar with the "conflict resolution" naming. I've nothing against task-resolution, it suits some gameplays, especially in the OSR and FKR spheres, where the main point is very often to choose the (or a, rather) good action, in order to achieve the desired...

I was mainly speaking of story tags (the tags added to a scene or a challenge) VS statuses. The PCs are made of tags (called Power tags), be it nouns or adjectives. Statuses are not here to stay, they are here to track, well, statuses. Temporary statuses. Players can add (temporary) tags or...

So, about tags and statuses: tags are for things (nouns, if you will: bad weather, slippery rock, keen eye for liers), statuses for transient states, that you can evaluate on a gradient (adjectives, in this framing: ill-3, joyful-4, pleased-1). It's not really a problem if you can't decide in...

There's already a thread about it here: https://www.enworld.org/threads/legend-in-the-mist-anyone-using-it-and-or-have-thoughts.714968/ I played the heck of City of Mist, the first game of these guys, and some with LitM already. The game works really well, even though I still think City of...

One star in Amazon is "the box was damaged" and five star is "order delivered in time", so not worth a lot.

I have four boys, three of which eager players.

Well, I did. I am a simple guy with many kids and many things to do, I play a lot of different games with a lot of different people of all ages, I just want something that works out of the box. I'm not particularly interested in the delicate intricacies of system mastery and DnD monsters are...