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Ya know, those of you that want complex tactical decisions for martials ... it's out there already. Is it a branding thing that keeps you stuck to WotC's 5e if you're so dissatisfied with how martials are treated? My top example is Level Up A5E, their combat maneuvers are basically 3.5e's Tome...

Man what a trip through time 😆 I appreciate a necro this powerful. Especially about moorcock!

Yup! We're just talking psychology here. This is probably too simple of an example, but if you have two skeletons: A has 40hp, and is vulnerable to bludgeoning damage B has 20hp, and is resistant to all damage except bludgeoning smacking A with a bludgeoning weapon is going to feel better...

You know what's funny? After running 5e for a long time now and just "magic weapons bypass it all," I actually started re-implementing some of those old 2e/3e immunities and resistances. I wanted the players to have to think strategically about threats, to sweat if they didn't have silver...

I'd very much like to agree, but unfortunately it's easy to come up with reasons that it is art... we're seeing discussions like these all over. I see the primary reason to not designate something AI-created as art is to preserve what art means... what I was talking about re: art being special...

Can't it be both? But yes, optimizer/power gamer-type players will absolutely try to get the most mechanical advantages via weapon juggling. I can't fault them if it's intended by the design, it just feels exploitative.

That's good as well! I use the "Flee!" rules from 13th Age; the group can choose to flee as long as there's still someone up, and the party escapes- but there's a campaign loss. The cult sacrifices the lamb, the princess eats the dragon, the great demon is summoned, etc. But I still run...

If it helps his name is still mentioned somewhat frequently in those conversation 😆

HP bloat is real. If I wasn't bound to the VTT I run in, I'd probably house-rule the crap out of 5e/A5E to make it more to my liking. That'd likely involve reducing stat bonuses and maybe even ditching CON's bonus to HP altogether. i dont know. but the numbers are too damn high! Mearls' own 5e...

When you have so few hp and death's at 0? You change tactics. You switch to a bow or sling, you engage in encounters a lot more carefully, you try to lay your own traps, heck maybe you even retreat. That doesn't happen as easily when you're not dying at zero; more often than not the warrior is...

Overall I'd agree, but with a few points: Your reply sort of demonstrates what I'm saying: you're talking about near-death drama because in 5e, a character hits 0 and is "dying." But if you have 30 max hp, but you have 4 or 5hp right now and you die at zero... this is basically your last...

First, curse you OP for forcing me to pick one. This was really tough. After a moment, I went for Thud! Another Thud!-er! I think the WHERE'S MY COW scene underground is ... ugh. Too good. The Summoning and Guarding Dark, the scene with the guarding dark showing up, that's all too friggin'...

I don't know, player vs gm agency (not sure what else to call it) has been going strong recently. Edition wars are evergreen, though. Actually maybe they're more like annuals. edit: nevermind I just saw page 2, you win.

"Random meaningless character death." I had to think about this one, because it sounds bad and I thought it was trolling at first- but then I think back to my playing OSE games and I think I know what you mean. So yeah playing 1st level characters in Old School Essentials, it takes a few...

A friend got me back into WoW about a month ago by buying me the midnight xpac and some extras. They've done the same previously trying to get me back into WoW but I really have not been in the mood to play tab-to-target MMO-style games in a looooong time. But I guess it's been long enough, or...

well a standard mind flayer's CR7 :) I'd hope that something CR16 or 19 would have much higher than +8!

Ridiculous that this has been asked for since its inception and still hasn't been implemented. I sometimes wonder if it's because of technical reasons, or business reasons.

Between magic resistance and a +6 to wisdom saves it's tough, but not impossible, for a Flayer to fail vs Command. thankfully command isn't specific to humanoids!

I actually think not-dead-at-0 is something that takes some fear away from the game- but I wonder if removing it (aka dying at 0) would be tough to acclimate to for players. I feel like it'd result in a lot of character deaths before people got used to it, if they ever did. After all that was...

I think "slop" might have different meanings to different people. Or different connotations. Or different impacts. Art used to be limited by the people that could create it- that made it special. It was a finite thing. Now AI can create essentially unlimited art (I guess it's finite/limited by...