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pming Yeah, I take a similar approach to describing actions in my games too. Like you say it's case by case and very situational. My big problem is I have two players now that tend to be quite dry rollplayers rather than roleplayers. They're the type to just say, "I draw my sword and charge the...

Very well said there DEFCON 1, I think you've summed up the entire concept of roleplaying a D&D in a single post there with remarkable elegance. I guess my limit for "handwaving" is quite low, I like to think it makes for more tense and interesting games; but you're right this is the very...

Bayonet doctorhook You know what, I think I'll just go. Clearly no-one wants to actuall discuss games and have a reasonable chin wag about roleplaying; they'd rather piss and moan about stupid f*cking forum etiquette. I couldn't give less of a sh*t, really. I'll go back to Reddit and talk...

Yeah, I was thinking about the likes of Shadow of Colossus or the God Of War series; I'd be tempted to do something similar to that at least once. It'd certainly make Athletics and Acrobatics into more valuable skills... I still wonder how a melee fighter would ever fight a dragon though...

In another thread this was brought up and it prompted me to ask this question... how do you do fighting on a truly massive scale? When the players are fighting huge flying Dragons, a giant Colossus, or something truly massive like the Tarrasque; how do you do it? The fighter can hardly use his...

I enjoy debating and discussing my hobby, that's all... I could write my own RPGs but why would I. I have games here that with relatively minor changes could easily fit my needs; and the background and settings are far richer than anything I could write. (I love Forgotten Realms as a campaign...

I was considering specialisation feats. Something like "Specialist Knowledge: Demons" or "Specialist Knowledge: Feywild"; with perhaps the rule "Whenever you make a skill check where your specialist knowledge could be applied, the DC for the check is lowered one level". This could work, but as...

I just don't subscribe to the thin-skinned nonsense and silly snide cliquish behaviour forums give out nowadays. If you don't agree with the regulars and follow their personal etiquette guidelines, moderators are called down to wave their ePeen at you and conversations are ended... meaning...

@funindordm Interesting take on it. I can see how that would keep everyone fairly close and still have the same feel behind it that I'm trying to achieve. Good idea, and probably more balanced and less open to abuse than my method, that's for sure. I still prefer giving the bigger bonuses...

3 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Player's Handbook This book is a mixed bag. The game is pretty good, perhaps a little overly simplified at times and with a few gameplay issue depending on individual style; but it's easily modified with house rules. Far more fluid and supporting of actual...

Sometimes people on the internet can be the most thin-skinned, prissy little crybabies ever can't they. Is it not possible to disagree, even on a fundamental level; show passion and speak with confidence about hobbies you've done for years... but still end the conversation without being butthurt...

Honestly, 3.5 is still a good game, but it's not at all balanced and it's overly complex in some areas. Starting again with 5e is the better option, it's far easier to make minor additions and tweaks. Get rid of a few things, alter a couple more... I'm actually adding very little (by comparison...

I don't use point buy either, makes for far more interesting characters. Like our current Monk, who has the following: Level 2 Monk - Str 7, Dex 14, Con 8, Int 16, Wis 17, Cha 15 - Max HP 8 She's being played as a young monk in her late teens fresh out of an all women orphanage/monastery...

I wrote up a Paladin only a few days ago, I've just gone back and checked. You get spells equal to your Charisma modifier + 1/2 your Paladin levels and the spells must be at a level where you have spell slots. So for a Paladin Level 2 with Charisma 16, that's 4 spells. You can only cast 2...

Good point, but it could get needlessly fiddly if we start excluding certain skills but allowing others. Especially as I don't think there's anything inherently overpowered about the insight skill, particularly as Detect Evil and Zone Of Truth spells exist in this world. That's actually a really...

@doctorhook Dude, it was a natural progression of the discussion. It's not like we where discussing our favourite cheesecake recipies. The moderators didn't care and we weren't breaking any rules. If you're as regular on forums as I am you know as well as I do that this insistance on starting...

Henry Yeah, as I've said, at higher levels it may become unbalanced; I concede that. My main thinking though is once you get high enough that 7th level spells are commonplace is a jump in skills that big of an issue? Rogues & Bards already have Expertise available to them, so it's already part...

Cool, let's brainstorm a little then. Insight is just the new Sense Motive. That's definitely a skill you could use non-adventuring. You could use it as a merchant or conman, you could certainly use it as an interpreter or diplomat for a noble, an investigator for the town guard would use it...

I agree. I love the lower level game. Fighting goblins, gnolls, and bandits. Doing jobs for kings, infultrating cults, stoping the evil wizard... feeling a genuine sense of dread at the thought of a dozen zombies and a necromancer. This is D&D to me. Actually facing a dragon should be the "end...

This is the harshest... I must try harder. You should have played in my 3.5 edition game ran after 4th came out. The Spellplague hit and I had everything go to chaos. Equipment shortages where commonplace, so getting a normal non-magical longsword was hard, let alone something magical. I had...