Search results

Why would the kobold necessarily have a magic dagger customized to their needs? To me it makes more sense for them to just use the best tool they have available, especially as the dort of item you're describing would IMO require a significant magical forging infrastructure to create. How...

So use a different rule? Ok, but I don't really see how that's a better solution to the problem than changing the existing rule to better suit both player and GM, or your obvious reluctance to consider such.

I'd add A5e's spell-less ranger to that list too. Great class! My wife's playing one in our current game.

Reverse those priorities and you have my opinion.

We definitely lost something valuable in the game after 2e, that's true.

Agreed. Best systems for this are designed for it. ACKS II is a good example. But you can get a lot done with modifications and elbow grease, even in 5e.

Well, everybody likes different things, and your game would not be any more fun for me than my game would likely be for you. Your mindset is is hard for me to understand, but I'm not going to go around giving you a hard time about it.

Like what? What "workaround" can you do that isn't a houserule? Like I said I really don't understand what you're asking for.

EN Publishing just finished a Kickstarter for a new A5e book explicitly dealing with those parts of the game. Pets & Sidekicks.

Fine for me, but people sometimes get funny about being told to play another game.

Please provide me an example of a useful response then, other than sympathy (which is perfectly valid).

Again, the fact that I can't personally change capitalism doesn't mean I shouldn't have and express my concerns.

But they don't have to know about the product or the customers in order to make those decisions. They just need to own enough of it to have a worthwhile vote. They have no built-in motivation to do anything that doesn't result in near-immediate "number goes up".

No, would you? Come on, man.

My response to this is simply to nerf or remove most options that circumvent challenges like light and food (basic survival, functionally) at low levels. Level Up does a pretty good job with this in some areas, nerfing and removing spells and other abilities that make survival irrelevant as a...

Unless you're going to march on WotC and start making demands, issues with the rules need to be handled at the table level, which means talking with your GM and/or players. It is what it is. What "other games" are set in stone and immune to houseruling?

Private companies are often owned by folks with a closer connection to the product being produced. Shareholders have no particular need to know much at all about the company or the product, just how much they're getting each quarter. Obviously neither of those concerns are always true, but they...

That doesn't make it not a thing worth being irritated about.

Why and how a publically-owned company chooses to increase their profits matters to me. I don't trust the motives of companies controlled by shareholders. I don't know what to tell you.

Again, WotC was already making plenty of profit off D&D. They were hardly hurting for cash.