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Almost finished with Solasta Crown after finished BG3 and really enjoying it. Enjoying it as much as BG3 but in different ways. It's better than BG3 in : 1) 5e rules implementation -- attunement, no busted haste, real flying, etc. 2) keeping things decently challenging in combat until...

Seems a waste. You have the game and rules engine (and a lot of assets) there already, and "only" need to create new stories and some new assets. I know it's not trivial but surely easier than doing story AND rules engine at the same time? License it back to WotC so they can hire someone to...

Yes, agreed. I think the missing part for me is that for Combat you have some strategic player actions that matters (part of the game of many rpgs) and some character skill that matters, with the character skill being more heavily weighted to reflect that we are playing a fictional character...

So, I just finished BG3 and had a lightbulb go off. IMO 5e is not a great fit for CRPGs but 4e would be amazing. If someone took the time to recreate the original 4e classes in ORCUS, then you could create an CRPG that was essentially 4e, right? A lot of the BG3 problems would go away (combat...

There are others that can respond better, as I have not played anywhere near a full campaign. I did not see any glaring balance issues although I can't say for sure there aren't any exploits. I didn't say anything about a railroad or not. It is a railroad in the sense that all adventure...

Fair enough. I meant the 4e rules system more than the whole edition. 4e lore is strong and is a strength of the edition but I wouldn't consider Dragonborn specifically a strength of the rules system per se. IMO, the strength of 4e system in terms of races is that you can create all kinds...

Unfortunately, I think most of the official ones are just not great for 4e without some work. They almost all suffer from too many encounters in a row, leaving little room for plot development/other stuff. EN World Zeitgeist is the only one that I know of that plays to all of 4e's strengths...

Love to see where you end up. I think more types of systems available the better as sometimes one structure fits better than another depending on the situation you are trying to model. 2 further comments: 1) I'd try to get permission to include Stalker's Obsidian skill challenge as an...

Yeah, easy respec and multiclasses don't help. Disallowing multi class would help a little I guess, but I don't think that much. I had a Sorc 12 that never bothered to go SorLok and it still crushed. Adding Thief to Monk is a nice kicker but Monk 12 with tavern brawler and elixirs and items...

Long rests are essentially possible after almost every fight and definitely after every 3 fights. There are a few exceptions where an area is blocked from returning to camp (although many of those you can just walk out of the blocked area and come back), and there are only a few times where...

I'm ok with that if it's like 1 per character. Maybe 2. I think it is cool to have a sword with elemental damage, that can haste you, and gives you a pseudo feat or something. But in BG3 every item is like this. You armor has like 4 properties, your helmet adds 1-2, your boots, etc.

Yep I had a Open Hand Monk 8 / Thief 4 with Tavern Brawler. Don't forget the ability to use plentiful all day Hill Giant strength elixirs (and sometimes Cloud Giant) on that Monk so you can dump strength and pump Con and Wis for some juicy stun saves (and personal saves against getting taken...

Just finished on Tactician. Enjoyed it a lot, but I'd say almost all deviations from standard 5e seemed not so good to me. Maybe levels 1-3 or 4 there was some challenge but after that I think combat was way way too easy. Chief offenders are things that are deviations from my usual table top...

SWSE would have been a pretty good base to make a 4e some of which did make it into 4e. I liked: no saving throws condition track talents and talent trees with prerequisite talents basically showed a way to tier martial abilities most of the classes were non magic (force) so showed a lot of...

I'd rather call that connection something else. If that was the definition, I don't think the most immersion is necessarily the best goal. For me the desired immersion is more about "does the game easily allow for in fiction situations that emulate the type of character actions, situations...

Yeah, I would argue that 4e actually does a pretty good job at a certain type of verisimilitude. When you are talking about "do the mechanics support in game fiction that emulates heroic fantasy". For some people "roleplaying" and "imerseiveness" is highly tied to characters abilities that...

I would have left the hobby long ago if I encountered this stuff regularly. Have a discussion with all parties and come to some acceptable solution for all (common in my experience) or walk away if you feel like you are not going to get enjoyment out of this volunteer leisure actively (as...

Yeah, I don't get it either. Sometimes DMs and players/DM curate options for a setting or campaign. And sometimes that curation won't be liked equally by everyone. I mean how this plays out should be basic adult conversation. Perhaps the next campaign will feature gnomes. Perhaps the...

There is another way though. 1. Hit points have been restored, indicating that the character is farther away from being "taken out" 2. Characterize the restoration in terms of the amount of hit points recovered versus the total hit points remaining and/or their maximum hit points. If hit...

No, not at all. My argument is that if people aren't willing to embrace that playstyle / framework that makes the most sense, then 4e will create lots of nonsensical situations so probably not a good system for them If people say "for 4e to make sense it requires a playstyle that I am not used...