Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5128954" data-attributes="member: 1210">So far I'm with you. Sounds like a fun way to tweak the 4e system with minimal work, and unlike some people, I believe that restricting available races and classes can make for a better game (&quot;better&quot; meaning &quot;more suited to the flavor and genre you are trying to achieve&quot;).While I like carving through heaps of bad guys as much as the next guy, I am going to agree with the other folks who have said not to overdo this. Most encounters should have one or two real threats imho.I'm liking all this, too.Very. They perfectly capture the flavor of magic in e.g. a Conan story, where the bad guy has to spend the time performing a ritual to summon a demon etc. I think that &quot;rituals only&quot; is a great approach to magic in a setting of this style.DMG 184. The first page in 4e that I learned to love as a dm.A whole lot. And yeah, with total Conan flavor. Sounds to me like you are totally on the right track for achieving what you're after. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 5128954, member: 1210"] So far I'm with you. Sounds like a fun way to tweak the 4e system with minimal work, and unlike some people, I believe that restricting available races and classes can make for a better game ("better" meaning "more suited to the flavor and genre you are trying to achieve"). While I like carving through heaps of bad guys as much as the next guy, I am going to agree with the other folks who have said not to overdo this. Most encounters should have one or two real threats imho. I'm liking all this, too. Very. They perfectly capture the flavor of magic in e.g. a Conan story, where the bad guy has to spend the time performing a ritual to summon a demon etc. I think that "rituals only" is a [i]great[/i] approach to magic in a setting of this style. DMG 184. The first page in 4e that I learned to love as a dm. A whole lot. And yeah, with total Conan flavor. Sounds to me like you are totally on the right track for achieving what you're after. :) [/QUOTE]

Verification