D&D 4E Changing the Combat Parameters of 4th Edition
- Thread starter Myrhdraak
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Tony Vargas
Legend
@Garthanos is our resident XML whisperer.
The offline CB did let you customize or 'house rule' things a bit. You could remove various things individually or by the book they appeared in, and add custom elements, though it was very clunky.
AbdulAlhazred
Legend
Yeah, this is really one good reason I simply went on to creating my own system, though it is still pretty close to 4e in a lot of ways. Once you break CB compatibility....
is it possible to benefit from the work of some to replace the Charcter builder?
Myrhdraak
Explorer
Well, personally I have created class compendiums for all the classes I am using in my home game. That way each player have a good overview of the available powers for his or her class. As I have them all in Word format, it is quite easy to copy and paste them into any character sheet format you want to use. I have also updated the rule text and all powers with the changes I have made. So far it has been working quite well, and I do not feel I miss the Character Builder as this gives me even more flexibility.
AbdulAlhazred
Legend
Yeah, I simply wrote out my entire system using OO Writer, with power blocks, etc. I did make a fairly simple character sheet where you can do some basic selections and it will calculate numbers, and then its pretty easy to paste in things like powers. The sheet is in OO Calc. You can find similar things for 4e out there, and its possible to paste in power blocks from the Compendium if you have access to it.
Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
Character builder is pretty adjustable via CB loader but I haven't tried to change too many of the fundamentals I have noticed some definitely in there though and so they are adjustable. It's a motivation thing though his 4.75 is not my general goal but I do like some of his curve adjustments from a OCD mathematical point of view.
Hi, Myrhdraak. I found about your 4.5e conversion guide some year ago. I'm taking interest in running these changes for a campaign and I would love to know if you made the rest of the conversion documents you worked on and briefly showed in the first pages of the Conversion Guide available somewhere online to take a look at them and if there's some sort of update to the main Conversion Guide that has happened lately. Thanks for all your work!
@Myrhdraak, this thread has been necro'ed in your honour!
bert1001 fka bert1000
Adventurer
Seconded. I'd also like to take a look at the other files on the 1st page if they exist. The core doc is impressive work.
I was just thinking "I'd like to run 4e again but have around one 4e epic combat every session or every other session, with other fights using some kind of quicker method that isn't totally inconsequential..."
Looks like this could be it, although no CB does hurt...
orion&patchwork
Villager
Same as above. Very interested in having access to the class compendiums for this 4.5e "best of both worlds" version.
