D&D General Hot Take: D&D Has Not Recovered From 2E to 3.0 Transition

[Garthanos]

If that's a treadmill, then combat is a treadmill. You guys fight a lot of dire rats at 10th level? IMX, people fight appropriate combat challenges, with the occasional chump fight to show how you've grown.

This...

 

[Garthanos]

LOL this as an answer to a statement asking

"Are your characters utterly clueless?"

"
except that is the way it is now...

Say no more.

 

[Garthanos]

again, being good at something doesn't equal being always able to make the check..

When the game is made so that the d20 is more important than most all of the characters abilities and skills and choices that seems to happen a lot more. Bounded accuracy I have heard described as marketing fluff but to me it messed with skillful ability.

 

[Garthanos]

If you want the math to not stay the same, have your high level party continue raiding the same type of goblin dens that they did at low levels. The math will be "different", though I'm not sure how satisfying an experience they'd find it.

My experience is that players do not even look at the math 90 percent of the time... (number pulled from thin air of course as I am not looking at the math )

 

[Lanefan]

Darts are best! Three attacks per round baby! 18-00 Strength Dart specialists were so OP they had to nerf em in Combat and Tactics!

Girdle of Giant Strength wearing Dart specialists - like the one I had in my game before covid - are even worse. Trust me on this.

 

[GreyLord]

Girdle of Giant Strength wearing Dart specialists - like the one I had in my game before covid - are even worse. Trust me on this.

Girdle of Storm Giant Strength??

 

[Lanefan]

Girdle of Storm Giant Strength??

Not as big as Storm as I've never in my life DMed one of those. I forget which grade of Girdle it was, though - might have been Frost?

 

[Zardnaar]

Girdle of Giant Strength wearing Dart specialists - like the one I had in my game before covid - are even worse. Trust me on this.

Don't think I've ever handed one of them out. Hill Giant maybe?

 

[James Gasik]

Girdle of Storm Giant Strength??

Even Hill Giant is something to see- when you have +7 to damage, what weapon you're using doesn't matter too much.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

When the game is made so that the d20 is more important than most all of the characters abilities and skills and choices that seems to happen a lot more. Bounded accuracy I have heard described as marketing fluff but to me it messed with skillful ability.

yeah I think something akin to the rogue's skill mastery spread out would make this better