The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[CleverNickName]

Them: "5th Edition can't do horror!"
Them: "The 5E system is only good for heroic fantasy!"

Crooked Moon: Hold my beer.

 

[prabe]

Them: "5th Edition can't do horror!"

Crooked Moon: Hold my beer.

I've been intermittently doing horror in 5e for years. Unfortunately the most-likely sourcebook for horror in 5e isn't very good ...

 

[Scribe]

@Cadence

From yesterday.

https://www.enworld.org/threads/rob-schwalb-and-what-it-was-like-at-wotc-during-the-5e-dev-and-launch.699643/#post-9118583

 

[Scribe]

Them: "5th Edition can't do horror!"
Them: "The 5E system is only good for heroic fantasy!"

Crooked Moon: Hold my beer.

Well that was a quick million.

 

[ichabod]

Thank God you have as much say designing the game as I do.

See, this is why I'm designing my own game.

 

[Scribe]

See, this is why I'm designing my own game.

Its really the best answer.

 

[overgeeked]

Them: "5th Edition can't do horror!"
Them: "The 5E system is only good for heroic fantasy!"

Crooked Moon: Hold my beer.

And Grim Hollow. Default 5E can't do horror for crap. If you house rule the hell out of it or drop CR10 monsters on a party of 1st-level characters, then yeah...of course it can do horror.

 

[Scribe]

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Ahem

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And you see, that is what happens when you let people drone on about how this, and that, and that over there, are all problems, when they really are not.

Bland and generic implementations.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Given how many people screamed that the pizza parlor wasn't producing the kinds of pizza they want (even though plenty of other people were quite happy eating them), it's interesting to notice that, now that the parlor has switched back to more traditional fare, there's a lot fewer people thread crapping about what the parlor is making.

 

[Thomas Shey]

That depends on what you add to the d20, or what you compare it to. If typical values are in the 0 to +15 range, like in 5e, yeah the d20 is a very strong determinant of the final result. If typical values are 0 to +50, the d20 matters a lot less.

It still doesn't actually make for consistent results unless a lot of the rolls are, effectively, completely pointless. There's just not much middle ground with big linear rolls barring some other jiggery-pokey with how the die is used.