Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Tessarael" data-source="post: 9675847" data-attributes="member: 12909">Nothing wrong with having a gritty set of optional rules. Massive damage, Healing Word as touch rather than ranged, etc. Likewise, it is good to have a heroic set of optional rules with healing potions on bonus actions, 5E 2024 style healing spells, etc. The two are not necessarily exclusive, you could possibly use both the gritty and heroic rule options at the same time.In general, I have found that characters survive better in 5E D&amp;D and A5E due to the 3 death saving throws being required to kill them, rather than just negative damage beyond -9 HP in 3E D&amp;D and earlier. (I forget 4E D&amp;D as we didn't play it for that long - the errata rate in 4E due to lack of proof-reading and lack of play testing was driving me nuts.) I think that we've had a couple of character deaths due to massive damage in A5E, and one case where the DM was kind enough to have the Bugbear strangling my level 1 character incapacitate rather than kill her ... Other than that, our survival rate has been pretty good, but there's been a number of almost 50/50 chances where I have expected my character to go down or die (one of those being a successful save vs. massive damage from Meteor Swarm when we were level 9).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tessarael, post: 9675847, member: 12909"] Nothing wrong with having a gritty set of optional rules. Massive damage, Healing Word as touch rather than ranged, etc. Likewise, it is good to have a heroic set of optional rules with healing potions on bonus actions, 5E 2024 style healing spells, etc. The two are not necessarily exclusive, you could possibly use both the gritty and heroic rule options at the same time. In general, I have found that characters survive better in 5E D&D and A5E due to the 3 death saving throws being required to kill them, rather than just negative damage beyond -9 HP in 3E D&D and earlier. (I forget 4E D&D as we didn't play it for that long - the errata rate in 4E due to lack of proof-reading and lack of play testing was driving me nuts.) I think that we've had a couple of character deaths due to massive damage in A5E, and one case where the DM was kind enough to have the Bugbear strangling my level 1 character incapacitate rather than kill her ... Other than that, our survival rate has been pretty good, but there's been a number of almost 50/50 chances where I have expected my character to go down or die (one of those being a successful save vs. massive damage from Meteor Swarm when we were level 9). [/QUOTE]

Verification