The Gaming Den

Yes, in the universe of d&d it does map and does mean exactly what it says on the tin. We're not discussing actual normative philosophy, we are talking about a game. Yes, in the real world, outside the game world of d&d, ethics is complex, and discussion of objective truths within it are di...

You can call the cosmic forces Good and Evil, and they might correlate with some moral systems, but that doesn't show that these forces are literal objective moral fonts. We can call them "Force A" and "Force B", say they're opposed, point out correlations to moral judgments, but...

"evil races" is a stupid concept, always was and still is. I didn't realize people actually took it seriously. Morality is a complicated thing, something that RPGs can uniquely explore and ask questions about, and having Evil as a Platonic Ideal is lazy. Kobolds can be violent little basta...

Fun counterspell idea: Make casters spend all of their turns canceling each other out, so martials can run up to them and punch them in the face.

what's the fucking point of 6E. they have no new ideas

Into the Spiderverse is real good.

Vice is not a fun movie, overall, but it is a very good movie

it's not really "bigger industries are less scam-ridden" and more "the scammers in those industries are far more refined than those who take aim at the RPG market"

i posted abt it. it's still roll-under percentile so who cares, just treat it like a GURPS supplement and mine it for ideas to put into a system you'd rather use they haven't solved the Masquerade Issue either iirc. even though there's a damn magickal AI that would be perfect for quashing magic info...

i guess my link wasn't clue enough, use http://www.anydice.com for your dice statistics needs. if you click "summary" it gives you standard deviation

unless you're wanting to calculate that shit manually/directly. in which case i d k

"Avoidance" is also an ok word for Reflex saves

i like the concept dean, def goes a long way in making 5e actually have higher level content

banshee does raise the whole issue of "the outside world in 5e is a smooth featureless plain that exists only in the DM's mind" tho

that was a thought i had - what if "critical success" provided some sort of meta-currency that could be spent on... something obviously needs some mechanisms to avoid cheesing the system (making easy checks to rack up critical success dice) and some uses for the meta-currency (blunting cri...

the example of bioshock was especially bad since the resource involved there wasn't HP, it was a currency used for buying powers

when we say "same schedule", do we have to mean "same resource management system"? can't we have several resource management systems that all revolve around "long rests"?

why is "putting everyone on the same schedule" bad? it helps to solve the martial/caster divide, the failure point was that they brought casters down to martials instead of bringing martials up to casters, no?

(that said, i can't even imagine how to bring martials up to casters, so)

Not only is it easy to mod Backgrounds into 2.5, but K and I already did in our Tome materials. We called them "Backgrounds" and they work exactly the same. And we did it more than 8 years before 5th edition was a thing. I'm not saying that 5th edition Backgrounds are necessarily copied d...

5e Alter Self isn't Polymorph Self, it's a Disguise Self spell that's not an illusion also i live for these 3.5e v 5e slogfests but... where the fuck is the blood? i haven't seen anything 5e does better than 3.5e in its core rules. backgrounds are fine but they're easy to mod onto 3.5e how about pro...

TiaC wrote:What would it do for 5e if I took every d20 roll, subtracted 7 from the DC and made it a d6?

you can just use 2d10 if ur jonesing for that shit

For "unequal DCs", just have the spell be done with a +N/-N to DC. So Finger of Death is done at a -4 to your spell DC, slow is done with a +4 or whatever.

Assuming, of course, that you want spell DCs to scale with your level

"Assume that a creature is proficient with its armor, weapons, and tools. If you swap them out, you decide whether the creature is proficient with its new equipment." - Monster Manual So yeah, no idea if they're proficient. They have proficiency bonuses but they're not printed so you have ...

CapnTthePirateG wrote:I gave up on adventurer's league after realizing I needed to spend an hour arguing with the DM over whether my skeletons could equip the longbows I had on a mule.

5e provides quality gameplay folks!

you obviously can lol, they just might not be proficient

sometimes he goes back and is like "no, it's just for marketing purposes" as if anyone here gives a shit abt that

it's improv theater/freeform roleplaying

yo link that shit tho