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The LRM storm is amazing for knocking down mechs. Get a mech whose sole purpose is LRM spam and watch people go down!

Yea I have no idea what 1st level 5e wizards are supposed to contribute in combat other than cantrips, the 1st level list has been so carefully pruned of useful offensive effects. It's basically pathfinder where there are less good spells but you end up just taking the three that don't suck. Hypnoti...

Sorry, I could have sworn we used "Charizard" as a shorthand for summons, which are usually one of the big causes of mid turn extra action declarations.

The flip side of that is that if you're going to have 3+ turns for each player, those turns have to be fast . The big thing I'd want done is to get rid of mid-action action declarations. Like sequential iterative attacks and quickened spells. That shit slows shit down without any obvious benefit. H...

You have the entire internet at your disposal. Feel free to find me a picture of a Spartan without armor or a Space Marine without armor that isn't exactly what I'm saying. They all just make them 8 foot tall Ryan Gosling's despite the logical conclusion of every element of their canon being that t...

I thought 40k was pretty damn clear that as a space marine you got 2 hearts and other fucked up shit and there was a chance that you got messed up mutations. That is not a setting that embraces transhumanism, the Necrons uploaded their consciousness' and basically are stuck in eternal torment to the...

You could probably get away with killing a lot of 80s sacred cows at this point. There's not a lot of hardcore enthusiasm for 5e at this point, just a resigned acceptance that both 4e and 3e are bloated, broken messes that require piles of doublethink to function. As is though you're still losing to...

Wouldn't people start figuring it out when they hear about you showing up with construct armor or whatever? I can easily see a wizard running into the local wizards guild with news that some dude made dope-ass golem armor, and it's not like we have anything better to do, so get crackin?

So I'm gonna preface this by saying I haven't played Shadowrun in a really long time and don't know much of the lore.

Would it be possible for the people of the Sixth World to rise up and overthrow the corporations and governments, and if so what kind of conditions would be needed?

You forgot a big one - back before the purges of EnWorld and the WotC forums there was a $e meme going around because of the obvious splitting classes across books, "everything is core", and shovelware quality of the product.

I'm just laughing that people were ever entertaining Pathfinder 2 being good.

Unfortunately I was beaten to the punch, but I was about to point out that 2 points more of burning hands doesn't matter when monsters are running around with a ton more hit points. If all the hit points go up and you get 2 more damage but the ratio is more in the monster's favor, THAT IS A NERF . N...

I think that's some angry hyperbole, or maybe you don't understand what "salvage" means. For instance, some of the spells are straight up improvements over their 3.5 versions. There, salvageable material. Would you care to provide actual evidence for this assertion? Going through the spel...

When you use more homebrew documents made by fans than actual books made by the developers That is literally what 5e empowering DMs means - it means that they're going to charge you $150 for the privilege of doing their jobs. I stand by my assertion made at the end of my PHB review - there is liter...

you obviously can lol, they just might not be proficient There's a Mearls tweet that they are. This is covered nowhere in the rules, nor what the hell the new attack bonus is if I order them to open fire and they're not proficient (IIRC monsters don't have a proficiency bonus at all). I can argue a...

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!

The entire point of playing 5e isn't to fix the game, its so you can identify as a nerd and roll with your nerd associates.

Some actual non boring and shitty PC abilities : This is a big one. You need something for people to do at levels 1-3 without the game turning into a boring slog of smashing numbers together and waiting an hour for the predetermined outcome to occur. Even classes that do get abilities get shitty an...

A first level wizard should be preparing the spells 'please DM let me play something else the first three levels and let me retroactively change my character' and/or 'please only do one encounter per long rest'. Wizards, Sorcerers, and Warlocks are boring and a chore to play until level 5 under the...

Does anyone have any advice for DMing 5e? My wife is running Storm King’s Thunder and is confused by the CR system for making appropriate encounters. Looking back at this thread, it seems like the CR system is borked anyway, so I was hoping there was some practical advice available. It’s also poten...

Stormwrack, probably.

People always want to do pirate games, and WotC is always willing to disappoint with crappy mechanics.

I can't imagine this will be any good. They had a comprehensive playtest 10 years ago and threw hissy fits when people showed up explaining with math that evocation was bad. I suppose PF and 5e converging into a boring morass of bad design was inevitable, making me suspect that the modern RPG scene ...

I guess my question is what modern vampire stories can we link to? Buffy is cool and all but that shit was in the 90s and predates a lot of the younger crowd we need to keep this running. The last big vampire movie was fucking Twilight, and I guarantee you if you have vampires that sparkle in the su...

The problem is that it's fucking 2018 and if you offer a D&D game "without multiclass" people will say you're not delivering the full experience. . You probably could get away with slaughtering that particular sacred cow, 5e killed vancian casting and literally no one cares. As long a...

The thing is that while it's true and unfortunate that not all multiclass combinations are going to be well thought of, you aren't actually promising all the possible multiclass combinations when you make the book. You make a Druid class and a Necromancer class and you are promising that both of th...