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Even More on D&D Stats in Simple Language (or, the Plight of the Huggable Skeleton)
Apparently I’ve made it to Reddit through no fault of my own, and I’m startled at the response. “The Definition of Charisma” was one of those posts I was really worried about because it’s the only one I can think … Continue reading
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Tagged D&D 3.5E, D&D 3E, Pathfinder
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Playing D&D 5E
I’ve been holding off on writing too much about D&D ZEXAL until I got a chance to play it. Rummaging through the books looking for theory is all well and good, but a gaming system is a system for gaming … Continue reading
Hazards of 5E Character Sheet Design
In preparation for playing in my first 5E campaign I’ve come across something of a quandary concerning my character sheet. I’ve been using my own character sheets for years, designed in Excel (or OpenOffice). It lets me present the information … Continue reading
Removing Ability Scores
I got an interesting comment on my recent post In Defense of D&D Stats in Simple Language: What Measure is an 18?, and I think it merits discussion before we change topics: Out of curiosity, I wonder what your opinion … Continue reading
Posted in DMing, Gaming Systems, House Rules
Tagged D&D 3.5E, D&D 3E, D&D 4E, D&D 5E, Pathfinder
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In Defense of D&D Stats in Simple Language: What Measure is an 18?
One of the neat bits about having a blog is that I post things that generate discussion. It’s one thing to say something in a group of similarly-minded DMs and have a talk before a session starts, but it’s quite … Continue reading
Underpowered: Samurai (3.5E)
The samurai has been ranked by very smart people as perhaps the least-powerful PC class in D&D 3.5. Apparently it’s on par with the expert, the adept, and other NPC classes. I think it’s common knowledge that non-spellcasting classes are … Continue reading
Underpowered: Duergar (4E)
Generally I’m not the kind of person who ranks things by power level. I tend to leave that to the experts. But I do talk with people and I see a lot of gameplay. One of the big benefits of … Continue reading
Underpowered: Bullywug (4E)
D&D has lots of options, and it’s fairly obvious that they’re not all equally powerful. I’ve ranted about this, but over time I’ve also been doing something about it. Rarely, it’s a house rule to limit to power of a … Continue reading
Live GameScreen
I have to give props to Live GameScreen, and not just because I invented it. It’s the tool I’ve been using at the table for almost three years now, and along with MapTool (for online gaming) it’s the only software … Continue reading
Pathfinder Unchained
Reviewing Pathfinder Unchained is hard because it’s pretty all over the place. If it has a single unifying theme, it’s “Pathfinder does stuff in certain ways, and he’s how to make it do that stuff in different ways”. That’s largely … Continue reading →