Currently have my PC in the shop to replace the multiple five year old fans that like to sound like chainsaws more frequently, along with an OS drive replacement. Though for a PC I
Mail Ordered in 2013, it's been the best computer I've ever had.
Hello from dust collecting borrowed corner computer land, where my Tact is in even shorter supply than usual.
Anyways. Freeformish Togetherness group was in theory "Based roughly around 3rd level 5th ed characters" As much to give a good minimum entry, because in 5th ed Land Paladin's don't even count as Paladins until then.
Assurances to Tim they'd dial it back on Jamie's made up perks even before considering the homebrew nature of their basis, and hijacking of thread for private RP mindset reasons (And constantly thinking the solution to that is "...Private thread! I Can't ignore people if they aren't invited!)" of course, have gone about as well as you'd expect leading us here today.
Which is a part of why Pyrus's "Screw it, I'm a Dragon. A dragon who does nothing with that except scare kobolds" revelation was because even that is pretty mundane by comparison.
In Turn, we could finally finish Scales of War and a direct copy/paste of "The May who killed Tiamat" would still be mundane by comparison, the way things keep going.
I'm also having an irony moment of Angel Bard walking into a thread as the least fancy character.
The above is the sort of thing that drew me to Half-Orcs even in zero homebrew involved 5th ed. Having a built in "Actually, I barely survived with 1 hitpoint" is a bigger draw to my scarred veteran of metagaming GMs who are convinced they are anything but mindset, than "But Dwarves can get a +2/+2 to STR,
AND CON!" my more spreadsheet minded friend was more focused on.
Even lurking "It hasn't come up yet" temptation to just Hulk Hogan my way through trite lazy "I win button" spells would have some joking basis on real sheet Tark. "Impossible! No fighter can save against transformation magic!" "I have a positive Charisma modifier"
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speaking of newbie level adventures, i've a crazy idea... what would you guys think of playing a classic dungeon crawl run by me? pick your favorite system and character.
I think I might join the lazy train on the Tark clone in 5th ed front, if that's the simplest route.
The hurdles of 5th ed encounter balance, still mean 1000% less prep time than trying to do something spur of the moment in 4th ed, as much as I like that system.
But even as a guy who likes 4th ed, I must admit one of it's biggest strengths is also it's biggest weakness without having a working builder tool. And guess who's main PC is in the shop!
"Oh my god, look at all these cool options I have!-OH GOD" *crushed under mountain of individual lists of abilities per class per level* "...Oh cool, I can knock people prone with arrows as a ranged basic now!"
This message was last edited by the player at 09:16, Thu 16 Nov 2017.