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pookel posted:I've been reading up in various venues on the possibility of switching to a different system, and this thread is literally the first place I've seen people trash talk 5th. Everything I've heard about it from other places has been positive. So, yk, taking this with a grain of salt. There is a strong relationship between the change-resistant attitude of the teens in your store and love of 5e. Imagine the teens' reaction if the company had rolled back most of the changes they didn't like. Allow it to simmer for two minutes. Compare to the love of 5e you've seen. Serve at room temperature.
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P.d0t posted:As a purely mechanical question, what do the various alternatives to skill challenges actually do? How are they similar and how are they different from the RAW? Better approaches to skill challenges give players 1) an opportunity to use their skills, 2) a way to be relevant if they don't have training in that skill, and 3) choices. Compare Strike!'s Team Conflict rules, for example. Skill challenges RAW do #1 and occasionally do #3.
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BattleCake posted:So I saw upthread that people mentioned using 4e skill challenges RAW are a common mistake for DMs. I am an inexperienced DM and was wondering if anybody could suggest alternatives or house rules for skill challenges? Hoard of the Dragon Queen would be fine as long as you build balanced encounters. Just be emotionally prepared for them to take it off the rails and have one 4e encounter statted out in reserve at all times that you can reskin to fit whatever fight they've picked.
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A pixie Zangief sounds pretty entertaining.
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Klungar posted:If I know 4e well, how easy is it to pick up Gamma World 4e? A lot will look familiar, except it is (as noted) more lethal, since character generation is so easy. There is some streamlining of 4e overall, in terms of weapon types and feats.
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Ryuujin posted:So yeah this reminds me, someone needs to run Gamma World again. I think it has been years. There just isn't enough Gamma World on the forums. Be the mutation you want to see in the world.
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kaynorr posted:I'm going to take back my earlier skepticism - it occurred to me that you actually could use 4E as the basis for a sandbox game, but you have to think about it in the same way that the XCOM games are a sandbox. It's a procedural means of generating the conditions for a series of tactical encounters. There are unusually strong (for a tabletop RPG) underpinnings in terms of what constitutes an average enemy/encounter/reward/progression, which means you could meaningfully push on those parameters based on the choices you make at the strategic level. Even if the strategic level consists of picking a barfight. The entire game could take place in Bartown, WI, and if you go into the wrong bar before you're ready, look out.
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wallawallawingwang posted:The 13th age bestiary has gelatinous tetrahedrons, hexahedrons, octahedrons, and dodecahedrons. Each round they make one of 4, 6, 8, or 12 random attacks. Dice Battle is a good thing is what I'm saying. I hope the gelatinous tetrahedrons are virtually unable to roll, and are a threat only to those who fall on them from above.
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Arivia posted:There's no problem with printing another wizard archetype. I think you are wrong about this. Even though it releases "stand-alone" products, D&D as a brand has always been indiscriminately syncretic. They should have been creating these things knowing that the majority of the player base will draw everything from every product they have access to. The emphasis on wizard sub-classes was an increasingly unsubtle backsliding to D&D's true self. Like, you can sell "stand-alone" ice cream that somehow doesn't require toppings and swear up and down that it's meant to be eaten as-is, but you should probably still have an eye on what happens to your product when people dump chocolate sauce on it.
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