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Madmarker posted:Hell my last Warforged Slayer was a Redneck Gnome in power armor, that had flames painted on the legs. It was glorious. I was partial to a Warforged Warden relying on lightning powers. Was he just some old, malfunctioning robot, or was he something more? 
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Ooh, I want in on the 4E improvement train. Turnips#7054 on Discord.
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I know monster math has been pretty thoroughly solved for 4E. Where can I find good trap math in a similar vein?
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Huh, literally that easy? Sounds good to me!
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:Is that just "use post MM3 monsters", or that along with "half HP and 1.5 times damage" or something? Further halving HP and upping damage seems a little extreme personally, but I've heard people favor both. With how much high level 4E drags, though, I might start at post MM3 and switch around late Paragon.
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The wizard needed a super special sparkly archetype of its own, and if they just had DPS, Tank, and Healer you'd get even more frothing at the mouth about the WoW holy trinity
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kaynorr posted:To me this would be something like: This guide is amazing, and I am definitely taking notes on it.
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Subjunctive posted:X-post in the GM advice thread! Hell, if there's a game design megathread you could probably X-post it there, too. Its one thing to consider that on the DM level for currently existing systems, but seeing that process through a systematic lens can be super helpful in its own right.
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I've been thinking of getting into the groove of 4e DMing again, and I've been eyeing Monster Manual on a Business Card as a result. But looking at it gives me a few questions for custom monster design. A) I imagine if I shuffle around NADs proportionally, they should even out (ex, give a quick but frail monster 1 less Fort for 1 more Ref). But how would AC fall into this? Since attacks on AC are more common than ones on NADs, should it be "weighted" more? (1 less AC, 2 more Will, for example). Or should I keep it 1 to 1? B) Similarly, if I wanted to decrease AC but increase HP proportionally, or vice-versa, how would I best calculate that? 1 less AC = 1 more hit point per level, a la the Brute formula? Or should it be something different? C) Should attacks that inflict a condition inflict the listed average damage, or should they deal less, similarly to how multi-target attacks function? D) How many unique quirks should each monsters have? I know each monster should probably have a basic attack, an ability suited to their role, and a unique quirk to the "species" of monster they are (a la all goblins having Goblin Tactics), but how much more should be added from there? How many abilities should Elites and Solos get? Should Minor actions and Reactions/Interrupts be common or rare?
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That sounds about right. Sort of like how the MM Goblin skirmisher gets Goblin Tactics for its goblin-ness and Great Position for being a skirmisher. As for the other questions, those all make sense. I can definitely get the value of not futzing with HP and armor too much. e: Do the skill rolls feel a little skewed to everyone else? Looking at level 1 atm, but DC 8 feels so trivial it doesn't even feel worth rolling, and DC 12 feels pretty easy (especially if you're specialized in a skill through race, class, and stat.) Then DC 19 just feels brutal by comparison for anything but the specialized character. I added a DC 16 as an in between difficulty and nudged the hard DC up to 20 to compensate, but I keep waffling as to whether it's a good idea or not. Does skill use end up more balanced in practice than in theory? The Bee fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Dec 31, 2019 |
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Gort posted:It definitely bugs my players to increase all their skill levels by 1 every couple of levels. It might've been better to just have static skill DCs all along. This is another sign pointing to 4E benefitting from the virtual tabletop that never was, tbh. This kinda thing sounds agonizing on paper but way more convenient and useful if digitized. I ended up leaving the DCs mostly identical, just adding in a middle of the road between Medium and Hard. No sense messing with things too much, after all.
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IMO it was a triple whammy. The surface level changes got the grogs up in arms. The PHB reading dryly, while good for game design, scared off anyone on the fence. And if you're still hanging in there, the busted math and awful first adventures got you wondering if maybe you break your old books back out, or look into this Pathfinder everyone's hyping up.
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Iunnrais posted:On the subject of interesting potions: one homebrew potion / grenade I got a lot of good use out of was a combo. One grenade creates a damaging zone that lasts a couple rounds or until the end of the encounter. Another grenade does nothing on its own, but acts as an accelerant to existing zones on the ground-- add xdy+z damage to any damaging zone it overlaps with. It's a simple idea, and you might think that it's basically the same as two different damaging grenades... and yet my players fell in love with the things, couldn't get enough of 'em. Two damaging grenades is two sources of damage. A danger zone and an accelerant is a combo that makes you feel smart, and can also come up in unexpected ways.
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