Retrocloning 4e: Shouting hands back on

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Fuschia tude: Dec 26, 2004; THUNDERDOME LOSER 2019

Wilde Jagd posted:

Just crib 13th age's background rules for a decent solution to the skills problem. DnD's skills rules were never all that great.

That solves the "which skills" problem, not how and when to use them. (Though, see this elaboration and this post.)

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Fuschia tude: Dec 26, 2004; THUNDERDOME LOSER 2019

Maxwell Lord posted:

With the Duellist powers mostly written up I'm thinking about the first class that'll be totally original, the Gunner.

The gunner is your heavy weapons expert and Martial Controller. They shoot big guns and there are two big things involved- area of effect damage (blasts and sprays and so on) and changing the battlefield by blowing up big parts of it. The second will be a little dependent on there being obstacles for the Gunner to properly turn into rubble but 4e's based on the assumption of showpiece battles in interesting terrain so I may just lean harder on that and make it explicit.

I'm also thinking about grenades as a resource for limited powers.

You could also just have powers that make "debris fields": 3x3 or 5x5 areas of difficult terrain. Another could be explosive powers that create a "giant crater": same as debris field, but grants full cover to prone characters in it against nonfliers/enemies at the same or lower elevation. (Does prone give a shooting bonus? I never played a shooty mans in 4e.)

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