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If you're houseruling short rests anyway, be prepared to house rule it further than that - short rests are fundamentally a narrative convenience for 'mechanically, some limited resources refresh and you get access to some others' - any time it could be reasonable for them to take a short rest, and they're due one, it should be possible for them to take one. Even if it's 'you stop and drink from the enchanted pool' or 'your god smiles on your recent success and you feel reinvigorated'. Don't feel hidebound to 'you must sit and do nothing for x minutes', however big or small x is. Same for long rests.
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You should be aware, though, that D&D rules systems in general reward specialising and punish generalising. A single generalist in two areas will tend to be less than the sum of the two halves of specialists that make it up, IYSWIM. It's a function of how feats, class features, items etc are assigned, as well as at least partly an intended part of the design - one person isn't supposed to be good at all the things, because it's a team game.
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AlphaDog posted:I'm actually asking because these days my main group generally runs to 3 players (or maybe even just 2 on occasion) instead of the 4-5 we used to have. I should have included that in my question, I guess. My idea was that you'd run 3 generalists and have all your bases covered, but if someone can point out a good/interesting party composition with 3 specialists, that would be neat too (I'm thinking bear druid, wizard, and... maybe valor bard?) With a smaller party there's a stronger argument in favour of doing it. Casters have more flexibility generally anyway, so picking the right set of spells will let you accomplish this with more or less any three casters, I suspect. But I'd still avoid trying to do melee weapons, ranged weapons, face and sneaky all on one character at the same time. Instead, build a decent party as abve and play to the whole party's strengths. Look for ways to accomplish your goals which ay to what you're good at, and if you're only offered two options both of which you're not so good at... find a third. Or a fourth.
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Feb 8, 2015 10:04
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Not yet.
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In theory, minions work by using creatures of significantly lower level than the party - because defenses and attacks scale a LOT slower than in 4e, whilst HP scales broadly similarly, you wind up with creatures with so few hit points that basically a single hit from anyone kills them. But for better or worse, you don't wind up with a great many large/huge minions for big epic encounters. Shouldn't be a problem to come up with them if you want them though.
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Feb 22, 2015 18:00
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Yep. XP should be a tool for working out how many monsters of what types to put in the encounters; level the players at the points where the story feels like they ought to, when the players feel like it's time, or when you feel a need to inject a bit of interest into the characters. And ALWAYS level them together.
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Apr 13, 2015 19:38
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Basically, remember that golf bag you're not supposed to need? Hand me a 9 silver, will you Bertie!
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Apr 20, 2015 20:49
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Phandelver seems pretty sandboxy so far having just hit level 3, and it's OK from a story perspective. But as ever with prewritten mods, there's only so much flexibility it can have to cope with PCs who want to go off the rails.
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Nov 10, 2015 18:32
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Some Sort Of Spellcaster™ Short-distance teleportation without using a spell slot is actually pretty under-represented IIRC. Do Warlocks gets some maybe?
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Are there any feats actually worth bothering with for a Lore Bard, or is it all about the ASIs?
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