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  1. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    No, I just think you’re wrong. No you don’t, because the so called added detail doesn’t mean anything and doesn’t tell me anything about what’s supposedly happening in the in game fight. Without any further descriptions given, all the basic rule information gives is typical “just tell me the...
  2. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    In B/X maybe. In AD&D Clerics got spells out of the gate and got bonus low level spell slots for above average Wisdom scores, easily attainable when the default attribute rolling method is 4d6 drop lowest and arrange to taste. AD&D also has Create Food and Water as a third level spell. So an...
  3. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    No it isn't. Neither tells you anything definitive about what happened unless the GM and the players put effort into it. Also, I'm a native English speaker.
  4. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    No, it still doesn't tell you anything more. What does hitting someone in plate armor with a great sword and having some of the damage go through mean? Did you just hit so hard that your sword cut through the armor? Did you do a murder stroke or a pommel strike to get concussive effect? Did you...
  5. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    I'm not a big fan of that either, but it's not like that stuff didn't exist in earlier D&D editions. Sure, Goodberry used to be a level 2 spell, so only available from character level 3 (when you're supposed to start venturing outside the dungeon and rations become more important) but both...
  6. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    I'm saying a high strength fighter is absolutely superhuman at level 8 yes. They're stronger and tougher than an ogre, can do superhuman feats of athleticism and fighting etc. So it sounds like the same idea at least. Many games were made by corporations. Say what you want about TSR for...
  7. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    At level 8, the typical strength and athletics focused fighter can make a running long jump of 25 feet while wearing full plate, carrying a weapon and a shield and landing standing up on a stone floor. That's without having to roll an Athletics check, but then Bob Beamon and Mike Powell couldn't...
  8. raniE

    Mod+ OGL 1.1 is not an Open License.

    So this one's going to fail hard I think. Doing a marketing push for a new book now would just be stupid, and not buying this, which is a fairly niche product anyway, seems like an easy protest for most people who do play and buy things for D&D. I assume it's supposed to tie in with the film...
  9. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    There’s absolutely no difference there between D&D and any other system. Any rule set can be described in a shit way. “Regular hit. Regular parry.” “I hit. Parry fails. 3 damage. Does not go through armor.” So no, this is incorrect because the descriptions of what’s happening being good or bad...
  10. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    I disagree. The armor class system from D&D doesn’t make you harder to hit it makes you harder to damage. It produces reasonable results most of the time. Armor as damage reduction usually makes a two handed sword a better anti armor weapon than a mace or a rondel dagger. To me, that’s a worse...
  11. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    I don’t think so at all. The world record for long jumping is irrelevant because that’s not the kind of jumping anyone is doing in an adventure situation. Same with the world record for high jumping. If you want to see if you can jump up to grab a ledge, how high a stick someone can Fosbury flop...
  12. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    No, you brought it up.
  13. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    You wrote that he tried to look up the jump rules for five minutes and then made the Fighter make an Athletics check to jump. You were there, so if you say he found the rules I believe you, but that isn’t what you wrote earlier. Not that weird, the 5e Fighter is jumping wearing armor, a...
  14. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    But both are going to be shit when you roll constantly. I would just prefer the system that says “don’t roll for everything”. If we’re going to roll for everything that could possibly fail, here are some tasks I’ve messed up in real life: walk in a straight line on asphalt, chew, swallow, open a...
  15. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    that or the DM couldn’t find the rules for jumping, panicked and then made a bad ruling. It happens.
  16. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    Then the DM failed. Jumping is fixed distance in 5e, you cover a number of feet equal to your Strength score if you do a running long jump. Unless the Fighter had a Strength score of 9 or less he jumps that with no athletics check required. So does everyone else with a Strength score greater than 9.
  17. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    The problem with that approach is that to have anywhere near a reasonable chance of success for mundane tasks you need an extremely granular resolution method, because you need to be able to have a 99,9% chance of success at least. 90% chance of success for an ordinary task is terrible. If I was...
  18. raniE

    What Was Gygax Thinking?

    I think so, but the problem is then that if people will benchmark it against their ordinary life, the lowest difficulty level would have to be "Very difficult" or similar. Maybe it should be.
  19. raniE

    D&D & The Network of Externalities

    Yep, that I can agree with (and, still BRP to boot, so win-win). And I'm sure Mythras Classic Fantasy is a good implementation of the Mythras rules for running something like D&D, I just feel like that's mainly something you'd want to do if you're already really sold on Mythras but get a...
  20. raniE

    Best case scenario...would you forgive WotC?

    Further math. So, Hasbro is pushing for D&D to become a 100 million dollar a year brand. That means it isn't there yet, and likely not that close either since otherwise they wouldn't have to do anything huge to push it there. 40,000 lost subscribers represents anywhere between $1,435,200 and...
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