Recent content by James Gasik

Well sure, but we still had Cure Light Wounds. If a PC drops to 0*, they're unconscious and bleeding out. If you're able to talk, you're obviously at positive hit points. *Or just dead, depending on what version of the rules you go by. So someone being able to gasp out their final breath, or...

. The Witch looks super cool. One of my players in my new game is playing one for the first time, so I'm looking forward to see how it works out.

Both! And there's no reason for it, it's not like every monster has a great Dex save, yet it's failure rate is truly impressive.

Honestly, having played spellcasters in many games where enemies almost always make saving throws, it was actually refreshing to have my spells work fairly often. Except for sacred flame, of course. I don't know what the problem with that spell is, I think it's cursed.

Oh man, does D&D handle actual wounds poorly, lol. Some of the adventures I'm running have NPC's dying of wounds but still able to gasp out final breaths (or, in the case of The Inheritance, penning a last will and testament while bleeding out from an arrow!). The players questioned me about a...

I've seen 5e sessions be cakewalks, and I've seen them be absolutely brutal. There's a lot of factors involved, including, but not limited to: Group makeup. All Fighters? All Clerics? One of these games is not going to be like the other. Teamwork or lack thereof. Built your character to...

So I have a player who doesn't mind rolling stats. If they roll poorly, they create a laser-focused, optimized build. If they roll well, they create a character with three classes and make truly off the wall character choices. I'll let you guess which of the two I prefer to see in games, lol...

In fairness, I have a lot of 3e/PF1e experience, having played 3e from when it first came out. It's a system I love, but it's not without it's flaws. On the topic of buffing, while it can be very powerful, I noticed in my games that players often have problems knowing when to buff and when to...

My house rules on Feats are currently: Each character receives a bonus Feat. The Resilient Feat can betaken multiple times. At levels 5, 9, 14, and 17, characters receive an additional bonus Feat. In addition: At level 4 (and every 4 levels thereafter), a character can gain one...

I'd rather have Legendary Actions than Inspiration, personally. ^-^

My current campaign features a few older (2e era) adventures that I've updated to 5e. This has resulted in some very tough encounters. So I decided to be very generous with character creation, which included not only rolling for ability scores, but a few safeguards in case someone ends up with...

That is a problem, isn't it? What if the players don't pick up the adventure hooks I'm putting down? I don't foresee it, but some of the adventures I have planned simply assume that "of course the players will help, why wouldn't they? What are they, jerks?" lol. So far they already threw me...

While I don't have any problems with Mage Armor, this ties into the value of 1st-level spell slots after awhile. The offensive ones will be laughable to higher hit point foes, the control ones too limited, and the utility ones don't come up often enough. As a Wizard, I've found I have little...

When this thread turned up on my notifications, I was wondering why, so I went to the first post and, to my surprise, found that this was a thread I started! How strange. Feats as "class-agnostic" class features is a fine idea in principle. Surely, if you had a (sub) class that said "you can...

See the thing with AC though, is by tier 3, unless magic armor and other defensive items are in play, AC doesn't scale, so you get hit a lot more often. The Fire Giant is my poster child for how absurd this starts to get. At CR 9 and +11 to hit (and multiattack), even the heaviest armor users...