Recent content by Distracted DM

TIL. "hit the deck" sounds like a combat maneuver but you can drop prone as a reaction, look at that!

Ok, I can appreciate that reasoning :)

Is that from Level Up?

Exactly. So for folks saying that he's an inspiration for gish characters- you want to make Elric in D&D so you make a blur-casting, fireball-throwing, self-buffing character, and you now end up with a character that's nothing like the inspiration?

Ok so it sounds like you're saying he was primarily a spellcaster in the books? Because he wasn't. The only times he used sorcery was when it was something that he couldn't deal with with his sword. And again, all of it would be considered ritual magic in our modern takes on it- no battle magic...

The folks saying "Elric" was an inspiration for gish... It's hard to picture any of the gish builds you'd see as trying to emulate Elric. He has Stormbringer, and that's 99% of what he uses. Very rarely he'll have big ritual spells, or he'll call on an old debt that his bloodline has gained...

Btw it's not just you- going to tier 3 and beyond in 5e is not easy for any GM that likes to challenge their players. The characters power grows exponentially and somewhat unpredictably, especially if you include a lot of splatbooks- but even so without them.

AFAIK the 5e designers really meant it when they said "multiclassing is optional" because they pretty much washed their hands of it as far as balancing went. I think it was on Dragon Talks and maybe other places, but they really didn't try to balance multiclassing. I think that we see that it's...

Starting small and growing organically from there. I've run a good number of long-term campaigns, and some of the ones based on long adventures were great (my first Night Below and RHoD campaigns went amazingly)- but I think that not knowing what's going to happen down the road is a lot more fun...

There's a cheat sheet floating around but it's more like .. 4 pages. Would love to see what you come up with!

Yeah the pre-2010 minis by WotC were great. Definitely some misses but I have a ton of them and they're way more durable than the Wizkids ones.

Sorry to hear that :( Quite crappy to be disappointed like that. Wizkids minis are i think like, 3 little and 1 big miniatures to a $20 blind box? 13 licensed minis in a box would be quite a get for $20 😅 There ARE "get a load of crappy random minis" online, you can look them up on amazon...

That's just the origin feature of a character- the majority of classes, especially fighter and berserker, handily outperform their 5e counterparts. Where is the line? Having A5e characters in the game DOES require the DM having a new gauge of power. You can't challenge a party of A5E...

So, assuming "4 feats of power," would it not be a 5e game? I think that's the original intent of this exercise- defining a game as 5e or not. Shadowdark is not. But A5e characters' baseline is higher than 5e's. Is it not a 5e game?