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To be clear: I'm not saying that's the values in the book or anything. I don't know those values. I was just trying to express a decent speed for starships to travel to have a strong "Interstellar" feel. After all it's unlikely -every- star has a space-faring species around it. So while we'd be...

8 Ly/hour, 31 minutes to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system. Seems a decent enough speed for closely clustered star systems nearer to the galactic core, but leaves longer range travel taking days or weeks on the outer rim?

To expand on it a bit: The VRC adds in all the Sci-Fi stuff. Starships, Cybernetics, Psionics, Laser Swords, Etc. It has some new heritages that are various alien standards and new takes as well. You can run a purely sci-fi game right out of the book. But. Just like the A5e core books there...

I'll see this and raise it another level: Make Passive Perception DCs low enough for your players to find the hidden traps. Whether you use the Delving system from the GPG or not, you're probably going to have someone with a decent passive perception in the group. Probably the trapfinder. Let...

Yup. Because every fight starts with the Wizard attacking from stealth somewhere in the next county over, far away from the rest of the party. And enemies would -never- ambush the wizard while they're off on their lonesome. No, sincerely, I recognize what you're saying, Horwath, but what's good...

Yay! The Wizard casts Haste! And then... does... what? 'Cause the fight typically doesn't end in 1 round. Round two, Fireball. Or Cone of Cold or Magic Missile if you wanna insult your target, or whatever. Because it's not one or the other it is BOTH. Making Wizards do even more damage on the...

I like how you qualified Haste as the most damaging 3rd level spell -besides- Fireball. And hey, Levitate -can- shut down a single enemy that uses exclusively melee attacks but also... Poke the Wizard with a pointy stick. ESPECIALLY at level 3/4 when Levitate becomes available. Also maybe try...

Hypnotic Pattern is great 'til someone pokes the Wizard with a pointy stick and breaks the effect on everyone who failed. Same with most crowd control effects. Because the more people in the effect the higher the odds someone doesn't get caught or subsequently gets out of it. Meanwhile a...

In truth, neither am I. But it would give Wizardly types a tradeoff of being utility-focused with some AoE damage ability and lesser single-target capability, making fighters/rogues/etc better at single-target. Which in 4e helped to reign in some of the Caster/Martial arguments. They didn't...

I disagree. I think Wizards and Sorcerers and such should be able to do really crazy wild cool stuff. I think their strict damage output should be curtailed. Let them do the weird stuff and travel massive distances in the blink of an eye, and trade it off for combat-capability. Lower overall...

Drastically nerfed their spell casting damage ability. That's it. That's the whole thing. Make fireball deal a lot less damage, do similar with other spells. Leave the rest intact.

No. My point was that having a game based on roles that are mechanical rather than exclusively narrative requires those roles to be good at some things and bad at others. Like how Fighters should be comparatively worse at Exploration than Wizards should. Not -incapable-, but not as good. And...

Cadence just mentioned that, too! Thank you, Micah! It's good information to know!

Cool to know! Thank you, Cadence!