Recent content by Horwath

I agree on that, and I hate every possible mechanic of re-rolls. I'm fine with advantage/disadvantage before hand, not after. so simple tweak for silvery barbs for me. you reduce the d20 roll by 5(actual roll), so you can turn a crit into a hit, or even miss if attack bonus is low compared to...

wow, people really do overvalue this spell. It's not even that super good of a 1st level spell, 4/5 max.

a variant that caps spell for players at 5th level max. just increase amount of lower level spell slots to compensate for loss of high level slots and spell. or just do spell points and cap at 5th level slots, or maybe ban higher level spells but keep spell slots or ability for spell points to...

you do not need to change monsters, just add more of them.

while I agree on this, I have seen in all the years playing that in more sessions social abilities are ignored than combat ones. As the saying goes: You can turn every social encounter into a combat one, but you cannot turn every combat encounter into a social one.

1. Extra attack at level 6. 2. Sneak attack works with every attack that deals damage. 3. Assassin deals +1 damage with sneak attack per level. This bonus is doubled on the 1st round. Optional for people that do not like to roll too much dice, and a little buff to sneak attack: Sneak attack...

1. Dwarf barbarian with 16 CON and tough feat: 18 HP at 1st level, +13 HP per level after Be the best tank ever. 2. Human ranger with 2 Magic initiate feats(or one Dragonmark feat possibly) with 2 Magic initiate and ranger spellcasting you would get 6th 1st level casting 2 Hunters mark 2 Free...

we get a lot of group checks to describe some extended activity. IE: stealth, 6man party, we need 5 successful stealth checks, every stealth that beats DC by 5 or more adds extra success. with DC 15, party with higher DEX will get more successful encounters than a lower DEX party. will have to...

yeah, if we are talking about a single roll for a thing. a lucky punch or similar. what if it's extensive competition? let's say arm wrestling? and you need 3 won opposite rolls in a row to win? 8 vs 20 STR now drops into 1,5% chance of happening. and more the extended competition is, more is...

yes and no. if you have a bunch of "fighters" with 8 STR and a group of fighters with 16 STR and they both try to defeat a sane enemy, Sack of HP of 120 and average AC of 15 1st group has attack of +1 and damage(good ol longsword) of 1d8-1 that is 35% hit rate with average damage of 1,45 per...

agree. TWF style should be default. then if you take the style you can fight with non-light 1Handed weapons and treat any off hand weapon as you have Nick mastery on it instead of it's default mastery.

subclasses are just feat chains that are preselected for you.

So Startrek and Stargate were right.

for skills, we prefer 3d6. it's few rolls that can have dire consequences, attacks and saves are rolled 50+ time per combat, so it evens out a little. but, I do prefer "d12+4" instead of d20. you still roll only 1 dice, so advantage/disadvantage works, average stays the same(10,5) and we do get...

Guess photon torpedoes will have to wait for a few years more....