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The appeal of gishes to me isn't "I want all the wizard stuff and all the fighter stuff," it's "I want to do over the top, unrealistic nonsense with weapon combat." Like my favorite gish class is the 4e Swordmage, where I can do things like teleport an enemy next to me so I can immediately hit...

Yeah, and even out of combat, if all a stat does is boost a specific set of skills, then why not just move that bonus into the skill system? Like if the goal is designing the kind of character you want and not being forced to stick to stereotypes, why even have the skill groups like that? Like...

Justin Lanasa is a nobody who's in a slow motion trainwreck of lawsuits and bankruptcies who doesn't appear to meaningfully be a threat to anyone anymore. He says naughty word things, but virtually no one listens to him. He has no meaningful influence. He is not an existential threat of a level...

Treantmonk said he was offered an ad spot, but turned it down, since he doesn't do those. But he does have an affiliate link that does give him some kickback for people who pledge from there. Though it should be noted that he was already making videos on how much he liked what he was seeing...

I've seen Treantmonk talk about this game a bit, and it sounds like the kind of iteration I'd want WotC to do for a proper 6e. But I'd also want to hear reviews on how the balance is before doing anything with it. Like I don't want to buy it only to find out that CR is useless there, too.

1. Plans last until they come into contact with players. Even when you know your players and their characters well, they're sometimes going to just snap your plans in half. Let them. You can make new plans later, and players tend to love finding out that they did something they weren't...

What's preventing them from installing it on their own computers?

You know what I wish they dealt with? The fact that this game is trying to allow both theater of the mind and grid based play with the exact same rules. Like it's functional for both, but the exact distances can become fiddly for theater of the mind, and I feel like they might have...

I'd want something completely incompatible with 5e. Not because I despise 5e (I think it's the second best edition of the game), but because we already have 5e and plenty of 3rd party attempts at 5e but better. The transitions between 2e, 3e, 4e, and 5e all gave us new ways to play and think...

I will say that if Eberron is a setting that appeals to you and the group, there's a level 1 starter adventure in the 4e Eberron book that I rather liked. It's a good overall introduction to the setting and to 4e in general. I'd recommend being looser about what skills are allowed in the skill...

That's the big one that most people recommend, though it matters less at low levels. If you want to use an old monster and adjust the math, just use MM3 on a business card, and you can get a mostly fixed monster in minutes. That said, they also did change the kinds of powers they gave, largely...

I mean, if they're having fun with it, there's nothing inherently wrong with a campaign with just a few challenging combats between long rests.

If they're not that interested in magic items and keeping track of what they need, you might want to consider Inherent Bonuses, where they just automatically get the expected math bonuses as they level regardless of their equipment. There's a checkbox for that in the character builder. I...

The first 4e games I played allowed this as a house rule. It didn't break anything. I'd say go for it if that's something you think would benefit your group.

Yeah, there's a few weird bits in here. Like the lack of a definition for "hobby games," a term neither me nor my friends use, or assuming that all time favorite game and current favorite are different. And the questions seemed to be phrased under the assumption that I've tried all the...

I feel like Princess Wing has some of the best tactical combat I've run into in a while. It's a Japanese TRPG where you play as Sailor Moon style magical girls equipped with Gundam style weapons, and it uses playing cards. The short version is that each character has four weapon slots, and...

Yeah, and making the floor for healing abilities to be 1/4 of a character's HP also helped a lot. It meant you never got into one of those situations where you spent one of your resources on healing, rolled like garbage, and felt like you wasted it. Healing is always useful.

Complete agreement on this. The fact this bombed and seemed to get a lukewarm reaction in general is utterly baffling to me.

Science fiction and fantasy settings work best when you explain just enough to be evocative and give the story context. The nerdy tendency to fill in all the blanks makes them much weaker. Star Wars worked in part because it showed you weird alien stuff, treated it as if it was just a normal...

So I want to talk about a class I like for the opposite reasons that most people like 4e classes. You know how some players like playing something simple? Like the kind of person who in 5e, picks Champion Fighter and seems satisfied to just say "I hit it with my sword" every round of combat...