Re: DnD Thread

[Soiuku]

Nice expansions but an annoying core for 4e ~
I've been working on my Swashbuckler and Minstrel in 3.5~

Currently on a Lost Worlds Troll kick; love that Troll class~
Queen's Blade is pretty swell too; depite the excess H~

[anegge]

I get the impression that I would like essentials over core 4th. But Keep on the Shadowfell was such a painfully bad module that I haven't really kept up with 4th.

[LunarWolf]

Essentails is more fun, in my opinion.

[Tatyina]

I thought essentials was just 4th without all the broken crap?

[Soiuku]

[quote="Tatyina":3rvgj7to]I thought essentials was just 4th without all the broken crap?

I gave up trying to make coherent sense from the 4 series~
I feel that it cut support for rogues and swashbucklers where it was needed sadly~ D";

[quote="Tatyina":3ga63t41]I thought essentials was just 4th without all the broken crap?

Basically WOTC claims that there is no conflict if you want to have one player play a PHB fighter and one play an essentials "slayer". There are some fixes, but there is also a completely new content set.


[quote="Soiuku":3ga63t41]swashbucklers

[luffy316]

4e is fun, but it leaves a bit of a damper on the actual RP side of things, which is my favorite part of the experience. the push/pull attacks with everything and the clear description of things makes there not a lot of wiggle room for description or creative combat, becoming more of a tactical war simulation to me

been known to DM a mean game though, just can't seem to land a consistently available party, online or off. plus i tend to run a way looser game to give players a lot of freedom and let me be more casual on the rules (generally running homebrews based on actual systems or original settings; have a good dozen or so largely planned out already).

the friend who DMed the 4e game admitted to some railroading sometimes, but also that he never dreamed that he could handle the kind of chaos the party he was in (that I ran) created. all their favorite parts took place when they were in a city or if i gave them free time, which i basically made up on the fly. that was when they would wind up getting arrested and causing a massive jailbreak, framing eachother for murder, blackmailing the mayor, fighting eachother, and finding a sword of wishing that was promptly used to wish for another party member's death out of spite

[anegge]

[quote="luffy316":35rvhepu]he never dreamed that he could handle the kind of chaos the party he was in (that I ran) created.

I also am really interested in this. Do you use random generation tables or just improv everything? And what is your' stance on the popular narrative slogan "Always say 'Yes'" w/re/t D&D?

[luffy316]

generally make things up as they come. have a general setting in mind for the place, consider what i think they can handle, and toss em into it if they go snooping. i allow the guys to try just about anything possible, though know what's downright impossible (don't always tell them that...). i see it as they can only control one character in this world, so they have total reign over him. i can throw all the obstacles i can logically consider, but that won't even stop them usually.

the general feedback i've gotten as a DM is that i'm always fun, but that the players rarely have to fear for their lives since i can be a bit on the easy side. generally have to go at it with the intent to kill them just to challenge them at all. on the other hand, this does give them the sense that they're always going to be safe, which lets them get even more freeform and try to cause more trouble for themselves (fighting eachother, taking bigger jobs, causing chaos for no reason).

i ran a superhero campaign (a favorite setting) where there was a very creative but slightly munchkin of a player. he wound up creating a lich-like character with a sense of humor, massive magical prowess, and the ability to instigate chaos. basically, he would point at something, and I would roll. something would happen. i had a few-hundred item long list of random things that can happen to the targeted person/area. this is usually beneficial to him, but has also work against them. he's managed to send the man they were trying to rescue and Lich's personal golem to Hell (creating the issue of having to go there to save him again), interrupted a jailbreak by every person in the jail being pestered by their own individual pizza boy who thought they ordered from them, granted an evil lunatic mastermind super intelligence, reversed gravity for a horde of minions, and turned a villain into a sentient bear.

the fact was that he was so confident and powerful he decided that was his main form of attack

[Psychopatrick88]

My only affiliation with DnD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyxnEKTjhj0

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