Ihan samaa tietoisen valehtelun ja “herää kysymys” jaqing offin jatkumoa tämä on kuin sekin kun Halla-Aho väitti tullin harjoituksen olleen salainen operaatio tuoda Al-Holin väkeä maahan. Hävettää kollektiivisesti että tällainen manipulointi uppoaa kansaan niin hyvin että tämä puliveivari pääsee näin korkeisiin poliittisiin virkoihin.
I do like how your first sentence is “I have no idea what this means” and then follow up with more text saying how I’m wrong than my rule took.
You’re the one here advertising how much of a gigabrain move using your homebrew rules is, people are going to come with the assumption that it’s ready to use and understandable and you’re opening your creation to critique. People shouldn’t have to play 20 questions to figure out how to use your revolutionary homebrew rule, thus it is perfectly valid to criticize vaquely written rules.
If you were wondering, 1 level means -1 on your d20s.
Then why not just say that instead of the mess you wrote? Literally “you deduct your ‘exhaustion’ level from your rolls”. Also, which d20 rolls? Attack rolls, ability checks, saves, damage rolls, that one random roll your GM asks you to make to determine whether you run into a random encounter in the wilds, some of them or all of them? This is important so don’t leave your readers quessing.
That’s because I take away the old system of exhaustion completely.
So let me get this straight, it has none of the effects of exhaustion nor is it cured nor accrued in any of the ways already defined in D&D 5E? Then why is it called exhaustion when it clearly has nothing do with an already existing concept with the same name? This is needlessly confusing. Call new concepts new names.
The short rest respite is only on the FIRST short rest of the day.
And how are your readers supposed to guess this if you don’t write it out? There aren’t supposed to be any hidden rules. Besides, if you make it work literally like long rests, why not just tack it only on long rests? Rules saying there’s only one long rest in a day already exist, why not leverage that?
Anything else to ask before dishing out a critic when you don’t really understand it in the first place ? I’m honestly happy to talk, I would prefer with people asking before dishing out thought.
If your homebrew is supposedly ready for use, people should not need to ask. I’m not trying to be rude but honestly, this has a plenty of smells of a kind of “GMs first homebrew”:
What if you rewrote all of this as simply “You can ignore the effects of being unconscious from being at 0 hp for one turn at the cost of one level of exhaustion”? You could leverage existing rules to a great degree and it would be easily understandable and digestible. It’d have minimal mechanical impact as people are almost invariably going to use their action to get more hp at which point they can just act normally. Dropping to 0 hp already renders you prone which already halves your speed or costs half your speed to get up, etc…
Exhaustion: On the d20
1 = -1 2 = -2 … 9 = -9 10 = death
I have no idea what this means.
Recovery First rest shorts = - 1 Exhaustion Long rest = - 2 Exhaustion
How does this interact with the existing rules for exhaustion that say you only lose one level of exhaustion per long rest? Do you have to track exhaustion from different sources separately? What is stopping the party from taking five one hour long short rests in one day to completely eradicate all exhaustion with little effort?
This is fairly broken: The dying character can just use their action or bonus action to heal themselves, teleport away, etc. and since the short rest rule makes exhaustion trivial to heal there is barely any risk of death or even a cost for going down.
I feel like this is an overly complex, not well-thought-out nor playtested “solution” trying to patch an issue that lies somewhere completely different. If your table is taking 30 minutes for a single round of combat, either you have way too many players at the table or someone doesn’t know how to run their characters. It takes some time when you’re just getting started out but eventually every player (and the DM running their NPCs) should be familiar with what their character is going to do in combat and most of it should flow quite automatically. Your players (and the DM) should be planning their move during the others’ turns and visibly displaying an initiative tracker letting players know when they’re up can encourage them to be ready on time. If someone is taking inordinately long, say their character is too indecisive to act and skip their turn, they’ll shape up in less than 5 minutes. Ban phones at the table, seriously.
Yeah, there’s a fine line here. The DM improvising something whimsical and funny on the spot can be enjoyable to everyone, but if the party is going out of their way to do their absolute best to derail and force DM to waste any and all prepared material they’re just dicks. The DM is still a player in the game doing it have fun too and doesn’t owe you a campaign that bends to all whims of the party without restraint.
Also, a good lesson for GMs is to try and write any prepared material in a way that allows it to later be reused if players manage to miss it. Just because the party didn’t investigate that one cave with a goblin ambush in it doesn’t mean they can’t run into a goblin ambush later down the line somewhere entirely different.
Toivon, että luen rivien välistä vähän liian kyynisesti ja vaikka tässä vähän voi pienesti huokaistakin niin kyllä mulla ainakin foliohattu vielä pysyy tiukasti päässä.
Et lue, kun huomioi että nykyiset hallituspuolueet ovat EU:ssa samoissa blokeissa kun ne jotka tätä koko asetusta ajavat. Olin rehellisesti todella yllättynyt että valiokunnan linjaus oli tämä nykyhallituksesta huolimatta, mutta en pidättäisi hengitystä etteikö takki kääntyisi välittömästi tosipaikan tullen jos vastaavasta laista pitäisi äänestää. Tämä on kuitenkin nykyisen oikeistohallituksen märkä uni.
What portion of the 18 skills 6 saves + AC 30+ tools do you list for every character on your GM screen?
Oh please, you don’t have to make this stupidly contrived. The base attributes, skills and AC are plenty enough. You might not even need the skills outside of outlandish expertise cases as even proficient skills are not that far off. You do realize the way skill scores are calculated is extremely predictable in 5e? Save DCs come from rules text most of the time, and besides, you probably should not be doing outlandish DC checks like 2 or 40 that often for it to become a trouble. When’s the last time you’ve actually needed to know the players’ tool proficiencies? You know the rogue can pick a lock and the bard can play a lute. If they have something more outlandish, they’ll let you know.
Are you running games with 6+ players?
No, because my experience tells me too large groups lead to singular players having their time in the limelight so infrequently boredom is practically assured. Even then, a table with 6 or even 10 colums is barely wider than one with 3. Like literally, go boot up Excel, paste the skill names on the left column and you’ll see very quickly that it’d all easily fit on one sheet of paper. The numbers don’t take up much space horizontally.
Noticing that the Rogue has been doing very well on thieves tools checks and thus not making them roll to pick a lock is a clear example of the possible ways DM bias can occur, since another character (let’s say a Wizard with History expertise) with a skill bonus that’s just as high that hasn’t come up as much won’t get that same benefit.
This is silly. The solution to this is to take note of the wizard’s specialties too, not to punish the rogue with having them roll pointless rolls. Your characters are not going to have that many outlandishly high scores that you couldn’t just round up these outliers and make a note of them. From all of my experience with 5e and various DMs and DMing myself, most DMs make their players roll way too many damn pointless rolls. People forget the old rule of thumb that says that you should not roll unless both success and failure are possible and both provide a meaningful outcome that carries the story forwards. If the characters are not under time pressure and they can retry endlessly, just let them have it without a roll. The rolls will feel far more suspenseful when 90% of them aren’t wasted on meaningless drudgery.
That all said, if you have auto crit fails on 1s, why are you not asking for rolls all the time, anyway?
You have it backwards. You should not be asking for rolls constantly because 1 always fails, you should only ever be rolling checks if 1 can fail! If 1 can’t fail (or 20 succeed) you just don’t roll. It’s that simple. When’s the last time you missed your mouth when trying to eat a sandwich? Doubt that’s happened to you any time recently. Similarly, don’t ask for rolls on trivial things. You don’t roll to get out of bed, you don’t roll to climb a set of stairs, you don’t roll to not choke while drinking. Accept that the player characters are good at what they do. A pro does not fail a trivial task 5% of the time, so don’t use a die to force them to. The rogue has picked locks his whole life and picking one is trivial for him, unless there is a specific circumstance that makes it otherwise, like time pressure, risk of getting caught or a particularly difficult lock.
4d8 + cantrip, other spell or even melee attack every turn is still considerably more damage than 1d8+5 per turn, whether they do that for one, two, three, …, or ten turns. We are comparing damage per turn, the number of turns is irrelevant.
At this point you have yet to make one cogent claim on the subject so I’m going to assume you’re trolling on purpose and will not engage you further. Have a good day, sir.
I really wish they went over the weapons for the next edition and made sure that at the very least there were no weapons that were objectively worse than another. Might want to just homogenize the weapons under some handful of archetypes that have some legitimate advantages over each other.
I once played a cleric worshipping Loviatar so thematically I made him use whips as his weapon of choice. Roleplay-wise I loved it, gameplay-wise 1d4 damage is ass and reach allowing me to mostly harmlessly tickle the enemies from very slightly farther away is absolutely useless 99% of the time.
“bottled spells”
“Bottled spells” that don’t recharge on a long rest but instead cost an arm and a leg and heal for a pittance, basically ensuring that in the time that it takes to gulp one down you’ve already taken twice as much damage than what it’ll heal. I guess I get the idea but RAW, the potions are just awful outside of last resort to bring up downed characters (and that’s assuming your GM has no problems making an unconscious character forcibly drink them).
The DM doesn’t necessarily have your modifiers memorized and asking what they are every time slows down play.
Pen and paper or even a tablet exist for a reason. Having the key stats of your player characters stuck up to your GM screen or open on your second monitor is about the best use of space there is.
Besides, it doesn’t take much brain power to put together that making the rogue who’s been making short work of locks the past month roll for a simple lock under no time pressure is just silly. I get if an AL GM doesn’t know the characters but for majority of weekly groups’ GMs this is an absolute non-issue.
Ultimately if 1 will not fail or 20 will not succeed, why are you even rolling? While there is no default automatic success/failure rule, it’s a natural assumption that 1 and 20 are automatic fail and success based on the fact that the roll is pointless otherwise.
I know the spell. I told you. Two attacks with a longsword from one hand will do more damage than that.
4d8 for ten turns is on average 180 damage. For one bonus action, total. Two one-handed longsword attacks even at +5 assuming you never miss is 19 damage average. If they want to keep doing that they will have to expend their action every single turn. I have no clue why you assume the wizard is going to just take a coffee break after applying heat metal instead of using their actions to deal further damage every turn it’s active. The wizard wins out massively.
I have no idea what you’re smoking but I want some too.
The player characters are generally adventurers fated to achieve greatness, for them the extraordinary is just ordinary.
Yeah, it’s depressing how much of wasted potential the criterion dungeons are. They fill a nice niche of 4 player hard content and being generally somewhere between extreme and savage, but the fact that the rewards are garbage mean most raiders aren’t ever going back in after their first clear solely for the experience. All content sorely needs rewards to bring people back in to keep it alive and criterion dungeons are doing the absolute worst of all content except maybe rival wings.
This is definitely interesting and I look forward to see how it plays.
At the same time, I remain slightly skeptical, as big brand name tie-in products often tend to be less than stellar. It takes a lot of effort, testing and polishing to put out at truly good TTRPG system and it’s not easy even for big companies that are dedicated to the industry. I’d love to see this succeed and continue to get extra material in the future, but at same time I’ve seen one too many fail trying to do things like this.
Brings to mind the Dark Souls TTRPG book built on top of D&D 5e, which was a thick tome absolutely chock full of gorgeus art and just as full of baffling, contradictory and clearly not at all playtested rules. Such a shame.
People tend to not realize how often something is going to be happening with a one in twenty chance and that you are going to be rolling your basic attack roll a gazillion times per session. When you start rolling the dice, making attacks every turn, that is going to come up very often. In fact, statistically this rule would mean that your character would be carrying on average ~13½ arrows. By the time you’ve rolled 14 times it’s more likely that there was at least one 1 in there than not. With multiple attacks per turn that’s going to happen infuriatingly often.
The way a party is going to be adjusting to a backstabbing murderhobo is to throw them out of the party at the earliest convenience. It’s the only realistic outcome. If you want your character to be a part of the party, it’s your job to come up with a backstory and personality that makes them willing to work with the party, not the others’.
The reason all of this is skipped on a meta level is that most people want to get to the actual adventuring instead of trying to figure out one good reason why they’d ever keep someone’s unique evil snowflake in tow.
If theres going to be a party then the players are responsible for coming up with a justification why their character would agree to work together with the rest of the party. I will always welcome even evil characters if and only if their player can actually show that they are capable of the necessary teamwork. The evil guy helping good guys begrudginly because they get something out of it is a classic trope and that’s all fine.
Meanwhile, if your alignment is the classic Chaotic Stupid and you go full murderhobo and backstabber, why would the rest of the part ever tolerate that? They’ll turn up face downwards in the nearest ditch and the player can try coming up with a new character that actually wants to be in the party.
Sure, but the equivalent here would be stealing the cars from your family. Just no.
I’ve hung around in IRC with some people that distribute pirate copies of anime series, do fansubs and better video encodes, etc. While obviously I never met them face to face, the things they’d discuss seemed just normal everyday things a computer savvy guy with slightly too much free time on their hands would talk about. I too am pretty confident the worst thing you’d find locked upped in their basements would be some pervy manga volumes, not people in chains. Not like I could know for sure, but still…
Another point is most of the time they’ll tell you they’re either doing it out of their own pocket or barely scraping by paying server rent from donations. Even if they were lying I fail to see what financial incentive would organized crime have in doing digital piracy. People aren’t paying for the P2P downloads they provide.