Mimir posted:

Yeah, it was a really weird experience when you were playing one - I don't know if it's the way you built yours or what, but it played like a Bard, but even more passive. There's flavor there, but it didn't actually congrue with how the class actually performed.

HomegrownHydra posted:

Jeezus, get a grip. I haven't seen anyone who played the most recent version say it was underpowered, while several have said it was effective and fun so I see no evidence that the monk was "nerfed". Merely being MAD does not make a class weak, the 3e Druid could have been MAD and still lorded over the martial characters. The 3e monk had more problems than just being MAD, so acting like that alone is a fatal flaw is unwarranted.

The rabid hatred directed at Jonathan for something that is ultimately a minor detail is ridiculous when he is instrumental in making the rest of the game so awesome.

Stallion Cabana posted:

Uh, just for that last thing, you realize it says 'Whenever'. Which include in that ability itself, which means that you can yes use Charisma for it?

PublicOpinion posted:

Here's what I used for an evil alternate version of the party in my game. A lot of the correspondence is more thematic than mechanical. Here's roughly how I did it:
' is mostly a thematic mirror of the party barbarian. She has the talent that gives an extra attack flavored as an animate mind construct, so ' also has a crew of weird psychic shades.
Party cleric has the domain that nullifies critical hits and really gives me trouble when a monster is supposed to get its threat from inflicting Vulnerable, so Julius ignores 1 critical hit per round. His melee attack's ancillary effect is a ripoff of Bless, which the party cleric uses, as is Damnation for Javelin of Faith.
Party paladin takes hits for everyone and yet somehow still hasn't died, so Hannah is supposed to be the trickiest to kill. She also has a Bastion-type effect, and a semi-mark effect to mirror the paladin. Party paladin uses an Inimical sword to weaponize his own high HP, so Hannah has a similar effect on her main attack.
Zede has two separate forms because the party bard got wholly restatted from a ranged bard to a melee bard during the middle of the campaign. The bard has the spell that swaps the positions of party members, so Zede gets a similar effect except as an attack. Party bard got a lot of use out of the spell that inflicts Confuse, so Omega Zede puts the shoe on the other foot except slightly less punishingly than requiring two saves and instead of having the HP threshold it targets the party member with the lowest HP. The monsters that go with Zede were designed because I wanted to have a fight that highly incentivized moving around every turn.
Gorge casts spells with her fists and the party sorceror is a spellfist whose signature moves are Chain Lighting and Breath of the Green.
Party rogue has a dozen ways to mitigate damage and uses Bleeding Strike by default, so Sumiya does either ongoing or gets a damage resistance with her main attack. Turning into a swarm of bats combines damage mitigation with the rogue's High Elf teleport.

The PCs never fought the evil party as a whole party since I wanted to give each of them some spotlight and was also worried about the pileup of gimmicks.

Mr. Maltose posted:

I'm amazed so many 3.5 players have schizophrenia because no actual human being has ever said that or anything like that.

01011001 posted:

Make smites impose a penalty on disengagement for one enemy and grant allies a bonus on disengagement against that enemy, for the rest of the battle - something unmistakable like -5/+5. Grant the damage scaling automatically and change the champion/epic feats to do something not lovely.

Stallion Cabana posted:

So I'm planning on running a 13th Age game soon, with only one major houserule.

3d6 instead of 1d20.

Does anyone have any experience with this? I realize this means flatting out the curve for things like Flexible attacks and the like, does anyone have like, off the top of their head, what a 16+ or an 18+ or something should be instead?

PublicOpinion posted:

The escalation die is going to go nuts. If you need an 11 to hit on round one, that's 50% for both 1d20 and 3d6. But round 2 3d6 hits 62.5% vs. d20's 55%, and then 74.1% vs. 60%, and then 83.8% vs. 65%, eventually topping out at 98.2% vs. 80%. God help you if the bard sings and the cleric blesses. Seems like all the encounter/monster building guidelines will be useless.

Stallion Cabana posted:

We don't have one. I usually run M&M or Exalted. I don't have a very wide breadth of systems that I know, and he wants to play 13th Age. At best maybe I could do Dungeon World, but that's iffy too. I was mostly hoping someone had some sort of quick fix for the line result problem, he's said he'll play it d20 if I want but otherwise isn't sure.

I'm guessing 2d10 would be just as bad, maybe, because that results in an inability to roll 1?

PublicOpinion posted:

It probably helps that my game has a Bastion paladin and a Community cleric, so a quarter of the time enemies will just not be able to crit and the rest of the time the paladin is around to eat half of any really murderous crits. One time none of those helped and we did have a PC dropped to negative half, but we ignored it and instead of dying the character was just infected with the monster's horrific parasites for a dungeon.

ProfessorCirno posted:

So, what are the popular houserules people use? Right now I'm considering the aforementioned "druids start with four talent points" and "monks choose either strength or dexterity for both attack and defense."

Sefer posted:

Yes it is; it has a higher minimum and higher average, even if it doesn't have a higher maximum. I'm pretty sure 1d12 advances to 2d6 in 4e, and I thought it did in 3.X as well, though I couldn't be sure at all about that.

Jackard posted:

But what are the Quirks.

PublicOpinion posted:

I'm not sure what bits were Djw's flavor and what was Ryven's substance but the Dilettante made her sword fly apart and encase a bad guy in a cage of whirling death and that was a rad moment.

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And also at one point she hit with a natural 2, but that might just be because Djw is a degenerate plusses scrounger and darn good at it.

potatocubed posted:

For the most part, yes, now that I think about it.

What about factions makes them more suitable?

MelvinBison posted:

To be honest, one shots feel kind of weird in 13th Age since it seems like there's no great way to use Icon rolls creatively. We didn't even roll for them last night. That said, I think most of the problem was I didn't think to bring magic items. Life of the Party was great and I recommend it.

PublicOpinion posted:

During a wrestling match in the afterlife, one of the PCs started a fight with a kobold in the audience and then compounded failures resulted in them being hoisted up by a mob of kobolds, tossed out of the ring and onto the unforgiving concrete floor, and then stomped on by every single kobold leaping off the top rope and onto their chest.

UrbanLabyrinth posted:

waderockett posted:

Rob acknowledged that this is an "oops" and said:

PublicOpinion posted:

Threw all the person-scale maps I've done in an imgur album. The style varies a bunch across them, only a few are in RPG perspective, and several have very specific uses. Most of them are 1750x1750, Roll20's default size, and the rest are 2800x2800, a 40x40 map in Roll20 with the default grid.

FirstPersonShitter posted:

Anyone got any opinions on how well balanced these barbarian talents are? I'm interested in a warp-spasmy type barbarian and the infernal mutation poo poo looks cool.

FirstPersonShitter posted:

Is there a good version of the fighter class around?