Are you 8?

I thought it was funny, to be fair

DSA (aka The Dark Eye, as it’s international release is called) does tend towards a low power level so magic is severely limited compared to e.g. D&D. You can throw fireballs but not as frequently. High-level magic can take days to recover from. I have my own criticisms of how the magic system works but it does work if you accept that a high-level TDE caster is at a lower power level than a mid-level D&D caster. The overall complexity was insane in the 4th edition; 5th ed did a lot to fix that. There are still a lot of skills but it actually feels manageable now. I actually like that the system can model mundane professions; it can be pretty cool to play a regular person who gets forced into adventure but is still competent at something, even if that something is not generally applicable to adventuring.

I just passed a LARP group in a park near my place. Three had to be forty people gathered in a picnic area comparing their costumes

I believe the cult was evil, not the party neccesarily.

I feel like this is relevant lol. [image: a86fab9c-71da-4f47-972d-0e941a760c59.png] But know what? I’m glad we’re in a world where fantasy authors can be cringe sometimes. Not every idea hits, and sometimes like this it’s downright gross and I don’t like it, but I’m glad they are free to give bad ideas a try, because in the end it really is whatever we want it to be. We can take what we like, and leave what’s better left.

This is why I try to play in fantasy settings. To escape the real world. lol

I did this with d6. I am a master at rolling low, cursed you may say but if I pick up a 1 the chance of rolling another one is lower. Or at least in my mind and memory.

Oh, so a normal 3 to 11 campaign…

Personally, I generally dislike puzzles in RPGs. My character has 20 intelligence. In real life I’m rocking at best 12. I am not going to make the intuitive leaps to solve this cipher like my character would. You’re not asking the fighter to demonstrate a shield bash or the rogue to pick a lock. Riddles and puzzles aren’t nearly as interesting as explained choices, anyway. Do you take the Sword of Rivers from the tomb, fighting the guardian and potentially causing drought and famine in the region? You’ve been told it’s the only thing that can stop the Fire Elemental Incursion back home. Much more interesting than trying to figure out what a poem means or a sliding block puzzle, to me.

The the theoretical problem just solved itself. Neat. Thanks.

For a PC? Probably not, though it is an ancestory feat and those tend to be fairly weak. For an NPC social rogue sent to annoy the players? Absolutely!

OP has a history of making Trek related committee and is in a build phase again.

They do include them, but I only use backgrounds as ways to pad out the mechanics and that choice is heavily influenced by the background I’ve already created. My current character is using the custom option because none of the backgrounds really fit.

Aww dammit it’s Auntie Ethel again!

Is it nut cake or is it nut cake?

Buddy we’re playing adventurers who are by their nature main characters. We can’t Dues-ex everything but we can know things. Also who’s to say we’re city dwellers? Both my last characters lived well outside city limits. And when you live in a world with actual trolls you don’t think their children’s stories would have key information like that? How many of our own children’s stories include warnings? How many myths and legends? Hell the bible likely said to not eat pig because it made people sick and everyone thought it was some will of god shit so they stayed away. If I made a player roll for it, say their character really probably wouldn’t know, then I’d make that shit a DC 5. Like, “everyone else knows it but you missed that lesson, sorry.” Making characters stupid for “realism” based in a misunderstanding of how either world works is just boring for nothing.

If bg3 is any indication there’s nothing wrong with an owlbear druid in a party that doesn’t otherwise have a tank FTFY 🥰

i’ll be honest i’ve never played dnd, and i’ve heard most people who do just kinda do whatever without thinking about the rules, so i’d guess no

wizard: i cast firebolt