Here there be dragons
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This is exactly what I mean. The stairs thing seems to be a common joke.
โRoll to ascend the stairs.โ was a common joke in our group.
I remember all the spells being overly specific to the point of uselessness. โYou can conjure a cat. Itโs just a regular cat and will probably flee from you. You can do this once a month and it costs a billion dollars.โ
DSA (aka The Dark Eye, as itโs 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.
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โDragons? Even less so!โ
โWhat if there are gryphons?โ
โNow youโve got my interest.โ
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โDragons? Even less so!โ
โWhat if there are gryphons?โ
โNow youโve got my interest.โ
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Gotta use trigonometry to accurately calculate the distance to flying enemies
Plus all the other sweeties that the great old one warlock attracts from other dimensions.
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I like live imorov, and dragons, but not math. Thatโs why Iโm a bard.
I like math and dragons, but hate live improv, do Iโm playing Baldurs Gate.
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There are rpgs with little/no math.
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