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Very cool review I used to use pine candles to set atmosphere back around 2010.

It's easier to take risks when death isn't the only consequence with weight. I like the different defeat states that fantasy age plays with. Similarly, in Fate, when things go really bad, you can just concede the scene and leave to lick your wounds. Much easier to play stories of high risk in those games then in death-oriented ones.

Can't have too many kinds of dragons.

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I'm pretty neurotic in real life, so I do hesitate and plan a lot. :-D I think planning paralysis is definitely something that can ruin the pace of a game. However, that doesn't mean that taking needless risks is always the best alternative; sometimes spur-of-the-moment risk-taking leads to PC death, or to other undesirable outcomes.

Smart risk taking...it means being smart regarding taking risks. Analyzing options, consider possible consequences and how the risk relates to the ultimate goal of the game. Random and chaotic behavior is seldom smart, just risky...and potentially spoils the enjoyment of others. Cheers!

I feel like your Folk Hero player was inspired by Dragon's Lair... LOL! I typically play "Chaotic Good" in the old school sense...and I love playing the Chaotic Stratagist... think, the Time-Hijinks in a Bill & Ted movie. Thats my chaos! :D LOL

My brother and niece are over cautious players and yet they still have died with every campaign due to their choices and dice rolls. 😂 So many times I wished they'd take the riskier option. They might have survived or still died but would have been more exciting.

I’m in a party now that has a cleric of risk, he flips a coin sometimes to decide what to do. Usually not what my cowardly bard wants to do.

I would love to hear your take / review on The Game Master’s Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying.

Mark would be a cool feature on an magic melee weapon 😮

First video I’ve seen where someone took the time to pull all of these together. Immediate subscribe.

We tried these out, and I agree with your take on most of these. Most of them didn't really stick but still occasionally came up. The one we now avoid is flanking, as every attack turned into flanking and felt stifling. If there is a sincere effort to flank - or any formation is made, a bonus or advantage of some kind may occur.

These rules make D&D sound cringe as hell

I use side initiative when I don't have VTT support and just have the players act first unless they were caught by surprise. It is specially helpful when you have that one indecisive player that takes several minutes to decide on their action.

Its funny, because to me the flanking rule removes a lot of creativity in setting up ways to get advantage, and so I don't like playing with it. Cleaving through creatures has a place, but I'd rather give that as a bonus from something else. Speed Factor kinda has a, you should feel like things become unavailable in combat, kinda feel to it. I think it has a place in some styles of games, but it doesn't work HOW I want it to work, so I agree with it being low. Side Initiative is kinda what my game gets to at high level, so I'm at a point in the campaign that I wouldn't mind swapping to this, so that way I might have a chance at having the monsters go first.

I was hoping to see Grid Combat, on a technicality so that people who think it is a default rule could be laughed at. Hahahahahahaha. Jk.... I actually used Injuries as a chance to occur if someone comes back with failed death saving throws, to make the healers not play as if healing someone at 0 hit points is an okay thing to wait for and allow people to pogo stick up and down.

I realize this was a review of actual written rules, but I've found all variants of initiative to be troublesome in some way. So fo initiative, I use a hybrid (homebrew) system of side initiative for enemies and individual initiative for players. Also, I don't use Flanking. I was surprised to see it ranked S tier. If gaining advantage wasn't already dead easy to achieve, then maybe I'd implement it. The problem with Flanking is that it requires a substantial change to Monster stat blocks. As a DM you have to decide whether it can be flanked or not as that info isn't given. In 3.x, flanking was almost always possible...so if it is nearly a constant effect, why even have it? I think that was the reasoning behind making it optional in 5e.

Dark City. Obviously now, The Matrix. Blade Runner. Total Recall. There's another Philip K. Dick one, not The Adjustment Bureau but one with Keanu Reeves.

Flanking is good, but I agree with an old taking 20 video that giving advantage steps on too many unique abilities since it is soo easy to flank (i.e. the barbarian reckless attack becomes useless). Our group uses a +1 for flanking in our 5e games. Nice video!

Disagree on speed factor. If I was speedy and someone was winding up a punch, I wouldn't just stand there and let him hit me, I would use my speed to move out of the way. The defender uses his turn to take avoiding action & yes, the attacker's move is foiled. Makes perfect sense to me. But then there are many mechanics / setting / presentation reasons why I don't play D&D so I'm not the person this vid is aimed at :)

You didn't do Spell Points?

That speed factor rule is basically how it worked in AD&D and AD&D 2nd ed (if I am remembering correctly) and you are exactly right on all the ways it can go badly

We've got a new edition that will be out in 3 months and were discussing option rules in the current edition?

You did not cover most of the fun optional rules: mana points, gritty healing rates, hero points...

initiative is a bumpy subject in most ttrpgs, we use 1D6, 1-3 the pc gets to attack, 4-6 the pc has to defend, can be done with each player individually or as a group. this is because our combat system is a wee bit different but works for our game.

Side Initiative is okay for speed bump encounters. Those lone 3 goblins vs 6 Tier 2 PCs.

I think it's wild how many codified rules 5e actually has, but people just don't know about them either because they've never read the DMG, or because they've not found them within the DMG because it's layout is a trainwreck. I won't be surprised if the upcoming books fix the layout issues people will start claiming the game got "better" and there's all these new rules in the game that have actually been here since 2014 but no one noticed them in the first DMG because of how poorly it's organized 🤣 About the only ranking from your list I didn't agree with was Flanking, just because there are so many other opportunities to get ADV, and so many abilities key off it, I find giving ADV for flanking to be too strong (especially if you run a more high magic game with a decent chunk of magic items). I've had a lot of fun with climbing onto bigger creatures in the past though, a lot of my players like playing small characters so they love getting up on the huge monsters.

Nice video I’ve seen or used most of these rules but not necessarily in 5e, some carry over from 1e

I think I may be scarred from my 3.5 days with Flanking. I don't like to use it in my games. I also find that combat is so weighted towards the PCs anyway that it is an unnecessary buff.

Like you said, if I were streaming a months-long campaign of PF, this is a no brainer. But I can't even manage to get a group together to play 😂

Sounds to abstract for my tastes. Thanks for the review.

I have been running Numenera and a handful of oneshots over the last few months. I have to say the fact that we don't have to go to the book at the table is delightful. All of the player abilities fit easily on a character sheet, and I have a few cheat sheets for the players that cover the core mechanics.

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Back in 1E I told players to give me a good character first and worry about alignment about fourth or fifth thing on how you play. And the alignment chart devolved into what you stated lawful good occasionally chaotic. Always and Never is a good idea. Especially if the class should have a code. And it up to player and DM to come with a code, and the penalties for not following it. Ex paladin’s war horse will not allow you to ride until you make amends for being naughty. Question are you associated with brand role 4 initiative dry erase dungeon tiles.

Wouldn't it be nice to think that your copy of Pathfinder was stolen by some light fingered homeless guy. They then sat down and read it and it changed their life. Now under the bridge every evening there are a bunch of homeless people playing Pathfinder.

I've never tried it but it does sound like fun. The shenanigans you could get into with an all druid or bard party.... For some reason I'm imagining Woodstock right now 😂 I think that an all fighter/barbarian game could be fun for a oneshot/twoshot, but maybe not a longer campaign. Thank you for the video! 😄

This can definitely be fun. One of my all time favorite games is Ars Magica, where everyone plays a wizard. Those wizards are profoundly different, though. I tend to play classless systems, like Basic Roleplaying, where it can be a bit easier to do something like this, because you simply focus on skills that work, while building characters around a central theme, like "a mercenary corps," "a thieves guild," or "investigating scholars." You might all play "thieves/rogues," but you could have someone who specializes in lying & persuasion skills, another who might be great at sneaking & climbing, and another who might be a fantastic assassin. Heck, you might even have one who is a magic caster.

What Cypher strongly suggest is not having repeating foci, and a focus is more equivalent to a subclass in 5e terms than to a class. In Cypher is not only fine but expected to have multiple characters of the same type (the equivalent of 5e class)

I dunno what campaigns would be appropriate, but I've thought playing all psyionics sounds sooooo much fun

Haven't played an "All Class" party, but currently in an "All Dwarf" game... Our unofficial theme songs frequently come from Wind Rose...and Yogscast! "♪ I am a dwarf and Im digging a hole! Diggy, diggy hole... Diggy, diggy hole! ♪"

For an all martials game (all fighters, all barbarians, all rangers etc.) it would be an absolute must to start when everyone gets their subclass.

I’ve always wanted to play a one shot with all one class

My wife always provides the Texan if she GMs but I can not be bothered to recap the last session. In my opinion that’s something the players have to do. GMs already have so many responsibilities 😁 We always start after exactly 15 minutes after everyone arrives. If that’s not happening the music kicks in and everybody knows it’s time to get rolling.

How has the campaign been???

I think the pie eating contest idea could be converted into a drinking contest with people making increasingly difficult con save rolls every round 🤔

Keep in mind, introducing cuisine is world building gold

Pie eating contest just sounds like Wild Beyond the Witchlight.

I did a pie eating contest but it was just contested con saves with the DC being raised each round until someone failed. I really love the added aspect of different amounts with different DCs.