WoD is built around actually engaging tho. Like, i have spent almost an entire 4 hour session on a lecture and then debate on the fundamentals of reality as a mage. Not even the good(-ish) dnds encourage you to stop and think about anything but the next combat.
Most recently I’ve been converting high ranking demons to the side of good through kindness and a +50 (give or take at any moment) to persuasion.
Eh, not in 5e. The dice are the only thing that matters there
All five rules? Wild, we gotta strip those out for 6e
Need a mage movie where it’s just 5 people arguing that the others cannot exist in a functional universe and the only truth is their own.
Bringing the holy light of Desna to this dark place i see
I mean, i haven’t tried creating a party to kill Lucifer, but with only 38 touch ac and 3d6+28 damage on his Trident, i probably could. His saves are only in the 30s too. I’ve definitely got some ideas, if we include mythic then i think i could make an oracle that makes everyone immortal.
I was gonna suggest he’d play Pathfinder, but actually i think he’d talk about playing Pathfinder before going to a 5e game and doing exactly what you said
Big cats have hunting instincts that are hard to turn off even if they like you (see: any news story of a big cat eating their owner), humans have instincts relating to forming communities. every single species has some instincts they follow and they aren’t the same as ours, they’ll deeply shape how a species’ cultures/morals/etc develop. Just saying goblins are little green humans is deeply boring and hurts world building.
I came in one day, told my players this game sucks and everyone immediately started searching for their own game of choice, never looking back at 5e. we’ve settled on WoD as the game we go to, but we’ve got a Pathfinder and starfinder game going, we’ve played cyberpunk RED, shadowrun, cthulhutech, the witcher rpg, besm, exalted, CoD, wrath & glory, and we’re planning a final fantasy d20 game. It’s down right sad that some people won’t move on from 5e tbh.
I’ve come to fear most people are idiots, seems even addition can confuse the average person.
It’s one of the hardest to learn, imo. 5e is very inconsistent and has a lot of rules even if they suck. Heck, if i had more confidence in wotc I’d say they deliberately designed 5e to make people feel this way, Pathfinder is far more consistent and WoD takes all of five minutes to learn how to play!
I could cast heal on the warrior, but i could instead cast elemental assessor on the demon cultist.
Paizo ain’t wizards, they give you lots of information about how to run a game, even down to the general amount of money they should have or the amount of events they should fight in a day.
The experience can be useful for a type of campaign you haven’t run before i suppose, I’m doing sevenfold conspiracy and it has lots advice on running an investigatory whodunit. Although i wouldn’t look to the paths for hard balancing advice, the wrath game I’m in is exceptionally easy (until it suddenly isn’t) and the game I’m running is pretty easy too (but it’s not based around combat).
It’s a very simple matter 2 and maybe mind 3 effect, for simple commands and routines. No ghosts involved!
Everyone knows a bite attack’s damage is just strength + successes rolled lethal damage. Agg if you are some kinda freak.
Wizards really doesn’t care about anything they’ve actually done well. Their mostly abandoned settings are by far their best, the forgotten realms (and the sword coast specifically) are barely even mid.
Fighting an archmage of the akashic brotherhood. Or an exalt. Either way, that’s death coming at you.
But they’re not from hell!