This is my gaming circle minus my ACKS players. I am such an asshole. Since they're in the big city now, the players really wanted to know if there were any magic weapons for sale. ACKS ain't 3e or 4e though. There is exactly one magic weapon for sale. I rolled randomly to see what it was and... ...it's a cursed -2 sword. So I told the players there's a weapons dealer/fence who's looking to get rid of a magic sword he's gotten ahold of...cheap. Only 6,000gp when usually a +1 item would be 10,000gp. So far they are not suspicious. They're going to be so pissed at me. I can barely contain my excitement.
You're totally right.
ReplyDeleteOr reserve Advantage for situational stuff, and use the proficiency add for anything that fits your character's idiom.
Yep. There are a lot of things you could ditch in 5E that haven't been for legacy reasons. Like ability scores, which haven't meant much since 2E.
ReplyDeleteI like ability scores in 5th, because they make hand DC's for making checks against.
ReplyDeleteEditted to add proficiency bonus.
ReplyDeleteI was looking for a simple character sheet last night since I'm running a 5e one-shot for a group including newbs. That made me think of what I could ditch.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be a bit tougher when it comes to some of the Bard stuff who gets stuff like proficiency bonuses to non-skills at half or whatever but yeah probably.
ReplyDeleteGood point. Probably better idea if you're just using Basic, which I will be for this one-shot.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't the DMG have this as a option? Add Prof. ability checks. Each class has two ability its prof in
ReplyDeleteNathan Panke save profs, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteNo, ability checks Benjamin Baugh
ReplyDeletePg. 263 of the DMG
Come on. Nobody reads the DMG.
ReplyDeleteNathan Panke
ReplyDeleteno, I meant prof on the same ability checks as you have save proficiency for.
Honestly, the only thing I flipped to in the DMG was the "make a monster" page.
ReplyDeleteThey look different at a glance
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