Quickly – why focus on combat for my character study? Also quickly: because every D&D game I’ve played in has featured or focused on combat. It’s a staple of the genre, and has been since I started playing in the early 1980s. It’s not the end-all/be-all of RPGing, of course. Traps and other skill-based or…
I’ve written quite a bit on Paladins before: Have I been playing my paladin wrong? Spell Choices for the 4th-level paladin Mark Bludiell – 5e Paladin This time, though, and with the different rolls I am using for the exercise in comparative offensive ability, I decided to go a slightly different way. The key attributes…
I got to thinking: How did the Standard Array come about? I figured they did some sort of simulation. Take 4d6, drop lowest, sort them in order, and take the mean, median, or mode of each row. I wondered, though – what that would look like, and how much variation would there be. I mean,…