Vx. Princess "size_t queen" Grace 
if i were wizards of the coast, i would simply not put some instant kill grubs in my adventure for first level characters
by the way, the lowest-level spell that cures disease is a second-level cleric spell slot
or you could have your paladin (you have a god cop, right) burn their entire pool of lay on hands to cure one (1) grub infestation
if nothing else, this is really making me appreciate lancer more
lancer's rules are a lot more elegant, and the fact that it cleanly separates narrative rules from mech rules means that you can do things for flavor or because they fit the character without making you worse at combat
me: I wanna be a kobold bard
dnd 5e: alright. you're gonna be one step behind someone who took a different race
dnd 5e: alright. you're gonna be one step behind someone who took a different race
like, it sucks to just constantly be worse at what you wanna do because, uh, the jerks at Wizards of the Coast decided that you're genetically worse at your job
anyways, i'm still mad about wizards of the coast and their killer archers
each arrow can take almost your entire health bar. by the way, they fire twice
at least now I understand all those youtube videos like "here's a cool druid build you can do!" or "hey, did you know you can fuck shit up by summoning a bunch of raptors?" Like, you kinda have to do shit like that if you wanna survive.
I get that some folks really dig the whole "making the Absolutely Perfect Build" situation, but it's weird that this first level published adventure assumes that's what everyone's doing
I wonder how many people have been turned off of tabletop gaming in general by a combination of:
- thinking that dungeons and dragons is synonymous with tabletop RPGs because of years of cultural osmosis and Wizards marketing
- having an absolutely shitty first time where you drown in stats and numbers and get your ass kicked for your trouble by a DM who is at best playing the module as written and at worst is masturbating under the table as rot grubs eat your heart
Мерседес+Ванесса@BestGirlGrace the fact that everybody assumes you have to play either D&D or Pathfinder is what really pushed me away from trying to find games. Especially once I started really looking at other systems and went “oh, there are better design choices to make!”.
Like GURPS.
Vehicles 3rd Edition.
Because at least that explains why you’re doing the math.
@DissonantEevee Exactly. Like, I used to think I hated crunchy systems because of d&d and pathfinder. Then I played Lancer, which is crunchy, yes, but it's delightful! They did so much work to make combat smooth and minimize dice rolls, and it's fun!
There are so many better games out there that just nobody ever hears about because D&D is what tabletop RPGs are to most people.
@BestGirlGrace D&D has the wrong kind of crunchy, because they acted to hide the math and told you to guess about how to balance it.
I haven’t tried Lancer, but I love GURPS, Traveller, Mutants & Masterminds.
@DissonantEevee Yeah, that's the thing. Everything in D&D is this weird soup of numbers and values and text and CRs. They're afraid to pull back the curtain, but that just makes it worse because it's hard to tell if anything does anything. Is this spell good? Who the hell knows until you cast it!
Canageek (Roleplaying account)@BestGirlGrace OH GOD. Is it time for bad DM stories?
@Canageek I'm not gonna stop you.