New Posts For Thread: A suggestion for "theoretical" playtestershttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29505931/A_suggestion_for_theoretical_playtestersHello there folks!Like most here, I'm a fellow playtester of Dungeons & Dragons Next. I don't usually post much, but I lurk a lot around these forums. Recently, I've been reading some things that I think should be debated by the community.I'm talkingI think that analysis is pretty fair, except this last point. It's not that later options are always mechanically stronger than previous options but that they are mechanically different. For much of 4e few books actually surpassed the first PHB's opthttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29505931/A_suggestion_for_theoretical_playtesters?post_id=526383199#526383199I think that analysis is pretty fair, except this last point. It's not that later options are always mechanically stronger than previous options but that they are mechanically different. For much of 4e few books actually surpassed the first PHB's optMon, 26 Nov 2012 12:44:11 -0600I think that analysis is pretty fair, except this last point. It's not that later options are always mechanically stronger than previous options but that they are mechanically different. For much of 4e few books actually surpassed the first PHB's opthttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29505931/A_suggestion_for_theoretical_playtesters?post_id=526379927#526379927I think that analysis is pretty fair, except this last point. It's not that later options are always mechanically stronger than previous options but that they are mechanically different. For much of 4e few books actually surpassed the first PHB's optMon, 26 Nov 2012 10:16:22 -0600I've been a big fan of the straight ability score check ever since 3.0 came out, more or less because the difference between strength 6 and strength 16 is a flat +10 on the d20 roll. That feels about right, and creates a nice range of DCs where thehttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29505931/A_suggestion_for_theoretical_playtesters?post_id=526370885#526370885I've been a big fan of the straight ability score check ever since 3.0 came out, more or less because the difference between strength 6 and strength 16 is a flat +10 on the d20 roll. That feels about right, and creates a nice range of DCs where theSun, 25 Nov 2012 22:54:31 -0600I have become a convert of this idea, though what if most actions used 2 attributes (in effect getting that same kind of reange) and each added there mod... so that only a rare case like brute use would use the attribute itself.http://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29505931/A_suggestion_for_theoretical_playtesters?post_id=526370803#526370803I have become a convert of this idea, though what if most actions used 2 attributes (in effect getting that same kind of reange) and each added there mod... so that only a rare case like brute use would use the attribute itself.Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:42:27 -0600I've been a big fan of the straight ability score check ever since 3.0 came out, more or less because the difference between strength 6 and strength 16 is a flat +10 on the d20 roll. That feels about right, and creates a nice range of DCs where thehttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29505931/A_suggestion_for_theoretical_playtesters?post_id=526370301#526370301I've been a big fan of the straight ability score check ever since 3.0 came out, more or less because the difference between strength 6 and strength 16 is a flat +10 on the d20 roll. That feels about right, and creates a nice range of DCs where theSun, 25 Nov 2012 21:42:03 -0600