The way my current group decided on the naming convention, is to reverse the naming - the "Abominations" (powerful snake-like beings) are called Purebloods, and the "Purebloods" (human-like yuan-ti) are the Abominations. The way the names are right now, you'd think it's the other way around - where the Purebloods are the top tier and Abominations are the manual labor rejects. And what to call the hybrid middle tier - I don't care. I'm not offended by the term "half-breed" or...
View full commentThe way my current group decided on the naming convention, is to reverse the naming - the "Abominations" (powerful snake-like beings) are called Purebloods, and the "Purebloods" (human-like yuan-ti) are the Abominations.
The way the names are right now, you'd think it's the other way around - where the Purebloods are the top tier and Abominations are the manual labor rejects.
And what to call the hybrid middle tier - I don't care. I'm not offended by the term "half-breed" or "half-blood" - it makes sense to call them that, after all. If it bothers you so much that a fantasy being is called a certain way, that's more your own problem than the game's (as in, seeing offense in something where non need be found).
I always had the purebloods leading the yuan-ti. The abominations may have been the strongest and most alien, but they followed the commands purebloods. I think 4E got it right, when the anathema went made and were thrown down and imprisoned. I like this version of yuan-ti.
Roleplaying and adventuring is teamplay so other characters should have problem with ones that want to rest after 5mins of adventuring. Easiest irl examples for 5min workday are: You are doing a project... You are working... You are playing a team based sport... ...and have one person to join you who is really good at what you are doing, but she's such a primadonna or slacker that she'll only write really good A4/works for 5mins/gets score or two for your team and then...
View full commentRoleplaying and adventuring is teamplay so other characters should have problem with ones that want to rest after 5mins of adventuring.
Easiest irl examples for 5min workday are:
You are doing a project...
You are working...
You are playing a team based sport...
...and have one person to join you who is really good at what you are doing, but she's such a primadonna or slacker that she'll only write really good A4/works for 5mins/gets score or two for your team and then goes home.
Personally I would't want to continue playing sports/working/do projects/roleplay with that kind of person and would think that she's a jerk ^^'
I'm sure that my PCs would fire that kind of PCs from the party and offgame suggest that maybe the player souldn't play caster. Our long time wizard responded to me, when I told that other groups are having problems with 5min workdays, that this is a roleplaying not a computer game.
I'm not sure the goal here is actually to eliminate the five-minute work day. Character power levels have to be balanced around something. To me, Mearls' initiative seems to be an essential response to the challenge of the FMWD, in that it can come about irregardless of the number or strength of encounters the players undertake. By considering opponents' power levels over a universal measure which affects all characters, the day, he is attempting to minimize the effect of play style on...
View full commentI'm not sure the goal here is actually to eliminate the five-minute work day. Character power levels have to be balanced around something. To me, Mearls' initiative seems to be an essential response to the challenge of the FMWD, in that it can come about irregardless of the number or strength of encounters the players undertake. By considering opponents' power levels over a universal measure which affects all characters, the day, he is attempting to minimize the effect of play style on playability.
The way the names are right now, you'd think it's the other way around - where the Purebloods are the top tier and Abominations are the manual labor rejects.
And what to call the hybrid middle tier - I don't care. I'm not offended by the term "half-breed" or...
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