Some stuff I found interesting to read this week.
Why Magic Users Suck at Fighting. In general, I think is a perfectly reasonable explanation. It's hard to do two hard things well without a large time investment in each. The dedicated fighter and the dedicated magic-user should be more effective in their niche than a person who does both equally, given the same constraints of time, resources, etc.
OLD DM TRICK #3 - I don't know, this doesn't seem like it would work, especially if anyone maps or the party spreads out a bit.
Of Periwigs and Pallid Masks - while pre-1776 colonial America seems like an interesting place for a Call of Cthulhu campaign . . . all you get is early pre-1776 divisions and violence and political splits. That might help give players a hook, but I don't think you get to have colonial America without all of the politics that made it a rebellion. It's not like one thing happened, simplified text in school textbooks aside, that suddenly made it all explode. Still, given a group of players with a similar interest in history, it could be interesting.
Sharp Practice: The Relief of Dojjibotti! - I love minis, and I love Indian Mutiny mini battles. They're so visually interesting and the conflict is both messy and easy to understand.
"Why Magic Users Suck at Fighting."
ReplyDeleteI mean it's always been kinda obvious to me, even in the face of "Gish builds or Elven Fighter/Mages" that you can't be great at being a scholar/mage and a fighter at the same time. Sure Dolph Lundgren* exists, but he's the exception that proves the rule. Most adventurers are going to optimize, specialize a bit.
GURPS //allows// you to spread out your skills, but play often rewards a party of semi-specilists, where everyone has a primary "speciality", and a couple of secondary utility areas they can "kinda fill for" if the primary specialist goes down.
* Chemist, martial artist, actor, millionaire, businessman, knows multiple languages. Sure there are other polymaths in the industry, like Arnold Swarzenegger (businessman, bodybuilder, actor, politician, multi lingual), but I like pointing out Dolph because he's not as not as famous.
That was me (evileeyore) above and me (evileeyore) here as well. Stupid blogger is still having problems with logging me in for commenting even if it claims it's done so, even on Firefox...
Delete*le sigh*