The sneaking, stalking, backstab, trap finding, tracking and various thief abilities all work great. But the whole bow thing is kinda weird. Smells like an Assassin or Ninja to me As for the bow thing, it kinda makes more sense with shortbows and small throwing weapons (daggers, darts, stars), weap...

A Ranger has a different purpose, being the "fighter of the woods" rather than the "thief of the woods." Just because you'd rather play a Ranger doesn't mean that's true of everyone... the guy I have playtesting the Scout in my online game really wanted to play this kind of char...

Here's my nickels worth of free advice: The Scout is redundant. I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing. But to me I would rather just play a Ranger. I would personally allow Ranger characters an option to either be a Bow expert or Two weapon combat expert.

I can see these sorts of changes. And it fits within my basic design concept. My original idea was to make a reasonable "thief" option viable for races/situations that seem otherwise ill-suited for pure stealth type thieves. After all, lots of ways for thievery to occur... smash and grab,...

The Assassin was always a more combat focused thief. It was better at fighting than the thief but worse at thievery or, as with your thug, has less skills. I see the thief as an opportunist focused on dungeoneering while the Assassin is your stealth expert focused on killing. So I would simply allow...

I really like the Thug subclass you have. This is what the Assassin class should've been but maybe with an enhanced backstab or something. Nice work.

Ranged Attacks (weapon attacks) go first (players and monsters). Everything else goes second (players and monsters). So mutual knockouts are always a possibility. Let me just make sure I understand you as a question or two came to mind: Each side rolls a d6. Let's say players win. Now any player wi...

elmarcotote123 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:30 pm Ranged Attacks (weapon attacks) go first (players and monsters). Everything else goes second (players and monsters). So mutual knockouts are always a possibility.

Nice. Super simple.

Personalized OSR-Esque game here, but I absolutely dig either group initiative or no initiative whatsoever (ranged attacks first, everything else second, so if you move and then shoot, you get lumped in with everything else). Having to go step by step is a chore and only adds nothing but padding to...

Well one thing I'm finding though is in small fights or fights against one opponent, individual initiative heavily favors the party.