Bounded accuracy

[bestialwarlust]

Sounds like they finally realize the number inflation is getting out of hand. And Almost sounds like static AC is making somewhat of a comeback

www.wizards.com/dnd/article.aspx?x=dnd/4ll/20120604

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This paragraph amused me:

It opens up new possibilities of encounter and adventure design. A 1st-level character might not fight the black dragon plaguing the town in a face-to-face fight and expect to survive. But if they rally the town to their side, outfit the guards with bows and arrows, and whittle the dragon down with dozens of attacks instead of only four or five, the possibilities grow. With the bounded accuracy system, lower-level creatures banding together can erode a higher-level creature's hit points, which cuts both ways; now, fights involving hordes of orcs against the higher-level party can be threatening using only the basic orc stat block, and the city militia can still battle against the fire giants rampaging at the gates without having to inflate the statistics of the city guards to make that possible.

...talking as if this is a new and novel idea. Perhaps they finally "get it", will chuck out the idea of balanced encounters and encounter levels, and OD&D's number appearing will make sense to them instead of being a subject of ridicule.

[bestialwarlust]

Sept 2, 2012 15:49:17 GMT -6 @austrodavicus said:

This paragraph amused me:

It opens up new possibilities of encounter and adventure design. A 1st-level character might not fight the black dragon plaguing the town in a face-to-face fight and expect to survive. But if they rally the town to their side, outfit the guards with bows and arrows, and whittle the dragon down with dozens of attacks instead of only four or five, the possibilities grow. With the bounded accuracy system, lower-level creatures banding together can erode a higher-level creature's hit points, which cuts both ways; now, fights involving hordes of orcs against the higher-level party can be threatening using only the basic orc stat block, and the city militia can still battle against the fire giants rampaging at the gates without having to inflate the statistics of the city guards to make that possible.

...talking as if this is a new and novel idea. Perhaps they finally "get it", will chuck out the idea of balanced encounters and encounter levels, and OD&D's number appearing will make sense to them instead of being a subject of ridicule.

Yeah I found that funny also. I remains to be seen if they will realize that there was a reason for it.

[cooper]

I think WotC realized that Bethesda studios is a better game company to mimic than Blizzard.