META_mahn
2015-04-28, 05:52 PM
http://i.imgur.com/PjHlypNl.jpg
It all started with just one little notion that something about 5e was offsetting. I maybe have mistakenly pinned it on "Lack of a Tiefling Counterpart" but really that didn't explain it all. After that, it evolved to "game is too simple and casual" to "what's this BS all doing here it doesn't make sense" to "Screw it, I'm doing the divine duty of all theorycrafters and pretty much changing everything."
Now before you guys burn me at the stake, I'll continue on.
I kept going and read through stuff. It just seemed 5e was too...simple. It was really uninteractive now. All casting classes had some interaction, but my experience as a Rogue in 5e was literally like this (this session never existed, but all were pretty much like that)
DM: Four goblins come out of a cave to fight you. Barbarian, you got the highest initiative somehow. Go first.
BarbarianBro: I run up to them and bash their faces in. (rolls his 2d6 Greatsword: Hits for like oneshot kill Goblin)
DM: Okay, Meta. Now it's your turn.
Me: I stab a goblin.
DM: The goblin dies.
*skip to boss*
DM: It's your turn, Meta.
Me: I stab the boss.
*other turns with crazy spellcasting*
DM: It's your turn again, Meta.
Me: I stab the boss. The boss is dead.
DM: It is. (Sneak attack, please)
Me: I would like to fall asleep because of how boring Rogue is.
Which arguably could be solved by multiclassing...
But you know, that wasn't enough for me.
So as I looked deeper (originally with a biased view, later on not so much) I found out the tons of flaws 5e had. Especially how useless the Drow race looked to me.
I decided to give it a change. Instead of making "5e Homebrew" I decided to make "D&D 5.5e" in the form of a list of revisions. You had to have the PHB, and maybe the DMG, so WotC still gets their money. But I rebalanced (Rebalanced? More like stack d4's of damage) the races.
I started writing and saw how radical the ideas could be. Not wanting to back down (I should have been a Barbarian instead of a Rogue; that may have fit me a bit better for this) I instead kept going, raising up how insane the ideas were until...
It changed into something that looks like WotC published as a full changelog. It looked like some massive DOTA/LOL/WoW Changelog that just got published (in my head; the entire thing isn't done yet.)
I realized what I just made, and instead of killing it, decided to show it off to the world. Hopefully I won't have to be the one to kill it.
I am also a fan of small dice stacking up together to form big numbers rather than one really big dice. I prefer Attack Stability over Attack Power, as a d100 has a chance of giving you a 1 while the least you can get from 20d4 is a 20. 20>1.
Copyrights: All of this is non-profit. I do not plan on making any money off of this.
[WIP] Cover Art
http://i.imgur.com/VfekRdZ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xFwibScl.png
<INCOMPLETE> 0.0.1 Early Release: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7f2q14p96m96t7j/D%26D%205.5e%20Alpha%20Build%200.0.1%20%28Races%2C %20HP%2C%20Attack%20and%20Damage%29.pdf?dl=0
https://imgur.com/g4PHbUH.png
Version 0.0.1: Very early release.
It all started with just one little notion that something about 5e was offsetting. I maybe have mistakenly pinned it on "Lack of a Tiefling Counterpart" but really that didn't explain it all. After that, it evolved to "game is too simple and casual" to "what's this BS all doing here it doesn't make sense" to "Screw it, I'm doing the divine duty of all theorycrafters and pretty much changing everything."
Now before you guys burn me at the stake, I'll continue on.
I kept going and read through stuff. It just seemed 5e was too...simple. It was really uninteractive now. All casting classes had some interaction, but my experience as a Rogue in 5e was literally like this (this session never existed, but all were pretty much like that)
DM: Four goblins come out of a cave to fight you. Barbarian, you got the highest initiative somehow. Go first.
BarbarianBro: I run up to them and bash their faces in. (rolls his 2d6 Greatsword: Hits for like oneshot kill Goblin)
DM: Okay, Meta. Now it's your turn.
Me: I stab a goblin.
DM: The goblin dies.
*skip to boss*
DM: It's your turn, Meta.
Me: I stab the boss.
*other turns with crazy spellcasting*
DM: It's your turn again, Meta.
Me: I stab the boss. The boss is dead.
DM: It is. (Sneak attack, please)
Me: I would like to fall asleep because of how boring Rogue is.
Which arguably could be solved by multiclassing...
But you know, that wasn't enough for me.
So as I looked deeper (originally with a biased view, later on not so much) I found out the tons of flaws 5e had. Especially how useless the Drow race looked to me.
I decided to give it a change. Instead of making "5e Homebrew" I decided to make "D&D 5.5e" in the form of a list of revisions. You had to have the PHB, and maybe the DMG, so WotC still gets their money. But I rebalanced (Rebalanced? More like stack d4's of damage) the races.
I started writing and saw how radical the ideas could be. Not wanting to back down (I should have been a Barbarian instead of a Rogue; that may have fit me a bit better for this) I instead kept going, raising up how insane the ideas were until...
It changed into something that looks like WotC published as a full changelog. It looked like some massive DOTA/LOL/WoW Changelog that just got published (in my head; the entire thing isn't done yet.)
I realized what I just made, and instead of killing it, decided to show it off to the world. Hopefully I won't have to be the one to kill it.
I am also a fan of small dice stacking up together to form big numbers rather than one really big dice. I prefer Attack Stability over Attack Power, as a d100 has a chance of giving you a 1 while the least you can get from 20d4 is a 20. 20>1.
Copyrights: All of this is non-profit. I do not plan on making any money off of this.
[WIP] Cover Art
http://i.imgur.com/VfekRdZ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xFwibScl.png
<INCOMPLETE> 0.0.1 Early Release: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7f2q14p96m96t7j/D%26D%205.5e%20Alpha%20Build%200.0.1%20%28Races%2C %20HP%2C%20Attack%20and%20Damage%29.pdf?dl=0
https://imgur.com/g4PHbUH.png
Version 0.0.1: Very early release.