3.5 is the one with boatloads of content published for it (some of it free on the internet), while 5e is the shiny new one that is officially supported today.
4e was lacking in popularity for a bit, I believe.
With the free release of the 5e Basic Rules, I'm looking for an adventure to introduce myself and my group to 5e (in the spirit of this question): we want to try the system before deciding if we'll invest resources in the edition.
The adventure should be useable out of the box with only free Ba...
For example, the 4e adventure Keep on the Shadowfell had encounters designed to show off its various tactical awesomeness. It was a teaching session where often the NPCs would use a feature in one fight, and then a later fight would be set up for the PCs to use that feature themselves.
Granted, that adventure was spread out across three levels and many sessions, but that was largely because of XP padding and 4e's tediously long combat durations.
If you feel your question can't be improved, then take it as the inevitable noise of the system and move on.
If you gather more downvotes, revisit the question and try to read it with fresh eyes to look for ways it could be improved.
I'm guessing it's about self-answered questions, though.
There's a small handful of people who think they're somehow "cheating" or who believe it's courteous to observed an unstated custom of waiting some arbitrary length before self-answering, to "give others a chance."
This view usually sees self-answered questions as an attempt to game the system for points. This is... demonstrably not the Stack's official attitude, though.
If the question and answer add quality to the site, that's what matters and quality contributions should be rewarded with points.
If I may suggest, you may in general find more useful information by asking where you can learn about the homeland of the dwarves — that way if it's in the PHB you get to see where, if it isn't, you still get to see where.
Asking them to post it as an answer is a great first step. There are lots of users who honestly don't know better, and a few who do know better but slip up anyway. (Not that I'd know anything about that. ;) )
If they do post it as an answer, great! Vote on it as appropriate and flag the comments...
If I post a question then someone answers said question as a comment how do I say that’s the right answer, (what button do I click) so that they get the proper recognition? How do I vote a comment as helpful? If these aren't features yet I feel like they should be.
I suspect I should edit that because Oblivious Sage is not answering in comments, he is (as i now recognise SSD was pointing out) saying the question is flawed.
@DoctorG You're asking for helping with the solution you've decided is the right one (finding the place in the PHB with the information you're looking for), rather than asking for solutions to the problem (finding information about dwarven homelands in 4e).
Right, so asking for help in finding that information is good.
Asking for where in one particular book you'll find it means if the best info isn't in that book, people might not tell you where to find the best info.
Unless that's the only book you have access to, that's a flaw in the way the question's being asked.
It makes it harder to get the best possible answers to your actual problem.
It's a subtle difference, but a significant one. Front-end the problem: wanting to be able to randomly choose from a list of dwarven regions for your PC's origin, with enough information about them to fuel backstory.
i didnt know were i could find the best info for my question was located but as i said in my question i thought i saw what i was looking for in 4e but when i went back to look for it i couldnt find it so i thought i might have been mistaken n if i was then were is the best place to find said info and if i wasnt mistaken then were exactly in PHB4e is that info
...It's also kinda hard to parse your syntax without punctuation.
Is this your question?
> I would like to use dice to randomly select my dwarf PC's home region, to help build my backstory/personality. I thought I saw somewhere in the 4e Player's Handbook the different regions the dwarves live in, but now I can't find it. Where can I find information about dwarven regions in the standard 4e setting, with enough detail to help inspire my backstory and personality?
Also, "here are some places you could look that might have info" is still a pretty bad answer. A good answer might say something like "the info you're looking for can be found here, here, and here", citing specific books, and preferably page numbers or some other way of locating within the book.
@DoctorG Since you asked for info on the "Points of Light" setting (the default PHB world) and posted an answer for three unrelated settings, I'm voting to close as unclear. There is Points of Light info about dwarven regions, just not a lot of detail in the PHB, so limiting the question to PHB material means "It's not in the PHB" doesn't mean "the default setting doesn't have that info, you have to try the other settings."
That's what ObliviousSage is saying, though he didn't say it well.
i think i have a misconception that all the differnt versions of the game are very similar and mainly only have minor rule changes like instead of using ur strength for lock picking now its dexterity
Yeah, no. Dark Sun, for example, is a post-apocalyptic wasteland of a world where the gods are dead or missing, arcane magic pollutes the land and the soul, and dwarves are mostly slaves.
so when i ask qustions about somthing in the 4e i assume that even if its not in 4e someone can tell me were to find that info in a different addition and it not change anything
Its default setting is built very differently from what came before or after. Its alternate settings are a little more reminiscent of their predecessors, but still notably different in some respects.
another question how would one create a custom race one of our group members wants to create some sort of undead magical wielding character how would that work
If you're trying to find out lore and mechanical answers about 4e but open to other editions, that's kind of like trying to find out mechanical and lore details about Star Wars but accepting info from Star Trek and Thundercats as well.
The Monster Manual and Dungeon Master's Guide provides a few examples of how to adapt monsters into full-fledged PC races, but they're limited to only a few options.
Are there any resources or other guides, either online or in print, that assist in the creation of a relatively-balanced custom PC...
They're different. Everything is different. It is different in all the big ways and all the little ways. If it is not wholly another ball game entirely, it is still something incompatible because of the sheer omnipresence of small and large changes.
And of course there's also "my soul has been reincarnated into a new body," "I'm the result of an alien soul forcibly merged with a local body," and "the Shadowfell has infused me with death magic."
@DoctorG I didn't downvote, but thought about it, probably only held off to prevent "piling on" a relatively new user. You specify a book and ask where in that book something is. That's textbook "not show[ing] any research effort" to me. (Nothing against self-answering, here.)
So I was going through my txt files to look for old characters, since someone on the Exalted subreddit needed a ton of solars for some reason, and it occurred to me that some of my notes look very unprofessional. Specifically the filenames. I used to work on a League of Legends site, and now I have a bunch of files like "lol meeting" "lol tasks".
How big and inter-connected is Baha'i faith, acutually? How many people do you think are on the shortest link (using “met at a Baha'i event” if that's reasonable) between you and the other Baha'i I know, in Southampton/UK?
...chances are good that it's two or three, possibly even one.
There are two likely routes for that. First, there's the institution of the Counsellors; each large region has an appointed individual (81 in all) who oversees networking for coordination, education, and so forth in those areas. They work together and meet together regularly.
Chances are good your friend has met, at the very least, the assistant of her regional Counsellor, who has met my regional Counsellor at their meetings in Haifa, who I've met.
I may have even met your region's Counsellor in Haifa myself, at the 2013 international convention to elect the Universal House of Justice. Which brings me to the other likely path: I've definitely met members of the British National Spiritual Assembly at that convention, and if your friend hasn't met them, certainly her Local Spiritual Assembly has.
So even setting aside the fact that a lot of Baha'is are very well-travelled themselves, there's a strong international connection through the administrative institutions.
(If I hadn't gone to the international convention--eg, not been on the NSA during a UHJ election year--that'd just add one more link to the chain.)
Oh, and if your friend has been on pilgrimage, she's met the UHJ, and I've met the UHJ in 2002 and two UHJs in 2013, so chances are I've met at least one of the members she's met.
Those are the fast and easy routes. Chances are also pretty high that some of my especially well-traveled friends who go to a lot of training areas and such have run into people she knows.
Had I encountered Baha'i maybe 10 years earlier, I might have become involved in it, but during the 10 years of my studies, the fundamental philosophical foundations of my world view have changed slowly but drastically, so these days I can only admire the thought and consistency of your faith and institutions.
That's fair. If I hadn't been born into it, I'd've probably needed a pretty big clue bat over the head to take any notice of it myself.
You might consider checking out what community-building projects the Baha'is are doing in your area, though--neighbourhoods around the world are using a community-building process developed in Colombia to great effect. It's inspired by Baha'i teachings on service, virtues, and community life, but very much not about conversion, and is totally open participation from anyone who thinks the goals and results are nice regardless of faith.
So if you like the principles, you might be interested to see them in action and participate at whatever level you're comfortable without pressure to convert.
(The community-building training gave me most of my useful GMing skills. Whenever I talk about creating environments, building up player skills to become equal participants in the process, or the reflect/study/plan/act cycle of learning, that's where it's from.)
I think this Saturday my group will be updating its old DFAE playtest characters to the new almost-publication-ready version of DFAE.
...and then I'll have to figure out a new adventure for that group. I've got some vague ideas, but the Dresden Files universe is so restrictive for Fate characters.
@BESW I usually grab everything I have, including system files, put it on a separate disk/partition and then copy back into the new system as needed. Everything that's not needed gets forgotten and eventually removed as time goes by
@eimyr Yeah, I'm just having to juggle because my old partitioning system has to go, which means it's hard to find a spare disk that everything fits onto neatly.
@Anaphory you can also take the mechanics you like and plug it into a better fluff (that's something I did with WoD too, plugging nWoD crunch into cWoD revised game)
Storytelling/Storyteller, World of Darkness (old and new), Chronicles (of the God Machine and of Darkness) – Did they NEVER stop and think “Hang on, we used a very similar name not that many years ago, maybe we should brainstorm for something that means the same but sounds entirely different!”?
I'm being facetious about it partly because my long-demonstrated love and attachment (sometimes despite my better judgement) makes it clear that I'm not bashing WoD to the ground.
Also, I'm an aware fan. I'm ready to admit the shortcomings of my games and if improvements can be proposed for the benefit of all, I'm happy to oblige.
@DForck42 (Yes, the mechanics are very bad. Too many fiddly bits, to many exceptions, unclear default states, older iterations also skew the probability curve in a way that makes roll results more volatile as you improve your character)
@Trish I agree that's rude/abusive and not appropriate for respectful discourse. We've seen much worse and I am glad the mods take a stance against it.
What the... why do people so love it when I start to be ingenious and apply evil thinking<sup>TM</sup> to create posts? First summoning a bunch of imps equipped with sending stones to avct as 'cameras' for a police state, now using mundane utilities and being crazy prepared to fight Zombies in a Fantasy setting...
I would have them produce some kind of 'mana' - if they eat like soandso gold coins one can distill the result into some kind of spell restoration potion.
@DForck42 ....that's already a thing. Except instead of eating coins, it eats you. By burrowing under your skin and dealing Con damage. It's called the Hoard Scarab, comes individually or in swarms, and is in the 3.5e Draconomicon and I'm pretty sure I've seen it in 4e too.
@DoctorG Btw, I thought I should let you know -- this is true in some games. For example there's 4 different editions of GURPS, but the players of it on this site don't feel much need to distinguish between editions in rules questions with how interchangeable they are. In Fate, a lot of general philosophy has stayed the same and the core rules have not changed too much over time.
Certainly there's also games where the different editions are very similar in all kinds of ways, but have had some critical major adjustments localised to certain areas.
If I post a question then someone answers said question as a comment how do I say that’s the right answer, (what button do I click) so that they get the proper recognition? How do I vote a comment as helpful? If these aren't features yet I feel like they should be.
