yeah

anyone can use a shortsword because it's just a fuckin metal stick

also my game has fucking small and long arms

just cuz someone can use a flintlock pistol dosent mean they can use a musket

but a batleth is a whole thing

yeah

shit needs revamp

i like that 5e is so simple. its easy to get new players hooked on tabletops

but some things infuriate me with how they work

we got steamrolled last week, tpk

so we're having a break from that campaign for a few weeks

last night we started playing Traveller

traveller? whats that?

it's a space setting with a pretty cool rule system

character creation is a group activity

and you end up with a collaborative back story and an actual realistic reason why you know the party

instead of "we met in a bar"

there are a number of different career paths and you have to meet skill requirements to enter a career, once you're in a career you get basic set of skills and then you roll against that career's skill table or personal development

that takes place in a 4 year term then you can either stay in that career, move to a different career or go out adventuring

generally you'd roll 4 or 5 terms

to build up skills, money, etc

then go adventuring

at the end of each term you roll against an events table to see what interesting things happen

and you can work meeting the other characters into the event

you get a free level 1 skill for making a connection with them

you can die in character creation lol

You have created......... Death..... Well on to another character

So for anyone interested my serial sheet changer almost got punched by my parties tank, he gave himself 19 ac at the start of the session and instead of me having to call him out on his shit someone else did before I had to.

@wrath what are you playing?

also, easiest way to mitigate this shit is just insist that your players supply a copy of their sheet whenever they level up

if your other players are also getting pissed off by his cheating they'll fully support this move

5e and believe me, i keep his sheet

It's just it doesn't survive 5 minutes with him without changes

I'm probably gonna boot him tho

I'm probably gonna boot him tho

Or I was just gonna have a god rip him in half for the crime of "inviting other gods to meddle in reality"

https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2020/02/25/ee05abbb4d9580c8.mp4

@wrath hey bro how did it go with the problem player? Thrown them out yet?

Lol not yet but if you want a funny story- after the other players about knocked him out for changing shit again I added a dream intruding bad guy, he was on first watch and demanded to be able to listen in on their dreams until one the other guy on watch cast hold person on em and the lugged him around strapped to a tower shield most of the session

He then claimed his character was suicidal and depressed

And that I as a dm should do something