{"id":903,"date":"2014-07-14T22:52:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T05:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2014-07-19T08:22:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T15:22:02","slug":"noodling-with-some-5e-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invulnerablog.imperfekt-industrees.com\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"Noodling with some 5E stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was a hard sell on D&D Next. After 4th Edition, I had basically written off D&D. I was pretty sure Wizards had completely lost their way. Turns out I was wrong. They were smart enough to listen to the fans.<\/p>\n

After perusing some playtest materials about a week before the Basic Set dropped, I was interested enough to grab the Basic Rules<\/a> and the Starter Set box. The 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons is out, and I love it so far. I miss our old dungeon crawling campaigns. 5E is really trying to capture the old-school feel, the stuff that made roleplaying and made it great<\/em>. It’s succeeding with me a lot better than any other new-fangled game I’ve tried recently.<\/p>\n

So with that in mind, what’s more old-school than shooting a dragon with a laser you got from a crashed UFO?<\/p>\n

Laser Pistol:<\/strong> Damage 1d8 radiant, 2 lbs., Range 30\/120.
\nLaser Rifle:<\/strong> Damage 1d10 radiant, 4 lbs., Range 40\/120, Two-Handed.
\nPhase Weapons:<\/strong> As with Laser Pistols and Laser Rifles, but also has a stun setting. Target must make a CON save or stunned for 1d4+1 rounds. DC is 15 for Pistols and 20 for Rifles.
\nLight Sword:<\/strong> Damage 1d10 radiant, 2 lbs., Versatile (1d12), Finesse.
\nPhoton Grenade:<\/strong> Damage 1d10 radiant, 1 lb., Range 25\/70. Affects up to 3 adjacent targets.<\/p>\n

Energy Weapon Proficiency<\/strong> is a new category of weapons, aside from simple and martial. Adventurers don\u2019t gain their Proficiency bonus to attack rolls until they spend a feat slot to learn Energy weapons.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, if the PC uses an energy weapon reliably for most of the time they spend gaining a level, the DM may allow that PC to treat the weapon as martial from then on. Or the DM can let the PC spend a point of Inspiration to suddenly figure out energy weapons. Or, in a science fantasy or space fantasy campaign, they can ignore the whole issue and treat energy weapons as martial.<\/p>\n

Ammunition<\/strong> for energy weapons is pretty hard to find outside of spaceship ruins. Most energy weapons, when found, have 1d30 charges.<\/p>\n

Unwieldy:<\/strong> Energy weapons are kind of scary and unwieldy for primitive types (like most PCs) to use. If the PCs wield them carefully, they take a disadvantage on their rolls. If they don’t, a natural roll of 2 or 3 are treated as a natural 1 on attack rolls. Once a PC becomes proficient with energy weapons, they no longer need to worry about this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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