Converting D&D/Other Adventures to DFRPG

[mlangsdorf]

Originally Posted by Evanm

As someone from D&D interested in DFRPG, this is a bit of an eye-opener. How common is this in practice? It doesn't exactly sound that fun or realistic, even in "heroic reality".

I've run and played DF and DFRPG for 15 years with dozens of different people. Scouts are ubiquitous to the point that I can't think of a group that didn't have a scout of some kind. And scouts kill things that are vulnerable to arrows at range.

In practice, it's not a problem if you do decent encounter design. Throw in a wide mix of foes - hordes of mundance orcs in one fight, a couple of Sword-Arm Golem in another, several siege beasts with shields after that, a floating electric jelly as a boss. The DF books provide a lot of monster types, so use them all. People have already discussed that at length.

And I'm not sure what is unrealistic about establishing that Fauxgolas, the elf archer, can shoot a bird's eye out at 100 yards, and then realizing that he can shoot out anything's eye out. He's significantly less effective against 10 orc footmen with shields, because he can't do anything about their shield blocks.