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Dragon 380, Ring of the Warforged (lv 17), "you are able to attach (but not embed) warforged components as if you were a warforged"?

Since you commies brought it up: I hadn't really thought about it since the original proposed version crashed and burned, but it looks like that D&D Beyond does currently exist; I just started looking at it now. I guess the salient facts are that a) it does include player-generated content with ...

Part anecdote, part speculation. I live in a college town so these data are somewhat relevant, but I'm not a student so there could be stuff happening underneath my particular radar (e.g. people could be organizing via apps I don't know about or use, rather than sites like Meetup or FB). First impor...

But do they love tree magic?

Someone mulling to himself "why would 'metabolism' require conscious effort?" and slipping that bit in (without necessarily ensuring that consistent changes were also made throughout the rest of the document). Multiply that by forty years and you have D&D.

...Nightmare, Frank?

PF Animate Object has a build point menu (in the monster entry, not the spell description). Not sure why they used it to "fix" that spell rather than poly/summon but technically it exists (and I've seen them use it in other contexts including building "balanced" robots in Iron Go...

Being a generic undead is 16 pts in Race Builder.

Yes I was going to add "the Masquerade is completely modern and a last-ditch survival strategy" to that hack but didn't know if it was worth it. (I'm totally not a WoD fan, and if part of the acceptance filter is "WoD history has to line up almost entirely with Earth history" the...

Cheap hack: assume that vampires are getting weaker over time, i.e. not the Generation mechanic but that "the magic is dying" for all of them a la Earthdawn/LOTR. In the past they were more powerful (able to function in sunlight etc.) and had to feed less.

Don Michael Antonio Giovanni

Is that an actual human body part he's eating? (All I can guess is that it's a neck cutlet because of the fang marks in the one he's holding.) WTF are the bones

Why isn't "Lucas was self-consciously making schlock and kind of randomly threw in a sciencey sounding word for time units (which also kind of sounds like 'second')" one of the arguments here? (GL blows in other ways but I wouldn't penalize it as a 'mistake' if he was going for a John Cart...

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Lago PARANOIA wrote:So, any evidence as of yet to people turning on 5E D&D?

Second place on Roll20.

5e winning the numbers game now (with all the previously mentioned caveats; also not sure if this is the first quarter it's happened).

Ancient History wrote: Temple of Doom had the remains of Mujaji

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurhaci

Ancient History wrote:This was 100% inspired by the classic story "If All Men Are Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" by Theodore Sturgeon.

Perhaps you mean "Carcinoma Angels" by Norman Spinrad?

"A sane MC will never let it happen" is not a valid argument when the rules allow it. He's just going to say if you let it happen, you're obviously insane and don't count. If you're ignoring the WBL table only because it has too many weasel words attached to it, and the result is post-sca...

Ran first and part of the second mod in Iron Gods so far; no one in the party wants the tech gear yet. Overall meh but not terrible, has some of the usual problems of Paizo APs (severely underpowered encounters made up for with "story XP", stat blocks are occasionally wrong).

Insomniac wrote: Good luck failing 50, 60, 70 percent of the time and eating attacks.

"Tumble around" rather than "Tumble through" isn't so bad though? (esp. since you can bail out of the move without provoking if you roll bad and/or discover that the DC is totally ridiculous)

Lago PARANOIA wrote:So, any evidence as of yet to people turning on 5E D&D?

Second place on Roll20.

The thing is: these three authors are Baker, Schubert, and Noonan - three former WotC employees. Mike Mearls has gotten WotC to "outsource" adventure production to effectively rehire people they've already shitcanned.

So... Mike Mearls = Adam Sandler. That explains so much.

I don't think Warlord-style action shenanigan are doable in 3E. http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/inquisitor/inquisitions/inquistions---paizo/tactics-inquisition Meh? (I haven't seen/researched anyone playing with inquisitors so no idea how approximate to lazylord you can get or if there...

All of those "problems" are implied movement problems associated with a projectile which strikes a player and takes up significant space. I'm going to start referring to falling damage as "the implied sudden deceleration problem". Also, surviving multiple facestabs will hencefor...

A D&D character gets a gigantic boulder dropped on him. The trap description is "PC takes XXd6 damage". If the damage kills the PC, you just say he was crushed by the rock. However, the PC takes the damage and survives. What is the final state of the PC and rock? a) the rock bounced of...

Here's a funny line from Banewarrens, describing how to adjudicate an 1100 foot fall: "Roll 20d6 points of damage for any character who falls. A character surviving the damage from the fall should be assumed to have actually landed on a bridge or ledge 100 or so feet below rather than falling a...