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This is not in any way forced or in-your-face? It's an article about a very minor character, so it is unsurprisingly short and focused on the most notable details about that character. Yeah, but that part about very minor is wrong. During the rest of this Adventure Path, these and other NPC allies ...

malak

* Edit: Oh look, like this time. Yeah, those 1-2 sentences of backstory for a single NPC, which isn't something the PCs would even necessarily hear, are really dominating that multi-book AP. Yup. Whatever. Stir the flames, I don't care. The first part of this adventure path is shit for many reasons...

malak

All the APs feature a bunch of dungeon crawls, so mounted combat is probably not going to work terribly well. If you want to play with animals, you're best off with a summoner. That way you don't have to explain how you brought your mount up the side of a mountain. Taking the Narrow Frame on your m...

malak

Anytime someone mentions "SJW Propaganda" you can ignore the rest of their points as they're idiots. So you actually think that constant reminders of NPC sexual preferences belong into a high fantasy adventure path about the war against demons? Well, I disagree. Especially if they are wri...

malak

Well, if the first few books are fine, just go for it.

The chance that the campaign survives until the 5th book is slim anyway

Also, the DM I played with had kind of lost interest in 3.5 at that point, might well be that that was a factor, too.

malak

I ran the first module of Carrion Crown, "The Haunting of Harrowstone", and it was really good. Far better than I expected, and the players really enjoyed it. It's pretty free-form and non-railroady for a premade adventure. My players were a full-on evil party, but it worked well all the s...

malak

How completely unexpected that this thread degenerated into a quantum bears shouting match.

malak

Hmm, good points, thanks. I mainly went back to 3e for inspiration because the free, unhampered movement and lack of flanking and OA made our combat much more boring, but I am happy to hear other ideas. "guard" or "overwatch" option, you then allow unfettered movement and make de...

malak

So everyone in my group wants to play 5e. I miss the tactical options of 3.5, so I wrote an attempt at the promised but missing 5e tactical module. A battle-mat is assumed. Please focus on problems in my tactical rule changes, and not on flaming 5e itself. How can I improve these? What other interes...

malak

Anyone run Carrion Crown for Pathfailure? A good friend of mine is trying to run it, and she's a pretty green DM. And I've never ran the thing. I ran the first adventure only, as start for a different campaign. Didn't really like the later ones, but the first one is pretty cool, lots of atmospheric...

malak

AD&D 3 (or 3E SE) would amount to another Pathfinder. No real problems fixed, some minor new house rules, but enough random bullshit differences so you cannot really use the old stuff anymore.

No thanks.

malak

DMG delayed to december

Maybe they noticed there were some problems in their ruleset?

Haha just kidding; I doubt there is such a good reason for it.

malak

Lago PARANOIA wrote:Don't be a blockhead. 10-sided dice where all of the numbers are multiples of 10 are called d100s.

Err, no.

malak

See: the 4th Edition Forgotten Realms fiasco, the 4th Edition Dark Sun AP debacle, and the 4th Edition Keep on the Shadowfell AP disaster. I know about the FR thing, but there were Dark Sun/KotS APs (at least planned)? That I din't know. Can you elaborate? The dark sun adventure is called Marauders...

malak

Obvious answer: don't make marking take up real actions. You could make them swift actions, or happen automatically as riders on other actions, or have the marks themselves do something worthwhile when applied. The 4e fighter placed marks automatically whenever it attacked anything, which was prett...

malak

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/article ... ts-Collect

A critical and fair review of the 5e PHB....muahaha. No.

malak

I noticed some big hp inflation. giants at about 200 HP, trolls over 80 with the regeneration doubled, stuff like the otyugh is triple from 3.5 and is at 114. I think they want low amounts of monsters in fights. Seeing how they didn't learn from 4e, they will probably just update the monster math w...

malak

OBSIDIAN ANNOUNCES PATHFINDER LICENSE Obsidian to partner with Paizo Inc. to release electronic Pathfinder games INDIANAPOLIS -- August 13, 2014 -- Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas, South Park: the Stick of Truth and the Kickstarter phenomenon Pillars of Eternity, announc...

malak

Having monsters get 3 autosaves if they fail a save definitely is a "highlight" of idiocy and disconnected game design that makes people more lokely to use lower level spells the more "Legendary" the foes are. apparently, the best way to kill ancient dragons is with scaling cant...

malak

I... I did it. I preordered the 5E D&D PHB through Amazon. It comes by in a week. I didn't mean to! I just saw it available for only 60% of its list price and I couldn't resist. My butthurt levels were running dangerously low, to boot! I'm so ashamed of myself. :gross: I'm pretty sure you are n...

malak

I just want to point out that about ten posts up thread Silva and Frank said the same exact thing, seemingly independent of each other. I felt reality stop existing for a second. Looks like silva exhausted all other ways of trolling. This way seems to have worked and elicited an emotional response ...

malak

JJ wrote:There's gotta be someone out there better at math than me who can hook you up. I may have entered college as an aeronautical engineering student, but after a quarter with a 0.75 GPA I switched to English.

malak

JJ wrote:"Class balance" isn't something that is an equation. It's as much influenced by art and personal preference. What can be "balanced" for one group won't be for another.

malak

Not sure it's even his fault. This is just a left-over from 4e. You're joking, right? Because Mearls has been on staff since 3.5, was a major figure in/throughout 4e, and is solely responsible for 5e. And based on how they supposedly approached 5e, I'd say that this is a little more than just a leg...

malak

No. D&DNext is advocating post-hoc treasure drops. The +4 longsword in the Orc's "treasure hoard" is something that you can use or sell, but a +4 longsword in the Orc's "monster equipment" can't be sold and may not even be available to you once the current session is over. T...

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