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While we're discussing official feats, what about this one: Troth of the forgotten Pharao You’ve pledged your body to a forgotten pharaoh, and are willing to sacrifice yourself to keep his secrets even in death. Prerequisite(s): Must be a member of a cult of a forgotten pharaoh. Benefit: Upon taking...

you sometimes won't have room for a native 2nd level damage spell, and will have to settle for using a boosted 1st level one. I don't understand how this is ever possible, when "a boosted 1st level one" still takes up a 2nd level spell slot in my understanding of the current state of D&am...

It' s probably fair to say that projecting their current velocity would see 2015 come and their game still looking and feeling like a school term project.

Antariuk wrote:The Dark Eye will make you scream in agony. Especially if you include some comments or views of its grognard audience, which makes D&D grognards look like cute hippies.

This. Holy shit...germans. What can you say.

Gnorman wrote:It's subtle, but you can tell that his spirit broke over the last page or so. We're in the downwards spiral now, folks.

Usually, mentioning paizo playtest-like restrictions to evaluating rules are a low point. But in this thread? Hm.

And here's a timeline for anyone wondering: 1. Someone makes up the term "Magical Tea Party" 2. I write a blog entry 3. Archmage talks about it, gets it wrong, says my game "shits" on players and is Magical Tea Party 4. I explain that it does not do this. My description is accur...

I actually can make it even better, one of the core locations in the setting is basically a blood opera one, huge city with tons of Triad and Yakuza influence. With a healthy dose of Lovecraftian horror steadily reveal itself beneath the surface (the core of the setting is a series of different ear...

Speaking of train wrecks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6JUdZlu9cvc Muaha..hahaha. And if you think that looks horrible, just think: that's a demo using the Unity engine. Which means that content generation and graphics and stuff like that are mostly solved by the engi...

Speaking of train wrecks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6JUdZlu9cvc Muaha..hahaha. And if you think that looks horrible, just think: that's a demo using the Unity engine. Which means that content generation and graphics and stuff like that are mostly solved by the engin...

Oh noes. That's horrible. He was so much fun.

Hm - Anyone knows why?

silva wrote:Deaddmwalking just proved Mearls point.

Which is fine, because for once, it's a good point.

Per-Session leveling instead of XP counting is a good idea for some groups. Mearls saying that doesn't make it any less so.

silva wrote:I was wondering if this is some kind of trend in the hobby.

No.

silva wrote:Anyone else have similar feelings about the matter?

No.

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx ... l/20140210


Words of wis...err....no.

Hmm... I thought temp hit points didn't stack?

Discussing the article without entering the fetid pit of crazy that is everything that comes out of shadzar's fucking mouth... Anyone else notice how the milestones/benchmarks/delineations he uses are pretty much entirely caster centric, with no discussion of how low, mid, and high-level play might...

Bleugh. IMHO, the point of "iconics" in an RPG should be the demonstration of key features of class, and of the most straitforward builds. "Look, this is Bob the Fighter and in the intro fiction "I, Bob" he fights things. Look, this is Tim the Enchanter and in the intro fic...

Longes wrote:Are pathfinder iconics any good? By "any good" I mean "well optimised" and "showcase the features of the class".

I think the goal was to have mechanical support to what you see on the WAR image. Mechanically, they are horrible, but the match the pix.

I'm currently running a campaign based on 'Better Than Any Man' by James Raggi. It's set during the thirty years war in 1631 in Germany, and the religions are appropriately Catholicism, Lutheranism, Zwingli- and Calvinism, and 'other' (Moslems, Jews, etc). The great thing about this is that first of...

It takes fvcking obscure readings to find evidence that the Lady does more than keep out the gods and the city not on fire, especially judging by the overall Planescape fan's interpretation. I have seen/heard of one DM use the Lady as more than atmosphere, and that guy would have gods come down in ...

I will just ignore the Shadzar troll thread about this and state: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4wand/20140129 There is one horrible idea in there, and it's that the time between level ups should increase with higher level. Which might be a good idea for video games where people have...

Agreed. Thats why I like the idea of making the Lady (and the dabus) those mythical figures from the past that know one knows for sure if really existed or not but still respect out of superstition and folklore. This would fix it, right ? What fixes it is eclectic use of those elements you like whi...

You only have one history, one set of events and actions about and by you in the past. That's totally not how human memory and the human mind works. That is irrelevant, because as far as can be determined that is how time works and the fact that human memory can change how you remember previous eve...

FrankTrollman wrote:You only have one history, one set of events and actions about and by you in the past.

That's totally not how human memory and the human mind works.

The fact that this fundamental flaw hasn't been fixed in 3.5 or Pathfinder tells me that the people who work on those games hate fighters. In fact Pathfinder nerfed feats and made it even harder for fighters to pick up abilities like pounce to further stick them in their place as an NPC class. I do...

codeGlaze wrote:Are the Dark Sun novels worth reading?

Well, it's far from real literature. But if you like other D&D novels and similar fantasy trash, it should entertain you well. Not as good as the haunted lands trilogy, but better than most other D&D books.