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yeah, I remember Reflex saves while dying. I get it from a certain game play stand point, but it is fucking retarded. just like you shouldn't get will saves when uncouncious, or fort saves when... dead. Well you don't get any kind of saves when dead. :tongue: Even if your corpse did, it would just ...

They characters should be built around pathfinder rules that don't function or do nothing. A dual wielding crossbow monk with prone shooter, for example. Bonus points for collusion, and an entire stable of useless characters that can't function, with names that pun off the fact they can't work. Gra...

You guys realize that the big push during the void years post 4e and pre-5e was reprinting pretty much all the previous editions, right? That did jack shit. Can you cite what you mean? I don't remember any 3.5 material printed by WotC pre-5E during 4th. Unless you mean 5E converted stuff from 2E (w...

Bring back the old editions. Even if you are making version 6. Bring back what fans want. Heck, you can make a bit of 4 or 5 not to please them. See, this is what 5E promised, something for everyone, but they never delivered. You don't need that competent staff to do this, There was a lot of stuff t...

Well, Fallout has psionics (NPC only though) so that sort of takes out realistic. Unless you figure psionics is realistic.

Wait, how much iliaster do demons start with? Is that next?
You mention humans can generate it with a check, but angels start with 2d20+40 points.

I used to hang around RPGNet for PBPs until I realised that they wee pretty much tyrannical SJWs. The idea that big purple are a bunch of social justice warriors is actually quite strange to me. They don't give a shit about social justice, they are just intensely dedicated to defending white male g...

I just finished Doom 2016, and I'm wondering what's the best way for a DMF to heal himself after killing an opponent. I've found a couple of ways, like: - Greater Daemon Totem (5 hp when you kill an intelligent opponent with at least half your HD) - Feast of Blood (need to rip out your opponent's g...

Wow, so Small/Med/large Pathfinder ones better, but Huge/Greater/Elder are weaker. That is weird.

I've never noticed that. Why did Pathfinder do that?

He just conflated HD with CR which works with humanoids, he just forgot undead work differently. For silent image it still gets a save each rd if you are attacking it as it assumes that the box isn't actually solid at that point (it is interacting with it each round). Now, it isn't that strong. It'd...

and attacks (love this one, inverted searing ray once every 1d4 rounds. if you want to dick with people you invert the "1d6 per caster level vs undead" part to "1d6 per caster level vs living". because you hate live so much). and it has blindsight, because fuck you trying to ste...

You guys realize that static damage tends to be boring as fuck, right? People want the roll to matter. Yes, but you want to balance out the players' desire for the roll to matter with how much variance the mechanics can reasonably tolerate. Fireballs doing 10d6 means that it could be as much as 60 ...

Step 1) Am I allowed to use spells from 3.5? Am I allowed to use classes from 3.5? If no: Then you get that Pathfinder is just a bunch of fiddly bullshit houserules designed to erase previous content so that you buy their new splatbooks (that are no better than 3.5 ones) so you really are just payi...

What are these 12 overpowered monsters? There are the dragons, mind-flayers, that damn crab, and ... ? As for the CR system, the only bizarre thing about it is the "non-associated levels" method for advancing monsters. An ogre is CR 3. But an ogre cleric 4 is "CR 5", which is ki...

Also, if the PCs are particularly creative and find a way to kill the villain earlier than anticipated, don't deny them their victory . Fuck yes it's nice to see the book actually spell that out. Say what you will about WotC and the garbage they churned out, but this one thing right here puts them ...

I want to punch whoever wrote that and the guy who clearly does not work as a editor at Paizo. Alexander Augunas and Owen K.C. Stephens. Probably Owen's editing, he cranked out those "Horribly Overpowered Feat" books with all the entirely acceptable martial feats and I can't recall him ev...

Couldn't you just forge the documents. It is a skill. Sure, this might come back to bite you if later someone double checks their work in a few days.

To be fair, they only want to see eat Elves.
They are doing Gods work! (well, Gruumsh would be cool with it)

So, question: what's the best way to make an unarmed badass type in pathfinder (read: one who kills his enemies with punches and/or kicks, or maybe with a gauntlet) with the least amount of suckage? Warpriest? Pure Cleric? something I'm not thinking of because I'm a moron? Avenger Vigilante gets pr...

I assume a baby till grown up'd is Int 2 (since babies are sentient like an animal, and everyone assumes babies aren't evil like animals). So add Int 6 to get 8, you get a slightly retarded normal human (standard deviated from 10). Which fits with a baby in charge. Not the brightest thing, but not a...

So is being steam powered a mechanically different thing to the standard magic powered borgs In dragonmech most things are steam powered. The Mechs, the weapons, etc. I personally liked the new weapons in this supplement. Steamborg was also a class compared a race. They nerfed it (imo) with 3/4th B...

I found it, let it be known that I am the master of wandering around websites here. Looks to me like it's effects-based in the least cool possible way: https://fyxtrpg.com/build-fyxt-rpg-character/character-powers/ So, it's one of those "here's the effect, you describe it how you want" de...

Paizo's gut reaction is to throw a temper tantrum every time they realize there's combo potential they hadn't thought of. Which is sort of understandable when you realize how very much crap they put out and how very much they don't want to do the incredible amount of procedural work of figuring out...

Since otherwise, spells like Nightmare, Dawn and Dream Casting wouldn't make much sense. Heck, even dead creatures get saving throws . Now the rules could've been written better. But your position is that a bunch of core spells are wrong, offering saves where there shouldn't be any, while my positi...

Didn't that book also have a bow of truestrike: one shot a round got true strike effect?

I was pretty cheap for the effect too.