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And if it were, your assertion that having three classes that all did the same thing (be necromancers) might be a good thing is almost diametrically opposed to the expressly stated design philosophy of the Tomes as I understand it. Did I miss this? I don't know what you're referring to. And there a...

The correct way to run Prestige classes in a Tome or Tome++ game is to not use them at all and stick to the parts of Tome that actually work. Well given that the premise of this post was me mulling over "why do I almost never use Prestige Classes" it's not as horrifying a thought as you s...

If you're writing your own system there are loads of other (more elegant) things you could do. For example, you could establish some character concepts as "high level" and some as "low level" and then classes that offered high level concepts requiring a higher level as a prerequi...

Nah I think the 1000 classes of Tome are actually fine and cooler than doing classless in some ways. Each class has its own unique flavor and when you mix and match and combine them the flavor still shines through. Could you get almost the same effects with a tenth as much writing/reading if you wen...

Okay ACFs are a good suggestion, as an alternative to prestige classes designed for one specific class and no other. As it is, ACFs are usually designed to replace a bunch of features and be taken right when you start the class, but this is mainly a formatting issue, maybe you could write an ACF tha...

I know, I know, but there's a kind of fun I find in poking around in the content that's already been written and looking for unexpected interactions to add to my character and amuse the other players with. And I'd totally miss out on that if the class was designed specifically for the character, ya ...

This is a post-Tome post, it really has nothing to do with any other games. So, I was thinking about how I almost never prestige with any character, and I think it comes down to this: Prestige Classes as they are have a bunch of design philosophies, and most of them are terrible. Well, and that it's...

Ah, but there's a different way that an ethnostate halfway across the world could be making people in America safer: what if the existence of an ethnostate commiting atrocities in your name makes people less likely to do hate crimes to you here?

I was too young to remember it, but my parents tell me that in rural England then people treat you like an immigrant until your family has lived there for at least a hundred years... They found this very annoying for some reason.

2) Have you ever played a 3.5 Cleric or Wizard? It doesn't actually matter if you think upcasting is a good mechanic, it is not a thing that 3.5 Wizards or Clerics can DO. They literally can't. Are you now saying someone should rewrite the entire Wizard and Cleric class in addition to the entire sk...

a player could certainly flavor it this way Oh it's one of those games. That makes the ambiguity more forgivable I guess since the player is supposed to fill in the details with fiction that nails down the properties more... But it's not really a system that's solved things if all the powers are on...

Whew, that sure was hard! Maybe stop playing shitty systems that don't do what you want and use a system that has already solved your problems instead. I dunno why but I find it so strange that people don't seem to care about how much more vaguely defined the magic is in other RPGs. Your scrying sp...

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Mon Nov 07, 2022 12:13 pm

But touching with the intent to harm, but doing so gently seems wrong and annoys me.

Maybe gently pointing at the target is part of the spell process, perhaps the magic electricity really only likes to jump from extended fingers.

Is this true? I tried looking it up and the definitions were all about relationships between persons, the ambiguity was only in whether those persons have to be having sex.

By "make them work better" you mean take on the whole backstory/life cycle when ripping them off? I could suggest the Goa'Uld and the Zerg... Don't really understand what you want, is it to rip them off so closely that wizards of the coast could make a copyright law case and just fix a few...

A punch elemental doesn't have a glass jaw, obviously its chin is a fist

Wow really? Then how do you even use a 5G phone? Do you have to climb on the roof

I suppose the monopoly guy with the empty pockets is referring to how in order to use magic devices you have to buy them, where the caster gets lots of the same magic for free. And the photo of houses is perhaps suggesting that there are a lot of houses in this world, probably many of which have tab...

I have this sneaking suspicion that you didn't understand the post.
It's not the big boys that the little boys fear, but weather.

Being able to recognize a pattern and transfer it to a new context is an important skill when seeking to be creative.

Hey PL, in the real world you can't pick up a bite attack by picking up a set of gator teeth at a truck stop in Florida. Making bite attacks a physical item that you loot from creatures you've killed has major ramifications for your setting. I'm pretty sure that NPLP mentioned at some point that he...

The point of pseudocode is to be understandable, not compilable or to follow a specific syntax. PL snarking on it for not having C++ style logical tests (== instead of =) is straight-up asinine. Toggling someone else's fire immunity back and forth during an attack is a really weird thing to do... M...

Okay, why not, I'll describe the wacky build I did for my latest D&D character as though it was a concept: 1. A big muscular guy who uses telekinesis to grab things with his enormous muscles from a distance. 2. He grabs people from a distance and throws them about. Or at least shoves them a litt...

I notice that you have a tendency to prefer game mechanics that are totally honest about their game design underpinnings. Maybe I'll figure out how to write a short essay about why you're wrong to feel that way later (something to do with how making fighters and shapeshifters mechanically different ...

Reverse hyperbole would be hypobole right