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I don't play any Modern (I pretty much exclusively play EDH now) so I don't really know, but ... A 2/1 swampbreather for BB seems weak. Even blue has a 3/2 flyer for U . And that's not even getting into tempo or card advantage discussions, just pure card quality. Here's what Luis Scott-Vargas had to...

That's fucking hilarious.

Well, to some extent. They would write up a list of abilities that monsters could have, like Energy Burst Range: Long Effect: Burst 20 Type: Fire Hit: X damage to all creatures in burst. Miss: X/2 damage to all creatures in burst. Then the entire entry for the hypothetical acid monster that had an a...

My last PVP build centered around Priscilla's Scythe, and the Bloodbite ring. I got actual hatemail over that; folks calling it cheap and such when I murdered them. I'm not even that great at PVP, but apparently very few people use Priscilla's Scythe, so they weren't as practiced on the timing for ...

Yeah, real exception-based design is when all values are stated at the beginning. The only thing listed in an entry for any particular thing is how it differs from the default. This makes the default a really, really long and detailed entry, but the trade-off is that each monster entry is like 2-5 l...

? You don't think that having a chain of command consisting of anywhere from a dozen to hundreds (depending on campaign setting limits and whether your mind slaves have dominate person themselves) of critters isn't abusive? Not sure how you got from "cast charm & dominate a lot" to &q...

How much of the Pathfinder library is open to you? Allowed sources is kind of important. The only downside to illusion is that it starts to have the problem that enchantment does at later levels. That is, unless you're abusing it (mind slaves for enchantment, shadow magic for illusion) it loses a lo...

supernatural spell 1/day for raise dead etc. Cleric 5 (Church inquisitor whatever) / dweomerkeeper 4/ scm 3 / dweomerkeeper the rest. Yeah, the utility of being able to raise peeps for free is a rather strong pull, but how are you getting raise dead down to a standard action casting time? Unless yo...

So for the cleric I'm DMPCing for the benefit of my Age of Worms group, I'm doing a Dweomerkeeper/Shadowcraft Mage thingamajig. The question is this:

Which do I bring online first, Supernatural Spell or Shadow Illusion?

The optional rule isn't for the people who already do the non-XP level-ups. It's for the people who hadn't ever thought (or wouldn't ever think) of doing it that way. You know, like beginners who've never played a TTRPG before.

There is nothing immersive about spending skill points blind. There is also nothing immersive about spending skill points informed, but at least then you actually know what the fuck your decisions do . But immersion is absolutely 100% not a justification for hiding mechanics from the player, especi...

Because going to gaming sites nowadays means inundation with Dark Souls 2 info and wank, I'm going to say Dark Souls. Because I thought it could easily have been fixed and made for a much, much more rewarding play experience. For instance: Remove stat requirements for all items and spells. This is p...

Ah, but he thinks the dungeon is out to get him, when in reality it is the system that has it in for him. The DMF players never seem to recognize the systemic problem.

Other possibilities: Elves might also only be fertile during a short period after their adolescence. Elves might only be able to produce X offspring ever, where X is really small. Elves might be unable to breed successfully at all with those whose genetic makeup is sufficiently close. They end up be...

If the whole table welcomes it as a sort of comedic thing, it can work. Otherwise it's just a way for one player to fuck with everyone else.

Why is this in IMHO?

Swiftblade ... If I'd had my way, the swift surge damage would have had a more favorable progression and wouldn't apply while under the effects of a polymorph subschool effect, but it works well enough as it is. It just means you end up doing the standard gishy thing of polymorphing into hydras and ...

Aryxbez wrote: Yeah...I'm not looking forward to the keyboard + Mouse interface..but I hear one gets used to it in time.

Embrace it. Mouse+keyboard is much quicker and more precise than two-stick. After a while you'll be annoyed going back to the gamepad. No joke.

Legend of Grimrock gets tedious really quickly. It would be less so if you could bind keys to the various actions for each character, but you can't, so ... It's a case of the interface providing most of the difficulty, because the enemies themselves are actually super easy to beat. It's cliché, but ...

MMIV I hate this monster format. It makes it very difficult to skim. Instead of having all the non-generic stuff on two lines of Special Qualities, they're spread throughout the whole of the entry. I didn't even notice the Balhannoth's illusion immunity until the fourth time I looked at the entry. F...

Just remember that favoured forms have to be "things you can Polymorph into that aren't your own Type", so you can't have an Outsider as a favoured form (unless there's some cute trick that does let you Polymorph into them without changing your type to Outsider). Granted, the capstone abi...

Ya know, I haven't looked at books for fun shapechange stuff in years. So I'm going to take this post as an excuse to do just that. I'm gonna start with MMV and then keep adding, because I don't want to read any more Kierkegaard. MMV While it's really a low level form, the Gulthir demon from MMV has...

Dammit. This makes me really, really want to play a high level game. Crotch stabbing balors into red mist, resurrecting towns, and interplanar travel on a whim? Gah! So coooool.

Translation: Waaah!

And then make that one item an item familiar ('cause remember, backwards compatible).