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Actually, my complaint is that there is no mechanic to take in account the difficulty of the opposition. Reading a Sitch to discover that quantum ninjas are about to jump you is just as difficult or just as easy as Reading the Sitch to avoid being mugged by a fat, clumsy man wearing bells. As said ...

Generally when I think of Rangers, I think of the tracker, the hunter, the ghost in the trees. He's the guy who gets the party - rather than just himself - to their goal quickly and in stealth, facilitates ambushes, etc. So "sneaky, ranged guy with mobility-themed strategic abilities" woul...

I played the demo of ME3. Well, I should say I watched the intro cutscene, then got control of my character and ... Dat running animation. Couldn't continue. Laughing too hard. ME1 was one of my most anticipated games ever, and I think I played through it like 13 times. But then ... ME2 was such a d...

Races of Faerun gives you the Spellsinger: Requires "some amount of elven heritage, at least 1/8", Know Arcana 8 ranks, Perform (Singing) 8 ranks, Improved Counterspell, Skill Focus (Perform), 1st level Arcane spells without preparation 4+Int, d6, Cleric BAB, Good Ref and Will Level 1 gra...

That sounds like Max ranks UMD Max ranks Knowledge (wtfever) multiple uses of giant size overlapping instances of energy immunity a replenishing source of temp HP; e.g., Minor Shapeshift a level of Mindbender for telepathy ring of telekinesis (optionally boosted to CL 20) various other buffs Serious...

Just finished The Witcher 2 today. And well, the combat was broken. A significant amount of the time (maybe 30%) I would try to use a sign (read: spell) and nothing would happen. Not because my character was busy doing something else, but because the game couldn't be fucked to respond to number keys...

In fact you actually should maximize on adept power points - even at the new cost of 5 (pseudo-) karma - due to the low opportunity cost and the restrictions on how mystics can acquire more power points under errata. Yep, at 2 points it was "get all the power now", and at 5 points it's &q...

As for NWN 2 (still haven't installed IWD2), it looks like the PRC for it is much smaller in scope, and also the main contributor threw a hissy fit and withdrew all his stuff from single player games because other people were stealing his stuff for Persistent Worlds. Yeah, that sure showed them? Th...

Honestly something has to the control decks honest, that means having threats that a resilient to at least some of the control decks answers. Even control decks are supposed to have bad machups, Most split second cards are actually control effects. Of the 15 cards with the keyword, there are 3 crea...

Would it work if the matrix was abstracted to being "function-oriented" ? ... Thoughts ? :confused: It wouldn't work, in that grognards would grognard about the lack of granularity. Just think about the shitfits they throw at the idea of having a unified Firearms skill, then think about w...

You have an interesting idea of how someone new to a game will approach it. Being new to Shadowun myself, I immediately started bashing my head against the wall that is the priority system.

Um ... Priority takes longer than straight point buy, because you have to consider the products of multiple priority arrangements. Is it better to put metatype at B and attributes at C, or vice versa? Or should I put attributes at A and MoR at B? Answering those questions requires statting each comb...

Apathy is at least better (in that it is less grating) than the adolescent angst that has dominated Final Fantasy (and JRPGs in general, really) since VII.

Um ... Nobilis?

I found switching between paradigms and balancing buffs/debuffs versus stagger versus damage output versus defense to be a lot more engaging than any prior Final Fantasy combat system and for me it wasn't really close. For me, the "hold A" criticisms don't really hold as well because that...

Stasis doesn't force people to play a different game - it stops people from playing the game. (I used to run a casual stasis deck, which got super-duper silly once I jammed Jace, the Wallet Sculptor into it.) But yeah, alternate wincons are fun. My Niv-Mizzet EDH deck used to have Laboratory Maniac ...

They're unconventional, character-focused stories in a series that is largely about event stories--in most FF games, "shit gets out of whack and plucky heroes go save the day" is the A plot, whereas both FF8 and FF13 treat it as a B plot. This has nothing to do with why the game (13) is t...

Avoraciopoctules wrote:If it makes you feel any better, check out 13-2's position to see how much faith 13 destroyed.

Not enough faith destruction, good sir. Not enough. People, many who had played 13, bought 13-2.

I'm a combo/control player, so undying and persist struck me as bullshit. Unless you're going to give people a ton of exile effects, those two turn spell-based creature removal into a two-for-one. I know MaRo thinks people who play creatureless decks are having badwrongfun, but seriously. Speaking o...

That FF13 outsold FF6 makes me a little bit sad. It was maybe the saddest excuse for a game I've ever played.

1. They have a Hex ability that scales with level. Maybe it's the 1/round Free Action Will Negates thing where using it doesn't cost you anything, or maybe it uses a real action but just works. Perhaps the "base" hex is the simple -2/-4/-6/-8 to "stuff" and then they gain a clas...

You could explicitly say that temp HP from multiple Vampiric Spells don't stack, but ... Healing's probably better. Temp HP is a wonky mechanic anyway. Vampiric Spell Hurting people with magic makes you feel better about yourself. Benefit: You heal damage equal to [half] the hit point damage dealt b...

You should be using your mana for something like Batman on turn three, not have to spend/hold it all to get value from your 2-drop. The pumpable creature is actually a much better deal for midrange/control decks that don't rely on a big board presence. That's why Ætherling shows up as a finisher. ED...

Oh, god. I just realized I wasn't reading the card right. BB for a +1/+0? BAH HA HA HA HA.

No. Horrifically weak.

Yeah, if you just invested two mana casting and three mana pumping something, and it dies to an Electrickery ... That's a harsh dose of reality there.