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- Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [5e] Thorough explanation of why it's terrible?
- Replies: 261
- Views: 75908
- Wed Dec 26, 2018 6:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
- Replies: 149
- Views: 36141
I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but it grated in an otherwise entertaining write-up. Every level you can trade one maneuver for another, and you will usually elect to take one of your lowest level maneuvers and trade it in for one of the highest level you can attain. And every other level you...
- Tue Jul 17, 2018 1:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 956757
Well, for instance beast claws from Complete Divine/Spell Compendium grants two claw attacks. Whether the damage the claws deal is a function of the caster's size depends on the writer's assumptions. To wit, if spells are written with an assumption of humanity, then the reader is expected to underst...
- Mon Jul 16, 2018 7:06 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 956757
- Thu May 14, 2015 6:50 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What archetypes does 5E not represent well?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 24653
The 20 = Hit mechanic introduced by 3rd is one of the biggest offenders. If you give everything a minimum 5% chance to hit, then you either have to band-aid the system or have higher-level monsters be vulnerable. 3rd patches the problem with DR, confirming crits, high regeneration, and trivializing...
- Wed May 13, 2015 5:02 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407611
- Fri Apr 10, 2015 5:37 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "It's a mystery" "Damnit, you can't do that!"
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11146
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:30 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1675327
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 7:06 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1675327
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 3:37 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Feats and PrCs--How should they be handled?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8096
No, they really can't be. If you make any feat level specific, that means that all the feats have to be level specific in order for that to be balanced. And if you make all of your feats level specific, what you're really doing is just decreasing the number of useful feats people get at any given l...
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 3:35 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1675327
I wouldn't trade casting of one stat for getting to wear Heavy Armor I'm not proficient in. (Or even that I am frankly). I can't fathom why people have such raging clue for armored casting. When the Geometer first came out, I remember people going nuts for the ability to treat their spells as divin...
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 2:14 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1675327
I can see a large portion of DMs accepting that you can buy scrolls of domain spells. I can even see some of them letting you buy scrolls of spells from consolation-prize lists. But buying scrolls from variant classes (divine Bard) or some scribed as divine by use of an additional prestige class fro...
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 1:01 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Feats and PrCs--How should they be handled?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8096
- Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1675327
Blowing 750 gp at level 4 for five 2nd-level spells isn't financially crippling, but it's not peanuts, either. Actually, it'd be 150gp per 2nd level scroll and another 200gp for the inks and stuff used to copy it into the prayerbook. So each 2nd level spell effectively costs 350gp. five 2nd level s...
- Sat Feb 28, 2015 10:53 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1675327
As for archivists not having good spells in levels 1-5, it's only true in campaigns where DMs are not followijg the magic item purchasing rules from the DMG. Scrolls of the best low-level spells are crazy cheap and easily available in one-horse towns and shit-farming settlements because the rules a...
- Sat Feb 28, 2015 5:41 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1675327
Healers are a full casting class. Healers get a d8 hit die. Healers get 4+Int mod skill points per level. Healers get two good saves. Healers get a bunch of neat class abilities (actually more than the Archivist, whose table is padded with extra uses per day), including an intelligent companion crea...
- Fri Feb 27, 2015 9:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Drunken Review: Shadowrun 5
- Replies: 641
- Views: 262958
Priority chargen, fixed TNs, limits, cyberdecks, better unified mechanic (atrib+skill for almost everything), one attack per phase, streamlined matrix, higher combat lethality. You literally just listed things that were discussed as being horrible in the review. :bored: You're literally responding ...
- Fri Feb 27, 2015 8:16 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1675327
It's not actually different from the rule that Wizards can scribe any Shugenja or Paladin scroll they come across into their spellbook and then start casting it (yes really, that's what the rules say). This was actually patched in the Rules Compendium by adding the stipulation that you could only c...
- Fri Feb 27, 2015 4:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1675327
Most people here have a hate on for the particular way in which the tiers have been generated. Mostly this is because it leads to labelling classes that actually can function in a game--and do so effectively--at a higher (i.e., less powerful) tier than they should be, and certain classes that can't ...
- Fri Feb 27, 2015 4:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Drunken Review: Shadowrun 5
- Replies: 641
- Views: 262958
Wait, what are the positives? Priority chargen, fixed TNs, limits, cyberdecks, better unified mechanic (atrib+skill for almost everything), one attack per phase, streamlined matrix, higher combat lethality. You literally just listed things that were discussed as being horrible in the review. :bored...
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:07 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR Request Thread
- Replies: 657
- Views: 170256
- Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:02 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: L5R 3rd Edition
- Replies: 248
- Views: 98508
- Fri Dec 26, 2014 1:01 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What are the 'core 11' Tome PHB classes?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4976
- Fri Dec 12, 2014 7:47 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32673
If you want to know what he means you've got to ask him. Remember? Dont take his text to mean what it says, let him tell you what it means and if there's any glaring problems just let him explain them too, cyclically, forever. Its easy to see why the rulings not rules crowd feels the way they do gi...
- Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:33 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Advice on running Age of Worms?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5133
Thanks NineInchNail. Reading slowly through it from time to time, though I'll binge through once school lightens up a bit. I kinda liked the backstory of the Earth Elemental in the workshop, but my players don't have any reason to know Terran so it would just be a random monster to them. Wonder if ...