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Tyrannosauroid- Strong jaws made for crushing bones -Tyrannosaurus rex is the most famous among them Carnosaurid- Swift jaws made for slashing flesh -Allosaurus and friends So for the uninitiated, what is the practical gameplay difference between these two? They're similar size, similar build, and ...

It is more important to learn your GM/Groups stupid fucking critical miss house rule than it is to learn any actual differences in the pathfinder rules from 3.5. Those are the easiest houserules to learn. "Oh they exist? Have a fun game, I'm going to go do something more enjoyable. Like find a...

Triceratops is barely in giant dinosaur territory to begin with, its smaller cousins are definitely mount-sized. Chasmosaurus is pretty firmly in mount-sized territory. And related: I think I may use eotriceratops instead of triceratops for the standard ceratopsid giant dinosaur. It's not nearly as...

Slade wrote:

Seerow wrote:

fbmf wrote:
Sounds like an elevator pitch for a SyFy Channel Original.

Game On,
fbmf

Octoraptornado

No, Sharknado vs Octoraptornado:
Whomever wins, we lose!

You say we lose, I would watch the hell out of that.

Lots of imagery to draw from when it comes to "mystic shaman priest wizard riding on giant monster" http://totalwargamer.co.uk/images/detailed/13/37254_37253_37252_37251_lizardmen-stegadon-1.jpg Going with warhammer imagery it usually goes... Swift skillful guy: rides a raptor thing melee...

fbmf wrote:

Lokathor wrote:

Ancient History wrote:I have "orcraptor" in my head now and I hate you for it.

I read this as "Octoraptor" and imagined a Jurassic Park sized velociraptor with eight octopus tentacles for arms.

Sounds like an elevator pitch for a SyFy Channel Original.

Game On,
fbmf

Octoraptornado

Honestly when I was describing the hell planetoids I imagined (and this is a point that I actually did not make clear at all in my posts, mostly due to thinking it was mostly irrelevant) a series of planets that are smaller than earth (hence planetoids rather than planets), but much closer together,...

So refusing to admit you're wrong, as expected.

Well then you are completely full of shit because the entire point of the post I quoted was you talking about how our universe has multiple planets on the same plane so the fucking D&D one could have all the planes be planets on the same plane. You specifically talked about having ice planets, ...

In addition, you need not have seen the destination, but in that case you must have at least a reliable description of the place to which you are teleporting. This is the only meaningful part that is different from Teleport, which says "You must have some clear idea of the location and layout ...

Well there are multiple worlds in our universe without needing to go to alternate planes. Even if we jetison that concept as either not there or not relevant for the Prime Material plane, you could have the Hell Plane actually made up of a cluster of (relatively) tiny planets. Make it a couple doze...

The idea of cutting bullshit out of a Kitchen Sink Fantasy setting is that you cut as much as you can without reducing the stories you can tell. So Gehenna doesn't lose any storytelling capability by being a big volcano that happens to be on Baator somewhere. But making it so that there aren't any ...

What happens to your town when some wasps build a nest in the barn http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/vermin/bees-and-wasps/wasp/wasp-swarm A single wasp nest doesn't translate into a swarm. I see wasps all the time, but rarely more than 1-3 at a time. For a swarm you are looking at ...

In the original post you have new low-level rules, because fuck wolves being scary. Fine, in the real world ordinary people made them locally extinct with primitive tools, replacing them with domestic versions. But you've kinda lost a bunch of the monster manual along with that. And if the Orcs and...

radthemad4 wrote:Yes this thread is a mess, but if there's anything worth salvaging, it could be moved to a shiny new thread started by someone with good taste which has more good backgrounds in it.

go fuck yourself

I agree with some of these. (fewer celestials. Less powerful gods. Fuck alignment) and *maybe* parts of the planes (I play the inner planes as being one single mass divided that changes element depending on where you are in it. Also they're not infinite, just defined vaguely as "big as it need...

Yeah I totally dig that cosmology. It makes sense, and sets the stage for lots of potential PC adventures, which is everything you expect a cosmology to accomplish.

I like different resolution mechanics for different things. Specifically for combat I actually like the swinginess and speed of resolution of the d20. For most other things (specifically anything done that isn't stabbing people) I tend to prefer more consistent results with more granularity, and gen...

If random extra actions don't work, don't make them random? Something along the lines of Josh's post where you get more/better action economy based on level at set levels seems good to me. Especially for any game where you want explicit tier breaks. If by epic level you just straight up have three t...

So a 3rd level NPC can become a 1st level PC? Doesn't that mean their BAB, saves, skills, and hitpoints are going to suddenly be reduced? This actually came up on GitP recently, this was my response: Of course having a Commoner 3 be the norm makes playing level 1 adventurers seem a bit weird. But y...

I've never heard of DnD Tools, you should explain it a little more. Did the app just have all the same info as the website? It's an online database with all of the classes, feats, and spells indexed and searchable with a bunch of different filters to make it easy to find what you're looking for. I ...

Prak: Improved Natural Attack cannot be applied multiple times to the same natural weapon. That said, even without all of that stacking, unarmed strike is a bludgeoning weapon, so is a valid target for Greater Mighty Wallop. So you can be an 12th level monk with a monk's belt, INA, and Greater Might...

One thing you could do to slow exp progression down is count the NPC levels (which if I understood Dean correctly everyone has in addition to adventurer levels) towards ECL for determining exp rewards and progression to next level. So you're in a level 5 group of 4 players and complete a level 5 cha...

As far as killing Bounded Accuracy goes the primary target is going to be the proficiency bonuses. Right now they scale from +1 to +6 over 20 levels. Give a straight up multiplier to that to make each increase feel more noticable. Say you go with a x3 multiplier, so each point of proficiency bonus i...

I was actually kind of expecting Final Boss to be using "This isn't even my final form!", a kind of altered version of the multimonster rules being used here but gaining more powerful multimonsters in exchange for having to use them one at a time instead of getting all 4 at once. That stil...