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- Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 4e magic items!
- Replies: 97
- Views: 16333
Re: 4e magic items!
1201215109[/unixtime]]Suntzu- just to make it worse, I was informed (in the ENworld thread of stupid) that if you give an NPC a magic weapon, it actually increases his level. Hm, though I might have gotten the wrong impression, I had thought that 4e essentially did away with the application of leve...
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:02 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 4E FR. Hope you didn't like the old Realms
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4016
Re: 4E FR. Hope you didn't like the old Realms
Huh. That last exchange is not the best, I have to say. I can't be the only one who gets a grasping, defensive tone out of that with a liberal peppering of "we haven't decided all the details yet" and "maybe an archwizard did it", I imagine.[br][br]I mean, most of those answers a...
- Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 4E information
- Replies: 269
- Views: 19638
Re: 4E information
1195151291[/unixtime]]Lesson learned: Mooks and critical hits do not mix well. Supplemental: Mooks who rely upon critical hits in order to pose a threat are inherently problematic, including as a particular clouds of mooks whose challenge to a party is supposed to be an aggregate of their fractiona...
- Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:31 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PHB 2 Errata is up! (???????)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6322
Re: PHB 2 Errata is up! (???????)
Immediate action short range teleport is powerful, a lot more powerful than the other options, but is it really that bad? In the grant scheme of things? Maybe not. Is just... foiling attacks/full attacks 4-5 times a day out the door at first level for pretty much no cost seems so flagrant. Between ...
- Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:20 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PHB 2 Errata is up! (???????)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6322
Re: PHB 2 Errata is up! (???????)
So... They released errata for PHB II and they didn't nerf the hell out of abrupt jaunt or even change it at all? Seriously, what the fuck?
- Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Threads that make us Laugh, Cry, or Both, Continued
- Replies: 1233
- Views: 47113
Re: Threads that make us Laugh, Cry, or Both, Continued
Wow, that AD&D thread is something. Is it me, or did that one fella intimidate that the only thing better than AD&D would be jacking off at a AD&D game table? Because that's kinda what I got a sense of, and it's a picture I really didn't need to have.
- Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Rules Compendium: Previews are up!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2154
Re: Rules Compendium: Previews are up!
I'm sort of confused. What's up with the optimal way to wield a weapon? Is my magical hat of antimagic legit? And what's up with the rolling again in grappling? I always thought that in contested rolls the reactive party set a target/DC such that in the case of a tie the active party had met the tar...
- Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:03 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: enjoying a game dispite it's flaws?
- Replies: 161
- Views: 9937
Re: enjoying a game dispite it's flaws?
1191031958[/unixtime]]No one has gone further than say "System X sucks, don't use system X". [br][br]Yeah. My point was actually noting that everyone here seemed pretty far from the extremes of "Douchebags who want to say that games are for fun and criticism is not fun and circle jer...
- Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:10 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: enjoying a game dispite it's flaws?
- Replies: 161
- Views: 9937
Re: enjoying a game dispite it's flaws?
1190911982[/unixtime]][br]WoD(old or new): broken in the core mechanics, but that's sort of okay since it was actually designed to suck and make you use the mechanics as little as possible. I'm not sure that the WoD was an elaborate koan that was designed to enlighten you to the idea that it's okay...
- Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 4E: what can we expect from SAGA and Bo9S?
- Replies: 114
- Views: 10347
Re: 4E: what can we expect from SAGA and Bo9S?
"All characters have at will, per encounter, and per day uses they will have to keep track of. No more mages pulling out crossbows. You will never be penalized for doing what you do best – your clearly defined roles." Hm. On the one hand, that sounds like trying to move toward a unified c...
- Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:02 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 4E: what can we expect from SAGA and Bo9S?
- Replies: 114
- Views: 10347
Re: 4E: what can we expect from SAGA and Bo9S?
1187458188[/unixtime]]So, you have the option of (1) investing one point in 20 skills, and sucking, or (2) investing 20 points in one skill, not sucking, and being completely one-dimensional. Aside from those gimme 1-point passives that crop up, yup, that's about it.[br][br]You see, the part of tha...
- Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:57 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: 4th Edition is Among Us! Or Some Weird Thing Called 4dventu
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5075
Re: 4th Edition is Among Us! Or Some Weird Thing Called 4dv
1187308892[/unixtime]]But several WotC employees believe that making monster classes suck makes it discouraging to play one, thus explaining why the PHB races are "common." Heh, yeah, that may have been something I've remarked upon from time to time. Me, I'm a passive aggressive DM. I wan...
- Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:18 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the Point?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2573
Re: What is the Point?
1187289917[/unixtime]]Y'know, if someone can convince you a piece of paper with poop on it is a game supplement, the quality of the supplement is the least of your problems. Heh, you see that hyperbole as ridiculously worse, while I take it to be somewhat better than the real effect of bad material...
- Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:35 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the Point?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2573
Re: What is the Point?
1187287716[/unixtime]]But what is the point of complaining about a rules system when you have the power/effort to change it around to what you like? So if I literally took a poop on a piece of paper and then sold that to you as a game supplement, would you think that it was pointless to complain ab...
- Thu Aug 16, 2007 4:47 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Predicting 4e- a betting pool.
- Replies: 49
- Views: 8047
Re: Predicting 4e- a betting pool.
Really? The Bo9S was a really a focus group for 4e's combat system? I am shocked, I tell you. Shocked.wrote:Concepts for 4th Edition gameplay were tested in the new Star Wars RPG, and the Book of 9 Swords.
- Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:02 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Sell Me On SAGA
- Replies: 63
- Views: 8456
Re: Sell Me On SAGA
1187071191[/unixtime]]On a roll of 10, he gets a 22, which is enough to give the stormtrooper a -5 penalty to everything. That stormtrooper, if a regular stormtrooper, is effectively out of action... until he spends a turn recovering. Wait... I'm confused. Are you asserting that there's an effectiv...
- Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:27 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Threads that make us Laugh, Cry, or Both
- Replies: 1224
- Views: 58020
Re: The Sage speaks on Vorpal vs Fortification
1187093423[/unixtime]]Vorpal really is a legacy of the old 1E days where rare random death was common. It seems out of place in 3E and it seems even more out of place as a common weapon enhancement. Yeah. The Vorpal enchantment is utterly horrible in a bunch of different ways. I used it as an examp...
- Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:25 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Idea for a new Campiagn Setting: Dead Man's Hand
- Replies: 91
- Views: 15471
Re: Idea for a new Campiagn Setting: Dead Man's Hand
Zombies would need to be more awesome. I want to see a zombie playing a piano in a saloon and/or folk banding together to hire a necromancer to get them a tough zombie sheriff. That just seems neat.[br][br]And I have to say that I agree about the being able to pick up magic/wands. Something like the...
- Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:02 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: Fallacy, Conundrum, Option; things remembered
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8453
Re: Fallacy, Conundrum, Option; things remembered
1186556714[/unixtime]]Well, I also believe WOTC has a Christian majority, and I do agree with Prak that it should be expressed freely. To judge by creed like that is wrong no matter which way. Actually, for serious, Prak's sig included a list of members of his particular religious affiliation (and ...
- Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:40 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: A proposal for noncasters
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1145
Re: A proposal for noncasters
Well... If you're going to do this, why not just have "noncaster" levels cost half XP?
- Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is it about "Low Magic?"
- Replies: 83
- Views: 13215
Re: What is it about "Low Magic?"
1186497332[/unixtime]]In Arthurian tales I'd say the whole damned thing is definitely not low-magic. Well, part of that is going to be influenced by how very inconsistently the term "low magic" is used. [br][br]There are at least three axes that people use interchangeably when talking abo...
- Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Save-or-Suck/Battlefield Control that allows a save: Differe
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3070
Re: Save-or-Suck/Battlefield Control that allows a save: Dif
1186487150[/unixtime]]If I'm not mistaken Web is considered Battlefield Control and Glitter Dust is considered a Save-or-Suck; why is this? Well, as per the name, it seems a bit self-evident to me. Glitterdust has an impact on a few creatures, and then it is done. Web may have an immediate impact o...
- Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is it about "Low Magic?"
- Replies: 83
- Views: 13215
Re: What is it about "Low Magic?"
1186338032[/unixtime]]His kingdom has legends about the extraordinary healing powers of the king and he secretly enters Minas Tirith to run around and heal a bunch of people so injured from combat that they're beyond the skill of professional physicians (that part got cut out of the movies, of cour...
- Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: MMV: Threshold
- Replies: 8
- Views: 999
Re: MMV: Threshold
1186300256[/unixtime]]Except in WoW you have to do hp damage. In D&D you just turn crap into a newt, threshhold bypassed. Unless the threshold isn't keyed to HP but instead is to turn into a giant angry mutant newt. Or fail a SoD and die, but keep fighting as a SoD-spewing zombie. Or other flav...
- Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Threads that make us Laugh, Cry, or Both
- Replies: 1224
- Views: 58020
Re: Threads that make us Laugh, Cry, or Both
1184865769[/unixtime]]It may only be initiutively obvious to a "casual observer" but a computer program is not a "rules set." It is an "instruction set." Rules exist and are all true at once. Instructions are followed in some sort of order. This is untrue. There exist ...