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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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?

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.

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

wrote:Concepts for 4th Edition gameplay were tested in the new Star Wars RPG, and the Book of 9 Swords.

Really? The Bo9S was a really a focus group for 4e's combat system? I am shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Well... If you're going to do this, why not just have "noncaster" levels cost half XP?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...