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Do you know how long it takes to make a book bomb? It's a lot. They aren't going to kill every person with that, they are going to kill every person they can't beat in any other way. Look, it's absolutely cool and memorable if the wizard spends the entire campaign saying "TONIGHT I'LL ADD ANOT...

@Hicks: The 6d6 is to make the ridiculous situation more explicit. The original trick is to use gargantuan bolts (4d6) because with Eschew Materials you can cast the spell without even having the bolt. But since we're going for extreme burst damage at level 1, why the fucking not spend 16 silver co...

Regarding dumb wizard tricks, anything a player can think on, it must already have been attempted in-universe, several times in the past. Fuck you. Math is a set of rules and mathematicians have existed for hundreds of years so any discoveries in mathematics is impossible, everything would have alr...

Regarding dumb wizard tricks, anything a player can think on, it must already have been attempted in-universe, several times in the past. "Wizards" as a group are hyper-intelligent, curious, creative and tend to enjoy growing their power in asymetrical ways. So, the best reaction for a pla...

But the bit that Koumei will never let down is actually below what has been quoted and linked (emphasis mine): Depending on the phrasing, that could well mean more than a million. You wish us to believe that WotC went to court over the 4e leak and didn't use the most impressive sounding numbers they...

You know, Dungeons look like natural counters to mongol archer tactics. In a world filled with elves and their composite longbows, manticores and Dragons, it may make a lot of sense to live in places with low ceilings and lots of LoS breaking walls.

Fantasy ranged attacks are just simulated as way too powerful. From a sufficient range, a single target can sidestep arrows pretty easily. It's only the volley of arrows from a unit of archers that is devestating to other troops becauser it covers a large area, or the sniper shot on an unmoving and...

Ready Player One, the movie.

TL;DR: wtf I hate the 80s now.

For the Win is about the same themes, only it's a good book.

So many words, and all them are REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

The player says "The character will now do science at the problem." and then the character does science, and the problem is solved or it is not solved. But it is solved or not solved due to the intelligence of the character , not the player. Yea; that's the exact thing I called out as hav...

Besides the 4chan-grade misogyny and possibly racism, nerd gatekeeping is also stupid because it assumes that between the masses of normies there won't be more people as hardcore as the original users.

Who'll email the guy, get the complete dataset and post it here?

I cannot determine if that is a genuine article, or if it's yet another satire of post-modernism. I mean, what's the difference between that manifesto and Peter Molydeux's tweets?

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What was the class Frank and K worked up? Leonard the Fighter or something. It had a magic item class feature, Dragon ally later on, etc It should be Elothar . But I'm pretty sure the point with Elothar is to hang a lampshade on the kind of DM pity that allows suboptimal characters to play a campai...

You're right. But the true a secondary purpose for giving every fighter a sorcerer follower magic weapon that cast spells is to steer people towards characters that can contribute by themselves. Think on it like a 6-step recovery program for fighter players. Step 1: "The sword you found earlier...

The quickest and dirtiest fix for the 3.5 Fighter is to give them as a class feature a magic weapon that's a Sorcerer 2 levels lower than them. This Sorcerous item additionally treats the fighter as its familiar, meaning that the fighter and weapon have a mental connection, the fighter benefits from...

So our Monk at level 4 should be able to have: Diamond Soul: Advantage against, Mummy, Nightmare, Wraith Combat Reflexes: Advantage against Phase Spider, Unicorn, Gryphon Inner Eye: Advantage against Basilisk, Siren, Vampire, Invisible Stalker ... what is combat reflexes doing in this example? Clea...

Ability damage is a stupid mechanic. You've abstractified general injury to hit points, and you've abstractified a range of other impairments to various conditions , why do you need yet a third orthogonal system of keeping track of impairments that don't stack with being stabbed? I don't think anyb...

I don't think anybody would care much if a cockatrice's touch dealt 1d6 dex damage (Fort Save negates).

Are there "Mother of Monsters" figures in the mythologies of Asian, African and/or North/Central/South American cultures? No idea. But I love that in what became Brazil, the dominant religious cult, at least on the litoral, was on based on fear of nightmares sent by Jurupari, an evil sola...

But D&D isn't simply monster stabbing. Usually the PCs are also expected to face-off against enemy knights, assassins or wizards. Are these supposed to be weak "like a lurker of the same level" by the lack of PC-appropriate treasure? Presumably you also have the equivalent of Warriors...

We are moving away from level == CR because fights against one enemy at a time are kind of dumb. 4e sucked in many ways, but the goal of having a standard encounter for X level Y characters be X level Y monsters is clearly superior. The standard encounter should be the one you actually use, not the...

Could an evil empire of the sort that likes making objects out of their murder victims turn humans into glue? Or is there something about human ligaments that makes us unsuitable for glue manufacturing? Would turning a human into glue significantly reduce the amount of skin (for parchment), meat (f...

You know, between like 1/4 of the threads here being "Here is why [this game|company|developer] is [bad|dumb|actually criminal]" and the backstabbing shit I personally know from the Brazilian RPG industry, I'm each day more prepared to accept that those 80s Satanic Panic preachers were ont...