The Gaming Den

Ah, let's get the races out of the way too. Once we've created our wizard, we have to pick a race for him to lead. All Arcanus races are available at the start, but to pick a Myrran race, we have to have picked the Myrran retort. So - without further ado: Arcanus Races: Barbarians are a fairly bland...

In that case... Let's Play Master of Magic! You've already seen the intro, but it's not exactly enlightening as to what is going on in there. So I'll start with a few more details about the game. In Master of Magic, you play as the wizard-ruler of a nation. Your goal is to somehow banish all other w...

So, all of you guys with your Dominion 3 talk have gotten my strategy game itch going in a big way. I'm probably going to have to get that game... But in the meantime, I've reinstalled the grandfather of Dom3, Master of Magic. That's an old ('94) Microprose game, which is, to put it bluntly, absolut...

Frankly, if feats are supposed to represent mundane abilities, then they should all be available at level 5 at the latest (and that's for a feat starved class.) I mean, sure, have a pre-requisite for a feat that's a strict upgrade to another feat. Say, going from Stunning Fist to Killing Fist or som...

Well, our knight and clerics were out of the fight at that point - down a nearby cliff. They were out of it. The barbarian - I don't know. The player is the kind who wouldn't carry one because he didn't envision his barbarian as a shooter. Or maybe he forgot he had one. But I'd bet on the former. Or...

In most of my gaming "career", I've been the DM - to the point that I think I have missed many lessons that would make me a better DM. As a result, I try to make the most of each playing opportunity I get. Many such lessons were given to me the first time I played Paizo products. It was st...

In fairness to Mearls, "blasting metric shittons of orcs with Fireballs" sounds cooler than "make an invisible wall appear" or "inflict minus-2 to all enemies", and raising the real fucked-up shit wizards can do with planar binding and the like would hijack an article t...

IMO powergaming can be a problem in two cases. 1-Characters that end up being non-entities except for their combat stats. I don't mind a 6-int fighter if the player is roleplaying that 6 int (and by that I mean "is roleplaying, period" - honestly I'm not going to fucking argue that the pla...

You... clearly didn't read what I linked. [...] Oh - I read it (and I don't necessarily disagree with it, either. It's certainly an elegant fix to the MOAR NUMBERS problem.) I'm just working through the implications and taking the time to think about it. In fact, I'm very interested in the treasure...

So - after thinking about it, I'm probably going to make the fighter-type an urban ranger, and make him a two-weapon wielder primarily. Damn, do fighter archetypes suck ass. :) The Cavalier will be specced toward waraxe-and-board (and/or two-handed waraxe wielding) Plus the occasional lancing of cou...

Yeah - rolling for hit point is out. Seriously, that was dumb back in BECMI. As to treasure dependency and number increases... I'm mostly worried about balance between the classes. It's not really a problem for me if the party ends up only able to face EL14 encounters at level 16 only. I'll adjust m...

So, for the hell of it, I've decided to start working on characters (15-pts buy, but I'm willing to take a look at increasing that for noncasters) In retrospect, a dwarven Paladin is... not a good idea. That -2 to charisma means that most abilities get neutered badly unless all points. So I decided ...

Thanks a lot! I'm already set on one house-rule: I'll allow feat retraining, probably as it was in 3.5. That should help with fixing the less obvious trap options (and is just a good idea in general). I'll probably also include a simple house rule that says "some spells have been changed - see ...

First - as it's my first post here I figure I'd say hello to you all (and thank you for having a gaming community that isn't full of hypocrite snipers like the paizo boards or *shudder* the wussy nicer-than-thou GitP forums. So - I'll soon be GMing a Pathfinder campaign. I don't have all that much e...