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Algae are protists, not fungi. Fungi really don't need light.

What do werewolves have to do with homosexuality and masturbation?

Then the Gygaxian dickwad will punish you for acting on "out-of-character knowledge". There's no winning with those people.

I like Spectators. They're memorable to me because of the one you encounter in Baldur's Gate II, who you can talk out of guarding its chest instead of fighting it.

Are those seriously all the types they have? No Constructs or Elementals or Oozes or Undead? No Outsiders that aren't Celestials or Fiends? What the fuck?

I'd like to see that too. I can sort of understand some of the changes from 3e, even if I don't agree with them, but the dumbing down of the monsters is indefensible.

I hate it when you need a rogue to deal with locks and traps, and rogues aren't good at anything else.

Now we get to see the mental gymnastics the 5mind goes through to rationalize how shitty all these monsters are. When I showed them the Pit Fiend, they said it was great that they don't have interesting abilities because 3e Pit Fiends took a long time to fight.

unlike 4e, it does have issues. Okay that's not exactly fair. 4E has plenty of issues too. But IMO 5E simply has the problem of not being very well thought-out. It seems like they were too busy trying to make it 'feel like D&D' that they forgot to make it mechanically sound. I'm impressed by ho...

Tom Clancy's been dead for a year. Also this isn't the video game forum.

Somehow I missed this back when it was posted, but it's a good write-up. I want to use Nerra in a campaign now.

Rapier and board probably (because of the defensive duelist feat). I'm not impressed by Defensive Duelist. Proficiency bonuses are thoroughly underwhelming, and dexterity is a dump stat for heavy armor users so they won't want to use finesse weapons. I think polearms might be the way to go, especia...

I've been having the same problem trying to find an interesting CRPG/MMO. Every time I try a new one I get bored before I actually get to the point i can do anything cool. While they don't have to be super powered, I want 4-6 distinctly different options a can go with out of the gate even if they w...

It's a cool idea. However it seems like it could be hard for players to come up with backstories, motivations and personalities if their characters aren't posthuman in some way.

I've played a one-shot of 5e, and while it's a playable game unlike 4e, it does have issues. The biggest problem for me is that the modifiers are so small that you'll be failing regularly, even at things you're supposed to be good at. The people I've seen who like it are old grognards who pine for t...

One word: kalashnikov. The AK-47 is considered one of the best and most reliable rifles ever, still seeing widespread use today and with no sign of retiring anytime soon. All because its design is so good it didnt need constant reformulations, just minor tweaks here and there. BRP is the AK-47 of g...

Why the fuck are Dragonborn in this game? Dragonborn are worse than AIDS and if anyone wanted to play in my game as a Dragonborn character I would tell them to go fuck themselves. If you want to play as a Dragonborn character, you are implicitly making the confession that you are a fucking loser. F...

Speaking of the Mirror World: how about a writeup on Nerras? The Fiend Folio says they kidnap people and may be planning an invasion, but doesn't give us any ideas as to why they would do these things.

I don't see how it's racist to give nonhumans subraces. It's not like different human races have different stats - it's elves, dwarves, gnomes and halflings. These don't actually exist, so I don't see why offending them would be a problem.

Sometimes the party doesn't have a choice. Maybe they made a gaff and got caught sneaking through the enemy fortress. Now the enemy has sounded the alarm and they are under attack by large numbers. Or maybe the BBG decides to hole up in his fortress with his minions(an incredibly common strategy). ...

NineInchNall wrote:Way to set up a false dichotomy / hollow man there. How's about you take the barrel of cocks out of your mouth and come up with a better retort?

I'm impressed by how much butthurt that one sentence caused you.

Bounded accuracy is a shitty idea for a fantasy game because you can't name me a fantasy universe where one badass dude isn't shown taking on 30 enemies. It is the fundamental trope of the fantasy genre. The only fantasy games that fail to deliver on that trope do so as an accident of poorly design...

I kind of like the idea of bounded accuracy in theory, because verisimilitude. A DM should never throw dozens of orcs at a mid-level party, but if it did happen the orcs should have a good chance of winning. If anyone can make it work as intended, though, it definitely isn't the Usual Gang of Idiots...

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Are there any CR 1/2 one HD intelligent crab people in Pathfinder?

There aren't any first-party ones that I know of, but the Cerulean Seas campaign setting has a playable crab people race.

I'd rather Araneas weren't related to Lloth in any way. I like spiders, and I'm glad a race of non-evil spider people exist. Spiders get too much hate, both in fiction and in reality.