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- Fri Jun 05, 2009 3:05 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Pathfinder] Just to kick a man when he's down.
- Replies: 276
- Views: 28106
- Fri Jun 05, 2009 3:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What does a world with supers look like?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8680
Would government agents be sent to shoot him? Hell no. Fucking A, Amra's just a crazy conspiracy theorist telling us all that the evil government is not just evil but stupid, and regularly shoots people for no fucking reason. *sigh* You're wilfully missing the point, I suspect, but I'll bite this o...
- Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What does a world with supers look like?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8680
Are we talking about telepaths who can just read minds or are we talking about those who can read minds, control others and change their memories? I'd been working on the assumption that we were talking about the former in the absence of any indication to the contrary. In terms of the latter, as lo...
- Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:12 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: So, how 'bout them Mage Slayer feats?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5627
Pierce Magical Protection would be a lot nicer if it wasn't melee only. Pierce Magical Concealment is interesting, but tough to adjudicate. As you say, it negates the miss chance due to an invisibility spell, but there's nothing there that suggests the feat helps you target the correct square. Like...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:31 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Pathfinder] Just to kick a man when he's down.
- Replies: 276
- Views: 28106
I want to know what sort of gimp ass character is only doing 32 damage with a x3 crit at those levels. Firstly: it was a comedy statement for comedy value. Secondly: an unbuffed, no-magic-weapon, thrown weapon character... you know, like the one I described in the post Thirdly: x3 crit? Finally: Ig...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:05 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What does a world with supers look like?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8680
Really? You don't think the temptation to use that to your advantage would make someone invested in the idea of protecting this person? Besides, this person has super powers, what makes you think shooting them in the face is even possible ? This isn't even an interesting discussion until you throw ...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:54 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What does a world with supers look like?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8680
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:31 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Pathfinder] Just to kick a man when he's down.
- Replies: 276
- Views: 28106
You're quite right, of course, I missed the 1-round effect on a successful save. Even so, with the example character I was working from - a character, moreover, weighted towards high numbers of attacks / low damage rather than high damage per attack - the monsters they're fighting will, on average, ...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:17 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What does a world with supers look like?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8680
What about telepaths? Given that there is current research into brain imaging to determine what people are thinking, what level of accuracy would telepaths have to exhibit in order for them to be recruited by police and government forces? Slightly more accuracy than they'd have to demonstrate in or...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Pathfinder] Just to kick a man when he's down.
- Replies: 276
- Views: 28106
Why would you assume they aren't buffed? They have gear, are smart, and some of them have spells. Very simple: because that way, madness lies. I assumed the character wasn't buffed either, so why not assume the monsters appear as presented? It is, after all, far more likely that a character will en...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:07 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Pathfinder] Just to kick a man when he's down.
- Replies: 276
- Views: 28106
I don't have any Paizo sources to draw from. However, sticking with the CR17 SRD monsters: Aboleth (10th-level Mage), fortitude +15 Amethyst Dragon (Mature Adult), fortitude +19 Arcanoloth, fortitude +8 Banshee, immune Brass Dragon (Old), fortitude +19 Bronze Dragon (Mature Adult), fortitude +19 Dea...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Pathfinder] Just to kick a man when he's down.
- Replies: 276
- Views: 28106
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:56 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ring of Wizardry price confusion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3795
The Ring of Wizardry hack is the Beguiler 1 / Wizard (min) / Ultimate Magus 10. You get 19 CL in 20 levels, and the Ring doubles spells from both sides of casting (which in turn fuels you metamagic for free). That's... a really interesting point. One of my current characters is a Beguiler/Focussed ...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:46 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What does a world with supers look like?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8680
Superheroes have to ignore white-collar crime, or the suspension of disbelief falls apart completely. In fact, the whole heroic trope falls apart because the sort of black-and-white morality that allows him to hurl super-villains into the sun doesn't withstand the slightest scrutiny once he starts g...
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:41 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What does a world with supers look like?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8680
I'm not familiar with WANTED (beyond the movie) but... what sort of power-level are we talking about here, Josh? What sort of super-crap can the characters pull off? As for all the policemen in the world keeping a secret , erm, doubtless there's more to it than that, but I'm not feeling the plausibi...
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:07 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 3.x classes with sneak attack...
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4495
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What's with the sudden hatred of (w)angst?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5104
- Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What does a world with supers look like?
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8680
Re: What does a world with supers look like?
So what does superhero land look like? The most likely description of a land with "superheros" in it is "a smouldering wasteland". I'm not even joking. If your superheroes have world-altering powers, and if they are not exactly and precisely counterbalanced by super-threats, we'...
- Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:23 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: aWoD: Continued
- Replies: 1558
- Views: 197352
- Fri May 29, 2009 4:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Single-use Items
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3719
Why would I ever buy a magic weapon when I can get a wand of caster level 20 Greater Magic Weapon for 900 gold per charge? Seriously, for the next 3 or 4 levels a party of 4 can run around with +5 weapons every adventuring day using just the trade-in value of +3 equipment. And in many ways, those w...
- Thu May 28, 2009 3:17 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: World of Wizards
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1202
- Thu May 28, 2009 11:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: World of Wizards
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1202
You could also quite readily imagine a Wizard New World Order type setup where the wizards actually are in charge, but the fact isn't obvious, just like certain crazy assholes believe happens in the Real World (TM) but with Wizard Overlords instead of Lizard Overlords . They let kings rule kingdoms ...
- Tue May 26, 2009 4:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Make everyone decent at the social minigame or get rid of it
- Replies: 80
- Views: 6926
- Tue May 26, 2009 12:42 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Dumb rules question regarding enhancement bonuses and armor.
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3919
On the original topic (heaven forbid) because a) I'm interested in it and b) I'm going to try to abuse what I learn here in-game, I believe Bracers of Armor to be mis-priced. They are not priced as items that grant an Armor bonus (because there doesn't seem to be any such category, oddly), they're p...
- Fri May 22, 2009 12:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Problematic 4E Monsters Thread
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8249
Isn't the Young White Dragon (Level 3 Solo Brute) problematic as well? The sonofabitch has 200hp, gets two claw attacks at-will with reach and can hover ... Surely that's going to turn into the grind-fest from hell, considering it doesn't need to take a move action to stay in the air and thus never ...