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nockermensch wrote:

Shrieking Banshee wrote:Well does anybody think that D&D 5e could at least make for good V A P O R W A V E ?

been there, done that

I assumed so but this thread is massive.

Well does anybody think that D&D 5e could at least make for good V A P O R W A V E ?

OgreBattle wrote:So Berserk's DM cuddled him and let him draw out the magic of that axe into his sword. Better than nothing the DM thought.

Rules of Narrative. A D&D campaign adapted to film would be dreadful to watch.

Its the show where nobody makes mistakes, and nobody develops as a character.

"In 2017, the D&D brand had a 44 percent sales growth over 2016, and the most number of players in its history; 12 million to 15 million in North America alone ." https://tinyurl.com/y9uanpbn I might actually believe that. That doesn't make the D&D brand any better or really any s...

Again I think it's better to whip Paizo for its deserved failures and not its overall minor quibbles.

Spell Points is a bad name, can and should be changed, but overall solid idea.

I wasn't replying to the PG 42 for blugs sake. I meant fundamentally I as an individual get to choose if the task at hand is better suited to Job Proficiency: Animal tender or Job Proficiency: Sheepherder.

Fundamentally as much as you people may scoff: That's why we play these games at all.

If I want to play a Tabletop game its because the game is ultimately flexible.

Videogames are competition for Tabletop RPGs like Cars are competition for horseback riding.

As in maybe a long time ago but now the latter is mainly for people not looking for the former experience.

I feel Fantasy Flight could take DnD and PF's place, their Star Wars RPG looks fun and it's easy to understand I generally feel like you can't really have a game focused more on in-plot immersion where your die rolls are literally linked to narrative convenience. Not saying that's a bad thing, but ...

Pariah Dog wrote:Well perhaps with it's death one of those murderhobo enthusiasts (I'm stealing that) can put out the next big thing to rise from the ashes.

That can happen, but it will take a long time if it does because of the fallout.

Foxwarrior wrote:I thought the implication was more that the damage would remain level-appropriate (as well as Paizo can gauge such a thing) for Alchemists, while being only a decent amount of damage for other people when they're level 1 or 2.

I assumed so as well.

Oh, I agree! I just was making a rather terrible joke given the recent spate of closed-borders, "surely protectionism will work the 3rd time we try it" nonsense. Sucks about Ukraine! Yeah, that's simply put a bad/terrible idea. But I have been told there is more stuff to the issue (At lea...

So you live in the USA? No. Well yes now, but not what I was talking about. I came from Ukraine TO the USA. From my experience where I live people have a disproportionately negative view of their own country to the point, it gets somewhat sickening. I know that blind nationalism can be bad, but bli...

From my personal experience, it's naive to think that governments inherently care more about people. In my country, the government ended up scaring away all investors through negligence, corruption, and instability.

And everybody is still waiting for the shoe of spellcasting to drop. You could at least say they are streamlining options and of these power, downs are across the board then that can be alright, but of course, the spellcasting shoe is gonna drop with its massive fiddliness and cumbersome nature like...

Therefore, either he deal 6 times more damages than anyone else and he's completely unbalanced, either the bombs' damages are 6 times too low (and the alchemist deals level-appropriate damages). I guess it's the second option. Or the third option: bombs are useless piece of shit and the alchemist i...

You know its funny because 4e was my first RPG and I liked it for a while but I moved away from it on my own after I felt like no matter the level gameplay was always the same. It really did feel like in so many ways an MMO. Yes you could handwavium or gm-fait the elements that 4e didn't cover but t...

It's a real shame as well, because I feel like people will begin to conflate mechanical depth with poor design and it will fade away in place of games I'm fine with people enjoying but are not my cup of tea that are very simplified.

You know I can forgive a lot of failure on the end of game designers if I feel like they are trying. But the way Paizo is doling out information they are CLEARLY not. Its just so transparently PR, not designed to inform but get people talking, when fundamentally the playtest is "Already locked ...

You know, a gradient success thing could be alright, but somehow Paizo found the most fiddly way to go about it possible.

As Deaddmwalking pointed out, the author's definition of HP is rather expansive. Anything with a movable meter counts as HP - Mario has two hit points (full size to small size to dead) and also has lives, and Ghouls'n'Ghosts works on the same principle. Point and click puzzle games are specifically...

Cervantes wrote:banshee does raise the whole issue of "the outside world in 5e is a smooth featureless plain that exists only in the DM's mind" tho

It's not great for DMs either. Our DM despite trying to be enabling always felt flustered.

You know the strange thing is that 5e is actually less substantial then 2e. 2e had plenty of material about actually doing stuff and having a lasting impact on the world. Gaining followers, creating stuff. It wasn't very well thought out, but I do prefer not very well thought out enabling ideas over...

I maybe should have said Yo-Yo like. People getting knocked out repeatedly in one round but bounding up just as fast.

That's a really shallow kind of article really. It can be written about absolutely anything and everything. When he reached the "HP is dehumanizing" point that's when I rolled my eyes. Chess is Dehumanizing, so are Toy Soldiers. Im sorry people don't watch more arthouse films on the nature...