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The fail is on a basic level though. Game mechanics, fail. Setting, fails in the central irredeemable all-powerful evil is less important than who your grandfather was, what color gi you wear, who said what about whom at court, who's Daimyo passed gas at Tea, etc... It's a total tear-down. Some of t...

I guess I can hit on the honor point Frank made. Tournament 1v1 attack tends to be the best strat (especially when events can claim like 2 provinces)...RoboCrane in Jade excepted because nothing could stop that regularly. Something that can realistically contest the favor was a better bet than somet...

I didn't want to go into depth about all disciplines are not created equal until you did. There's also the problem of the Jyhad we played wasn't what everyone else played. We did dabble in Shadowfist, but couldn't really keep track of the rules (brains too stuffed with Vamp houserules and L5R minuti...

This was 20 years ago, INWO had the one with everything, I don't know what else there was. Besides, you could always easily get the commons and probably uncommons from the hardcore that bought box after box to get their 20th whatever. ------ Maybe there was more to our card limit rules/strong sugges...

We had some fun with it (found a store with a lot of cheap Sabbat and the following base-set), but what we played was pretty far afield from rules as written (which are horrible for the reasons above--introduce card limits by title, and call out when denial actions like the combat enders can be play...

Shadowlands were always fun to play around with, but it was almost a decade before they were tournament viable. (I think it was some goblin/mujina/maybe ratling weenie horde deck that finally took GenCon). Too slow, too unfocused, specific cards too narrowly focused. Also the matter of lots of cards...

The change in deck size evened things out in Jade except Crane, they had the cards to just add 10 and the deck still worked the same (especially since they kept the province destruction events and gained regions that were some of the best defense you could have: Clan Heartland with stuff like Tidal ...

Before Hidden Emperor was Jade edition, where everything was non-viable except Crane honor (flip events and buy people to win). The deck sizes changing to 40/40 made it even worse for other clans too, a couple couldn't field basketball team of in-clan personalities (yay Phoenix). Hadn't come across ...

Is material a misspelling of martial? What kind of games of DnD do you run where casters aren't already ridiculously OP and you remove one of the few limitations (granted crafting is only like two feats out of several feat package choices and wiz gets a lot of them free at level 1 and the other tier...

From before, an example of a maneuver is Robilar's Gambit (which is on your list, things that talk about stances usually are). Like feats they vary wildly in usefulness but it's better than being a fighter or monk. Book is generally noteworthy for Crusader and Swordsage, which are better paladins an...

Are there caster rewrites in those tomes? Feats seem underwhelming for a game with stock DnD casters, even if you have all of them. (Once Freedom or Mind Blank protections are common, grapple and almost all the status causing melee stuff becomes useless against anything you care about.) Sure, boost ...

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Don't worry about the trigger words. Express them as +damage/soak, +to hit/ac and so on. Crunch then the fluff.

There are many ways to DnD, so there's many answers to the question. For 3.x example, if players book dive and the dm mostly uses stock everything, then hp is optimal for murdering things (almost everything is toast when it's out of hp) for chargers and arcanes (meta-magic orb spells to ludicrous). ...

I guess the claim of being an actual computer scientist is bullshit too?

I've made about 3 pages of the kobold fortress thread so far, and so far it's not looking good. Have to see where the few posts about the subject between your tirades go.

Let's see, 4th post, Ancient History voices the same concern. Even if it's as bad as you say, so what? This isn't pro game-dev, it's important that the sub-systems are elegant at each level of detail supported and the system doesn't fall over and spit out infinities when you substitute orc workers f...

Some of us want more out of DnD than just murder-hobo, so not all we talk about will be relevant to you. Why is this such a bad thing?

Forgot the battle for Riverrun in that book (or whatever the Tully's keep is called). And that even Cercei knew King's Landing wasn't defensible. So homework question: what's Tyrion's reason for bothering? Besides, ASoFaI isn't about the battles. It's come up a few times that the only people who car...

It's rules-hard. It has to be damn near perfect or it's likely to be unplayable failure. We don't have any idea what Mistborn wants to do with 3.x, but at least he probably has an easier task. Fewer status conditions. Start with something like a combo of fear/stun/charm, disease/poison, neg energy m...

These are all the things we asked you about in January, and we didn't ask you about them to be dicks. Ok, not only to be dicks. It doesn't help that you deflect questions like a press agent. Why are all your monsters as fast or faster than PCs? Why does everything have almost the same init? Why are ...

He doesn't. He binds the ridiculously weak things that have wish there and breaks the game at level 11 or earlier. Nuke it from orbit :) Not sure how to easily state the main problem of dnd3.x in the 2 minutes I can allow my self to post in this train wreck. Yes, it's well known and has a crap load ...

So it was 2nd ed Dark Sun or Ravenloff you were going for. Why didn't you just say in the first place so we'd know to stay far away?

What CR should a 33hp 4ab that does 6+3d6 damage slow moving creature that gets penalties at 2/3 and 1/3 hp have?

Rereading, I probably broke my own rule, it's just parrying things seems like something two weapon fighters should be able to do. Maybe weaken that and put some stronger defense options on a shield style (which are usually not worth it unless dm lets you use two and stack tons of things that don't b...

I'm sure it makes lots of sense to you, but you don't provide enough information to figure out what you want here. Like I said in January, I know how Frank does DnD, but I don't know how you DnD. Say there's a few styles. Each has a good trick against one enemy type and something ok against another,...

The problem is I can buy the design philosophy but the actual implementations you bother to post don't seem to support that, and DnD3.x has other huge problems you haven't acknowledged yet. Case in point: any cleric with random stats can be a cleric archer. They don't care about feats, their better ...

So how long until the next copy/paste of the OP? At least change it a little next time so Kaelik can't copy/paste his responses from the nth ago appearance of this thread.