The Gaming Den

Theoretically? OK. I agree with you. Practically speaking? No dice. Every single person I play with basically plays for the two KODT player pacifiers - loot and XP. People like getting magical stuff that makes their characters better. Except you can easily get magical gear that makes you awesome wi...

See, I'm with K, when I read people trying to set up raising McCuteKid as a moral dilemma, I was wondering what game you are playing. I mean, Joe Cleric gets access to Planeshift at the same level as he does Raise Dead, so as soon as he can actually do anything with Diamonds, he already has an infin...

1) THERE IS NO FUCKING DM! Seriously, I don't play 4E, there is no goddam DM, there never was, I don't need a new one. 2) Yes replacing, "in your own castle" with "anywhere you would plausibly want to teleport from" (a subset which is largely composed of places that you could eas...

This does seem a bit incongruous to me. I haven't read 4e rules, but is casting a ritual really such an amazing monster-attractor that you think you can find places in the world enough that are safe enough to eat, sleep, conduct trade, and build civilizations, but are not safe enough to chant for 1...

If you, as a hardened adventurer, can't find a way to hole up somewhere where random wandering goblins can't get at you for 10 lousy minutes, then you deserve whatever you get. If you're in a situation where you *know* goblins will come wandering by in the next few minutes, maybe you should be usin...

Why shouldn't breaking down a door be faster than casting knock? Knock can open more doors than either brute force or nimble fingers. The trade-off is that it takes longer. No it doesn't, Breaking down a door has a 100% success rate. You can't find a door anywhere in the game that can't be broken d...

You don't think about when to use them, you just ask yourself the following question, "Is their anyone who doesn't want me to complete the ritual within 1000ft of me, or otherwise able to hear me chanting, or within line of sight?" If the answer is yes, you don't cast. And I happen to thi...

Okay, a lot of that is pretty fuzzy towards what you actually mean for it to do, but here's how I read it: Level 1: Class abilities nothing Feats, Rangers get four feats at level 1. Level 2, nothing at all level 3, another four feats. Level 4, Leadership level 5, another three feats. level 6 feat. l...

Jerry wrote:Seems like a probable theory.

I'm pretty sure no one in the entire universe is actually so stupid that they can't see what your alter egos have in common.

How about if I stopped complaining, admitted that I'm wrong, and just stopped reading certain threads and posted about other things, would you be happy then? Well since you've already told us several times that you were going to stop complaining, and you told us that you were going to leave, and al...

I am not Bleach or Jerry, or whoever the fuck they are because I don't care about the manners of the board users, or lack thereof. You could be a jerk or a nice guy, but if you say stupid stuff, that's going to annoy me. That, and I couldn't care less about Frank's message board posts. (aside from ...

But D&D is a game. What's the point of obsessing about a game version that you don't like? It's not like anybody here is getting brainwashed against their will into playing 4th Edition. If gamers don't like it, they go play something else, WotC loses sales, and hopefully, they will learn from t...

What do I share in common with this Jerry guy? See this kind of thing makes me think that he has to be Jerry, most people don't just start reading out of nowhere and posting their angry diatribe against us wasting our time having opinions and sharing them. And of course anyone who had been reading ...

And I was completely oblivious to the forum move for several weeks because my bookmark happened to be directly to the IMHO forum, which kept bringing up the "maintenance mode" error message. You too? I finally just searched for the tomes at some point and came up with this forum, and was ...

Just to make sure we're in the same page: while the 10% health is ________, is someone complaining that interruptible rituals are a feature (I mean in the sense of making people think where and when they're gonna use them)? I don't know which side you are on, but the point is that rituals aren't ju...

PhoneLobster wrote:Does anyone else believe my call on Jerry now?

More every day.

PhoneLobster wrote:Enworld is clearly ludicrous if they can just point over here and ban people as a result.

Not only that, but the cute part is that the mods did it just after another mod declared that they only use things on that forum to judge posters.

At level 3 you really don't have many Grappling choices, but after level 9 you can just teleport around giving people grappling hugs.

Of course, at level 7 you can give a whole group of archers a nice tentacular hug that they will soon forget (unless they took Memories of Death.)

On the issue of Designers thinking people played like retards in 3.5, I was just skimming Drow of the underdark today and came across the "For PCs" section, where it talks about advice about how to deal with Drow. It features such winning statements as: "Yes Fireball helps clear out a...

Well first they'd need to actually add something at level 20-30.

Yeah, if there was such a thing as getting reach, or large size, or anything at all it might matter, but since it doesn't, you pretty much just knock them back so that they can hit you again.

I honestly never understood the "you level so fast" argument that you guys make. I mean, yeah you'd level fast if you spend every day of your life adventuring and fighting battles. But that's just not the case. Unless you're some kind of sociopath who kills everything he encounters, you'r...

Frank's tone puts me off...a lot. When I stop and consider the logic he offers, he's usually right, but his tone make him appear to be an angry, ranting troll. He tends to assume a "me vs. them" attitude, which only puts other posters on the defensive. Seriously, Frank ought to get a webc...

Dude, the insult wasn't warranted. If he was at least sticking around then it's a little err... kosher (closest approximation I can think of currently). But you are just belittling someone while he's walking away. This makes you look like an idiot. Have you ever yelled at someone walking away from ...

Quite simply the best buffs are +stat to hit to someone else, like The Cleric at will. And these are always available and don't scale well at all, they less then double in 30 levels, so it does more at level 1, percentage wise, then at level 30. That's sad.