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ACOS wrote:leave it to sheep to deride the sheepdog

Just for the record, do you think there is a conspiracy which contributes the Superbowl and gas station shooting to him, do you think they really occurred or what?

FrankTrollman wrote:We're seriously at Pun Pun levels of "it doesn't say I can't make up new abilities that are wildly out of line with the guidelines and common sense." No. Just: No.

Wish and the Word would be a far better metaphor here.

No, what I'm saying is that even if an item doesn't shift the RNG it can still substantially change what encounters you can handle ... and in the mid to high level of the game I don't see players calling anything less than that sweet either.

So sweet but not actually sweet.

In fantasy you get character defining items which represent large boosts to their competency.

In the end a cloak of invisibility is always going to hugely powerful or nerfed so far into oblivion that the player stops finding it interesting.

Ferret wrote:That's actually an interesting idea, Hogarth, because then you could sort of help out the mundanes by giving them more class points for buying gear-powers.

I'd use attunement for this, feels more appropriate in D&D.

Training should be able raise skills, without progressing your character in other ways. XP (or it's equivalent) should also be able to raise skills. Maybe +1 to a skill for a year of study with some diminishing returns at the high end in a D20 game? It becomes slightly more obvious just how magical ...

On the one hand I like the concept of the Forge, a community site where you can easily share/download maps/encounters/adventures/modules which you can drop into your campaign should really be part of every VTT. On the other I can't help but think they are another one of those IT failures WotC is so ...

Lago PARANOIA wrote:For one, Critical Existence Failure is the number-one cause of one-sided butchery, people doing coup de graces in the middle of combat

More a result of the ease of getting someone back in the fight quickly.

and focus fire.

I'd prefer a suppression mechanic over a death spiral.

When a weapon is larger than you it should just stop doing more damage and get a bullrush effect for free. If a player is wielding some gargantuan greatsword through some means it makes no more sense that the human he is hitting just stands there like a brick wall when hit than if a dragon tailswipe...

EA's involvement has been hit an miss ... I think they had as much influence on ME2 as DA2 and although I hated ME2 it was a huge success and probably much cheaper to make than ME1. ME3's ending was a home grown disaster, a writer with a massive case of NIH with a producer who enabled him to fly sol...

codeGlaze wrote:I personally can count a dozen (at least) "well adjusted" AND/or attractive people

The context was an all female group of hipsters ... ignoring gender for a moment I was also not talking about individuals, but the groups.

So if you consider casual gamers to be real gamers, and you should, then you can find many communities where conventionally attractive and hip people are happy to sit down and play RPG's. In many communities finding hip people at all would be a problem ... but no matter how comprehensive and well-d...

I mean, of course you need to have some sort of system for determining whether or not Ranger Danger successfully crosses a slippery log bridge: you know, general adventure stuff. But that could be handled old school style, with ability checks vs. DC. For the specialized stuff though, why not treat ...

Hiram McDaniels wrote:My fiance would be interested to read that. Her D&D group is made up entirely of attractive and socially well adjusted Portland hipster girls.

That doesn't actually refute it ... in how many communities could she find such a group?

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. You just need 13 dex to take the feat, you can still use strength for attack with a finesse weapon and benefit from...

Rapier and board probably (because of the defensive duelist feat).

The action economy is.... -You have a Move, Standard, and Swift action Make things as simple as they need to be ... this is too simple (or rather it would be a lie, you'd have lots of other actions even if you didn't name them). I'd say 4e got it almost right for a non-simultaneous turn flavour of ...

Is going down really that big a deal if the cleric is still standing? Oh you're down, one healing word (bonus action, 60 feet range) and half your movement later and you're back up again.

It's still too complex for what it is, if you just want to roll against bullshit DC's and have the DM arbitrary decide outcomes without rolling you can make it far simpler.

Is movement still an action? You can split up however you want including in between extra attacks right?

Could you link that proof? I don't even see where to start with an analytical proof.

DragonChild wrote:First, can we not devolve into ... ableist comments

That boat sailed and made a couple trips around the world ...

How did Sacred Geometry get published? Did we misjudge SKR and was he actually the force keeping Paizo from descending into total shit and insanity?

It would be realy funny if Paizo does do their own closed IP for pf2 and then Dreamscarred press takes over where they left off with another attempt at 3e done better.