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To some extent it's impossible ... it ain't D&D without d6 per CL save for half fireballs, the sacred cows lock you into lots of dice and double digit math. As for a fantasy games in general which play fast while having a large option space with high predictability of outcomes ... design it as a...

At least you can hide when they can see you again.

You can hold the charge on an infusion of you're expecting trouble. The DMG2 weapon abilities which summon elementals work well for Artificers. Warforged can have crystals embedded in themselves to get access to psionic powers (MoE). Then once you get the ability to add metamagic to scrolls you can ...

When a target is bloodied(50%hp) they take maximized hit point damage. Why not make it so that at bloodied you stop being able to soak SoDs period? You could give martials some boosted damage at bloodied, but even a 3e core fighter could put almost anything away in 2 full attacks from half hitpoint...

Zaranthan wrote:The fighter bashes the demon in the face until it's bloodied, then... keeps bashing it in the face hoping it flubs a save against the wizard's spells.

Is this a problem? As long as the fighter has far superior single target damage than the wizard they both play their part this way.

Never tried it ... but how about +10 to all saves, -10 when bloodied (ie. half hitpoints).

Is Pillars of Eternity good? Combat is tedious, class balance is absolute crap (summons, charms and AoE for the win, not too different from D:OS in that respect). But who expects balanced game play in party based western RPGs? It's the buggiest RPG release in recent memory ... made worse by the fac...

People who consume D&D products want crunch. This is probably the only lesson that's impossible to miss if you examine D&D history. Ever since groups not run by Gygax started playing high level games the elitists have been telling them they are having wrong bad fun ... no one in this era ha...

The game already includes a way of tracking areas of competence and incompetence. They are in the ability scores. Can be ... not in most D20 games though obviously, can't escape the math that a +1 is only an (absolute) 5% change in the odds. Further, in a typical game players simply keep adding poi...

So instead of having ranks going from 0-infinite have levels of untrained/Novice (+1)/Journeyman(+2)/Expert(+4)/Master(+6)? Why does any one ever thinks this a good idea? You can't have competence without incompetence ... and you fucking well need areas of both to make characters distinct. A fighte...

How often should a rogue succeed at picking the lock on someone's house? Pretty much all the time with repeated tries, unless they fumble. This sort of thing benefits massively from something like 3e D&D's "Take 20" roll. If there is no in-game time pressure, it's best to handle it us...

An on an unrelated note, everyone was so busy talking about whether "getting ranged sneak attack all the time" is an appropriate damage benchmark that no one bothered to say whether and how you can get ranged sneak attack to apply constantly in PF... Presumably sniper goggles, smoke/fog s...

Shrapnel, almost everyone does. Some people just speak an entirely different language, I think trying to find any consistency about this on Tumblr is a fools errand though. It's just sophistry.

Advantage is just a poor replacement for developer discipline in keeping the number of stacking bonuses limited. Without going for a dicepool like system it's limitations are annoying, with a dicepool system you just introduce more complexity than bonuses. You can have a stunt system to give bonuses...

You could always borrow the lair concept from 5e ... let characters construct a lair which gives them a ton of bonus HP and the ability to swat away most non damage effects, lets say until he is half HP.

Rogue is the only one to get Skill mastery, one of the few who can take Trap Spotter (automatic trap spotting) and one of the quite a few who get half their level to find/disarm traps.

The rogue is relatively secure in the trap niche, with the Slayer and Investigator being the only real alternatives.

And finally, the fact that once you jump into a Paragon class, you're still on the class rails you started on, that's completely fucked. It means that none of the Paragon Classes could ever provide real transformative advancement. When they're mandatory the amount of class features you put into the...

I think 4e got it right with paragon paths and epic destinies.

FrankTrollman wrote:I genuinely don't even know what the hell explicit rule you're talking about. There is no explicit rule that Wizards can't cast spells off their spell list.

There is just a rule what their spell list from which they cast is, for the PHB it's the one on "(page 192)".

Spells scribed into a wizard's spellbook are added to the wizard spell list. Otherwise it would make no sense that you can create your own spells, and all the spells named after a wizard who created them likewise would make no sense. Or you could say the process of spell research adds it to the lis...

What use is scribing/preparing spells for a wizard if they can't cast them? They can only cast "arcane spells which are drawn from the sorcerer/wizard spell list". Magic item shoppes and magic item creation(rarely an option due to cost/time, but obviously not a problem for scrolls) are rel...

ishy wrote:Is this just someone bullshitting?

With three character generators down it seems unlikely. Just a lawyer getting trigger happy and being a PR nightmare as lawyers are wont to do.

Did they fix the ridiculous damage you get for moving through an AoE effect yet?

Lord Mistborn wrote:So where does that leave sword guy?

Higher level characters and most monsters have little to do with realism. The damage they take from swords and arrows can be balanced however you want, regardless of the number of shots and accuracy you want to allow for your realism.

So did the news just get out late or did they get a christmas pink slip like usual?