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Nippon-Ichi are here to save the day: -Disgaea 1 (PS2, PSP, Steam, NDS), I rate it good out of 5 -Disgaea 2 (PS2, PSP, Steam), I rate it perfect out of 5 -Phantom Brave (PS2, Steam?), I rate it okay I guess out of orange -Makai Kingdom (PS2), I rate it Epsilon out of 5 -Disgaea 3 (PS3 and probably ...

Are there any current thoughts on how to handle bonus feats? Should they continue being distributed as they are, or should the expectation of more feats due to getting one per level apply to bonus feats from classes as well (e.g. instead of gaining one bonus combat feat, you gain two)?

If I recall correctly, there have been a *few* classes to come out of tgd that have had full BAB and 1-9 spell progression and have been focused on being a fighter. I think IGTN's Paladin was one of them. In any case, with a heavily limited spell list and some spells coming at later levels (as well ...

This makes the wish economy substantially more usable... as it was before, it was so ad-hoc that I was tempted to return to WBL at times, but this looks good.

If dancing lights is supposed to be so "thematic" anyway, you seriously want him going around treating his fireworks as second nature; he should really just be able to activate and deactivate it as a free-action SLA. That's FAR more thematic than expecting players to gimp themselves to go ...

You may also want to bear in mind that Rogue is, Tier 2, not 4, on that goofy tier list thing (which really shouldn't be taken too seriously in the first place). It honestly performs fairly well on its own in Tome games, and doesn't need that much of a boost. A little more versatility and thematic d...

Glad you're making more material for the Ninja, seeing as it's a favourite of mine, now. Wound up making a mystical ninja back a few months ago that was hella fun to play.

Huh, sounds like the most slimy and puerile thing to come out of RPGs since FATAL, I'll be honest.

Yes, try to avoid the classic mistakes that philosophers make about other philosophers where they strawman each other. This kind of mistake is really common in philosophy because philosophers are mostly dicks. For example, Existentialists are often accused of being nihilists despite the two positio...

Well, this is about the best thread I have ever seen on this forum.

I actually like this, it cuts down on the excessive bonus overload that I've noticed goes on in Tome games I and my friends have been running and I really like the idea of merging magic effects into the item itself; it seems a lot more flavourful.

From a historical perspective most religions have done some pretty terrible shit in the name of their religions. Get the fuck over it. That's NOT how most act any more. I feel like you wanted to say "people have done some pretty terrible shit in the name of their religions", but only got ...

One might want to ask "are RPGs becoming more progressive?" rather than "liberal", I think.

In which case the answer is a pretty solid "no", like most culture attached to RPGs, really.

I feel as if everyone's seen this as an issue for a while but the context never came up to address it, I know I've been looking at it skeptically for a while but never really thought to produce a solution. I'll have to say that a lot of the material that made its way into the PDF isn't stuff that I ...

In my games we've limited your potential leadership score to 2.5 * your level (rounded down) because of what you've mentioned. As for leadership feats in general, DM-player bargaining is pretty much required. If you think these are bad, the necromantic feats can make the game pretty unplayable. If ...

I don't think Ork Magik is that bad- allowing a caster to base their casting off strength rather than intelligence or what have you isn't too bad, all things considered. The ninth level ability is fucking awful, though: Unless you have a strength of 44 (hint: you won't) you'd be better off not usin...

In my games we've limited your potential leadership score to 2.5 * your level (rounded down) because of what you've mentioned. As for leadership feats in general, DM-player bargaining is pretty much required. If you think these are bad, the necromantic feats can make the game pretty unplayable.

I think there's a meaningful extent to which Tome really needs to be cleaned up, polished, probably even scoured before it's a cohesive final product. Even as it is, a lot of its standards have been really inconsistent, in terms of the capabilities of classes, what a feat's supposed to do, and other...

I believe that it was an oktrends article, with heavy qualifiers. As in, there's a whole lot of social status going on at the same time. actually, oktrends had a couple: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects-whether-people-write-you-back/ http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/same-sex-dat...

How did you people manage to turn another thread into a thread about shadzar. God damn it. I hate traditionalist RPG people because they are vehemently opposed to doing what the rest of their group wants and because they have an incredibly perverted idea of what is actually fun. I hate having to pla...

Yeah, the meshing together of a bunch of class features from different books that are overcomplicated ON THEIR OWN and that I only have glazed over in all my years of play definitely detracts from this class. I've lurked for a long time, but intently, and I feel like a lot of the time, sigma, you ar...

erik wrote:You guys have it all wrong. That prime competitor for the title of the Douchiest No True Scotsman was clearly satire.

Unless ISP is a totally idiotic douchebag.

=-D

It may have been over my head.

I think the wish economy would be a lot more satisfactory if it had in place some real guidelines of what a wish economy item is worth and how it compares with different wish economy currencies, right now it's all pretty up in the air and MTP as hell. Some other ideas for wish economy currencies wou...

[*] Oftentimes people don't complain precisely because of the chilling effect of being called in various ways uppity or worse. For example, if you as a woman complain about 'slut shaming' that's like painting a target on your face for being thought of or even called a slut. Maybe you don't interact...

I'm currently running a campaign with yugoloths involved, and can definitely see myself using this material. Thanks.

EDIT: normally I wouldn't care, but the "resistance to old" that the arcanoloth has is too funny not to make a note of.