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stuff So you'd like published ability packs divorced from published role packs. IE: Barbarian is in the "character types and role playing" section and Rage is in "character abilities" and can be combined if one wishes, but they don't come together by default. Eh. I'd go for it, ...

Preemptively and extensively planning character speech = bad.

You took a long time getting to the point and then your content closely resembled walls of text. I'm not exactly sure why you are posting this. "Look at my first draft of a complicated system, and provide feedback" is a no go. Generalize a bit, tell me why I should waste 20 minutes to an h...

Perhaps if DnD is going to expand outside of repeat customers, we'll need names for abilities that actually make sense so newcomers don't need to read every fucking class to understand just what "I'm have 5 Holy Man abilities" means and someone can join up, read one class, and everyone el...

"Nature" or "Primal" are not informative titles at all, so they shouldn't be used. Abilities that can't be classified well is just a bunch of random shit and shouldn't be in the same class. Actually shit like "Nature" is exactly what ability lists should be. Because yo...

"Nature" or "Primal" are not informative titles at all, so they shouldn't be used. Abilities that can't be classified well is just a bunch of random shit and shouldn't be in the same class. On the same note, a title like "Cold" really doesn't mean shit. Other than lower...

That is why my suggestion would be to have classes be something like a title that you choose one of that requires you to have certain abilities rather than a package that allows you to have access to a list of powers. -Username17 I don't think that will catch on if it's just a goal and doesn't give...

Short class lists. ... 15 classes in core. What counts as a class IYO? Do the 2E D&D Fighter/Mages count as a class? That is, do you think just having fifteen separate pages that have different classes are more important or having fifteen distinct builds? Or rather, in the long run would people...

Bihlbo wrote:I'm amazed at the douchery of declaring a fallacy and naming it after yourself. Never mind that it's nonsense.

I thought it was someone insulting shadzar from the thread title.

Nope. Apparently it's shadzar doing the above. Much amusement was had.

But how many of them involve honey?

A Man In Black wrote: Bees: they make honey, but dont eat it. relevance unclear.

This might shift your metaphysical paradigm, man, but, I saw them. Once.

Eating it. Honey, man! THEY EAT HONEY!

You didn't hear this from me.

So the general consensus is that fun is dependent on the person playing, and is subjective to everyone. I don't quite buy that. I think that if we asked enough people, we woud find that there is a certain "type" of person that players RPG games, and we could optimize "fun" for t...

Not bad, imo. Are you kidding me? That's totally terrible. People have a term for a similar concept and it's called a 'feat tax'. And even among 4E D&D fans they fucking hate that crap. And unless you shake up who gets what other people are going to call it a similar term. I think you misunders...

Which means that people will pick up the same array of buffs Not bad, imo. You can avert these two to some extent by stating that Stoneskin reduces your speed or Divine Power shrinks your visual range. No. That is extremely complicated. Dungeons and Accounting does not need any more wacky spell eff...

Reading the pacing of the adventure is a subskill of that because it let's you know how far you can push things. Can you explain this one? It's the thing where you figure out how many encounters you actually have to do per day and how many can wait until tomorrow when you have full resources. Being...

K wrote:Reading the pacing of the adventure is a subskill of that because it let's you know how far you can push things.

Can you explain this one?

K wrote:A lot of problems could be solved by making starting races have two HD and then using the RAW.

Give me a general idea of what problems would be solved.

I'm basically suggesting wizards use the "It's a feature, not a bug" deception. Wizards of the Coast sucks at balancing and balancing 20 different classes really is a chore. Now I'm asking, does this break the 4th wall too much? When the game flat out tells you "This is the Super Easy...

Do we care class Y is weaker than class X, even by a lot? I don't. Should all classes have the same power level? I think classes should have different power levels so the game can allow for different power levels. But the classes should be tagged with "Hard Mode" or "Easy Mode". ...

A thought: My group basically doesn't even know errata exists except when I mention it. I think most or at least of lot of DnD groups don't. Maybe it's just my group (has old roots). And my opinion of errata is quite low. Tome of Battle errata doesn't even finish a sentence before switching to anoth...

I think DnD 5th Edition would work. Really, it's the word of mouth that matters. I don't care what the next edition is called, unless good word of mouth erases 4th Edition's bad word of mouth, I will never buy it and I don't think any one in my group will, either. I must hear from a real person I kn...

Giving VAHs/DMFs Magic Item Gift Cards is a non-solution.

Question: Non-solution to what problem?

Kaelik wrote:So there are actually infinite possible Gods, an infinite number of which damn all theists to hell and send all atheists to heaven.

Got it in one.

If you just wanted light which deals damage you can totally make a subtype for it. But light which damages people without heating them up is only arbitrary magic (since it's not even magic which creates a real-life damager like Fireball does). Which is okay. We'd just put magical lasers under "...

Heat is electromagnetic radiation. EMR is one of the three means of transferring heat. Heat itself is something else entirely that is notoriously hard to describe in simple terms. Aw, goddamnit. I'm wrong again. Okay, other way around. Electromagnetism is heat. Real-life lasers are beams of electro...