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He was threadbanned, not forum banned, probably because they couldn't find anything to actually ban him for.

Yeah, it's from RPGNet, by Jon Chung. RPGnet's servers exploded today for some reason.

3) Does Sound Element work with Smashing Blow so I could theoretically do a 2x DV no Armor attack on a wall and bust through it in one punch? No, objects don't take Stun damage. Then what if I used Hardliner gloves to make it P damage? Or Killing Hands? Or took a -4d penalty to do P damage with an ...

A few questions: 1) Can Killing Strike make Elemental Strike's Sound damage Physical, so I can blow people up with a cheesy WATAAAAAAH sound effect? 3) Does Sound Element work with Smashing Blow so I could theoretically do a 2x DV no Armor attack on a wall and bust through it in one punch? 3) Frank ...

Sigh. I really don't know why I bother, but here, let's try again. Since I'm talking about alignment of incentives, let's define what sort of incentives I'm actually examining first, since people seem to be confused. Specifically, I'm talking about what the player wants to do in the game, and how t...

ishy wrote:
This was meant as a quick aside, you assholes make me want to start a thread about all the horrible shit Gygax wrote.

I know he was an asshole, I want to know just how much of an asshole he waa.

Buddha fuck. 900 pages? Unfuckingbelievable.

Do they push the non-heteronormativity angle hard? Because it doesn't bother me that people like that exist, it bothers me when they smear their tits into my face to gain approval for thrmselves.

How's Rise of the Runelords?

I'm making a samsaran cleric for one. Not sure what I should expect. I plan to abuse mounted charges (via Animal Domain's animal companion) for meleeness. Is this doomed?

Not exactly, "bloodied" is a state that does not impair your axtions, but makes other actions more effective if used on you. Some attack powers do more damage to bloodied opponents and some healing powers heal more or have rider effects.

I'd like to request a review of the Renraku Arcology Shutdown book.

Physical Illusions are pretty weird. They don't actually target you in any way. They create visible constructs or make things invisible or whatever. And then you attempt to see through them. The fact that counterspelling works on physical illusions is a bit weird, because the illusions don't go to ...

If illusions aren't inhibited on observers in mana voids, then why does counter spelling work? Does it? Does counterspelling automatically let you dispel an illusion spell effect that never comes anywhere close to you? I can see it resisting a Fireball has you in its blast radius, or a Control Thou...

But you're not casting the spell in a mana void, or into the mana void, you are on Earth, so BGC is normal and you don't need to overcast or anything. Trid Phantasm creates an illusion on Earth, which a spysat can observe from orbit. So assuming I get 6+ hits on my test, I should be able to fool tha...

IIRC Mana Voids only reduce your effective Magic when you are in them, they're not some antimagic zone. So a Force 10 spell is still a Force 10 spell if you could somehow cast one there. Illusions should be fully effective against satellites since the caster is not in spess when it's being cast. Whe...

Because illusion magic grants observers a resistance test, one can presume that spy satellites can't be fooled by Trid-Phantasm. Would the same apply to a spirit's Concealment power? Wouldn't inanimate objects just get an object resistance threshold instead? So you'd need 4-6+ successes to beat hig...

Oh lord, can you imagine them casting Movement on themselves to fly at Mach 5 and destroy everything via hypersonic bow shock? Not only can that be imagined, but it comes pre-nerfed. Movement works by spatial distortion rather than energy increase. A movemented bullet will go farther but it won't h...

Oh lord, can you imagine them casting Movement on themselves to fly at Mach 5 and destroy everything via hypersonic bow shock?

I actually did make a conjurigger for the game I'm in. In theory, the only way I can be hurt at all is if I deign to allow people a shot at me, since I float around about 500m up on a stealth FPMV with Improved Invisiblity tied to a sustaining focus on a piercing while managing half a dozen sniper r...

I heard Frank disapprove of Shadowrun 4/5E longarms way back when but I have no idea why. Why? Don't they include shotguns for close range and sniper rifles for long?

I think you're over-reacting to that one time that Krish and I spent four gaming sessions planning that airplane heist. Anyway, we were committing various other petty crimes and doing legwork at parties and so on, so it wasn't complete down time. When planning a milk run in PBP for an SR4 game, we ...

Longes wrote:

Silent Wayfarer wrote:Can you take a geas to offset Magic loss through Essence in SR4? Street Magic doesn't say anything about it.

As far as I know - you can't.

Damn nation. Thanks for the heads-up.

Can you take a geas to offset Magic loss through Essence in SR4? Street Magic doesn't say anything about it.

Exalted for me. I like the juxtaposition of glorious golden demigod and budding adventuret (and how you could be both at once as a starting Exalt).

I'm making a new facemage (upgrading from faceadept because the previous facemage ragequit) and I was musing over Traditions. CHA-tradition is a given, but I was debating mentally over a summoning or possession tradition...