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Downdraft: Cleric 3, Druid 3. That spell isn't on this list , so the party Cleric hasn't even heard of it, let alone prepared it. If one enemy requires you to prepare an obscure and shitty spell from a book that wasn't out when the MM was printed, then that enemy is too powerful . I've read through...

Koumei wrote:Also, I'm not Frank, but without checking the actual book

You don't need to go that far.

The point is that while people rightfully make novels as single authors backed up by a team of editors and artists, no one makes video games as a single individual except the Dwarf Fortress guy. And he's certifiably insane. Toady just does all the coding by himself. For the actual design work, he b...

Grek wrote:There should be at least 75% less mentioning of Asura nipples in the final draft.

I was going to give the first few sentences a pass, but I started getting uncomfortable about the whole thing when I reached the Stress nipples.

Prak_Anima wrote:here

The conjurer and transmuter options are both pretty terrible. The PHB2 has a conjurer ACF that lets you swap your familiar for an immediate action teleport and is better than either of them. Familiars are still better than any stupid wizard tricks.

Frank's Spells that Fvcking Kill You (http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?p=31962) is always useful for wizardly types. Frank's Utility Magic is also a useful resource. We are thankfully starting at third level, so I have access to second level spells. (and going on from there). Probably looking to proh...

CapnTthePirateG wrote:I kinda gotta ask, how the hell does this guy exist without a spellbook for a shit ton of levels?

Some things don't count as wealth for VoP. The list is expansive and includes things like gold and silver (but not copper) dust and an entire rainbow of precious gems.

Well, let's see; the most recent castlevania game I played was Order of Ecclesia Harmony of Despair is the latest game and focuses on collecting magical loot. "Castlevania Hero" might not be the best term, though. The Belmonts rarely deal with equipment other than the Vampire Killer and s...

That isn't, and in fact can't be, where the Flesh Form ability to operate cyberware is. Flesh Forms don't "inherit from" Hybrid Forms, there's nothing at all that indicates that. No extends keyword, no virtual function table, nothing. The ability to operate cyberware, if even present in R...

If you instead have a Flesh Form, you keep all Physical and Mental Attributes and Skills of the Samurai and add on the Spirit's magical powers and skills as determined by the Ally Formula. There is not, however, an enhancement of attributes. Isn't there, though? The line is in the text for Hybrid F...

The thing I'm seeing is that most people want PCs to be able to be kings and start businesses and stuff, but the wish economy basically forbids that, because there's no damn point at all. In fact, the key component that makes the wish economy work is that Wish level people are disinterested in mund...

That matrix is a bad example of anything, because it's 2x6, and that's just weird. If you pick look at three rows at once, that's still only six powers. Yeah, sorry about that. I was trying to make the side-by-side comparison as easy as possible. A real matrix would be something like 4x6 and you wo...

Look at that matrix. There is a row called "AoE blasting" and a row called "Single target SoD". When facing a deal, you are going to first narrow by column before narrowing by row in WoF. But in "everything at will" you just start by narrowing by row, which makes your ...

And they can't come up with a better heuristic after a bit of observation? How is making a bad decision or two and learning from it worse than getting a couple of bad WoF rolls? It's not that they can't. They won't. If people find a system that's "good enough", then they'll avoid trying t...

Akula wrote:So his willpower is keeping him alive? That would imply that HP represents something in addition to physical toughness, which is dissociative.

It represents a high-level character's ability to be a complete badass and survive wounds that would have killed the mortal man he used to be.

RadiantPhoenix wrote:Howsabout having something happen that resets the tactical landscape to something completely random? Essentially, winds of fate for the battlefield instead of the combatants.

Really Abstract Locations?

Akula wrote:Why can't he grit his teeth through the 21st arrow then?

Because he's taken enough structural damage that his current level of willpower and physical training can't pull him through.

PC is hit for the 21st time with an arrow, it takes him down even though the previous 20 did nothing to him. Why? How does the PC see it so that it matches with the player's perspective? He's in pain. He's in enough pain to debilitate a normal person ten times over. But he's not a normal person; he...

In that same fantasy literature, every wish is a two edged sword and the goose that lays the golden eggs brings more woe and weal. And that guy who spins straw into gold is just a grumpy old fart. And in all those stories, there exists a way to get away scot-free. Don't kill the goose, guess the gu...

All this talk about how magic shouldn't interfere with the economy is insanity. Fantasy has geese that lay golden eggs, golden rings that duplicate themselves, and fairies who can spin straw into gold. Why would we ever deny these things in favor of maintaining a "realistic" medieval econo...

So if the fluff is that you're an indestructible killing machine who can take 20 arrows in the face and not miss a step, how is it not dissociation that you can die to a cat clawing you? How is it not dissociative that the fluff says you're hurting badly, but your character isn't inhibited or slowe...

Elaborate you vile fiend! On what? On why the mix up doesn't sit well with you. Why does it being a mix of the options I laid out bother you so much? It's a bit metagamey. Fate favors the attacks of giant crabs and big worms over adventures with swords and maces, and nobody is supposed to notice th...

It's pretty much the EVE system where everyone is part of the same economic system, but it's generally not worth it to go beat up newbies because the amounts you get are too low But it's still worth it to greyhawk everything you find. The 100' wide solid sapphire sun that hangs inside the Temple of...

The guy who takes twenty arrows to the gut but falls to a single weak dagger stab is just as dissociative in my opinion, as is the fact that there are no wound penalties at all. If you want everything to be toughness based, you're going to have to get rid of critical existence failure and start add...

MGuy wrote:Elaborate you vile fiend!

On what?