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Virgil: The Antimagic Hat works like that. You know, big, wooden ricehat-shaped object shrunk to fit on the head. When you get into an AMF, which is an emanation, it enlarges, leaving you outside the effect. Then teleport out. Don't blame me if that's old news.

Koumei: Mortal Kombat, the sewer stage.

Paul Bonner, most definetly.

In Finland, roleplayers are only considered "strange," but not in an insulting way. The are no real stereotypes, except within the gaming community. There's also a fairly large female presence, in comparison to what I've understood about the US RP scene.

Sounds fairly much like the actual video game.

His close personal ties with Loren Coleman really leads to wonder how many bucks he may have made himself from this little, unfortunate mistake that very accidentally led a single guy to happen to become in possession of the company's money.

Crucial information: This class belongs to a game that allows the generic spellcaster which in itself is extremely powerful alternative for the sorcerer. The reason behind this is a solo game, in which the player requires to be able to survive difficult fights and long workdays without NPC support. ...

Any ideas on actual rules for these? I mean hard, prewritten code, not arbitrarily assigning whatever conditions work best at the time.

Seems pretty indicative of the DM mentality expected in 4th ed. Seems like a sketchy Gygax impersonation, except without the balls required to be a true asshole. I think the DM is just expected to use subterfuge to roll over the players when it's vital to the story and let them experience the illusi...

Sinister, I think you should just call it "magic photosynthesis," which is that missing gajillion times better than what plants do. Since orcs reproduce faster than rabbits (or so it's often written, it is to compensate their very short life spans,) feeding their growing and tumulous tribe...

I don't know wheter to cheer or to sigh mournfully. 4th e. has been what some might call a huge headache for D&D and its players. However, if what Frank's saying is true, the news is bad. It's been proven to suck twice a day and three on Sundays and its fans are mostly either retarded or overgro...

Going back to biochem lessons like this again reminded me about some of the very interesting modes of existing in D&D. Undead. They do not really eat, they are powered by negative energy. But on a cellular level, how are they still capable of performing has humans or whatever else race they were...

It's not even about what the dwarf needs on his journey, ie. the "I have rations for 10 days" is completely viable. But when you enter a dwarf town, everything you design about it has to come from somewhere. Usually? Bullshit you made up/picked up from Tolkien or some other dude who also b...

I think he's trying a new tactics. Those gargantuan walls of text written by a dry, admittedly dyslexic guy are enough to keep anyone from actually reading them. He gets no counterpoints, he wins. In Shadzarville, Kentucky.

Judging Eagle: If you don't like the complexity of editing every monster, I suppose the best method is just to give arbitrary bonuses to knowledge skills when identifying monsters. Pull them out of your hat as appropriate. I think I'd do that. If my players didn't basically know every monster by hea...

Excellent. Sounds viable.

Knowledge check to determine wheter your character knows a monster or not is totally a feasible mechanic. Currently, commoners won't know that they're being attacked by a dragon, even if one is exactly like in the tales every one of them heard as a kid. I propose a solution: give monsters a feature:...

Diplomacy and problem solving skills. Knowing what a dispute is about and the sorting it out efficiently. The DM has to enjoy the game and make the players feel the same. And it's of course important to be able to choose the players, since a random bunch of chumps has a bad tendency of not working t...

That's a very effective way to govern the "stuff" minigame - eliminate it. This brings to mind, how far have people taken, and how far would it be "sensible" to take the reduction of magic items in general. It would be a broad and valiant effort to factually remove the whole stup...

Your vast knowledge of hentai archetypes is somewhat disturbing.

I personally think that MC2 is a fairly decent game to play, even though the chargen is at least a little peculiar, since stat rolling basically happens by following the Backround loop ad infinitum. I suppose that even more than in D&D3.x, the starting "level" is agreement-based. The v...

2009 came and went and so COG Games' license to produce the third edition to the game got screwed. Hence, we're stuck with the second edition, which is quite simply a "1.5" edition, fixing a few bugs, slightly fucking up chargen (you can't die at character creation anymore! DAMMIT!) and in...

First of all, saying you have to accept RHD/LA leads to the question: WHAT race are we talking about? I'm fairly sure any player would happily play a Sharn or Sylph. If we cut out the possibility for casting RHD and/or LA, just slapping on extra empty levels on casters, well, it's doing just that - ...

This shit sucks so bad that it fails to even be campy. If you're going with all-out idiotic perverted ha-ha, they could at least bother inventing something amusing. Or mechanically interesting. I mean, how much value does a book have, if it's only a series of peepeejokes without punchlines?

I think ubernoob got it right. I'm a little tipsy, so I shouldn't be making any arguments for or against, well, anything, but I believe power attack multipliers indeed don't work like that. Also, even if your cheese-fu is weak on professional charop standards, I think that's a fairly intimidating wa...