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Could you clarify what the heck this means?

JonSetanta wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 01, 2021 4:04 am

the funny thing … is that it's not built on assumptions but rather "what does it do?" consideration.

Totally random tangent. I went on the Pathfinder wiki to make sure my righteous indignation was accurately sourced, and I saw this: https://i.imgur.com/WXwn4xH.png How many of these feats do you think are hot dogshit? Six bucks for ONE CLASS'S worth of feats? Oh, Pathfinder. :rofl: I'd wager a 99 c...

I don't know how you use a historically racist/sexist setting and keep it historically accurate without keeping it also racist/sexist. If you want a western-ish setting without the hangups then you may be better off setting it in the future where some tropes have a resurgence but there's also modern...

I saw that movie, I know that fight scene. Fuck off. He is not a goddamned Monk. What is this, Fate/Grand Order? He's a fool for not using this scene instead . But srsly, being talented in baritsu martial art was a significant aspect of the literal Sherlock Holmes character. I've had that thing pla...

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 23, 2021 3:35 pm

Sherlock Holmes is not a fucking D&D monk. You stop that right now.

Looks like someone got discombobulated by Sherlock's stunning fist.

JonSetanta wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 23, 2021 12:48 am

Also, nice meme Erik. Flattered.

Mission accomplished then.

Only change i would make from Almanac’s suggested gestalt-ish is give SA at 1,5,9,13,17 and bonus feats a 3,7,11,15,19.

There's a lot that's wrongheaded here, but I want to focus on this: Rogues get more Chassis Basics than Fighters, due to the total between Fighter's 6 HP + only 2 Skill Points (8) vs. Rogue's 4 HP + 8 SP (12). This broke me. Counting up hit points and skill points in a single total and comparing th...

Awareness is pretty universal. I wound up making it one of the core attributes I cared about in a fantasy/scifi game. Resisting magically induced terror or resisting a flight or flight response could be a universal that all characters need, depending upon the game. A good system should look at the k...

[doublepost sorry] I do confess my bias that I also think mental attributes are a dinosaur that deserves to be extinct. Mechanically not every system needs a set of core additive bonuses to apply to rolls. And of those that do go that route they are almost certainly still better off avoiding the tra...

I mean. The crustacean isn’t wrong. The only good reason to keep the 6 stats is because people recognize them. The further you walk away from that by changing their names and changing how they function the less value you get from the association. I don’t think he was being insensitive or offensive b...

I dunno. Gods in Oerth and much of D&D I think of as just the next step above kings. They're super powerful adventurers who have finagled a way to get power from and redistribute power to their followers. Whether their zone of influence is global or regional is up to your setting.

How closely do you need to interact with the gods of different regions? In Greyhawk it's pretty much like you go to a new region and can either read up on the local customs or just rely on knowledge checks. Unless you are in a region where the locals worship a certain deity then it doesn't really im...

Call your doctor's office that prescribed them and ask how much you should limit yourself to. They would be the ones to know if there's other factors that would need to be taken into account.

Ah yes, I forgot good ol' Option A: "Someone already wrote what you want. And that someone is probably Koumei." Everything else is Option B.

Would it be terrible if an Artificer was kinda like a wizard who rather than casting spells could create custom staves that they decide which spells go in and refill the charges daily? And throw in some construct crafting jazz.

I dumped it entirely for Nexus and used attributes more like Arkham Horror.
Speed Sneak Fight Tech Magic Aware

No need for intelligence or wisdom. And Sneak is the default charisma for trying to manipulate people into doing what you want.

Yeah, the number of monsters that have Resilient Sphere is incredibly small. If you are doing a campaign against a cabal of wizards then you may see that happen more, but that's not my experience. And if they don't immediately assign existential threat status to the halfling druid on a bat then next...

I personally prefer the interpretation that kobolds are just haploid dragons. The result of leaving dragon eggs unfertilized. White dragon who hasn't gotten laid in years? Laid a kobold egg every month during that span, and now has a whole lot of children with ice magic, poor job prospects and conf...

I played an uber charger in Living Greyhawk. Got to instruct a lot of people firsthand not to discount a halfling with a lance. There was just about no creatures in all the modules I played that I couldn't kill in 1 round and I was a -1 druid as on top of it. Didn't have Shock Trooper, but it woulda...

On my stealth minigame there's basically 3 possibilities: pass, fail, or alerted. Alerted is when you almost succeed, but not quite. So guards think they heard or saw something or maybe a sensor is tripped and they need to go check it out. It gives them a temporary bonus to detect and a reason to fo...

A lot of the granularity depends upon how much you want to care about that stuff. MERPS/Rolemaster went whole hog having separate critical tables based upon whether your armor was leather, chain, included a helmet, and whether they were attacked by slashing, bludgeoning, electricity, etc. But we are...

For my last RPG I use armor as DR+ablative only. Attacks are pretty easy to hit with unless the defender is dodging, and dodging is penalized in heavier armor.

So light armor can dodge better but get punished on hits more. Heavy armors cannot dodge as well but soak better.

recover password : there is no account with that email. make new account : there is already an account with that email. damn this is some next level cowardly weasel bullshit. what happened to just banning people? Yeah I had that same catch-22 with AppleID for my kids several years ago. Super infuri...