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Bear World is not a game. It's really that simple.

And you having fun pretending to play a game has nothing to do with the fact that you totally can get fucked by quantum bears if you 10-succeed on your perception roll.

Isn't the real issue that numbers are a crutch in RPG design? I mean, the laziest way to design an ability in a game is to say "it's gives you a +1 on that check". Add in the random name generator and the lazy game designer can have a sizable chunk of an RPG written by just making things ...

Whipstitch wrote:I hate Betrayal so very, very much.

Why if i may ask?

"The wings are not on fire."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJSey8HRUhU

Dr_Noface wrote:Can anyone share any insight on Corbyn's brexit stance? Good? Bad?

Well, reportedly he personally was not against leaving the EU, but now he of course has to take that stance to oppose the tories.

Getting rid of skill points was one of 4E's very few good ideas. Then the length of skill lists doesn't matter as long as each character has the relevant ones on his class list. You can break down disable device even further if you're bored, the rogue just needs to have that stuff on his class list....

You can spend your skillpoints on stuff like survival and climb which are useful early and cry later that you didn't spend them on diplomacy or umd, or you can spend your skillpoints on diplomacy and umd and wait a few levels until you have enough ranks to do something with those skills.

Skills not scaling and losing relevance or only being relevant at/after a certain level, is the same shitty design that item creation and prestige classes suffer from: lose power now for greater power later (aka an insurance deal) or gain power now for less power later (aka running a credit card). T...

The craft, knowldege, profession and perform (x) skills (under 3.x rule premises) can die in a fire. For identifying monsters simply use 10+CR and let the pcs make an intelligence or wisdom check with half their level as a bonus. Doesn't work worse than stupid knowledge mechanically, but at least ac...

3rd edition stumbles a bit by having both Lockpicking and Disable Device, but in most areas the skill list is functional enough. knowledge(x)? perform(x)? craft(x)? profession(x)? That makes in-game knowledge dysfunctional, fucks bards, and craft and profession are pure flavor abilities which shoul...

There is another fundamental issue with the skill system, namely the interaction of levels and hd. The hd-inflation of certain monster types and, of course, level-adjustment (in the case of pcs) breaks any opposed skill checks. I'm pretty sure that Cook and Williams simply thought you either play lo...

I've never understood this urge to nerf things. It's like these people don't want you to have fun with something the don't like. From a design standpoint I'd argue it's almost always better to improve something else instead of hitting stuff with the nerf bat. And I'm not talking about broken mechani...

So what you're saying is that you basically totally agree that 4E is a shitty rpg.

Ghremdal wrote:My personal favorite example for how little thought was put into the rules is the potion of elemental resistance where you roll a d10 to determine what resistance it gives WHEN YOU DRINK THE POTION!

Hilarious

DR serves mostly for world building. At the end of the day, it specifies that some creatures are vulnerable to mid level adventuring parties , so creating societies that need PC-type heroes to survive. Compare and contrast to 5e, where town militias seem to actually do their job and keep the place ...

What happens if you'd replace every die roll in dnd 3.x with a constant 10?

They could simply make a new edition of AD&D and not declare 5E officially dead.

For the players there is no difference if the secret treasure room is generated before or after the search check, or did I miss something? The result is the same: Success -> moar treasure; Failure -> no treasure.

In D&D? Dragons. But it takes away one of the dragon's advantages, namely flight. A dragon and a closet troll in a closet is something completely different than a dragon and a closet troll under the open sky. And as far as I am concerned, that was the only claim. And it's tautologically correct...

At least, that is the actual military experience of the past century. But thats only because our airplanes are not transformers who can land and walk around! Eh, what I'm trying to say. How is the actual Military experience applicable to an Fantasy world, where the flying things also might be tanks...

But for everyone else watching what I suspect is now an inevitable REALIZARMZ wank degeneration that this thread will become, as a general rule when someone starts trying to use the word "verisimilitude" in their realizarmz wank as part of an elaborate RPG design argument they almost inev...

maglag wrote:Put into simple terms, why is alright for a flier to take off to the skies when a troll charges at him, but is wrong for the troll to go into hiding when the flier starts raining arrows on him?

It's not wrong to do so. But a bunch of trolls is not the adventuring party.

Realizms is not the same as verisimilitude. Really? Because you sure as hell can't seem to tell the difference. What a witty response. If flyers conquer something (which is a normal ground-based civilization) without ever landing this does break verisimilitude unless they use some powers which actu...

REALIZMZ REALIZMZ REALIZMZ Oh for fucks sake. Realizmz argument. A shit typical one at that. You are wrong about reality. You are more wrong than that about fantasy. You are more wrong than even that about fucking TTRPGs. I don't want to get into this shit because it's less funny than when someone ...

PhoneLobster wrote:

zugschef wrote:You can't conquer or secure anything by flying. As soon as you have to do that, at some point you will need ground troops.

So THAT'S why Brian Blessed and his army of hawk men couldn't get shit done until they recruited like ONE stupid American football player.

Wait... they never landed?