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- Sat Jan 25, 2014 9:02 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&DNext: Playtest Review
- Replies: 2545
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- Tue Jan 21, 2014 11:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Burning Wheel] I wanna get into it, but the crunch scare me
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1568
Re: [Burning Wheel] I wanna get into it, but the crunch scare me
I always got excited about Burning Wheel because it touches lots of my roleplaying strings (emphasis on player-driven gameplay for eg), but everytime I actually consider getting it, its crunchness (with all those subsystems and little rules) gets in the way and I give up. (as you know, Im more of a...
- Tue Jan 14, 2014 11:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Shadowrun] Perfect Crime Edition {Frank Keep Out}
- Replies: 77
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- Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:29 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&DNext: Playtest Review
- Replies: 2545
- Views: 432035
I think that the simplest change that doesn't make it take even more real-time to get to 20th level is to add the assumption that adventuring isn't nonstop, and that there are long breaks between the ones you play and gain levels during. We've found the easiest change is just to decide when to 'lev...
- Mon Jan 06, 2014 7:33 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Characters your mister cavern never approved of
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7373
I once had the pleasure of playing in a PF game (core only). I wanted to play a sorcerer (since the DM mentioned he doesn't really like powergaming casters - so no Wizard). Great, it was even allowed...only with the tiny houserule that for casters, there is no 5-ft step. Since positioning is done in...
- Tue Dec 31, 2013 12:19 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Live blogging Dungeons and Dragons Book of Vile Darkness
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3896
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Book of Vile Darkness Movie
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2538
The Book of Vile Darkness Movie
So I watched the third D&D film tonight: The Book of Vile Darkness. Surprisingly, it's actually pretty good. Sure, it's trashy, and low-budget, but you feel that whoever wrote it knows something about tabletop D&D. Far better than the first two, but that's not really an achievement... The mo...
- Mon Dec 30, 2013 9:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1697233
Should one buy the Pathfinder book when the content is available for free on d20pfsrd.com on rpgstackexchange Quite a lot of the answers suggested doing it to support Paizo. Yeah, but many on stackexchange downvote you if you don't suck Paizo dick. (Still a great site, though). However, I think Pai...
- Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:26 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&DNext: Playtest Review
- Replies: 2545
- Views: 432035
- Tue Dec 24, 2013 9:01 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: level appropriate magic items that aren't lame or bullshit
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5703
- Tue Dec 03, 2013 8:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&DNext: Playtest Review
- Replies: 2545
- Views: 432035
- Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&DNext: Playtest Review
- Replies: 2545
- Views: 432035
- Fri Nov 22, 2013 8:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1697233
Lots of vitriol on display, all told. Yeah, but it's funny. Also, it's the first time that at least for a few posts they actually answered to slightly negative posts, instead of just ignoring them and waiting for the mass of paizil zombies to drown it out in a pink cloud of fandom happiness. On the...
- Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:01 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Exalted: the Lunars
- Replies: 120
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For Werewolves, the only truly non-negotiable thing is that they turn into 300 kilo war forms. This is the 21st century, people have guns, and hairy regular dudes or actual dogs just aren't a credible threat to some police. Not so sure about that warform thing. A wolf with human intelligence, the a...
- Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Exalted: the Lunars
- Replies: 120
- Views: 58306
What I'm getting here is that werewolves in a game about werewolf society should have the the following traits: A werewolf strain starts when a human performs a magic ritual while coated in human blood and wearing a wolf pelt to become a loup-garou. Loup-garou transform at will. Loup-garou bites sp...
- Sat Nov 16, 2013 6:35 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&DNext: Playtest Review
- Replies: 2545
- Views: 432035
@malak- point. So mountain dwarf for monks and wizards. Lets them start with a 17 AC with burning any sort of resources, and the point-buy set up lets anyone hit the 16 maximum in the primary stat without any issue. Yes, it's silly. Being a dwarf also gets you battleaxe + warhammer proficiency. And...
- Sat Nov 16, 2013 6:35 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&DNext: Playtest Review
- Replies: 2545
- Views: 432035
@malak- point. So mountain dwarf for monks and wizards. Lets them start with a 17 AC with burning any sort of resources, and the point-buy set up lets anyone hit the 16 maximum in the primary stat without any issue. Yes, it's silly. Being a dwarf also gets you battleaxe + warhammer proficiency. And...
- Sat Nov 16, 2013 11:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&DNext: Playtest Review
- Replies: 2545
- Views: 432035
- Sat Nov 09, 2013 10:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Privateer Press finally banned me and what it means to you
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8405
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:17 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&DNext: Playtest Review
- Replies: 2545
- Views: 432035
It doesn't. They wrote up a version in the early months and dropped it like a hot potato. They popped up as levels 1-5 during the second and third versions of the playtest (still in August of 2012), and they were gone by the end of October. (the early Oct version of the playtest kept the same class...
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&DNext: Playtest Review
- Replies: 2545
- Views: 432035
No, it's not too early to judge. We've had 8 (?) different playtest packages that show us how 'cool' their ideas are and how well they work or don't. A few quick quips about the flavor of a class mean jack as to how the class actually plays and how it functions mechanically. So how does the Warlock...
- Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&DNext: Playtest Review
- Replies: 2545
- Views: 432035
Warlock update in today's Legends and Lore. https://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ll/20131104 Hm. That actually sounds....pretty cool. Yeah, I'm surprised myself. I'm less impressed. They cited the Hexblade instead of the Soulknife, and the Hexblade is a boring and mechanically bad class....
- Mon Nov 04, 2013 8:37 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&DNext: Playtest Review
- Replies: 2545
- Views: 432035
Hm. That actually sounds....pretty cool. Yeah, I'm surprised myself.Ferret wrote:Warlock update in today's Legends and Lore.
https://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.asp ... l/20131104
- Thu Oct 31, 2013 6:58 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Monte's New Thing: The Strange
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3631
I am impressed, though. He's going to work on a setting even less compelling than Numenera. 'Aliens are going to get you from the interwebs.' Somehow. I understood it like that: Bruce Cordell wants to have teh Kickstarter lootz too, so he rings up his old buddy Monte. They agree that Cordell has to...
- Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:33 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Monte's New Thing: The Strange
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3631
What happened to/with Numenera... or w/e it's called? Numenera is out. Kickstarter backers got their copy and it's for sale to the general public. I'm not a fan of his work but props to him for putting out completely new TTRPG products rather than coasting along on Numenera splats. Well...the Stran...