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Then there's the issue that he was rather obviously attempting to let a group of Chi Blockers escape and got pissed off that Team Avatar stopped them. If Amon and Tarrlok aren't working together, there are some pretty big plot holes. -Username17 Perhaps a dramatic reveal will later show that he was...

If you still have a storyteller who writes the plot, I can see a long story being screwed up quite easily if the PCs have big plot power. Very devoted storytellers could write out an entirely new long story every time the players change the plot in a big way. That's a ton of writing if the plot chan...

Well yes, but asuming that all dms are terrible is a weird starting position. No, but the idea that DMs will have a biased, self-serving, or ironically unreasonable idea of what 'reasonable' is well-established even before we get into specifics. Pretty much. On a side point, I agree with game desig...

How about I ask the opposite question to figure out a general threshold, rather than we ask about something which (perhaps obviously) does even worse than the minimum threshold? At what point would a restriction like that make someone happy? Perhaps even enough to use that as a selling point to get ...

... ... I think there's something to be said for many options so the game doesn't get stale, but "basic" stuff like "What if I want to tackle that guy instead of just attacking?" should be simple and easy to remember. The plethora of extra options would contribute to the size of...

The trend has been to longer and longer books, and it has been hurting the hobby. I've commented on it before . The core rules should be shorter than Moby Dick. I know people are more literate now than they were in 1851, but that's ridiculous. I don't just mean that the PHB should be shorter than M...

The 5e playtest is small and playable simply because it doesn't try to be a complete game, and that is going to lead WotC down the wrong path in future design decisions. Making a game that is supposed to last 100 adventures is far different from one designed to last one adventure and leads to far d...

What, exactly, is an appropriate level for a character in D&D to gain at will flight? If we're talking 3.x, sometime between 8 or 9 would probably make sense. Ideally, you'd want to make it such that even characters with permaflight still have reason to slug it out on the ground every so often,...

It really does strike me as kind of lame to see people advocating RPing as an exercise in "The players describe what they want, and then the DM narrates that". If the players decide they want katanas, well, the players should get katanas! There is some unbearably vague threshold where the...

You have a conflict between level of detail and resolution difficulty. 1) Figure out how much detail you want and how much you want to resolve it quickly. 2) There are two unknown variables which influence each other, so this will involve some thinking on your part.... but I think mostly this will b...

Also, can we just fucking give the guy who wants to throw shurikens his fucking shurikens... It's a game. The object is to have fun. It's also a role playing game, so generally the idea is you get to play someone who is "cool". Sometimes people like to play a character with a certain weapo...

I thought we needed to get over the fact that only group whim sets the difficulty level.... something like 20 years ago. In-game effects (such as a +StompLowLevel magic weapon or a curse) might be the vehicle for a campaign to be set on easy, medium, or hard mode, but the final decider of what kind ...

Prak_Anima wrote:Yeah, I mean, hell, by your logic, Saxony, Elven Wizards just completely beat out all fighters ever because they're proficient in a few martial weapons.

A few does not mean good ones.

I suppose adding "One weapon proficiency of choice" to Wizard Armour and Weapon Proficiencies would likely make no difference overall, especially given that they have possibly the smallest number of proficiencies in the PHB, and are ill suited to combat without a lot of buff spells. Steps...

Okay Kaelik, fair enough. I can see you not wanting someone derailing your conversation.

Sooo ... run away? I think the idea is that if the group wants to run 4 fighters, even if they are just melee types, the DM and everyone would acknowledge that and make encounters suited to the party, leaving archers/mortars/artillery for boss battles or dramatic moments rather than picking the str...

Sooo ... run away? I think the idea is that if the group wants to run 4 fighters, even if they are just melee types, the DM and everyone would acknowledge that and make encounters suited to the party, leaving archers/mortars/artillery for boss battles or dramatic moments rather than picking the str...

... It went something like: "Every time Paizo releases more feats, the Fighter gets a little bit worse, because before the feat existed, they could get the DM to MTP up some rules for doing the action it covers, but now they can't try it at all because they don't have the feat." Side poin...

I think it's just combining bard and skill monkey into the same class. Which possibly gives the skill monkey a buffing role, along with the "out of combat/ indirect puzzle solving". It might be putting too many roles in one character.

So, if the amount of cows the adventurer wants is a complex algebra problem using a number of variables in order to determine stress tolerance of a building (maybe the adventurer moonlights as an architect), how would you have a literal genie react? Are literal genies inherently good at math? This ...

I think there are a few domains giving archery feats, also.

Elf Domain is not core...

Also, Hicks, I question your suggestion for Manyshot. I thought it was terrible. What's up with that?

ishy wrote:Was there ever a satisfactory solution for consumables, like scrolls, potions, cure light wounds wands etc.?

They don't exist.

Though what you meant by "satisfactory" could be anything.

Only if your characters suck ass, because in DnD 3.X you're statistically unlikely to permadie in a level 1-20 campaign if your characters do not. But then, suckage requiring coddling of the most insulting proportions seems to be an assumption by the no-death crowd. You're both factually and morall...

Go into Shadowcraft Mage if gnome. It gives you all conjuration (creation), conjuration (summoning), and evocation spells off the Sorc/Wizard list. In a weird way, but still. Versatility. Take Arcane Preparation and Circle Magic and go into Mage of the Arcane Order to get any kind of Sorc/Wizard spe...

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