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The mechanics of how any wearable armour can stop a bullet but not a sword is difficult to envisage. I mean, it exists. It's easy. It's called "two metres of water." A sword can go through that but pretty much every bullet will be stopped by it. However, wearing that around everywhere is ...

Phonelobster, I have got to thank you for some entertainment gold. The dramatic flair was a nice touch.

Silva's public inept attempts to recover from being "outed" were the frosting on the cake. I guess you got under his skin.

Bravo, encore, et cetera.

Flatline hits it on the head, the power fantasy a lot of people want to play is not Deanrulez "lol you die instantly cuz magic", its playing a character who is better than you, yes, but one who is more than an optimized set of numbers. I'm aware that this is a troll thread to troll me but...

I must have gotten a bit confused. You're right on several points Flatline.

It seems like a lot of people missed the OP body and conflated it with the title. The suggestion is not to give SR to Fighters to make them matter more - the suggestion is to give SR to Wizards . The intention is that if Wizards can't hurt other Wizards through 'magic', stabbing wizards becomes the...

To address the general question your topic title poses , you have to make sure the boss does not go down in one hit. Deanrule brought up the issue of single opponent boss fights. Once the single opponent goes down, the fight is over, that's kinda boring. Perhaps we learn something from modern video...

ishy wrote:What happens when you run out of mana? Do you have some kind of eldritch blast to fall back on?

Wands.

Sigh, references. Thankfully reverse image search solves the problem of smug exclusivity.

+2 is worth tracking; I absolutely stick to that. In DnD the problem of small bonuses is really bad for things like disarm or trip. Can you make up your fucking mind please? You are quite bad at reading, aren't you? Go ahead and read my post. Strangely enough, it is meant to be read in order and in...

The +2 doesn't exist in a vacuum. It doesn't feel exciting by itself . But when you combine it with 5 other options to go Super Saiyan (as people do), then it becomes more effective and potentially a sudden imbalance. It's the total package we have to consider here. +10 is pretty much the difference...

I signed up for an account (after being directed by a friend of mine to the tire fire that is the Shadowrun thread) solely to applaud one of the more terrifying tangents I have ever seen on a forum. You people are my kind of psychotic asylum escapees. Welcome to this forum. We have some less dignif...

Welllllllllll aren't you a Debbie Downer?

How about this, Frank... Keep the original doubt mechanics, but as a subsystem. 1: Low level means ignorance of abilities, high level means awareness. Perhaps the powers are stronger if the power user doesn't actually believe they exist. Or maybe the powers are weaker, and become stronger if the use...

But is a weapon which only benefit over other weapons is +2 disarm, really worth the rule text in your rpg? Absolutely. It is 1/5 of the maximum allowable bonus (+10) any character can just casually pick up. There aren't many +2 bonuses you can pick up before your character has fundamentally change...

Evil industrializes better than Good. I would agree with most of your points, though I'd point out that evil countries are more likely to full on assassinate leaders they don't like. You're right that evil countries understand might makes right, and won't want to be the nail sticking up when the ha...

Of course, there's still the underlying problem of how there would be a fantasy Great Leap Forward as envisioned by 3E (and probably 1E to 2E) D&D. Or rather, even if people could identify reasons, methods, and people responsible... why exactly would it happen? What exactly is the incentive for...

Wish obviously, unless Wish had to deal with the conservation of mass, which would fucking rock. "I wish for 15,000 GPs" *poof* *Somewhere out there, a dragon's hoard lightens by 15,000 GPs in the transaction... and a howling scream of rage goes up in the night". You can actually fix...

Since everyone would at all times be wielding acid splashes and frost rays, violent crime would be dramatically lower than otherwise. No one would ever be "unarmed" and therefore the danger attempting using violence against any given target would necessarily rise. This is quite possibly t...

Maybe this is a new argument in this thread: Magic item wishlists are good because they allow for arbitration in who gets what magic items. Arbitration is required in DnD because people cannot be expected to have the ability or desire to balance among themselves or against the difficulty/power level...

Also, considering the topic, I think it's a good idea. Maybe a great idea. Getting nerds to work together in a cooperative story game really needs to get baked in the cake. The point being that we won't do it on our own because of the lack of social skills. The specific implementations, eh, I don't ...

I really have no idea why people think "Thane" is a good class name. ... -Username17 Frank. Go home, you're drunk. "Thane" sounds cool. That's really the whole reason, as far as I know. In any case, 99% of people have no idea what Thane's definition is. In common understanding, ...

I'm not sure if I have 3, but I do have one good example.

Oriental Adventures for DnD 3.0/3.5. Lots of content, very flavorful, interesting to read, good artwork, good stuff for character optimization.

That's basically the high water mark for splay books in 3.5 as far as I'm concerned.

Axe Cop. He's a cop with an axe.

If that's all it is, then, yes. Low level in DnD 3.5 terms.

But that should have been obvious to you.

Is there some reason you think Axe Cop might not be low level?

You have got to fully explain just what "axe cop" is before you ask questions like that.

Unless you just want a retread of the general discussion about mundane action heros.

On a side note, based on K's posting patterns, I'm going to assume he's trolling or going through a rough patch.

In either case, K, hopefully you'll return to your former state.