The Gaming Den

A fixed hit point track. A lot of people have said that that track should be adjusted for by size so that a medium character gets 10 damage boxes, a large character gets 20, etc. I agree. Damage boxes are awesome for two reasons: 1- It allows you to eliminate critical existence failure. Which means...

Psychic Robot wrote:and William Wallace can have Skill Focus: Rousing Speech.

That is a bad joke, PR.

IGTN wrote:Frank doesn't like hit points, because they don't fit on the exponential curve that levels are supposed to be on.

So what replaces hit points?

The answer for why to not drop Intelligence and Wisdom is multipart: First, Magic in D&D is ridiculously broad and powerful. Maintaining a hard disconnect between half of it and the other half isn't just good for the grognards, it's good for the game. Second, of all the "NADs" Will is...

I've never heard of an intuitive way for this question to be answered other than 'that's an impossible question to ask since there was nothing'. To my layman mind it makes me think 'okay, then where did all of the matter come from'? The best answer is "I don't know" followed by the questi...

CatharzGodfoot wrote:And then there's his nemesis "Professor Possible", who can expound at great length about how that simply won't work, thus rendering your super powers inoperative.

Epic.

Surgo wrote:He certainly is. While the others are mostly self-explanatory, I'm not quite sure what "Cape" is supposed to refer to.

IIRC, The Cape was defined as the guy who flies around, has laser eyes, strength, all that stuff. I guess they're supposed to be The Mario of Superheroes.

TOZ wrote:Fuck, why did I waste my time over at the Paizo forums looking for players?

Temporary insanity?

Sir_Neil wrote:Crazy Judge Facts: In Alabama, if a judge sees someone commit a crime, he can order any people around to arrest them, and hold court right then and there. (15-10-6)

...What.

Two weapon fighting is all about being able to keep something sharp pointed at your opponents eyes while you stab her in the kidney. You don't attack with two weapons at once, you feint and parry with both weapons and attack with one. It's a lot harder to parry and attack at the same time with a tw...

Lago PARANOIA wrote:

Caedrus wrote: Should people really be worrying about if what a Fighter can do is realistic when wizards are much much more powerful than Fighers?

Depends.

Lago, this is a blatant misquote. Those words are Bill Bisco's, not mine. Please fix your quote so that it does not misrepresent me. :irked:

If one strategy is akin to using Shin Akuma in Street Fighter II Turbo (he beats all other characters) shouldn't everyone be more concerned with that than if elves are more heavily populated than humans or if according to the game lore, this one unit really belongs to another religion. Should I car...

RandomCasualty2 wrote:Honestly I like the ToB style maneuvers over the iterative attacks. In all my 3.5 games, people rarely use iteratives.

Note that there are extra attacks in the ToB system.

A few questions come up when you want to remove iterative attacks altogether. For instance, what becomes TWF's new schtick?

You take the blindfold of true darkness and you grab the eversmoking bottle (which makes thick, nonmagical smoke) and the end result is that you can see everyone and most everyone can't see you.

Lago PARANOIA wrote:I recommend the Gamecube version if only because they decreased the amount of random encounters.

It's still very high, but it's not as brain-busting.

Curse you, random encounters!

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Caedrus wrote:I am going to go play this game on a Dreamcast now.

Didn't this also come out on the Wii?

Actually it was the Gamecube. It was the "Enhanced" version of it.

So are you saying I should play it on my Gamecube or my Dreamcast? Because I can go either way.

I am going to go play this game on a Dreamcast now.

Would you play it?

What, exactly, is Ars Magica's system like?

RandomCasualty2 wrote:We need a leader who says, "I don't give a fuck how much money you have. This is the government and we don't put up with your shit."

American's won't vote for someone like that, though.

Crissa wrote:I loved Asimov as a child.

-Crissa

No one introduced me to Asimov as a child. I wish they did.

When I was a little kid I loved Michael Crichton and listened to all of his books on tape well before I started learning to read.

I know, it's mainstream and all that, but hey, young me watched Jurassic Park like 5 times in the theatres.

One thing I suggested was to have "Retreat" as an action that takes up your whole round (so you're not really kiting while you're doing it) but raises your defenses (as if you were taking a defense action) as well as moving you faster. And you can turn corners. That way, at least, taking ...

It seems like in all editions of D&D, the monsters tend to be faster than the PCs. This is generally to combat kiting of monsters, but it also means that PCs can't run away effectively at all. And as we've seen in 4E, generally if you've got the speed to retreat, then you become an invincible h...

Archmage wrote:Alternately, it is a reference to the fact that the show is called Avatar: The Last Airbender...

Perhaps it is intended to suggest that this is the ultimate Avatar RPG, and that no more Avatar RPGs should need to be produced afterward.

I know that. I was making a joke dammit.