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For example, the enemy army is crossing an ice bridge. Does a fireball destroy that bridge? If it doesn't, how much fire do I need to melt that ice? This is kind of thing I'd put in the fire section and it would apply any time I used one of the fifty different fire-producing effects in the game or ...

Doom wrote:Or you can pickpocket the heart right out of briarhearat enemies, having them fall over dead, for extra hilarity. Damn near every skill tree has a perk that crushes the game into easy mode.

That's a pretty awesome way to kill something.

As a fan of Eberron, I remember playing the trial for DDO and thinking it did not really represent the setting well (and just was a bore in general, so I didn't go past the free trial). Don't be so quick to yell about the setting designer... a good deal of his stuff got reinterpreted by other write...

Gx1080 wrote:Less classes?

Yeah, I prefer less classes with more customizeability.

As far as reducing space, keywords is a great method of doing that. Instead of bothering to write a description that every fire spell can light stuff on fire, you can just make a fire keyword that talks about that.

The constitution was written in a time when people traveled by horse. Taking into account internet technologies, you could write a way better form of government that involves the people to a greater degree.

I guess the bottom line is that there are things we associate with smartness that we can represent in the game through roleplaying or mechanics, and things we can't. And that means that big umbrella stats like "Intelligence" are bad. But you could chop it up into smaller bits and have tha...

That leaves the problem unanswered ... how do you really accomplish this in a practical TTRP game. Unless you have a DM who can design epic campaigns on the fly or is one hell of a campaign kit basher, your characters are going to do things that the campaign writer has not anticipated or prepared f...

If you can point out to me any one of your characters from any tabletop RPG game you have played that has somehow become so legendary that every other player in the hobby has heard of that character's awesomeness and the character's deeds and story have been added to the official canon that accompa...

MMOs, on the other hand, require you to do something noteworthy in order for the world (the community of other players) to notice you and care. Going on quests and killing shit in that context isn't the point, it's a means to an end--sort of like going to your job. The face-stabbing can be entertai...

Swordslinger, I don't understand how your complaint isn't applicable to every TTRPG game, other than the fact that you aren't confronted with those other players constantly. Do you have a similar beef with the RPGA? I guess there's no satisfaction to killing Orcus in your games, due to knowing that...

Because it's fairly well established that a -2 to int doesn't make orc wizards less intelligent, it just makes them less every-other-stat since you're just going to take points out of every other stat to make up the stat you want. Pretty much. The correct way to do orcs would be to give them an int...

Then your imagination sucks . When you go kill Captain Evil in Captain Evil's Dungeon of Malevolency and then you come back out and the townspeople all tell you how awesome you are for having done so, and there's no mechanical incentive to ever go into that dungeon again, it is pitiably easy to sus...

Depending on the NPC, this does actually happen. Do raid bosses stay dead? No, but while that may "ultimately remove any potential connection" for you personally it doesn't for literally millions of other people. Sure, but there are a great deal of people who like MMORPGs that do not like...

Fuck, the Pathfailure Fighter doesn't have Diplomacy, Stealth, or Perception on his fucking skill list - he can't even solve level appropriate totally mundane problems. A +3 bonus makes the difference between success and failure in your campaign? Jesus, Skill Focus must be incredibly popular then. ...

Two rogues can have an intelligent discussion about evasion or horrid wilting and examine it in detail without breaking the fourth wall. Their conversation will seem weird and full of bullshit, but mostly because human beings are myopic and self-centered and have stunted imaginations owing to a stu...

It is not hard to roleplay the exact same characters in WoW as you would in a TTRPG that had WoW's same setting and plot. You do have to suspend your disbelief as regards to a few things, like the fact that yes, you can in fact go and kill every single raid boss as many times as you want. That tota...

You can effect the world, you just do it on the dev's time table rather than the DMs or your own. You can roleplay and a lot of players do (and I'm talking about more than Goldshire), and in WoW at least you never actually have to kill anything yourself. It's actually possible to hit max level just...

You may not like it, but MMOs generally fill the same nitch of a fantasy game and world for players to interact with. If you're looking for a TTRPG type experience, you don't go play sports, or sleep, you might watch a movie, but probably not. What you do do is go play an MMO. If you go out specifi...

DMs who can't handle PCs getting infinite wishes aren't worthy of the title imo. My players figured out a way to pull it off around level 7-8 without Planeshift or a Candle of Invocation. Are you kidding? Once you have infinite wishes, you can get as many scrolls of gate or greater planar binding a...

That's true. Not only do people have an infinite amount of leisure time, but no person who has ever played a TTRPG has ever played an MMORPG. Then TTRPGs are also competing with watching movies, Mortal Kombat, playing sports and sleeping. And making that statement is fucking pointless. MMORPGs don'...

You just made me really sad, Kae. I mean, "broken" shouldn't just mean exceptionally powerful within the confines of the damn level system. Well no, it really does. The whole point of a level system is to set people to a power range. If one guy at level 5 is a total wimp and another guy i...

It is possible for a mechanic to be both explanationless and dissociated. That happens whenever an ability runs contrary to its own fluff. That causes major apoplexy in fans. A good example is the 4e Dark Sun version of Defiling. There is no explanation for why it passes over people who refuse to b...

4E Dark sun was a terrible idea in general. Dark Sun is supposed to be a story about survival in a harsh land. 4E pretty much handwaves all the difficulty of surviving in the setting and is more about getting to the combats. And once you ignore the whole flavor of the setting, Dark Sun becomes a bor...

This says to me that any faith in anything at all is enough. This includes yourself, your friend who believes in you, or just pure awesomeness. So you can totally be a naytheist cleric. At that point you'd have to explain why every NPC in the game doesn't have cleric levels then? If all it takes is...

In HERO and GURPS, you can totally put your martial characters on non-At Will power schedules. They can have activation rolls, fatigue or PP limits, uses-per-day, situational, &c. Activation rolls for the most part are crap. They're just another "Attack" roll attached to your move. Th...