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The worst part of this is the fact it's actually an incredible improvement over the last matrix walkthrough I saw. That was a page in dumpshock in which people got maybe a round and a half before the whole thing became a multi-page cluster fuck and it became clear that even people who hang out at a ...

Whenever I think of Palladium I think of this thing.

http://spleen.mearcair.net/rifts/coffin.htm

More legal wrangling! First of all, the Unsigned Orders don't really mean anything. That is just lawyer speak for asking judges to do things. They submit things to the judge that are orders from the judge they are sending it to that would take effect if and when the judge signed it. Which is the ki...

I managed to avoid math since my junior year in high school. I almost took an accounting class in law school just because it would be such an easy A, but I never had room.

In conclusion, I recommend you make sure you can't substitute something else.

Cat saliva contains toxic materials and weird bacteria that will kill any small animal they so much as bite or scratch. Even humans have been known to get massive infections and die from cat bites. Funny you should bring this up. I just ended a four year streak of avoiding the doctor after one of m...

4e already has more classes than it can deal with. Seriously, who even knows what the Avenger and Seeker actually do and care that they exist?

[Edit] This is the one with the Waco/clone thing, right? [/Edit] Captain Sunshine is the one with the superpowered pedophile called Captain Sunshine. If you saw the episode, you pretty much have to remember this. I still like the Venture Bros, though I thought the earlier seasons were better. Why t...

Shadowrun contacts are weird. There;s really no reason not to start the game with an elder dragon who loves you like his favorite son. On the other hand, most people don't do that. In fact, GMs many times give out a handful of free contacts to players just to help them flesh out their background. As...

You mean that shitty fucking grindfest where you spammed team attacks and fought ridiculous immersion-breaking enemies and had to put up with the typical loading times of an early-generation PSX1 game? I'll let the rest go because I am not really into having a nerd war tonight, but seriously what d...

Bahamut Lagoon, for amazingly good music and an incredibly smart storyline that deconstructs console fantasy tropes. I can't remember anything about the story of that game at all. All I remember is the ridiculous game mechanics. Seriously, at the end of the game my dragons were literally invulnerab...

I really have no idea at all what sort of shit you are supposed to have in 4e. Game design goals were to not have any empty or low level slots but honestly filling up half of them seems unrealistic. If you can wait for a while or start late you can just run one level behind with that stuff. The diff...

edit: Bad internet connection + not paying attention = double post.

I wouldn't. It's difficult enough as it is to afford the swag needed become a Healbot cleric when you only have an implement/Crusader's weapon to worry about, but trying to keep up the weapon damage, too? I don't know if it will be that bad. Let's see, to stay relevant a melee ranger pretty much ne...

You guys talked up Immortal Defense enough that I just bought it sight unseen. If I don't like it, I expect you to do the honorable thing and send me your address so I can hunt you down and punish you.

If I were going with Cleric/Ranger, I would rather go the archer way. At first level you look like this. 4e Cleric Archer Race: elf of course STARTING ABILITY SCORES Str 13, Con 11, Dex 18, Int 8, Wis 18, Cha 10. At will: Twin Strike, Cleric something. How about Sacred Flame? Daily: Moment of Glory ...

That way when someone invested in all of that polearm crap gets Mjolnir, they don't toss it in the trash because it's incompatible with all of their previous feats. I don't agree with you that this a is a bad thing. Fiction is full of characters that specialize in a specific weapon or style and peo...

I really don't have any idea what will be nerfed, WotC has shown no consistency at all here. I mean, in addition to stuff like the orbizard being untouched, even their balance principles are inconsistently enforced. In that lasts errata they nerfed life transference because two clerics can have infi...

Pitfighter is for wisdom to damage and the other little benefits. The melee attacks are bad, but at least you can get rid of one of them with reserve maneuver. Being a fighter also lets you pick up their new stance, which is a level 2 encounter stance that trades 2 AC for 2 damage per tier. Range ar...

That's what you do if your in paragon anyway. I always seem to be stuck in the low levels, both in 4e in and 3e. This is also a pretty good post for the suckiness of 4e multiclassing. Only the warden is pure, but hes relies on a rather overpowered stance and some specific items. The last one needs t...

I agree with most of what Lago said about trap options with a couple exceptions. Warlocks are supposed to be able to function as a striker now if you take con as your power stat and enough strength to wear heavy armor and just charge into everything like a barbarian knock off. Of course, after readi...

The 4e multiclassing system is pretty ass. Generally, you are multiclassing in 4e in order to do one of three things. 1. Trading out one of your powers or features in order to get something broken on another class list. 2. Combining a few features or powers into an effect which breaks the game. 3. S...

There's a lot of people who will fall for the weirdest sciencey bullshit and I guess they have money to spend so you might as well write towards them. According to some research I did, the pentagon forked over a shitload of money towards some weird ass attempt to make a data mining AI thing. I'd lau...

The real crazy stuff doesn't kick in until you have caster level 15 since that is when you get the DC 30 tornado. It is sort of unclear whether the fortitude negates listed in the spell description is your normal spell DC, or the natural environmental spell DC. That and also that most folk don't li...

Speaking of nerfs, fleeting Dwoemer is nerfed to daily. So is life transference and Healer's Sash. Grasp of the Grave is nerfed and so is potent restorables, so clerics never mc to artificer anymore.

I'm sure he meant Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.