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<r><QUOTE author="JigokuBosatsu"><s>[quote="JigokuBosatsu"]</s><QUOTE author="MisterDee"><s>[quote="MisterDee"]</s>hilarity<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> This makes me want to go back and finish the series. And that's saying something.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> Book ...10? IIRC....is 1 million pages of more A...

erik wrote:

Prak_Anima wrote:Yeah, but he doesn't have ludicrous numbers of bandoliers and pouches.

I think he's just wearing them internally.

That would explain SO MUCH!

Whether Named Bullet + Abundant Ammunition works or not, it's crystal clear that you're a bunch of [EDITED] for discussing it like this.

But don't worry, we can all rag on Ultimate Equipment real soon.

Wow. How very dismissive of any actual argument. If I say "GitP forums atmosphere is hostile to rational and reasoned discussion of RPGs because they all enforce hugbox mentality and confuse politeness with elimination of disagreement" that is broadly generalising and dismissive of any ac...

Doesn't matter how many philosophers you namedrop, radical skepticism is still wankery and faith =/= evidence.

Here's the counter-intuitive truth: The only way to get anything approaching a "free market" is by FUCKLOADS of regulation. Laissez faire economics leads to monopolies and opaque markets. There is nothing inherent to the market economy that creates monopolies, because a real monopoly that...

Besides here, I visit mostly RPGNet. I used to love the plurality there... sadly, said plurality isn't what is used to be, and the late online hysteria only made the environment worse. I find myself replying less and blocking more by the day. The way things are going, I can see it becoming Paizo fo...

Zinegata wrote: It is very much abstracted; and the economy works on the 40K model anyway.

What a scary thought. The basic unit of transaction is the execution.

What the hell? According to this stupid article you referenced, "laissez faire" is "free markets". So how can I "confuse" a free market with "laissez faire economics"? You are a socialist dumb ass. Stick to RPG theorycraft K, because when it comes to economic...

Um... no they didn't . Not only were there a literal fuck tonne of wiccans and humanists and miscellaneous goths in their fractious player base, but they already had a system of "nature and demeanor" that was ethical-system blind. Fuck, they could have kept the Virtues and Vices bit, but ...

But even so, all the powers/abilities had a certain versimilitude. You moved 40' per round. Your attacks had a range of 30 or 100 feet, etc. The spells had an area of effect measured in feat. You could play it with miniatures and a square mat., but you didn't HAVE to. You could play it on just tabl...

Just got another survey in the mail. They wanted me to pick my favorite spells for Clerics and Wizards, ten picks for each level except for five picks for levels 0 and 9. It's a shame that they won't capture the most important information, that I'd pick different spells if they had better mechanics...

The Tomes make reference to racial substitution levels as though they were a thing that people would actually be excited about, even if only a little bit, but I've yet to find a single example of any racial substitution levels that wasn't homebrew. Am I missing something? "Races of the..."...

Given that WHFB has risen in popularity where I play it since 8th, and most people agree its the best ruleset yet. I typically get in a game every week, and can tell you that, no, magic and random charges did not destroy the game. Indeed. 8th edition is very much the _fun_ edition. Troops got usefu...

I figured it out without reading Cordell's post. Also, Antimagic Field and Antilife Shell were not viable Persist candidates when the feat was written. 1) Kudos. You guessed the same answer as an unofficial ruling. Before that ruling there was no way to definitively know what they intended since &q...

Trying to weasel around the intent is fun and all, but it's not like it's hard to actually figure it out. :bored: I actually wasn't trying to weasel. Fixed range is not a codified game term, and in reality it can be used to reasonably refer any number of ranges. The only reason it is even possible ...

Re: illegal persistent acid arrow and fixed range... I believe Short/Medium/Long range is fixed to certain distances. I always read that clause to be ruling out touch spells. When I look at things with "fixed range" in real life usage they tend to be things that function over only a certa...

Spot Clue is bullshit. It's a skill tax that means the whole party sits around with their thumb up their ass if they blow it. The Gumshoe system is one attempted fix. Another is say fuck it, perception is strictly Detect Ambush/Sneak Attack. Finding clues happens by a combination of MTP pixelbitchin...

John Magnum wrote:Wait a second. There's separate stats for Dexterity and Agility, AND for Stamina and Constitution? And then HP is separate from both?

Yes. Having a fuckload of stats makes the game more realistic. People still write games from that retarded viewpoint today.

"Nonmagical" is a pretty vague term.

shapechanging: Bear Warrior, cheap entry Warshaper.

Factotum, sorta kinda.

Ubermount builds.

Frenzied Berserker can certainly get interesting.

Dungeoncrasher Fighter. Warhulk. Riposte scout. Robilar/Karmic strike Fighter.

Not of course that Bounded Accuracy is actually happening. The difference between Chain and Shield (AC 17) and +5 Adamantine and +5 Shield is 13 AC. Without any character abilities at all, the Minotaur who hits you on an 11+ with your first level equipment is 5 points short of being able to hit you...

That statblock is god damn AD&D all over again. I got sick of every monster inventing new rules for every corner case and nothing working as a unified system a long, long time ago.

I want my improv-type actions to solve puzzles. Imagine you're playing a text based game and you're locked in a room with a stool, a bucket, a bookshelf full of books, etc.. I want to search around, figure things out, and generally solve the puzzle of how to escape the room. Having codified rules f...

Didn't they JUST LEARN this shit? They massively improved their solo design from the 4E MM to the MV, and now they're throwing out that progress?

As long as we're wishing for ponies, they should fire Mike Mearls and Bruce Cordell and re-hire Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Rob Heinsoo, and try to steal Jon Chung from White Wolf. Jon's not from White Wolf, he's just a guy who's good with the mechanics that pointed out that the emperor had no clot...