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How to make people rage:

Play an FPS with them.
Beat them.

That actually sounds reasonable for Smite. PF Smite Evil is a big enough per-attack damage bonus to maybe justify dualwielding. It might be wrong, I don't feel like doing the math right now, but it's at least not stupid. However optimization based on Weapon Spec or Favored Enemy means you got some ...

Ahahaha. Oh wow... IF you are going to choose an example, I'm going to be forced to make you look stupid in public. First, the DM has already decided to dramatically increase the odds of killing the PCs because he changed the base orc entry to use a greatax with an average crit of 30 instead of the ...

Right so you one shot every player you can as soon as the opportunity comes up? D&D, at least in the 3.X iteration that we discuss here, is sufficiently rocket taggy that you can almost always kill people in one round using run of the mill CR appropriate encounters. As the DM has much more info...

Now that you mention it, I think you are onto something.

Gee I guess the way to go in your game is to not bother buying any kind of defensive item, since the DM is prohibited from attacking people with weak defenses. Have a high fort save and you save against finger of death 15% of the time. Have a weak fort save and you're 100% safe because you never ge...

Die in a fire. I'm curious, Shadow Balls. Do you accept that there is any reason to play D&D (or any other RPG, for that matter) other than to exact the most perfectly efficient victories possible? I'm curious if this is some sort of rhetorical front, or how you actually play. This is Pathfinde...

ITT: Swordslinger makes sense, and almost everyone else doubles down on the derp.

To all of you above, my comment was just a refute to shadzar's post about how casters were the implied hotfix for fighters, because they are not. Not at low levels, and not at high levels. Not in a box. Not with a fox. When, as a player, I want my fighter archetype, I will ignore people who tell me...

I want to play a guy that just stabs things hard, not a caster. Telling me to play a caster and not a guy that just stabs things hard makes you an asshole. I want to play a stealthy damage-dealer. Telling me not to play one stealthy damage-dealer and to play a better stealthy damage-dealer is total...

You are playing Pathfinder. Guy who stabs things hard isn't on the table, unless the things in question are himself.

I do find it weird that some posters claim you are a dick if when people don't bother lvling up outside the session, that you won't let them waste everyones time by lvling up in session. If you agreed to lvl up outside the actual playing time and you can't do that for some reason, you can always pl...

Lets ignore the many reasons why capture is worse than death for a moment. And that is something even the no deathers admit to being true. Ok. So you're fighting some humanoids. It's reasonable that them defeating you might not result in them killing you, as humanoids do other things to people they ...

I suggest taking the hacking discussion private or into another thread. As for AP for casters, you may be an exception to my experience, but I suspect if we lined up all our experiences casters would exhibit the most frequent AP, with arcane casters being at the top of the list. It's possible, or a...

Casters aren't a fix though, they are their own classes. You can't say "don't be a fighter, be a class with completely different mechanics," but you can say "don't be a rogue, be a ninja which plays the exact same way but is better." Option A is invalidated by nerfs, take Option...

He actually hacked your email account? Change the password to something...I don't know, that isn't your name or some shit like that. If he's dictionary cracking your password that's incredibly bad security (but still illegal). It should take at least 2 days if you're using even remotely good passwo...

I find it interesting that not so Pseudo Stupidity is going on about how everyone plays Ninjas now, because they replaced Rogues when he was one of the main ones bitching at me about a similar principle in a different context. Either the whole everyone is a caster thing, or everyone uses item x beca...

If you can't tell the difference between play D&D = play D&D and make the occasional joke and play D&D = spend 99% of the time talking about random stuff and 1% playing D&D you're a fucking idiot. I don't think you are a fucking idiot, but I have thought this before about those here...

Here is an example: Various people: We're not socially maladjusted, you are! Quick, PR go hack his email account. *PR hacks Shadow Balls' email account* Various people: You're totally in the wrong for expecting people to act decently! Backtrace, bitch. Suck it. Wat? I don't get it either, but then ...

*PR hacks Shadow Balls' email account* Okay, what? Is this something that actually happened, or is it a hypothetical situation? The former. So you'll forgive me if I am entirely unimpressed by fuckers who claim to take the moral high ground and then take actions that are unacceptable under any circ...

"Hey, want to come over and hang out?" "Sure." And you come over, and you hang out, and all is good. "Hey, want to come over and play D&D?" "Sure." And you come over, and you play D&D, and all is good. "Hey, want to come over and play D&D?&qu...

At first autistic was being used an an insult but now I legitimately think you're autistic because of your inability to parse social situations like a normal person. I can't say I like you, but I don't dislike you. I haven't even disagreed with you. But I do think you should see a therapist. Inabil...

Monkeys. Typewriters. Shakespeare.

Thanks for proving your autism by strawmanning rigid(and incorrect) social guidelines. And going on to say anyone who socializes differently then you is sociopathic. You sure aren't autistic. "Hey, want to come over and hang out?" "Sure." And you come over, and you hang out, and...

I agree, but my beef was that he claimed that paizo is out to spite frank & k/TGD. the last thing we need around here is more egotistical tinfoil hattery. Nice job being autistic (lol see what I did there). In case you have missed the subtle social cues, K isn't exactly someone that I get along...