The Gaming Den

Reviving this Page 45 thing: "How is the boy!"

-Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds.

I have no idea.

Vindication!?

They made levelling up stupid in Skyrim or in Oblivion?

Archibald shouts "A-HA! The levers are fizzing, it must be them! I'll get you yet, you student-stealing whoremonger!"

He subsequently drops his crossbow and hobbles as fast toward the levers on the south side, spitting on his palms as he does so.

No, I just forgot that one too. Archibald's never dealt with this kind of thing, so he has no idea what to do.

That's actually a good point, I didn't think of that.

On the other hand, it's probably pretty trivial, given that you have decent status in the Covenant, to have someone translate it for you and send it to you as a handy-dandy searchable pdf or epub that you can view on an iPhone, which might make it more useful to speak Mandarin or something just in c...

Flauros, have you read the Tomes? Frank and K go over this kind of thing really well, far better than I ever could. Essentially, there are a bunch of ways. One way of doing things is that there exists a tacit agreement between the bad guys and the good guys- assuming that they're both of more or les...

Korgan, I'm still confused on your math. Two spells for intelligence and one for specializing should only give you four total. Or am I crazy? Did this ever get resolved? I get the feeling you might have accidentally used the Sorcerors starting 1st level spells of 3 rather than the Wizards 1 Korgan?...

On the other hand, if being a duke literally allowed you to hack your way through a nigh-infinite amount of counts and below, you can bet your ass there would be combat dukes.

I prefer 3tards, thank you very much.

JC's native language is French, and he also knows English and Spanish. I probably should have put in his native language, but whatever.

Eh? What's going on now? Oh, shit! Where the hell is it?

[ooc]I cast detect magic, and subsequently ready an action to shoot it with my crossbow if I can see it.[/ooc]

Yeah, I have detect magic, but I haven't seen anything that would result in me using it. I'm going to go to bed soon, so can we say that I use detect magic on that cube thingy if Olaf points it out and then tell them the result?

[ooc]Okay, can I say that I'm more or less constantly making knowledge:history and knowledge:architecture checks to notice anything worth noticing? I guess you can assume that I'm consistently taking ten on them.[/ooc]

When you shit, does straw come out? Having multiple end-of-turn phases adds literally nothing in terms of complexity. It provides no interesting choices for the player to make, doesn't meaningfully affect the style of gameplay, and doesn't interact with other systems in a meaningful way. It is dead ...

I get it, okay. Thanks, Frank.

"Yes, yes, jolly good, what ho. Interestingly enough, the dwarven Karian Empire used such traps to defend the mausolems of their emperors, although [Archibald launches into a long, boring, meandering historical lecture that makes very little sense, with individual sentences seeming to have very...

Also, burn isn't an actual thing- you'd want to either make it damage or drain. What you could do is just make it ability damage (so it naturally heals over time) that cannot be removed by any means (edit: except through waiting), and persists no matter the form, or something. Actually, Ability Bur...

On the other hand, the problem with having Arcane magic is that it seems kinda generic and vague: Wizards in DnD have the 'arcane' schtick and can end up being able to do pretty much anything, while the other two power sources have far more finite capabilities, namely doing things with culturally ap...

Now you get it. You'll fit right in here. Of course, you're still wrong as shit, but you've got the rhetorical style down pat. Hell, Swordslinger (I think) came in here as part of the Goon invasion, and now he's a "respected" member of the community.

I haven't read through the playtest document, and this is going to sound incredibly stupid, but is there some reason the fighter can't equip said weapons or am I just super stupid? I understand that bounded accuracy means that small bonuses are super important- I guess WotC just needs to tone down t...

Archibald mutters "oh, I remember something about this now. There was some god of pure chaos or something, and some race cracked the prison trying to use it as a power source to do something, I don't know. Really there are thousands of those legends and most of them are rubbish. There might be ...

Golems I think would work really well as a playable race- maybe they're the remnants of a long lost empire or something. For the steelshell (or what have you) I was thinking just steampunk cyborgs, with magic/steam (probably both)-powered limbs, bodies, and weapons. Pearl Magic works, but we still n...

Okay- I'm currently working on roughing out some of the archetypes and at least providing some names and some sample disciplines, taking a lot from what's been said upthread- I don't know when it will be done as I've never really done anything like this before and I fully expect it to be full of hol...