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Well basically pre Necron codexes are not as good as the stuff that came out later, and they have to compete with: Necrons with their ultra durable units. Eldar with bunch of D strength and S6 shooting. Marines with a bunch of stuff for 0 points. I am guessing Koumei plays the two armies he reviews ...

You gotta eyeball some numbers at the least. First what does mana do in number terms. How many years of Mana Mooching of a Healthy Young Adult (MMHYA) does it take to make a +1 sword, or decanter of endless water. How much do you get from killing said HYA. How much do you get from a cow, or a elepha...

Whats happening is that pathfinder is loosing steam. Its a 15 year old game engine and a lot of people played a lot of the game. Its cosmetic changes to the base system don't hold people anymore. As it was 4e had competition in the form of Pathfinder. 5e has no such competition, and until a real com...

I really liked PoE. Mechanics were pretty solid, I really dug the all abilities matter, and each class had distinctive specials. Some classes were stronger then others, but they fixed the worst parts with patches. I played on Path of the Damned, so there were no targeting circles, Wizards were not t...

You can turn your proficiency bonus into dicepools, and ability modifiers into dicepools, and advantage and disadvantage are just added and removed from that pool.

But then its not d20 anymore.

I never played it, but isin't Magic the Gathering basically THE wizard sport?

You are a mage, you summon creatures and sling spells in a arena against another mage who does the same shit.

To say nothing about having a "Hot Spot" of your very own.

Its been said on these boards before, but 5e is selling pretty much the same way 4e has been for its first year. So about 150,000-200,000 books worldwide (PHB is the bulk at around 120,000). And thats all folks...I don't know how well the adventure paths are doing...not well I suppose. Reasoning is ...

While I don't like the SW universe the way they present it, I find that an interesting take on it is that the Jedi order are actually the bad guys (the Sith are also the bad guys, just of a different kind). Take these things into account: The galaxy is essentially in a unchanged state since the Sith...

Yeah, I kind of agree with you Omegon. Today it seems to me like we have a regression in the hobby. DnD, Shadowrun, Dark Heresy, Warhammer Fantasy (or the new Age of Yawnmar) the quality keeps dropping.

Maybe I'm not exposed to enough games

Or you can just let the races keep their piddly little bonuses and have ways of getting real, meaningful bonuses via feats, teamwork and/or positioning.

That's not entirely true. Look at all the low-level/let's play a basketweaver final destination/4rries and so on. It may be boring as fuck (to your average Denner) but it clearly is not boring to a good-sized portion of tabletop players. On the SR side, part of the conceit is that you may have capa...

What if you took the concept of Shadowrun and made the class gap even more stark? The game & characters are post-apocalypse, with gems of higher-end technology in a field of almost lifeless soil. But there are also non-interventionist arcologies in the background with high population densities ...

I understand that the setting needed a reboot, and don't find the new one super stupid. I understand they want some sort of army counterpart to Warriors of Chaos. Even though the Empire was a much better choice fluffwise. I understand that they want to attract new players, and simplify the ruleset. ...

How could it possibly compete with Magic?

How about a barbarian? I know they have some rage powers where they grow claws when they rage. Also I think one where you can get a bite attack. Incidentally that rage power path gives you extra NA, and pounce on higher levels so its not as bad as rage powers go. I don't know if it was updated with ...

It gets even worse then that. Both 3e and 4e had a second progression track aside from XP, the loot. Based on what magic items you had you could totally customize your character. Even if the options were shit compared to wizards, you could still fly, teleport, see invisible stuff, get extra actions ...

Take the worst parts of 3e and the worst parts of 4e, mix in Mearls bullshit propaganda, add some bland internet wisdom from playtesters and you have 5e. I'm sorry, but that's a blatant lie. 5e wizards still get plenty of interesting shit like teleport and animate dead and magic jar and dominate eff...

Ive seen bloodragers that start combat with mirror image and displacement, and have a rage power that allows them to respond to melee attacks before they hit with opportunity attacks. As beatsticks go they are very solid.

My cyber characters usually go with alpha wired reflexes II and reaction enhancers II. I think its 3 essence on the dot for +4 reaction and +2 IP, and I believe it is something like 85k nuyen. Perhaps not the cheapest deal, but solid and doesn't require GM approval.

I have used the bloodstorm blade (or whatever that throwing prestige class is from Tome of Battle) and pierce magical concealment / protection as a mage slayer type character. The PMP/PMC have stipulations of being a melee attack, and the prestige class allow you to treat thrown weapons as melee att...

I got the idea here from the Den (I am unsure who posted it though, perhaps Kaelik or Frank), but this is what I use in my games. Conditions are ranked into three tiers, for example shaken/frightened/panicked. Any creature can take 10/20/30 unavoidable damage (that goes directly to their HP pool, by...

Since I see he actually lives in Georgia it may be possible he truly believes in his own propaganda. Weird shit happens during a war, and this is pretty tame by comparison.

Because bounded fucking accuracy the game becomes Skeletons and Skullfuckery. From level 5 onwards you can have enough skeletons to replace two martial classes in terms of combat utility and you still get all your spells. There are no CR=character level monsters that survive 1 round of shooting from...

Thanks for the review OgreBattle and Red Rob, but alas I already knew that. And what you guys posted is the extent of the fluff for the Orks, which compared to any other 40K faction is very poor.