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What was clear to me in that game was that the Paladins player was a 2e style munchkin. He really though he was building an awesome character by cheating on his stat rolls and garbing all the items and of course having an incestuous relationship with the DM. If he was just a basketweaver there would...

I'll admit that being on theRPGsite has caused me to lose some perspective and to be honest I can't be proud of my actions there. I'm going to admit that GC's I am the king of optimizers and anyone who disagrees with me is a badwrong backetweaver thing is a bit much. My position on this sort of thin...

So at this point I think I'm going to have to break ranks with GC and revert to my initial position. Given the unbalances in the rules It's totally possible for GMs to write encounters that are or are close to unbeatable. Given that the GM can also send horde of Balors at a first level party this sh...

Since you deal with this nonsense a lot Frank. Why is there so much opposition to the idea that game rules should work. Why is it that people close ranks when games are critiqued on their mechanics. Or to restate the principle idea of TGD. As long as the people who make games don't listen to the peo...

I disagree. Is it trolling to go to a christian forum and talk about atheism? Is it trolling to go to a Klan forum and talk about how phrenology doesn't prove brown people are sub-human. I don't think it's trolling to be factually correct to someone about something they talk about. Now surely in al...

This is the thread where the Pundit announced my ban

Also there should be a special place in Hell for people who use mod powers to monologue in a locked thread.

I'm pretty sure you already knew I had an account here, and there is no need to hide behind a sockpuppet. The Law of Averages clearly hates you, because you are batting .1000 for utterly failing at everything. Purely by accident, you should have gotten something right by now. Welcome back to the De...

Is there someone that can sparknote me? GC is basically saying the game should be all hard mode all the time in order to punish people who are unwilling to properly optimize their characters and tactics. He also posted an example of a hard scenario that is still beatable. Essentially GC would prefe...

Well just as I predicted theRPGsite banned me for "Site disruption" and the pundit all but admitted that he is going to start banning people who post against the groupthink. Those of you who have been present on theRPGsite for the past few months. They are basically a grognard forum that p...

Mr. GC wrote:That is actually about 85% accurate.

Take a lesson gentleman. You just got wtfpwned by Mistborn. Hard.

Ararara Mr. GC thinks I'm good at D&D

Doushio.

Since I am apparently the only person who doesn't fail at D&D How too beat GC's scenario (at least LMs best guess) Given the sort of stress these sorts of encounters put on spell slots the standard optimized conjurer and his band of gimps party the usually defines my existance in D&D would n...

Since Fuchs is still frozen fast.

Lord Mistborn wrote: Given that his scenario mentioned Divination but not COP I assume that the PCs are 7th-8th level

CapnTthePirateG wrote:Psion, 30 AC, fuck off saves, automagically successful dispels ring a bell? You sure as hell don't get that at level 1

Given that his scenario mentioned Divination but not COP I assume that the PCs are 7th-8th level

icyshadowlord wrote:Tell that to the people at the Paizo forums.

I may actually do that.

Go suck a barrel of cocks

If the party has access to level 3-4 spells, I'll assume the Druid does as well. That means Scrying , so the party either has amazing stealth (you'll need a lot more than just Silence ) or gets ambushed like whoa, since the enemies know that they are coming. If the Druid need to know you specifical...

No, this is why thinking the DM is doing anything but letting you win is a self-delusion we should get rid of. If a PC wins a fight in D&D, then only because the GM let him, most often by limiting his NPCs to tactics and attacks and builds that do not capitalize on any given PCs weakness. Yes, ...

The problem comes when people aren't willing to put in the effort die like the gimps they are and have the audacity to blame the people who are component for their failure. Of course given how much DMs coddle players most people only realize they are gimps after years of playing and then they start ...

Because this was awsome. Hello ladies. Look at your party. Now back to me. Now back at your party. Now back to me. Sadly, they aren't me. But if they stopped buffing each other to death and started playing smartly they could win D&D like me. Look down. Up. Where are you? You're on a boat! With t...

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrczktxLzW1r33h79o1_500.png "Committing the 'original sin'(...)" (LaVey's sentence crafting sucks) 3e PHB "a hideous and unsetteling phantasmal vision to a specific creature that you name or otherwise specifically designate." ummm, so that may b...

May a suggest not segregating bonuses based on where they come from. If people can get the same bonuses from items and spells/class features then people are less dependent on their Items. Really if I was writing things I'm not sure I would change things much from 3.5. I'll say it before if people ca...

That is a problem with gageteer/artificer style characters the logical course is not to personally run around wearing power armor it's to command a squad of power armored mooks.

I'm not very familiar with GNS but I can already see how much a clusterfuck even defining the terms is for people. The the conclusion people draw that your game system should only focus on one of these thing. That's full retard there.

Why does the mundane man need to exist in a high fantasy system as a viable option all the way into Epic land? It really shouldn't. I think a lot of the pain and rage can be avoided if you spell out tiers more clearly for the players. Having the mundane fighter end at 5th level is the fastest and e...