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Neon Sequitur (Grady Elliott) is a drive by troll who comes here from time to time to tell us we are all fools. I don't believe he has contributed anything of any real content to this board ever. So asking him to not be a disingenuous asshat in this conversation is like asking a scorpion to not sti...

What shrinkage? The self-inflicted tragedy called 4E shrunk d&d's player base from 6 milions to 1. In addition, 4E's advent came at a time where the global economy was already suffering the consequences of 8 years of Dubya in the White House. By this time, both FASA and White Wolf were long dea...

Omegonthesane wrote:1. The D&D brand has been the most recognisable TTRPG of them all for some years. Its commercial failure by all past standards is a damning indictment of the current design team and a direct cause of the shrinkage of the hobby.

Unsupported assertion in bold text.

What shrinkage?

The whole virgin thing is childish. But this weird tribalistic "I want to believe every 'bad' thing about 5e and Mike Mearls, truth or not" bullshit is actually deeply troubling. When did the Den start being full of dishonest shills and willful liars? A long fucking time ago. Check your i...

D&D has indeed failed...

...to stop selling.

https://twitter.com/mikemearls/status/7 ... 8128419840

Prestige classes are deader than this thread, but 5E is alive and well without them.

Screw you, Frank.

CapnTthePirateG wrote:http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/feature ... rune-magic

So remember how we were all saying that 5e had a distinct lack of character customization?

No, because it doesn't.

Longes wrote:Spoony is defending 3d6 in order on the basis of "You haven't tried it!" and "Numbers don't matter, the story does!"

The OneTrueWay is strong in this one.

I am pleased to announce that this is now officially the least relevant thread, on the least relevant gaming forum, on the entire internet. You're welcome. Hasbro CEO: "D&D is Really on a Tear" http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?2542-Hasbro-CEO-says-D-D-is-really-on-a-tear#.VT5Ne...

I can't think of anyone less qualified to "review" Ars Magica.

Have fun, guys.

If that makes them "not paladins any more" by some people's definitions, then they're missing the point, they need to change their definition of what a paladin is so they can keep up with those of us who actually remember the point of this thread, and move on. The reason you want to use d...

I've come to see the (relatively) new Inquisitor class as everything the Paladin should have been, and I'm playing my current character as such. After helping our party take down a bunch of mooks with the judicious and repeated use of the Blistering Invective spell, (people he intimidates burst int...

I've come to see the (relatively) new Inquisitor class as everything the Paladin should have been, and I'm playing my current character as such. After helping our party take down a bunch of mooks with the judicious and repeated use of the Blistering Invective spell, (people he intimidates burst into...

When I was a high school senior, a scheduling conflict resulted in me taking Home Economics. Whatever; we got to cook stuff and I was a ravenous teenager so I didn't mind. One dinky assignment we were given was a print-out of a measuring cup with the quarters labeled (e.g. 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1 cup) and...

hyzmarca wrote:So what I really need is a house rule that you can't play unless you're a math major?

You realize this is 5th grade math, right?

"Whenever a disad comes up" is entirely up to the GM. So no, it's not "unlimited" unless the GM is drooling retard who bends over to every whim of every munchkin, power gamer and rules lawyer at his table. This is beyond arguing a worst case, it's an outright fabrication, and I'm...

My main problem with the Inquisitor is that it's another case of them jacking themselves off to shitty teamwork feats. I can tell that they are some designer's baby and so he just shoehorns them in everywhere. There's an archetype that replaces those shitty teamwork feats (I hate those) with a diff...

"Unlimited."

You use that word a lot. It doesn't mean what you think it means....

Feel free to continue re-writing the dictionary on my ignore list.

The fact that the Inquisitor class exists makes it all better for me.

There are a few systems that give you immediate and unlimited bonus character resource points for roleplaying your "disadvantages," which is possibly the worst thing I have ever seen. Oh, you're inconveniencing your entire group by picking a character flaw that grinds play to a halt, like...

The "butt-hurt train" just keeps rolling on.

Don't like the new game? Play the old one.

No one's stopping you.

Let me know when you get to the part about anyone, anywhere, actually getting FORCED to do... anything.

Hello?

Tell me again about that awful day those WOTC thugs came to your house and put guns to your head to FORCE you to play D&D by their rules!

No? Didn't think so.

Perhaps magic mushrooms? Dropped acid? It's really simple. The Republicans are the Stupid Party. the Democrats are the Evil Party. Every so often they decide to do something bipartisan, which is hence both Evil and Stupid. Aside from having your parties completely fucking backwards , this is spot-on.

...and cats.

My characters have a tendency to capture murder-hobos in their sleep, then take them to the authorities and collect whatever bounty they have on their heads. I just don't like murder-hobos. I don't like the trail of bodies they leave behind them. I don't like that playing style. I don't like people...