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Oh, and your notations about leaving PC corpses as mockeries is sort of weird. What kind of players do you have that would laugh at the situations of other corpses but wouldn't laugh at their own in the same situations?

I sort of like your idea but you're oddly limiting yourself to A) the really silly 9-point alignment system and B) to D&D in general. For one, a Bard in 3E, even after Lichdom, is going to be a complete pushover to any full caster, for two, Bards as NPCs lack the real cheese that makes a Bard in...

Protip: redesigning 3E to fit 'mythical warrior' cliches only works if you're willing to discard 3E's assumption that magic is the only thing that equates to power in fantasy. Not many people here seem willing to do that, even though wizards in traditional fantasy (read: not D&D branded books) t...

Hahahaha holy shit your forums code is total shit, I guess it's just like Frank's design aspirations

You base your whole argument on the presumption that what you are saying is automatically correct. If you don't get why this makes you an idiot I can't save you. I'm sorry but I had to quote this. Apparently you are an idiot if your argument isn't a bunch of lies. Which perfectly explains Verisimil...

Even if Beowulf can hold his breath "forever", he can't speak underwater without having the ability to not actually need to breathe. Really? Where does it state that he can't speak? If he can hold his breath for eight hours without feeling discomfort, why can't he speak? He's already exce...

I mean think about it: more than one fucking person has brought up the idea that Beowulf held his breath for kind of a long time as an example of how he should be able to join that adventure. But as has been repeatedly pointed out: holding your breath for "like an hour or something, man "...

I am very guilty of arguing semantics. My chief reason for doing so is that magic, in TTRPGs, is usually very well defined as things that people who tap into magic do. Magic can be a catch-all term, for sure. I mean, come on, the quote of "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishab...

I get that people invented the word "phlebotinum" to specifically mean "arbitrary power source that allows characters to do things that would otherwise not be possible" but it's a stupid word. Using "magic" instead is worse, as this thread shows. So, when we're talking...

The Cool to Suck Ratio for MTP is devastating. Entire sections of the game like illusions in s.X DnD can't be used without a conversation with the DM lasting at least a half hour, most of the time resulting in that DM MTPing up a version of illusions that nerfs it into uselessness. If we want to go...

The problem being is that 'of' in that sense means derived from, while or means... or. So "Derived from, relating to, or invoking the supernatural," wouldn't actually be interpreted by a sane person to mean, "Everything supernatural ever and then some."

Oh, I think I see your problem. You don't know what of means.

Also I love the idea that MTP is just bad design and GOOD design just has rules for everything that ever might come up. Because that is the silliest thing I have ever heard about game design. MTP is unavoidable in every RPG ever because the alternative is trying to make rules for reality. Which is ...

But when you insist that all Phlebotinum is magic you're just limiting yourself; yeah, people need something to break out of mundane archetypes but that something doesn't have to be magic. No. Fuck. Stop sucking that barrel of cocks so loudly. Stop spewing this pendantic bullshit from you face sphi...

Also since it never really got addressed: Is psionics magic? Because, according to D&D, it's not. But if everything supernatural is magic then it has to be. What's going on here!

But when you insist that all Phlebotinum is magic you're just limiting yourself; yeah, people need something to break out of mundane archetypes but that something doesn't have to be magic. Hell, you yourself admit that magic is a form of Phlebotinum. Kaelik's stating that magic is the only form of P...

So what was the point? As far as I can tell it was Kaelik insisting that something was true in the face of all evidence. Which is par for the course here but still that guy is dedicated to being wrong while pretending the opposite.

Woah woah wait that would mean that magic is a word for talking about specific supernatural interactions instead of a synonym for supernatural!

Alternatively it could just mean that pecuniary is a specific word for talking about certain monetary interactions rather than being a synonym for money itself

Because you are literally completely assbackwards. The definition of magic is "all the supernatural things. Also all the things that relate to the supernatural but are not themselves supernatural." So, where is this definition of magic that is, "Everything supernatural and everything...

People will not ever accept Conan doing that. He's just a rogue/fighter/barbarian multiclass. He didn't even take any levels in Planar Champion. Yeah, that's a pretty good summation of the problem at hand. "Well you see the way it's been done before means this can't happen, therefor it should ...

Sempai can you please stop indulgeing this blithering moron with your scorn if because if we have another page of this thread full of this bullshit I'm going to start weeping and maybe commit sudoku I know personal attacks are all the rage here because rational discourse is something most people he...

People will not ever accept Conan doing that. He's just a rogue/fighter/barbarian multiclass. He didn't even take any levels in Planar Champion. Yeah, that's a pretty good summation of the problem at hand. "Well you see the way it's been done before means this can't happen, therefor it should ...

Because you are literally completely assbackwards. The definition of magic is "all the supernatural things. Also all the things that relate to the supernatural but are not themselves supernatural." So, where is this definition of magic that is, "Everything supernatural and everything...

"Conan rips through the very fabric of reality, his overwhelming determination forcing him through the planes and towards his foe." You are then no longer Conan your fucking Baron Munchausen so go eat a dick we've already been over this. So, please, tell me: Why is a Wizard doing this thr...