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New baldur's gate announced: an HD remake of 1 and 2 and the expansions, by a team that's partly new guys and partly guys that worked on the original versions of the games. Sounds more like it'll just be the old games with higher quality sprites and maybe one new dungeon so they can say they added ...

So there was a new maybe-bullshit/maybe-real leak over on the Something Awful forums recently. http://pastebin.com/zRWmNeZd (page someone made of the SA stuff) Now granted, it should be noted that the people writing the leak stuff are mostly all big 4E fans, so a lot of this could just be 'The sky i...

There is also a 3rd party PF conversion of the Psychic Warrior which made it *even more* monk like then it already was, and not surprisingly does indeed make the core monk feel small in the pants. But I know to some people, "Third Party" and "Psionics" are practically dirty words.

That gives me an idea. A Monk remake that uses Cleric buffs as Chi-themed Maneuver boosts and stances. Frankly I'm a little surprised PF hasn't turned the Monk/Cleric/Sacred Fist concept into it's own base class like the Magus yet. I mean, the sensible reason against doing that would be that such a...

I think the implications being made here is... if you want to be an effective Monk in 3e/3.5/PF your best option is *still* to just play a cleric with Imp Unarmed Strike and rebrand all your class features and shit with words like "ki Powers" "Meditation" and "Unlocking Chak...

Didn't Flurry of Misses used to have specific text saying 'you can use which ever parts of your body, in what ever sequence you wish to make these attacks with"? Or did I just imagine that?

This is getting into stupid MMOG logic territory where luring a mob into a tall canyon where your archers and mages can kill it without risk is considered an bannable exploit instead just common god damn tactics , and any melee based monster should just go into automatic immortal Evade mode and inst...

As much as I loathed 4E's attempt at Vampires, they somehow did manage to write a version of the sun weakness that was about as close to dangerous as you could get and still allow the vampire PC to function as a PC at a basic level* Granted, I also can't read the text block for it without instantly ...

Let's be honest, at this point Vampires' have had weaknesses to almost everything but kryptonite, lead and the motherfucking color yellow . And as a result, whenever you write a new vampire story you pretty much have to do a mental checklist in your head checking off which weaknesses your vamps get ...

just start with races in their own book. again WH40K has minimal play info in the BIG BOOK on the few races it has, and people just ignore it and move to the actual race books unless they want to play smurfs v smurfs. Considering GW lets some armies go several editions without a new codex while giv...

One thing I always thought Whitewolf got right with WoD was making one big main HC book for each game that contained more or less the basics of everything you need to play the game and the *rough* basics for running one. Followed by a smaller, cheaper paperback book that went more in depth into game...

So what you're saying is...


I should expect to have to pay at least over 15k gold for a *decent* dwarven sex slave? Now is that their Waterdeep, Sharn, or Sigil market price? Good info to know either way.

warforged work in eBerron, ok sure fine you can have them... it doesnt mean they should drop onto Toril or Abier..or Abier-Toril. Hasn't FR had like over a dozen god damn self-aware or might as well be self-aware golem characters show up across the various books/campaigns/video games over the years...

One day I truly hope Bethesda puts that breed of khajiit that are suppose to pretty much be just magic using sentient house cats in an Elder Scrolls game.

But on topic, I don't know, besides the a cat is fine too thing how long did it take 4E to get all those things?

Paladin : The PF Paladin, one of the two classes I thought PF actually improved a lot. Fighter : 3.5 Warblade or hell just letting the normal Fighter have access to the feats and endless magic item drops from the first Neverwinter Nights game would help a lot. Rogue : combine the stock 3.5 Rogue wi...

Generally speaking a game setting that's not going to just be 'Humans of Various Vaguely familiar Though Rather Innoffensivly Generic Cultures' needs some combinations of- The Middle ground race that can do any class/role pretty well (defaults to Humans normally although holy fuck am I tired of this...

The simple answer is, to make people want to play the healer classes. No really, the 3E designers' thought process was this: Dev A : People hate playing clerics, because Healers are seen as a shitty, passive unfun role. What can we do about this? Dev B : I have a cunning plan! Step 1 is we make the ...

On bards: A 2e/3e bard is trying to be a fighter/cleric/mage/thief and it doesn't work very well. The thing is, we already have a working fighter/cleric/mage, it's called cleric and they kick ass. We can take care of the bard's "gish with some support spells and some illusiony spells" sht...

And now I want to write campaign where the players stumble upon an abandoned glade where some vampire once infected a bunch of young animals so he could control them and have them act out scenes from Bambi for the amusement of his daughter. The vampire and child are long gone, killed by over zelous ...

Guessing from the haste spell, you will still be spending actions to command summons. While I can see why they implemented that mechanic, I still fucking hate it with the burning passion of a thousand suns. It would be a perfectly fine mechanic if they'd have the common sense to make the summon's a...

Psionics classes were one of the few classes in which being a human was actually the best race. Except by RAW that extra at-will humans got couldn't be augmented. (unless we're talking about cheesing the hybrid rules) Granted my group and I'd assume many others saw that bullshit and said 'fuck that...

Sadly I. Suspect Ki was dropped because they couldn't come up with enough class ideas to fill it than because they realized it was a bad idea

Here's a interesting maybe rumor/maybe leak. Seems they've tried to deal with the depleting a parties' renewable resources/15 minute work day problem by, get ready for it... just giving up and saying 'fuck no, you don't get to do that!' You get 4 rests per day; 2 short 10-minute ones, a 1-hour one, ...

But the Four Sword Links weren't normal Giant Bag of Tricks Master of All Trades Links. They were just sword and board fighters who could only carry a single extra gimmick item/weapon at a time, making them more of a traditional D&D party set up than anything else. (ignoring the part where they ...

Sigh... I'm talking about some mythological bullshit version of the MT where it actually worked worth a shit. Of course the actual version sucks shit. What I'm saying is that there is simply no way to balance that damn Prc; it's either going to blow donkey dick or be a stupid high power increase wit...