The Gaming Den

I wouldn't use the BoED as any type of calibrator for alignment issues. The book posits that it's okay to use lethal force to put down monsters, but not okay to use tranquilizers unless those tranquilizers only affect your enemies and not your friends. Also, it constantly flip-flops between The Gre...

I wouldn't use the BoED as any type of calibrator for alignment issues. The book posits that it's okay to use lethal force to put down monsters, but not okay to use tranquilizers unless those tranquilizers only affect your enemies and not your friends. Also, it constantly flip-flops between The Gre...

It's also worth noting that the shifter purge is generally viewed as a terrible overreaction - werewolves were nasty as fuck and killing shittons of people, so they were fought back against and killed en masse, and a lot of people got too overzealous and started killing shifters too, and the book d...

I thought the Dungeons & Dragons: The Sundering was something that arrived with 4th edition. I shall look at the article now. Edit after having read the article: Seems like a standard coordinated product launch. Though I don't know why they always need to blow up the Realms every time they launc...

vagrant wrote:Daelkyr half-bloods are in Magic of Eberron, and the Silver Flame stuff (I dun really know about weird) is in Core.

Thanks. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see the whole weird internal fight in an 8 year-old's head in Core. That's the part of the Silver Flame I was asking about.

Hmm, where does the daelkyr half-blood appear?

Where does the weird stuff about the Silver Flame appear?

Good points on all counts, Ice9. So we might have a graph with two axes of power and versatility. Each class would be some sort of solid shape on that graph representing the range of power and range of versatility they could have. I would note that if you have a lot of non-versatile power, the probl...

*shrug* Ahh, I see what you mean. Silly me, I thought that just was about the near incessant insults and profanity. Well, you are also substantially wrong about a number of things, like the sarcophagus lid: Sometimes objects not crafted to be weapons nonetheless see use in combat. Because such obje...

To everyone else: Is there something about what he was saying that I wasn't getting right? I do believe in double-checking and triple-checking such things, but I did not see what I got wrong. He didn't seem willing to clarify either. Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do? *shrug* Ahh, I see what yo...

Seriously, Voss, are you honestly trying to take moral offense at a fucking fictional published setting? What the fuck do you think succubi do in Core DnD? Politely ask if you'd be willing to sleep with them, or mindfuck you into a willing sex slave whose soul is then traded for in Baator? Do you h...

No! Bad Idiot! The appropriate response when someone tells you to stop saying something they never said is not to argue against something they never fucking said. You obviously enter a trance like state whenever you attempt to read one of my posts and then come out of it thinking you have read it, ...

They do have mass-produced constructs. Mindless Warforged CAN be made, and so you can mass-produce labor that doesn't need to breathe, get tired, and give no ethical concerns. So a lot of what I said is still relevant. Creation Forges are unique artifacts that pretty much come from Previous High Ma...

Steal the good things from Pathfinder. Imho, the skill consolidation it does is generally good (though the skill descriptions often aren't). Unlimited 0th level spells is a good thing. And it does some classes better. I think any classes you go with will need to be rebalanced, especially if you are ...

That, or as suggested get rid of AC and HP points and replace them with Shadowrun style condition monitors and direct armour deduction from to-hit modifiers? (So if you're wearing plate, it gives anyone attacking you a -4 on their attack roll, but if you get rid of AC, what are you rolling against?...

The whole situation is honestly quite radically different from anything we've ever had on Earth. This is true. However, a few points: 1) D&D does not have a setting. Really. D&D is a game system to which settings are loosely attached. 2) This thread is specifically about separating the D&am...

The comic pays attention to the mechanics a lot less than you think it does. If your next post isn't admitting fault for saying this and every other fucking thing like it you have said, I am going to put you on ignore. If you can't fucking read, there is no point in talking to you. Alright, I'll ju...

So, it's still pre-industrial, but it has a lot of trappings people associate with the Industral Revolution, and the society is straining to keep pace. I would point out that the D&D setting is not one where you'd have an Industrial Revolution as we know it. Replaceable parts? Who needs them? Y...

They're used for ... spells etc, but ... don't dictate combats. They don't "dictate" combats. Then represent all the meaningful and interesting actions that take place in combats. I mean sure, if you lock yourself into a stupid tunnel vision and just pretend Roy is the only character, the...

Agreed. Certainly the big thing the Tier System fails to address is optimization floors and simplicity in play. It's focused on versatility and power (this is helped by the fact that AFAIK, you don't have classes they don't fit into the following categories). Tier 6 has neither. Tier 5 has power, bu...

I see, so you have never read OotS and are taking one stupid quote about story vs mechanics as gospel. Yes, the only time Burlew uses the mechanics of 3e is every single time that any PC or NPC or Monster takes any action at all. The part where you pretend that PCs and NPCs taking actions has nothi...

Yes, but my problem is how he goes about defining/explaining/showing it. He's so focused on combos that are obviously broken and creative rule reading that he misses the more essential and straightforward game-changing abilities these classes have. Basically this, except for the rest of your post w...

Also, there is in fact a cyborg prestige class. (Hint: It's actually only half a turd because you still get +1 caster progression for all but two levels.) The picture, however, makes me want to play Eberron. So it's good motivation. http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/moe_gallery/91468.jpg I'm of the...

I don't really see how disablers like stunning should be a useful tool against a meaningful challenge. It tends to make encounters more boring than anything else. And it also tends to lead to actions that do NOTHING, which isn't a whole lot of fun. I'd rather see something a bit more akin to Star Wa...

Forcing or allowing people to specialize in a weapon leads to so many conceptual and mechanical problems, it feels like an iconic 1970s RPG mechanic. It's like forcing different sexes use different stat lines. It may be flavorful, but its a really primitive and lame idea that is not worth the cost ...

I'm not sure how much sense it makes to try to figure out where in our history a world with magic, sentient "robots", and other fantastic things fit. Because in some ways they are far more advanced than we are, whereas in others they are less so. Sure, they largely don't have replaceable p...