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Oh, so "being on fire" is no longer what we're talking about, because the things that catch you on fire lend their keywords to your own personal conflagration. Now you're "on magical fire" or "on alchemical fire" or "on normal fire"? If you catch fire because...

FrankTrollman wrote:In addition to the alchemist fire entry, there is also the 'burned by coals' entry on improvised damage in the dmg. But that's a d10.

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[Behind] O, I am slain! A wretched, rash, intruding fool I was, for giving Mearls a scintilla of credit. [Falls and dies]

Okay, but did writing three paragraphs of deductive logic and speculation in order to theorize what the rules-as-intended might be not depress you, just a little bit? And how would you feel if someone got set on fire in-game, and then you had to break from play to fruitlessly check the rules and ha...

I think that there's no reason at all to think that Alchemist's Fire causes generic fire damage any more than the 1d10 from a Fire Elemental (which you quoted). Don't see why one is any more appropriate to sitting in a fireplace than the other. Well the Fire Elemental's ability is incontrovertibly ...

Finding rules in 5th edition is, as mentioned earlier, very difficult. We set a dude on fire and several people ran through the indices and flipped through the PHB and the DMG and we simply could not find the rules for being on fire. We eventually just used the 3rd edition rules of taking 1d6 per r...

So anyway, the real moral of the story is that the players who wanted to play the Dwarven Cleric and the Halfling Rogue had a much easier time getting their point across than the guy who wanted to play the Dragonborn Paladin. Not because there is anything unclear or worse about the Dragonborn Palad...

1.) Sahuagin (air breathing) http://67.media.tumblr.com/455981888a0a3b63f5455a0565501207/tumblr_nmkabuGaxn1ruvkj4o1_1280.jpg 2.) Drider (Tsuchigumo) https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/77/e4/76/77e4769d71a3409aef90b37cba66c95f.jpg 3.) Medusa (snake body or biped) 4.) Ogre Mage 5.) Troll (Fores...

While the size and scope of the new game make a full public playtest infeasible, we'll be starting to bring in key community members to check it out in the next few months The fun thing is it doesn't even make sense if you interpret it in a friendly way. There's too much material for the work of qu...

Thank you for not linking to mrhappy's guide. God I hate that fucker.

Care to explain? I would hearken to your account of the ignorance, gaucherie, and repugnant character of this individual.

Assuming you mean to build a new skill system and die roll mechanic and...? If you have to rebuild the entire game from mechanics to fluff to make it playable, doesn't seem like such a big deal to take the part you like and drop into a workable system. Just put the names you like in AS or Pathfinde...

Everyone starts out with one free dot in every physical discipline. They also get 1 free dot in their clan-preferred mental/mystical disciplines. Thaumaturgy and Necromancy Paths are now all separate Disciplines and rituals are 1 dot backgrounds that anyone can take provided that they can justify l...

Discounts aren't a great way to balance things. If there is an option to not take advantage of discounts then those characters are weaker for no reason. Better would be giving a bonus free discipline that everyone in a clan gets. Wouldn't that mean that some clans still "win the lottery?"...

This thread is great. Ｏ(≧▽≦)Ｏ I have collected a few V:TM pdfs, but I was never able to convince my gaming chums to start a new campaign with me. This is a group that has happily played a lengthy Scion campaign, which is a game so horrid that the m...

[...] I don't know how the computer chose the "equal-level-opponent", but after a few game they all have a deck far better than yours; each of their cards is worth two of yours, their card advantage is so high it's basically unplayable. http://media.animevice.com/uploads/3/33329/662859-i-...

[...] Dust devil was always seen as a bad card. You're not wrong. My argument is that Blizzard went so far overboard in making a second, more viable version of Dust Devil that they created a (robotic) monster. The old logic for Windfury is that it should cost 1-2 mana. There is literally a spell ca...

Exhibit A (Old Card): http://media-hearth.cursecdn.com/avatars/148/121/129.png Exhibit B (New Card): http://media-hearth.cursecdn.com/avatars/148/871/12231.gif Here is an explanation for those who do not play Hearthstone. These cards are similar in most regards: they both have the same attack power,...

ishy wrote:
Hahahaha

There are no words.

Ancient History wrote:"That polyhedron son-of-a-bitch. It's his revenge for all those arguments he lost. Ribbit."

The mental imagery created by your post is too much.

You could argue that most of the DnD classes exist (to some extent) in the LOZ franchise. Thus I think it is more productive to list classes which have scant or no representation in the games. The list I came up with is: Cavalier, Cleric, Gunslinger, Inquisitor, Paladin, and Summoner.

My last superhero campaign was actually Hero System (5th). The campaign only lasted 3 or 4 sessions, but I thought Hero System was tighter mechanically and more agreeable in regards to the layout and presentation of the book itself.

What it looks like you want to do is have your character hurt people with floating swords. So just do that . Make a Damage (Ranged) power and say it's a bunch of floating swords. Add an alternate Damage (Perception, Area) effect. Then add a completely separate Protection power and say that is the s...

The examples in Power Profiles don't make any changes to the rules. There is a typo in that description, though. It should be "skill in wielding itself equal to 2 times the Power Level minus the weapon's effect rank". Here are the modifiers for that power, in case you don't have the pdf. ...

I quite liked the first ability of the Vow of Valor. Reminds me of the trope http:// tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SingleStrokeBattle

I am making a spellcaster for a game next week. I don't understand the difference between this power, Dance of Vhoka imparts movement to a weapon, allowing it to fight on its own. The weapon is a minion with its normal damage capabilities, the base traits of a construct (including Immunity to Fortit...