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FrankTrollman wrote:Someone really needs to update the skeletons meme pic to include Luna.

I can't contribute to the conversation at all, but shitty image edits? That I can do.

Under 3.5 the only differences between a lance and a longspear are that a lance is easier to use while mounted, does more on the charge while mounted, and is martial not simple. If you had an enormous hard-on for RAW you could if you really wanted claim that longspears just get all those buffs if t...

Man, sometimes I forget that lance cavalry and cameras existed at the same time and it's Weird. That said, it seems a bit disingenuous to use "lances and spears are the same" as the base an argument on whether lances can be used to Power Attack. Lances and spears are the same in the real w...

Follow-up question: Is there any fast way to determine how likely someone is to have which options when rolling from any given set of potential classes with attribute requirements? Can't do that one on anydice. (To be clear, some people probably could. I can't.) Haven't added the arbitrary stat bon...

How can you calculate (using anydice.com if necessary) the odds of meeting certain AD&D style class ability score requirements when using 3d6 roll in order? I mean, I know the odds for any given result on 3d6 so I can multiply them together, but I need to do a lot of these, so a bit of automati...

It does mean you never have a good play on turn 1, which is a shame. How does Shadowverse's general tempo compare to Hearthstone's? Because from what I've seen of the latter, decks that have good plays on turn 1 are rarer than ones that don't, much less individual games. But I haven't really gotten...

Part of the matter is that we know just enough about our solar system to know that there's no place really attractive for human beings. Sure, but why let that stop you? Soon enough Earth won't be either. But seriously, we're talking sci-fantasy here. "Venus is not a pleasant place to live"...

I'd actually go with Red Hills, Orange Wastes, Yellow Plains, Green Forests, Blue Valleys and Purple Mountains. What's flat like a waste but full of plants like a forest? A plain. What's an intermediate amount of tallness between a waste and a mountain? A hill. And so on and so forth. You can easil...

GreatGreyShrike wrote:An Attendant of the Dead

Attendant of the Dead

I'm guessing this is the wrong image, but I'm not sure?

Also thanks for this review. I'm liking it a lot and I might play, but given how quick I burned out on Hearthstone maybe not.

I will be following this thread obsessively.

EDIT: Wait, do you mean the kidnapped magic-users that are also used to power the device? It doesn't mention that as a possibility, but it would probably work. They don't have any of the hundreds (?) of level-drained magic-users statted up, though. That's what I meant, yes. Didn't catch that it was...

hogarth wrote:So the PCs either kill the trillith or convince it to leave and then they kill the bad guys before the base self-destructs.

Can they kill the kidnapped, presumably helpless power source instead? That is, is that possibility acknowledged in the writeup?

Where you don't want to go is the route of shit like Flashfires and Lifeforce, where cards are simply blunt punishments for having cards of a particular color. Boost all attacking Orange creatures Why is color-keyed hate bad but color-keyed love is good? Is it because you can control what's in your...

Well the Fire Elemental's ability is incontrovertibly in the realm of magic. As evidence, recall that the Fire Bolt cantrip deals fire damage of the same intensity. My induction is that magical fire is closer to magma/lava in temperature, and so has a higher damage die. Alchemist's fire is ersatz G...

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 ...

the fire elemental monster entry describes what that means if the fire is caused by its special ability (1d10 fire damage until doused by someone taking an action). Barbed devils can also cause things to catch fire, but no actual mechanical consequence is listed. I think that I may have found the r...

So yes, DSM may be ever so slightly off by saying that they're Frodo specifically, but his greater point still makes a fair bit of sense. Cool because that's literally what I said. Claiming that Halflings are based on Frodo, specifically, seems weird to me. Why not Bilbo? Or, shit, Merry or Pippin ...

4e halflings are pretty similar to 3e halflings, and, as Frank pointed out and I dug up earlier today, 5 are much more Hobbit-like, though they have an odd bit of waffly, noncommittal "curious and explorer and wanderlust" thing going on too. And nobody's surprised that 5e doesn't have a co...

Anecdotal, but I've literally never thought of halflings as hobbits, even though I know at some point in the past they came from them. I don't know anything about pre-3e, but for the last three editions they've consistently had +Dex (and maybe sometimes other modifications). Yeah, that totally sound...

I can't tell if you're asking about the effect of the literal dice chosen or the probabilities of success involved. Like... for the purposes of this thread, do you care about the difference between a 4dFudge and 4d3-8? Are you talking about how being more likely to get an average result affects play...

Oh . Right, then. Uh, from what I can find, there's both Spellware and Divine Spellware. The few pieces I could find details on seem to be similar to Wondrous Items in their prerequisites, which means that the spells needed will be all over the map, and, like any crafter, you're better off with unl...

Uh, yeah. That's why I didn't say "you might have to sandbag" and instead said "make sure you sandbag enough".

Based on my current experience playing an Artificer, and zero knowledge of Dragonstar and Spellware past what you said in that post, it sounds like a good fit. Things to confirm before you finalize: Will your party be buying things from you at price, at cost, or somewhere in between? That one's appa...

Okay, so the expected values work out as follows: TN 4 Stat 1: 1d10+4d6 = 1(-1*1/10+0*2/10+1*7/10) + 4(-1*2/6+0*3/6+1*1/6) = -0.07 Stat 2: 2d10+3d6 = 2(-1*1/10+0*2/10+1*7/10) + 3(-1*2/6+0*3/6+1*1/6) = 0.70 Stat 3&#58...

But it's by no means four times as much work when the PCs are split to four separate combat encounters. There is a massive difference between having multiple parallel combat encounters and having multiple parallel combat- and non-combat encounters, though. Citing an edge case isn't really lending a...