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If 4e had been released by another company as "Swords of Valor: A Tactical Fantasy RPG," (and not been followed up with shamelessly incomplete companion volumes), it would probably have a much less polarizing and generally more positive reputation. ANY radical change, even if flawlessly e...

There is Exalted Kawaii Edition too.

http://exalted.xi.co.nz/wiki/TheKawaiiEdition

Frank extends it to a group encounter that I'd prefer backed into a per-PC measure, but there isn't much disagreement there, as the "average encounter" assumes some number of PCs which may not fit every table... Fixing the monster budget to a per-PC ratio instead of group size will almost...

John Wick autofellates as a general rule, but that quote is a bit out of context. In a roleplaying game, game balance does not matter. What matters is spotlight. Making sure each player feels their character had a significant role in the story. They had their moment in the spotlight. Or, they helpe...

Did anyone talk about the 5e Tarrasque? If so, I missed it. But I just saw it, and I am horrified. I have a soft spot for the Tarrasque. Yeah, it's a big dumb monster in a lot of ways, but it is evocative in a way that most new D&D monsters are not. I thought it was cool how it would always reg...

[*] Powergaming is best handled by the DM line-item vetoing powers. People complaining that a magic item is overpowered? Everyone selecting one particular feat tax? Everyone is summoning a problematic monster? If we take these toys out of the hands of players and make them suck the cock of the DM, ...

Hey. The Dungeon Master basic rules PDF on the WotC site seems more like a Monster book basic rules pdf. It seems to mostly consist of animals, which is weird. I think the most powerful monster in the pdf is the Adult Red Dragon. It has a Strength of 27, giving him a +8 bonus for Strength. It canno...

Old news. Jon Chung argued for 20 pages with Holden about that on rpg.net half a year ago. Do you have a link? Chung's rant can be pretty entertaining. http://forum.rpg.net/search.php?searchid=811750 Read his posts in the "[Exalted] Still no reveal on the new combat rules" thread. No matc...

I see no reason to be charitable. Saying that people can play a decent class poorly is not the same as claiming that artwork and preferences changes the actual balance point between classes. Preferences can definitely change balance points. If someone is in a diplomatic game with little focus on co...

The Tarrasque is like the perfect poster child for how having CR and Experience be divorced from each other could be used for something interesting. It's obviously a CR 5 creature, because any party of level 5 characters should be able to figure out how to defeat it. But it's also clearly worth a l...

From the August the 1st, Adventure League's player guide. Factions provide resses to low level adventurers for the cost of all XP and rewards from that session. And you can progress through the ranks, unlocking stuff. Rank 1: you can participate in faction specific activities. Rank 2: secret mision...

If someone wants to buy your house, they need to use cheques or bank transfers or some other kind of portable form of large value. No number of copper coins is going to be accepted as a fair exchange. Nor should it. You're being retarded. As evidenced by, among a lot of other things, the fact that ...

They put up the tarrasque. http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?1819-Who-Wants-To-See-THE-TARRASQUE-D-D-5th-Edition-Style#.U-pJAWK9KSM CR 30, which.. Yeah. It is fairly boring, just a claw claw bite machine that reflects magic missile, line effects and attack roll spells, though it is generally...

So, for a character who is an arcane mage who is also skilled with a sword, would I be better served with a Magus or an Eldritch Knight with some manner of early entry? Magus is pretty limited in its abilities and really falls off at higher levels. However, Spell Combat and Spellstrike are nice. Th...

Exalted. The system is a horrible piece of shit that breaks if you look at it funny, and the setting is a patchwork of strange stuff with elder problem on steroids. But I'm still in an Exalted campaign, and the powers it gives to certain splats are interesting. Exalted has two things going for it 1...

I see no reason to be charitable. Saying that people can play a decent class poorly is not the same as claiming that artwork and preferences changes the actual balance point between classes. Preferences can definitely change balance points. If someone is in a diplomatic game with little focus on co...

Good job

So, if fighters are drawn with bigger tits and cocks than wizards, that affects class balance? If I am being charitable, he probably meant "Different groups place different levels of importance on different traits and have different levels of system mastery". For instance, I just read a p...

Another was "Play a short adventure over the lunch break" - and that one pretty much disqualifies dice pools right from the start. Good luck with that line of argument. Due largely to an inordinate amount of apologia and mental dissonance for certain infamously terrible game systems, cert...

I found them pretty pointless. Basically, you go through some rolling to get the opportunity to buy new resources at 1/2 the normal price. You then spend these resources to build buildings. There is an elaborate system with hiring teams and managers to do this for you and building rooms to get them...

WIthout DR I think the orcs could take a fighter. 20s are instant hits and the fighter can only kill one or two a round if they spread out and use bows.

Plus, the fighter would start having to make fatigue checks after a while and if he fails those the orcs can kill his unconscious body.

Taste are tastes. Logic dice entities just strike me as inherently stupid. Goofy robots are certainly not for every campaign. For the less serious campaigns though, a little cube 'droid who organizes your bag of holding and pops out to declare that people are being illogical can be a nice touch. Ye...

icyshadowlord wrote:James Jacobs stated he wants to nerf Telekinesis and Explosive Runes after seeing that thread.

Edit: Had a typo.

Can you link the thread?

If you're arguing that selling a +1 sword should be worth just as much gold as it takes to pay for a private army of 100,000 soldiers (or whatever), you're an idiot. How many soldiers should one be able to buy with a ming vase? A Ming Vase is worth around 1.3m dollars. The number of soldiers will d...

If you used a curved or logarithmic RNG, you'd get there automatically. There are lots of RNGs which simply have "tails" and you could just use one of them and get an Achilles chasing the Tortoise effect without any special discipline on the part of your bonus assignments at all. How woul...