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- Sun Sep 22, 2019 3:33 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Is magic always overpowered?
- Replies: 47
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Re: Is magic always overpowered?
If so... how could a person with the ability to control space, time, matter, and minds not be tremendously more powerful than somebody who can punch real hard? Is there a system that manages to balance this somehow, or could there even be such a system? The DC superhero rpg took a shot at this in p...
- Thu Nov 02, 2017 3:53 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Tome Diviner, doable?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12383
Heh. What's practically the motto, hereabouts? That a character's mundane abilities are typically worth less, in-story, than a character's magical toolkit, right? Be it information, or transportation; or offense, and defense; or bypassing some problems with stealth, in between solving others with we...
- Mon Oct 30, 2017 1:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Tome Diviner, doable?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12383
Re: Tome Diviner, doable?
Just bringing this back because something jumped out at me: I'm looking for ideas similar to the Beguiler, Puppeteer, etc. Can you make an fantasy diviner class that isn't just a big middle finger to the plot (or from the plot, depending on the DM's railroad tendencies)? Obviously they'd get detect ...
- Wed Jan 25, 2017 2:32 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Tome Diviner, doable?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12383
People: -alignment (see: Detect ___) -what they're thinking (keep in mind that when you do this over an entire room of people, you will get dirty looks. Anyway, see: Detect Thoughts, Brain Spider, Telepathy) -spells affecting them (see: Arcane Sight) -pierce any illusions and see through shapeshift...
- Sun Jan 17, 2016 1:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Old Game Review: Ninjas and Superspies (TM)
- Replies: 86
- Views: 30217
Monkey Kata. You gain Chinese, Begging, Acrobatics AND Gymnastics, Prowl, Climbing and Taoism. So basically you get a handy unique stance or two (sure, it's just a stat change, nothing particularly special, but whatever), a good bunch of stat boosts (note the skills) and they put some effort in. I ...
- Mon Feb 09, 2015 11:30 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Fighter Thread [Tome]
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10419
- Mon Feb 09, 2015 2:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Fighter Thread [Tome]
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10419
Also none of them can do fuck all anything outside of combat to actually justify their inclusion in the game That's a bit of an overstatement, isn't it? Even leaving aside the ability to forge magical gear, the bonus feats (plus Problem Solver) set the Tome Fighter to always be actively searching, ...
- Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 2E D&D, Sourcebook Creep, and CoDzilla
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10647
There's three, maybe four kinds of Clerics in 2nd edition. They're all pretty good, mechanically fight-winners, other than how your class has a gotcha where the DM gets to ruin your party even harder than everyone else's. [*]There's the basic core dude who only ever casts Cure Light Wounds, Hold Pe...