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The point is that 5e didn't put any tangible limitations there so it's very two-way in terms of how fucky it is.

No fucking clue. Who wants to discuss leveled items? I think the concept is interesting but it's always going to fail in the world of TTRPGs due to how videogame-y the concept is. However, I think if a careful approach is taken, it might work in establishing 'Here's where you need to be at level X o...

What did Paizo think this would accomplish? They already had Starfinder, which definitely needs more support than it currently has.

I'd like to see Cyberpunk 2020 covered.

If anywhere in 5e states how to get a friendly golem having a single clay golem will deal with 90% of the problems in the Monster Manual.

I want an OSSR of Conan d20 2e, I want to see where and how it just falls apart.

And how's that different from 3.X where high-level non-casters die to armies natural 20ing them just fine and plenty of 3.X monsters will go "You're not a caster? Then you really can't beat me because I can kite you forever while wearing you down with my huge SLA array and/or endless minion sp...

I'm gonna just nip that heroic fantasy statement in the bud there, Igni. No, it doesn't. Thanks to bounded accuracy and the design of the Monster Manual, you basically stay low fantasy heroes forever unless you're a full caster. Unless your concept uses a lot of magic or makes your weapon count as m...

I would almost say that the reason they do the dances with feats is that someone on the team realized that you only get 7 and they basically mean nothing so why not hand them out for free? Of course if this was the thought process I wonder why it simply stopped at the class level.

When I had the inconvenience of running through the module killed the group's paladin in a single round and me, being good at playing wizard, was prepared for such a moment. Drop a command undead on it and EZPZ pokemo-Psych banned for metagaming thanks for stopping by. But Paizo APs are made with th...

Oh you're just now figuring out that Paizo APs are poorly written? Wait until one drops this guy on you in a broom closet with just enough room to charge you when your party is level four.

With all due respect Maglag, do you know how knowledge works? Because Pathfinder uses the 'knowledge checks govern what you know/don't know' system. I have no idea how one makes an angel that has a chance of not knowing anything about its creator...

Rawbeard wrote:I am almost certain I'd get my character killed so hard if we manage to get to that scene.

Well, Chamomile has a blog post that can help you out with that.

erik wrote:Can you travel around with some form of permanent Silence to protect from stupid sonic attacks?

To be honest, probably not given you just take the damage through all possible defenses or something dumb.

I think the Iomedae stuff happened before I joined. dunno. if there is more I might actually tell her to shoveit right up Aroden's butt. I have not even played PFS scenarios that felt this much like playing a video game. I want to punch the author in the dick. Whatever you do don't tell her to shov...

Ahahaha. Have you met Iomedae and played 20 questions with her? If not you're in for a treat.

I have to ask, has anyone placed a request for Arcana Evolved yet? I don't remember seeing one in the backlog.

Lying and conniving. At a base 10 you can generally lie about having taken an extra helping at dinner or convince peasants you weren’t spying on them. At a base 13 you are a fairly practiced liar and can lie about most anything without too much of a tell. At a base 16 you can conceal your tells ver...

2.5: Crafting Are you ready? Is your body even prepared for the stat that has the best mechanics in the game? Like, unironically this game has an amazing crafting system. I’ll talk about it more further below, but it’s actually impressive. There’s one profession that uses this stat exclusively and ...

The rules and pregens are out. https://rpgsports.tv/news/rpgsports-rules-pregens/ They suck. Like, more than usual 5e suck. Like 'someone who doesn't know how to make characters for PVP made these' suck. The druid outright seems to have two banned spells on their spell list. So many people have usel...

Social Combat and Social Combat Tables Okay, so normally I wouldn’t be covering a big mechanics section this early but it has to happen because this section is not as interwoven as normal combat is. While it’s not Exalted 2e social combat it’s also not...revolutionary? Amazing? I admit most of my k...

I cast Raise Thread 2.4: Empathy The social stat. The social stat, that is completely worthless if you don’t have ranks in the Social Ettiqutte skill. It’s basically required for Bards (Due to how skill trees work, 7 of the 10 unique Bard skills use Empathy as a part of their base) and Merchants (4 ...

So there's going to be a delay for the next post, as I'm currently looking over social combat. Because of course, this game has social combat rules. Also 10 social skills, not 9. I miscounted. In the 'good' news I tempted fate today and fate dropped a copy of The Witcher: A Game of Imagination at my...

Fixed. Carry on.

2.3: Body "Hey!" You, a hypothetical viewer might say "WiserOdin you said body only has two skills associated with it, why does it get its own section?" Well, hypothetical viewer, ya see, I'm super lazy and body is special. Very special. It's got tables. Lots of tables. In fact,...