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Kaelik wrote: (Something Arcane related? Probably fix blasting?)

Tome of Tiamat.

I support no social skills. In fact, I have already replaced them with knowledge skills in my games. It's less dissociative. Diplomacy is not only too powerful, it's bland and dissociated like 4e powers. Bluffing and persuasion can appeal to hard logic, personal preferences or emotions (Charisma), b...

Russian Orthodox Church wants to transfer ownership of churches and stuff from the state to itself but have taxpayers pay for maintenance, repairs and basic necessities. Fuckers.

4 corner time, cubes Earth.

Probabilities! and "How long is the RNG?" discussion.

I dislike the effects of "bell curve" rolls in ANY RPG mechanic. I think they are unpleasant, opaque and largely don't do what most of their proponents think they do. I'm not going to argue about your personal preferences, but our group has long since switched from d20 to Bernoulli (Shado...

Free TV is shit. Even when the talking heads don't give advice on with what jewels you should decorate your chihuahua this season*, they still manage to show utter disregard or utter contempt for anything Russian. Another example. June 25: Michael Jackson dies. July 1: Ludmila Zykina dies. She may ...

1. Putin vs. the oligarchs is a myth. It's always oligarchs vs. oligarchs. The government has a hold on the media and thus does not have to worry about its image. 1986: Chernobyl (see below) blamed on the (dead) workers. Nevermind that the real reason was design errors and the real culprit got a pro...

Josh_Kablack wrote: I'm very much not okay with LAST CRUSADER being a spambot who trolls the web for "SUPER HERO RPG".

It's obviously a joke site, sort of Time Cube: the RPG. Except the guy behind the time cube just might be serious.

Lago PARANOIA wrote:the people who designed the class said that they weren't even sure what a wizard was supposed to do

When the designers of a fantasy RPG have no idea what wizards should do, the end result is not surprising at all.

In CA, if someone in your house has pot, it's your pot. Even if they cough up ownership. Same with guns. Cars. Etc. In Russia, it's the opposite, and the law gets exploited to no end. Certain ethnic drug dealers make their wives take the blame. Women serve less time in jail if they ever do, because...

I think tier-seperation is a good idea. And it should work fine for 3.5 as well. Yes, let's remake v3.5 again. That sounds like time well-spent. um... Dungeon Crusade ? Did Koumei travel to the future to get inspiration for it, or did you guys just not read the thread? It's all about tiers, and it'...

Nitpick: Dark Sun has a hell of a lot of psionics in it, magic is mostly evil and the world is ruled by ancient dragon Sorcerer Kings. The world was converted into a desert by the actions of Corrupters , wizards who draw power by draining the land. Defilers. And there were Preservers (the good wizar...

Koumei wrote:Who else votes that we get a new wave of lesbian romantic comedies?

I totally support that idea. Less sexist spam, less "crawling in my skin" tragically misunderstood bicurious teenagers with a bullshit childhood trauma, give us people.

Have you ever played Exalted? They have these things where you describe something in a cool way and you get a Stunt. It is an actual fact that in all Exalted games ever, Every single attack ever made is made with a minimum 2 die stunt attached. If you say only clever explanations allow me to use At...

Also, for werewolves, I had this idea for "when" they can infect others. If your intention here is to prevent The Shadow Over The Sun, then it's already established only Luminaries can become werewolves. If we scratched that (I didn't notice though), then yes, a restriction is necessary. ...

Lago PARANOIA wrote:So what do you do when two people want to play rogues?

• Rogue
• Thief-acrobat
• Assassin
• Jester
• Monk
• feats?

You do realize that by stating that chilling outside is an auto win, you're making my point about 4.Fail being an incredibly fragile system right? Of course. 4.Fail cannot handle noncombat stuff at all because of the pile of shit that is skill challenges and it cannot handle outdoors combat at all ...

Judging__Eagle wrote: Other creatures get their own weaknesses. Fey getting iron and fire seems appropriate; devils having silver and salt; undead having wood and alcohol (water?).

Fey can't have a weakness to fire because they live in the DR and are probably busy starting fires while on the Prime Material.

The railroading is when the DM tries to force you off the plains when you aren't interested in doing so. Despite my hatred of 4e, I have to disagree. Playing spess mahreens in kindergarten is not interesting. While most people come to a game expecting that they will eventually win (I am of the opin...

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Starmaker wrote:I play in a biweekly in-person Shadowrun game...

Is that a euphemism for "living in Russia"?

No, that'd be Paranoia.

Getting five people to climb the Cliff of Doom is five times harder than getting one person to climb the Cliff of Doom, and you could model this with five times more required successes in X rounds. Climbing in a group is easier , just ask any mountaineer. And besides, am I missing something or do t...

I play in a biweekly in-person Shadowrun game and in a solo* GURPS game scheduled on "whenever the GM is tired of WoW", which is thankfully often. And I'm 3 months late with my own grand solo game**. *these start with an "omg awesome character no one else would let me play", that...

Being able to solo a monster of a CR higher than them is not brokenness. Exactly. Given that mid-to-high level combat is rocket launcher tag anyway, being able to one-shot a particular monster is nothing to write home about. A character is overpowered if he consistently wins against the majority of...

hogarth wrote:I agree that if humans get a 15' long weapon, then it's fair to have a halfling with an 8' long weapon. But they don't, so they don't.

Square-cube law.