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ColorBlindNinja61 wrote:The campaign won't start until 2021, but I'll be sure to describe in detail how we all die horribly what becomes of us.

Apparently, what happened was the damn game got canceled because the GM is an immature asshole.

Part 5: War of the River Kings This chapter starts with the party being level 13. I think it’s generally agreed upon that level 13 is when 3.X officially becomes broken beyond all reason. Plane Shift + Greater Teleport enables PCs to go anywhere in the multiverse. Simulacrum officially makes its app...

But also, in regards to your criticism of unrest gained for doing awful things ... Even if the party has the means to perform the sale of soul jars personally and in complete privacy, there's certainly a chance that a timeless fey queen with planar relations could uncover your secrets though her co...

Koumei wrote:The PC game handled it a bit better:

This seems to be a reoccurring theme.




I'll try to upload the next part of the review soon. Just been busy as of late.

The next chapter might be later than usual. Apologies in advance.

Well, my character is now finished. I took pretty much exclusively social skills (aside from Medicae), as well as the Jaded talent. I have no idea if my (mostly guardsmen) allies took Jaded. If not, I guess my character will be more blasé toward blood and gore than they will. To my amusement, the on...

Before I forget, are there any must have skills or traits in DH 2e? Fuck, it's been so long I've almost completely forgotten. I remember "Jaded" being a good talent (you no longer have to make sanity checks for "normal " violence), but that's about it. In general anything that p...

Before I forget, are there any must have skills or traits in DH 2e?

I've only played 1e Dark Heresy, so take it with a grain of salt: a) Yes, but try and be good at at least one other thing as well. The utility of normal healing is very situationally dependent. Kind of suspected as much. b) You will want to buy Intelligence and Willpower. Basically every single DH ...

So, I'm joining a Dark Heresy Second Edition campaign in a week or so. The GM has stated that he's not very good at investigation, so the game will revolve around mostly suspense and combat. Our party so far consists of mostly Imperial Guardsmen and a Adeptus Mechanicus Blank. I was thinking of goin...

Part 4: Blood for Blood The stupid makes its appearance early this time, in the foreword. Managing the Marketplace: The method the kingdombuilding rules use to present marketplaces gives the PCs a greater level of control over their ability to shop for magic items than normal. This is by design—play...

Part 3: The Varnhold Vanishing This chapter is based off of the urban legend surrounding Roanoake Colony, specifically the mysterious vanishing of the colonists living there. When I told my brother about this, it severely annoyed him, since this “mystery” has long since been solved. It was never rea...

You complain a lot about the kingdom possibly falling apart, and I'm not saying you are wrong to criticize the very bad mechanics, but our experience was very different. It was after the first couple turns, piss easy to win every check. Why? Because the primary limit on buildings was Improvement Ed...

Hilariously enough, while hitting 20 Unrest is game over for your kingdom , it is not game over for the campaign - you can totally just run your kingdom into the ground here, take over Varnhold in the next segment, run it into the ground, invade the guys on the other side of the smouldering ruins o...

The delay for today's upload was brought to you by Comcast. Because my internet went down for hours at time... Part 2: Rivers Run Red https://pathfinderwiki.com/mediawiki/images/thumb/a/ad/Rivers_Run_Red.jpg/250px-Rivers_Run_Red.jpg The first section tells the DM to embrace huge timeskips in between...

I apologize for gap in between uploads, I'll try to have the next part posted sometime tomorrow.

Been a bit busy with my D&D groups.

I played in two play-by-post Kingmaker games that both died during Stolen Lands. One time we were skull-fucked by a shambling mound and the other one just petered out. A Shambling Mound averages 12 damage on each slam attack, has reach, and can attack twice per round! Don't forget the +16 Stealth c...

Introduction The Kingmaker adventure path is over 10 years old at this point, which I believe qualifies it for an OSSR. Reading through it pissed me off to no end, so here we are… Kingmaker is a classic example of an excellent premise with an abysmal execution. The party gets to create their own kin...

I nominate writeups of iconic NPCs from 3E DMG. Tordek and the Chump Gang were objectively awful at levels where you could still mostly make meaningful comparisons, and their baleful influence extended all the way to Pathfinder, where difficulty of an adventure was still inversely proportional to a...

So... Is Planar Binding any less broken in 5e than it is in 3.5, assuming you can get the spell to work?

Blicero wrote: Honestly, if you crack open a random page of the 3E Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, you're guaranteed to find awful multiclassers.

I remember the king of the terrible in that department being Elminster. Although, I think his most current statblock is in the Epic Level Handbook.

Whatever wrote:I've never played WoW, but I assume that's his scripted behavior from the game.

Nor have I, so I can't really confirm or deny that assumption. But good god those tactics suck balls in D&D...

It's pretty well known that most people who worked on D&D 3.X didn't have a clue what they were doing, and nowhere is that more evident than with the NPCs they designed. Since I'm bored curious, I wanted to see what examples of terrible statblocks would be nominated as the worst of the worst. Bo...

My big takeaway from the PF game I'm in, though, is that the notion that 3.X games engendered player agency is ultimately a myth. It's about the DM's attitude, and nothing else. 3.X gives a DM the tools to put them on the path of understanding what player agency is and why it's important, but not e...

If I did another KoK book, I'm thinking either the monster manual ( Dangerous Denizens ) or maybe the campaign setting book. Speaking of monster books, I was reading through Creatures of Rokugan and it's even worse than Frank and Ancient History made it out to be. Scarcely a page goes by without me...