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1203384500[/unixtime]]Exactly - and besides, I've said my bit and both Frank and K are better at this stuff than I am. So we can let them throw essays at each other, then cheer when there's a result. :tongue: [br][br]This process usually takes place in person over several days and involves me sitti...

1203384642[/unixtime]]It does prevent situations such as one I remember in the Guardians of Order forum years ago:[br][br]Two forces are in combat in a wreckage strewn field. One guy is crouching behind cover with only his head and a laser rifle sticking out, while another rushes up to deliver a de...

1203377204[/unixtime]]The only thing I don't like is the retarded old-school action declaration bullshit. It serves no purpose except to confuse things. Have people choose their actions on their turns. [br][br]Yeh, I think action declaration can go.[br][br]Closet trolls can't be in any workable sys...

1203376131[/unixtime]][br][br]OK. So, what keeps the party from flatly declaring 'we are always readied unless you decree otherwise'? (ie, sleeping, studying, or whatever)[br][br]It sounds like you're going to have a lot of roll offs for ties, anyway, unless the range for Dex scores is really high....

1203373157[/unixtime]] 1203372114[/unixtime]]Door closes, and A has to change his action. You declare your action before the turn [br][br]But what's the general algorithm for deciding which action has priority, assuming the actors have equal alertness? Die roll? Seating order? Plot importance? The ...

1203373129[/unixtime]] 1203372114[/unixtime]][br]A person's level of alertness is determined by what they are doing and when you notice someone, and if you can act first you can act first. [br][br]Which means what? Oblivious guard is dozing off at his post. Readied guy starts charging him. If, at s...

1203373536[/unixtime]]If you're throwing bolts, colossal heavy crossbow bolts do 6d8 damage, plus magic. (although my DM rejected that idea)[br][br]I suggested that a telekinesis-at-will monster should have a load of colossal darkwood shortspears hanging around in his lair, so he can try to drop 60...

Nice. Recharacterize things so no one notices you aren't arguing logically. Nice move, really.[br][br] 1203370950[/unixtime]] Lord of the Rings [br]Yes, LotR, where Sauron strides across the battlefield and devastates entire nations all by himself. Where the presence or absence of a single Ring Wrai...

1203371543[/unixtime]]You still need to be more specific as to how simultaneous actions are resolved. For example, Person A and Person B are on opposite sides of a doorway and have the same initiative. Person A declares he is attacking Person B and Person B declares that he is closing the door. Wha...

1203371247[/unixtime]]Breaking Telekinesis is extremely easy. Cast greater magic weapon on crossbow quarrels 50 at a time, then throw with with your trust and ultra-kill things. It takes a stupid pile of spell slots to accomplish anything, but it does so much damage that you don't even care.[br][br...

Dont' forget that DR is negating damage from those axes, so DR 10 monsters are essentially immune.

Initiatives come in these varieties:[br][br]5. Ready: Waiting for someone to round the corner, saw them first because of longer sight in darkness or they were making noise, hiding or sneaking ambusher, etc.[br][br]4. Prepped: Guards in war zone. Adventurers poking around a tomb.[br][br]3. Alert. Gua...

Neeek at [unixtime wrote:1203321472[/unixtime]]

K at [unixtime wrote:1203110930[/unixtime]]

Sure, when I'm not too busy with law school.

So June of 2010 then?

Right..

In the edge case of "ten large great axes" you could potentially do a lot of damage. The problem is that you need to hit with all those axes with a BAB + Cha, so you are really only hitting with a fraction of those axes. Considering that, the total average damage is about what an optimized...

1203323510[/unixtime]][br]The thing you want, where people are actually human sized and have to play by human rules is modern thought . And if we were playing a modern game, I'd be totally down. This kind of thinking works very well for Shadowrun or World of Darkness , but historical legends do not...

1203202590[/unixtime]]well yeah, I'm not sure it's possible to even think of australia without smiling...[br][br]which ability set would one use to figure Slaad stats? I want to play a giant frog... [br][br]The Planar Handbook has a giant frog PC race, so you could just play one of those and take l...

1203157016[/unixtime]]No. I fvcking did address your points. This is SPARTA! That's the fvcking point. [br][br]Actually, 300 helps my points.[br][br]Leonidas thinks that because he's a badass he can kill the Persian embassador. Then he insults the seers who are then willing to take bribes. Then he ...

1203133087[/unixtime]] Actually, we're talking about DnD where there are people to enforce property rights. We call them HEROES. When a village gets burned or the king's treasury gets looted, HEROES who want a society where people can't be asshats at will start hunting down said asshats. [br][br]Ar...

Swords of Sharpness are an old DnD weapon that used to chop people's arms off.[br][br]D20 has mostly abandoned the idea that an attack might cripple a character, but if you look hard enough there are still ways to injure or remove people's hands or arms. So, if one of those events happened, your Sam...

1203111494[/unixtime]]Sweet. Thanks for the clarification.[br][br]So... even if he used the "soul eating" feats, the soul that he ingested still wouldn't be consumed? I mean, the power to heal yourself ought to come from somewhere?[br][br]Also... if they are released when he was killed, b...

1203110346[/unixtime]]Could a RoW samurai that came from, oh, say, a githzerai culture designate "his hands" or "his body" as his Ancestral Weapon?[br][br]And... if he did, when he killed someone, and the enemy's soul went into his body... would he be consuming the soul? And if ...

1203064418[/unixtime]] That makes even less sense.[br][br]By those rules you won't work for a lord unless he can kill you, which means he could fight whatever he needs you to kill already and doesn't need you. [br][br]That's Leviathan. If society does not threaten the individual, then the individua...

1203040695[/unixtime]] 1203021058[/unixtime]] 1202942812[/unixtime]][br][br]Anyone who actually can't be killed is not going to work for whatever you have to offer them.[br] [br][br]Um, why?[br][br]I constantly work at jobs where I can't get killed. In fact, I prefer jobs where I can't get killed.[...

1202942812[/unixtime]] Why risk the social and political upheaval of losing a major battle with your army when you can just hire four guys who can't be killed? [br][br]Anyone who actually can't be killed is not going to work for whatever you have to offer them.[br] [br][br]Um, why?[br][br]I constan...

1202905935[/unixtime]][br]I'm not even with you there. What's the point of even having 12th level if it doesn't mean that those assholes at 1st level are pushed off the RNG. I mean I am totally fine with Sauron walking onto the battlefield and chopping everything in half because nothing is big enou...