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1201736888[/unixtime]] 1201732175[/unixtime]][br]Then you pick a number of abilities. Stats are based entirely on level. [br][br]I don't see it taking more than a few minutes. The total number of abilities should be 4+level off of set lists.[br] [br][br]Well, I see the problem being that your abili...

1201731219[/unixtime]]Having a bunch of lists you've got to choose from sounds like a lot of work, similar to picking PrCs for monsters and such. [br][br]I think all the work is on the design end, but use is easy.[br][br]Lets say you have background lists like Desert, Arctic, Mageslave, Soldier.[br...

1201729355[/unixtime]]That's a great overview, and for the most part I agree with you.[br][br]However, I do want to know .[br]If I run in to a pit fiend, I want to be able to assume that his flaming aura will burn me and the acidic green goo dripping from his fangs is poison. I want to be able to a...

Ok, I don't want to know.[br][br]Seriously, I don't want to know that every Pit Fiend has Fireball . I don't want to know that Caucasian elves all know how to use longswords, and I don't want to know that the secret ruler of Insert Kingdom Here is a mind flayer and his druid pawn is obviously X leve...

1201576947[/unixtime]]K, the kobolds can only hit level 20 (or, hell, more than level 1) if they don't die first .[br]Ravenous curiosity and death toll are offset by a ridiculously efficient birth rate to compensate. Like feeder mice.[br]So while kobolds, as a race, retain the potential to dominate...

I've always been of the opinion that Levels are not about learning from a book or mere practice, but about taking chances, finding new things and experiences, and testing your skills in novel situations.[br][br]I mean, I once fenced with an Olympic-level fencer in a three-on-three battle, and he die...

Mostly I was looking for public domain stuff common to fantasy (castles, guys in armor, mythical monsters, hot chicks, etc), but elfwood has enough good artists that I should be able to get a few on board.

1201419861[/unixtime]]So, K, can the warrior switch out his armor for a shield any old time? Can the gargoyle switch out his skin for fists of steel?[br][br]I mean, some things totally make sense. The gargoyle can trade his camouflage for armor because the armor covers it. Similarly he could trade ...

1201337751[/unixtime]]So here's a quandary: the Monk Issue.[br][br] If person A is equally effective as person B, and person A requires equipment and person B does not; then person B is better .[br][br] If the game is intended to be played with both person A and person B having eqipment, and person...

Open license RPGs face one major problem in the digital age: art. [br][br]Companies can afford to pay real artists to do RPG art with dragons and iconic monsters from your setting, and that fires people's imaginations.[br][br]My question is this: does anyone know of an online repository of free fant...

The thing I don't get is that Paizo had a successful model with their "lets create more adventures, and it there is a new PrC or feat or item the its part of an adventure." [br][br]This model works. As long as freelancers keep pumping out good adventures, people pay for the adventures, eve...

I have a real problem detecting online sarcasm. Is there any overpowered ability in the Generic WotC PrC? Seriously.....immunity to death effects? [br][br]I have never seen a death effect work on a PC, in all my days of DnD. PCs either have good saves, cast a simple spell like Death Ward, or have so...

There is already a sword like Death's Sword from the Discworld novels.

Its called Angelwing Razor, and its from BOVD. It even cuts through a Wall of Force.

Wow. They've cut out so few magic item slots that I didn't even notice at first pass. They also cut out "stat enhancers" and I still need a maxxed out armor and weapon to play a fighter. Mmmm, how is this different from 3e?[br][br]I also like how I could read the entire list of items on th...

Ok, a new animated movie is hitting video stores. Its Dragonlance's Dragons of Autumn Twilight , and its about what you'd expect of a direct-to-video movie.[br][br] The Good: [br]-Kiefer Sutherland and Lucy Lawless do voices. Kiefer is wicked awesome as Raistlin.[br][br]-Boobies: Yes, for some reaso...

1200950906[/unixtime]]The fact that each minion can summon more minions and have Leadership/Undead Creation of their own is just... ridiculous? Awesome?[br]"Hall of mirrors" effect. [br][br]Only if you let the PC choose feats for the undead created, which I can see no real reason to do.[b...

This just means that Mind Flayers will cast once per encounter SoDs, and then run.[br][br]You'll die, and they won't because you can't kill them in one turn. Basically, it just bones PC who are expected to live to the next encounter.[br][br]It also means that every encounter is about popping your bi...

Monte Cook is a very creative guy, but he needs an editor like no one's business. [br][br]Basically, weird magic items do make the game fun. He gets that point.[br][br]Statted magic items are needed to win the game. Losing the game makes it no fun, which is why DnD doesn't work without Raise Dead .[...

I've never had a problem with any of the settings. I mean, any setting will accumulate high-level characters once you start writing books about it. Greyhawk's only saving grace is that aside from a handful of adventures and around ten books about two characters, there was enough for a setting withou...

1199165008[/unixtime]]More people have played D&D than any MMO than Warcraft. More people had played D&D than all MMOs combined in the US even after Warcraft.[br][br]They're losing all credibility.[br][br]-Crissa [br][br]Wait, are you implying that 4e will be copying WoW in the same way tha...

I have yet to understand why 4e is so damned complicated.

Seriously. Its all the badness of card games with none of the fun.

1197947096[/unixtime]][br]I'm only saying this here because it plays directly into whether class abilities should be attribute-based at all, or whether being a wizard alone makes you good at 'book learnin" and being a fighter is enough to make you strong. [br][br]Being a fighter doesn't make y...

Crissa at [unixtime wrote:1197941045[/unixtime]]I don't want to play a game that has no variability outside of combat.

-Crissa

Ok. I"ll hand you a coin. Every time its heads whatever you are doing outside of combat fails.

1197934171[/unixtime]] It hurts good character concepts [br][br]Yes it does. GOOD! [br][br]I don't want to hear about your zombie robot dinosaur cowboy, ever. I'm sure it's a good character concept, but it's fucked. It's not part of the setting.[br][br]Things in the setting have to be different one...

1197929042[/unixtime]]My concept is to have the stats attached to techniques and to have characters able and required to have a couple of decent stats.[br][br]But yes, abilities should "go together" within the game world. Otherwise everyone is a random collection of abilities with no inte...