The Gaming Den

Sigma--[br][br]No offense, but this post is hella creepy. [br][br]Why do you insist that women who don't want you are stupid? [br][br]Why do you believe that women are attracted to men's flaws? Isn't it possible those "bastards" and "mean guys" have virtues you didn't notice?[br]...

At least once Vestigial Thumb got into a bizzarre flamewar.

Someone insulted him for no reason and Vestigial retorted by accusing the man of being prejudiced against the mentally ill. Then he explained, in detail, his mental ilnesses. Then stuff got really weird...

Count, if you don't think you're attractive nobody else wil.[br][br]I don't necessarily mean physically. I mean, if you don't think of yourself as someone with interesting things to say, someone exciting to be around, you're naturally going to withdraw and not draw attention to yourself. Furthermore...

It looks like fun. In a coupla weeks I'll go home for winter break and can get my famil to play...

I guess my concern is about adding new armors and how that's supposed to work.[br][br]For instance, is the small number of available clothings design intent or lazyness? [br][br]I figure I should just make up an armor/clothing for each PC... though then the idea of basing each armor on a skill becom...

Has anybody played with Frank's armor rules yet? How did it work out? [br][br]I'm starting up a campaign in a couple of weeks, and that's the part I'm most nervous about...[br][br]I get that random weird armors can be introduced as the game goes on, but I feel like I need a list of genereally availa...

In fairness, Yoda and Palpatine having a hard time hurting each other makes perfect sense. IIRC their duel lasts a reall long time, and even then neither of them dies...

Once you have 4th level spells, you can do all kinds of tricks.[br][br]Mephits suck in battle, but have spell-like abilities useful in noncombat situations. [br][br]against invisible enemies, summon dre bats or salt mephits (who cast glitterdust). Dretch (SM3) can throw down a stinking cloud. A hipp...

1194250278[/unixtime]]For most of the Pokemaster's life, he has got a monster running around which is individually slightly weaker than the monsters he is fighting. Once yo factor in that he can support that monster somewhat and swap it out for one which is a better tactical matchup for his enemies...

What would it take to make Frank's Pokemaster class viable in a Tome game?[br][br]Feats like Sniper and Hunter benefit them quite a bit, and they are sort of like wizards in tht they can dumpster dive for abilities and do all kinds of wacky noncombat stuff.[br][br]That said, while they CAN do all ki...

Actually, a healing power that never helped you win a particular fight, just let you fight more fights, could be a noncombat power. It wouldn't add to your boss-killing, but would, like stealth or diplomacy, reduce your odds of being worn down by mooks.

I have personally used the Frank Cheat many, many times.

"Everybody does it" isn't much of a defense. especially when it isn't true. I never fell for the more obvious forms of sexism, so I manged to get to 15 without saying really anything dumb about girls as a group. [br][br]Plus, the wizarding world is much more egalitarian than ours. Women ar...

Off the top of my head, they gave Ron a permanent fear of spiders (incidentally, not only do they not regret this, they deliberately taunt him about it later-- IIRC), and caused some kind of brain damage to Montague.[br][br]There's more, but I'm not remembering...[br][br]And Ron says something dumb ...

Fred and George are complicated. It all depends on how you value big picture vs. small picture choices, and philosophy vs. personality.[br][br]They get major, major brownie points for their frequent, heroic opposition to evil. They fought, repeatedly, agaisnt Voldemort, and that probably pushes them...

Even without "The Gadgeteer" there are a bunch of ways to use potions as features in small ways. [br][br]A Feat or Feature that allows an extra, ro several extra item slots just for potions...[br][br]A Metamagic feat that you prepare spells as potions (They'd have to remain within a certai...

Psionic blasting powers deal more damage per die with felxible energy types. It's seems, on quick glance better than an Evoker in core, though worse than an Evoker with Complete Arcane, PHB II, and Unearthed Arcana. [br][br]Psion is rather obviously much much worse than wizard. That's actually the e...

I'd like to point out, for the record, that there are approximately a kajillion Bad Gryffindors.

See: Gilderoy Lockhart, Sirius Black, Fred & George Weasley, etc.

Potions --Okay, clearly healing potions and buff potions are separate problems.[br][br]Healing Potions: I don't even know how to begin with these. Basically, either you want PCs to have infinite health or not. This is so important a decision that there isn't going to be a universal answer. That said...

Dude, D&D Dwarves come straight from Tolkien, who based them on the Nibelung, an actual, preexisting nordic/germanic folktale critter. There is not, as far as I know, anything racial going on there sve for the racial element in all old myths.[br][br]Similarly, "Aelfs" are seriously Cel...

Actually, I've always rather liked the "evil cooties" theory. [br][br]It doesn't mean that skeletons are *bad* or even morally weak. It just means Detect Evil picks them up and Holy Smite nukes them.[br][br]My theory is that Evil is an invisible substance that accumulates over time on peop...

I still don't see what the issue is. Yeah, two knights can team up to wreak some serious havoc. ANY two heroes can team up to wreak havoc. [br][br]Why aren't you complaining about, say[br][br]A Monk repetedly stunning an enemy that the knight designates?[br][br]A Rogue flanking and sneak attacking, ...

Lots of YA fantasy -- Mercedes Lackey and Tamora Pierce both have abundant healers, for instance.

Except that there's a massive opportunity cost involved in havign 2 characters of the same class, because D&D rewards variety. [br][br]A Knight who's getting his bonus damage probably does damage as good as a barbarian, fighter, or monk. But he does that damage in a specific *way* 2 Knights hope...

Strike the Soul is a lot for one level. It could potentially be broken down.

Since you have a few levels left to fill out, maybe some improved senses or divinations? perhaps also a ranged atack?