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I think 10% is a semi-fair amount with the caveat that a PC should always be able to do something . Fighting something immune to magic? Buff the party or mess with the terrain. Flier? Whip out a bow - it's sub-optimal for the Duel-King, but it's there. If nothing else, you can always help out your p...

1204759170[/unixtime]] 1204758887[/unixtime]]...The concept that shouldn't be valid... [br][br]You just nixed the concept.[br][br]That's contradicting yourself .[br][br]-Crissa [br][br]What the hell are you talking about?[br][br]I said a single, specific, un-heroic, cheesed-out concept, that's not ...

1204756148[/unixtime]]I just don't get why we have to coddle this one concept - melee specialist - by nixing all forms of ranged and flight from the system. [br][br]No one is saying that we do. I don't see why we have to coddle the fliers at the expense of the melee guys.[br][br]Melee specialist sh...

1204739424[/unixtime]][br]ranged+flying [br][br]True[br][br] ranged+starting at really long distance [br][br]That's what full run is for. You shoot at me, I close and smash the hell out of you.[br][br] ranged+ faster than you [br][br]You shoot and move. I charge and smash. You move (I get an AoO) a...

Y'all seem to be missing my point.[br][br]I never said, indicated, hinted or implied that the Sword-Wielding Hero was the One and Only True Hero, merely that the SWH is a fantasy archetype and should be a valid one under the system's rules.[br][br]So should the archer. So should the bolts-of-fire-fl...

Hail and farewell, Gary!
I didn't always (often) agree with your opinions, but you founded the hobby of RPGs, and for that I thank you.

*raises mug*

Oh, about this big. [/bad joke][br][br]I'm going to go out on a limb her and guess that, even if creation magic exists in 4e, something with a name like "astral diamond" that's a basic part of the monetary system will be nigh-impossible to duplicate magically. Surely even WotC can't make t...

St George's dragon had wings. Beowulf's dragon was a flier. Give me time and I'll come up with more examples, if you insist.[br]I didn't know you meant "exclusively flying dragon."[br][br]And I grant you David vs Goliath. I never said there were no archer-vs.-giant matchups; just that ther...

Well...[br][br] gryphons: I actually haven't found any legends of heroes fighting gryphons...gryphons appeared more like weird wildlife than supernatural monsters.[br][br] dragons: Where to start?[br]- St George and the Dragon (spear)[br]- Fafnir, slain by Sigurd with his sword Gram[br]- Unnamed dra...

Thing is, all those monsters exist in real-world mythology. Who beat 'em there? A guy with a sword. The Sword-Wielding Hero TM is a staple archetype of fantasy, but the Long-Range Plinking Guy T M isn't. Even Robin Hood, perhaps the most famous quasi-mythical archer, fought hand-to-hand a large perc...

Cool setting, cool mechanics. I assume you're referring to the "roll-&-keep" system, not that d20 abomination, yes?[br][br]7th Sea is a blast...probably my favorite system/setting for swashbuckling adventure. Princess Bride, Pirates o/t Caribbean, The Musketeer ...this is the system to...

Ticking off rounds is especially easy when you use a dry-erase intiative board.

1204588121[/unixtime]][br]Low mobility melee brutes (especially the non-stealthy ones) just aren't challenging or intimidating when they're meandering in the great outdoors; and flight isn't the only ability that can show this. [br][br]Agreed, and that's why they should pop up when they're relevant...

Agree with Sig. The occasional dramatic moment isn't worth the all-too-common bookkeeping hassle.

I like that. I'd probably leave out the "one activity period" increment and jump from "scene" to "day."

Hmm...I may use this in my next D&D campaign...although Lord only knows when I'll get to run again. The perils of gaming with 4 other GMs.

1204580107[/unixtime]]Do you know what a wilderness encounter is? It's a montage sequence, maybe even a cut scene. [br][br]I don't agree, but this is a matter of differing play styles. Whatever's fun for your group, right?[br][br]Now, if we're taliking about random encounters, I frikkin' hate those...

1204571076[/unixtime]]Gimli's a literal quote from some older edition, IIRC. Also, the elves were wizards. :D (Disregarding that D&D magic looks nothing like Middle-Earth magic - gotta love selective logic indeed.) [br][br]Techincally, although elves used magic, no elves were Wizards - there we...

Yeah, in 3.x, anything lasting more than 5-6 rounds has a duration of "forever" as far as combat utility...except in the case of massive, epic combats.[br][br]Per-round = cast in combat[br]Per-minute = cast just before combat[br]Per-10 minutes = cast whenever you suspect there might be com...

1204565706[/unixtime]]The problem: I'm willing bet my arse (no, I don't use it to gain money ...) that most of the people Koumei referred to are in the "dwarves can't be wizards because Gimli wasn't a wizard" crowd ... [br][br]Amusingly enough, by that logic, NO ONE can be a wizard. The w...

1204562644[/unixtime]]No, Talisman. People who claim they wanna play a fantasy leveled cooperative game based in LotR should fvck off and die - and that comes from someone who actually likes the book, but that just doesn't work. If we talk Silmarillion, OTOH (hint: stuff that appears in it is nigh-...

Now that is funny stuff.

1204544855[/unixtime]] 1204534405[/unixtime]]considering that lots of people go on about wanting a game like LotR. [br][br]Yeah, but those people need to eat some KCn powder. Seriously. LotR is a terrible thing to base a game off. It's not even an entertaining story, but once you add in actual play...

Frankly, wizards needed a nerf...and keep in mind level 10 4e is around ~level 7 3.x (since 4e's 30 levels appear to emulate 3.x's 20 levels, just stretched out more). [br][br]That being said, some of these are just sad. Greater Invisibility is now ~5th level spell (in 3.x terms), and is equal to......

Well...[br][br]Level 16 4e is ~level 10 in 3.x terms...still fairly high.[br][br]Given that they've booted druids, animal companions will be less of a problem...and it's entirely possible that they've killed/nerfed/altered summoning spells to delete the fliers as well.[br][br]I suspect flight is goi...

1204358577[/unixtime]]Wow, you're being a right dick about this.[ [br][br]An unprovoked ad-hominim attack. How nice. It certainly makes me respect you. [br][br] 1204358577[/unixtime]]"I argue that the mace's very "narrowness" defeats it. DR is an often-used and broadly-understood mec...