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1201489747[/unixtime]][br][br]PS: What will you do when you have a hardware failure, or want one of the games built using their new dev tools which don't support the XP architecture? It would be worth not having to deal with the multiple Dialogue Boxes that pop up whenever I try to copy a file or i...

RandomCasualty at [unixtime wrote:1201498963[/unixtime]]

If that +2 axe bonus isn't in the actual stat block, nobody is going to really know or even care.

So what happens when you disarm the guy?

Obviously you don't Want the "turnip economy" sticking around. It's fun until you start dealing with bigger threats than a small bear or a few angry villagers.

1201470531[/unixtime]] 1201448594[/unixtime]]Well mongoose's inability to get good art has never seemed to stop them from producing reems of books [br][br]Same for WOTC. I hate Arne Swekel's art, or whatever the fuck his name is.[br]We also have Ron Spencer and his shiny, lumpy Otis-esque jokes for...

SunTzuWarmaster at [unixtime wrote:1201479782[/unixtime]]Yea, but if you're a PC you don't particularly care what happens after you die.

Is that some kind of a joke? PCs should have goals too!

There are plenty of reasons for people with high-quality adventuring gear to care about turnips. You have kids like Toshiro Mifune in 7 Samurai, who basically went grave robbing to get his stuff. You have bandits and ronin who either wear piecemail or their old armor, but they're not part of the hig...

FrankTrollman at [unixtime wrote:1201423559[/unixtime]]Not necessarily. Many mook systems simply give a mook a destruction threshold. And this can make the ideal anti-mook weapon be one of substantial enough size that it always (or nearly always) hits that destruction threshold.

That would certainly work well for zombies.

Prak_Anima at [unixtime wrote:1201424328[/unixtime]]so, if you're in a tome game, and want a new weight of armour, you have to take one of the "old, crappy feats"?

Unless you get it from your class, yeah.

Trees of undead command are dangerous. A canny individual will try to take out a few commanders and watch the ensuing chaos.

Prak_Anima at [unixtime wrote:1201413891[/unixtime]]So... with the new weapon proficiency aquisition system... how does one acquire armour proficiencies?

I'm pretty sure that armor proficiency works as normal, with the caveat that you have to practice a bit with unfamiliar armors before you can use them effectively.

Frank, characters that deal less damage more often are going to be more effective against a number of weaker characters, just as characters that deal more damage less often will be more effective against bosses. 1 HP foes are just one of the degenerate cases. On the other side we have huge golems wi...

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 his wings for armor (th...

Robin makes his own humble woodsman's garb (or instructs someone how to do it), and due to his knowledge it aids his stealth. Most other people don't have the skills to utilize that, but Robin does.

1201371691[/unixtime]][br]I mean imagine if burning was "light him on fire for 5 rounds" and poison was "deals poison damage over 3 rounds" or whatever. [br][br]That gets impossible to manage pretty soon. [br][br]"Give the player three poison tokens. Each round he removes o...

Isn't Odysseus an Int/Str archer? Or are we just assuming that unless you're a Heracles you aren't Str-based?

Why the fuck would Death's sword keep you from the afterlife? Isn't sending you there the whole point?

One option to restrict archers from very heavy armor is to make their attacks perception -base (Wisdom), and have armor restrict your senses. Melee guys will be fine because they use Strength or Dex-based attacks, but again we make precision-attacks perception based to make thieves wear less armor (...

1201237467[/unixtime]]So which one would you make your Ancestral Weapon?[br] [br][br]That is the question, isn't it?[br]The answer: Whichever one you like. You can force a crit with any weapon, so you're really not restricted. There are some significant advantages to being able to blast through any...

Jacob_Orlove at [unixtime wrote:1201236486[/unixtime]]I'm curious to see if this will work the way I suspect it may.

First, some quote tags

Now, some text. I'm breaking the 4th wall here!

The whole idea of item locations is something which should stay in video games. It's probably impossible to wear more than one helmet at a time, but wearing more than one cloak just makes you look silly, and wearing more than one necklace makes you look rich.[br][br]Then rather than placing limits o...

1201150512[/unixtime]]I like him, but just one thing: how could he fight against Incorporeal heroes? None of his powers apparently affect incorporeal enemies. A hero with Elemental Control (Water) could use his own density against him by summoning up a flood and drowning him. He still needs to brea...

It's about as good a video game solution as one could hope for from WotC. Aside from the ring issue (which they have a reason for -- remember that in 3e rings could not be made by casters < 11).[br][br]I'm hoping that all consumables are classified as 'wonderous items', and that they don't get too u...

1201137433[/unixtime]]It'd be kind of interesting if mooks didn't have hp. They just got like improved evasion or something and like if they took any damage at all, they were out of the fight. Makes it easier to put down a bucket load of goblins and track them. [br]Depending on implementation that ...

1201111516[/unixtime]]I've also heard that people under the influence of MDMA who are drinking water can lose track of how much water they've been drinking, and can suffer water intoxication and not realize it.[br][br]At least, that's what my brother says, and he's pretty knowledgable on this sort ...

1201062816[/unixtime]][br]@Catharz. Yep. Actually, thats useful for everyone. The only thing I'm not sure about is how that works just prior to an encounter, for buffing perception, stealth and perception checks. It strikes me as a grey area thats awesome if you can actually do it. [br]Just for the...