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If magic was such that this wasn't possible, would you accept the uncertainty? If magic were such, I wouldn't need to accept the uncertainty, since no one in the universe would use magic. That's patently ridiculous, since the situation is that you *might* hit your allies with a fireball and don't k...

One of the major focuses of the game discussed - a new version of WoD - is politics. Characters' social interaction is the entire point . Playing as someone who can muster influence in supernatural society, even if you personally don't have incredible social influence, is the entire point . You don'...

Lawful as "deterministic" and Chaotic as "nondeterministic" is a bad definition. I won't use it then. Problem solved! Except that that's exactly what you *said* you used some of the time. Right here: But for the cases I do use it, I use the following interpretation: Lawful = lik...

If one were in the exact same situation twice, one would be likely to act in the same way. So "Lawful" to you means bad at feinting and dodging. Good to know your definition is just as retarded as every other version out there. Huh? Again, you're mixing up "Lawful" and "Stu...

Knowledge skills as interaction skills certainly has the ability to get people involved. Even a low Charisma character is going to end up with topics that are interesting in a situation at a high rating and have a decent overall dice pool. However it essentially precludes using the nWoD mental skil...

Well, having a fucking huge mammalian brain seems to be objectively useful in all kinds of extreme environments. But that could be personal bias. Even without the "sometimes things just go away" argument... Having a fucking huge mammalian brain also consumes a lot of calories (compared to...

Looks like Boolean's posts have an extraneous end-quote tag at the end of the lists.

Because at near epic levels they have access to the same powers (i.e. all of them) and the wilder has better BAB, skills, and a few class features that don't matter all that much. We may be talking about different Wilders/Psions, but Wilders don't actually get access to all the powers the Psions ha...

As for the Dungeon: Yeah, that's what you'd do in an MMO. I'm saying that would never work in tabletop, and that could be brought up as a point against 4.Fail. Nonono. It would never happen in a tabletop game that's actually trying to suspend disbelief and act like a realistic raiding scenario. How...

The initial design of Dungeon Crusade was that you play Imperium units - Imperial Guard in lower-tier games, Space Marines/Battle Sisters/Imperial Assassins in higher-tier. Koumei only just recently added stuff for playing Genestealers and Tyranids. Now to get "Eldar" to convert into Proto...

For instance, Monte managed to make a monk class that's even worse than the 3.5 monk (or Pathfinder monk). It takes a special kind of talent to do that. Monk Hit Die: d4 BAB: Poor Saves: All poor Skill Points: 2 + Int modifier Class Skills The monk’s class skills (and the key ability for each skill...

Koumei wrote:At first, 4 Gargoyles (Winged level 6 Genestealers equipped with Bio-Plasma and Flesh Borers).

How do the Gargoyles actually get their flight? Wings of Evil, or some other feat or ability I'm missing? I.e., what are flight speed and maneuverability?

Characters like Herbert West and Dr. Frankenstein should definitely be Luminaries who just happen to have ways to create Promethians. West's reanimations are pretty much Frankenstein Prometheans - they're made from corpses empowered with necromantic power, but aren't zombies (they don't hunger for t...

At the moment:

A biweekly D&D4E on Saturdays
A D&D3.5 campaign over IRC on Sunday evenings
A Play-by-Post Dungeon Crusade game on rpol.net

Sadly, all the meatspace games I'm aware of in my general area are 4th edition, and one of those is easily enough...

I’ve been thinking a bit about the Children of Aether – the example characters are the Invisible Man and Mr. Hyde, who don’t really have many obvious abilities in common. But, since most of the “super serum” experiments I’ve actually heard of in fiction (okay, the ones who’re Spider-man villains, bu...

2: Things like "I can't fire that arrow this round" is a bad dissociative mechanic. You know, the thing we don't like 4e for. It's very artificial and it will cause the same kind of feeling that people get when they run into a glitch in a videogame. It pulls them out of that "trance&...

Look, there is nobody who cares so little about effectiveness versus cool that they'll willingly play a Monk in a game where everyone else is a Wizard, Cleric, or Rogue. After a few game sessions it becomes clear that they add nothing to the party and exist only as a mobile hit point battery. It do...

I would assume that the first time Little Mac nails Glass Joe with a Shoryuken because he went for the Ear Box should be enough to dissuade him. Before that happens, Joe could know in a meta sense that the attack would be ineffectual. So why can't we make it so that if Joe attempts to use an Ear Bo...

Since when does 'so fucking random you can't plan at all' qualify as balanced? Yes, it does block auto attacks, but that's about all it has going for it. Since when does balance require things to be predictable? If you and your opponent have identical abilities with identical bonii and identical st...

It was a mechanic suggested by (uncertaion) Frank? I don't recall what it was actually for, but it was suggested as a way to break up the monotony of "autoattack, autoattack, autoattack" seen in 4E. Might have been for Fantastic!.

No, then my Illusions still serve the purpose of wasting all his standard actions and obscuring his vision and discouraging him from attacking anything that is real because he'll think it's fake. But he'll be able to tell which things are real because they're radiating evil. Using her detect evil S...

Fail. It's an Infinite Loop. By definition, it doesn't get better than that. Having another, identical Infinite Loop is meaningless. Either way, you auto win. Or: Fail. It's a crash bug. By definition, it doesn't get worse than that. Having another, identical crash bug is meaningless. Either way, y...

Mine's quantumboost. And crazy shit = win.

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Not a meaningful distinction. Unless you're trying to tell me Efreeti binding didn't exist, there was already a such thing as infinite wishes long before you can actually cast Wish on your own, and it was introduced in 3.0 since before that, even if you could get one Wish was the fuck you lololol s...

There being some actual fixes in 3.5 doesn't make 3.0 "inferior in every way". Case in point: Wishing for more wishes. That was introduced with the 3.5 wish not having a specific GP cap for magic items. The most significant part of Frank & K's fix for that was actually *reinstating* th...