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Why not give the blues the air subtype instead of the earth subtype, then?

I like the idea too. Of course, the Wand of Wonder doesn't need any, nor do items that work like that.

As for the ghost touch weapon, it could be that ghosts can seriously treat their weapons as ghost touch for the purpose of stabbing you in the face.

Main reason not to for chromatic dragons is the close associations of their colors, homes, and breath weapons Blue=sky, and lighting comes from clouds black=swamp, which can be considered associated with acid, but this is a stretch. green=forest, and green=chlorine gas red=fire, and can also be cons...

Splitting up the parts of your job that can be done by a voice-recognition program and an if statment with five if-else statments and a character name variable doesn't make them less boring.

green's completely open. the elite of the original orks were the black uruks of Mordor, who i presume were colored black like the background of moon landing photos.

Your theory of choice of mechanical difference equalling justification for mechanical difference has now evolved. Now you declare since I disagree with that theory it will not convince me to apply it. You don't want orcs that are fundementally different than humans, correct? You don't want "or...

zeruslord: I consider whether +2/+0 balances with +1/+1 an open question, but regardless, it balances with +0/+2, right? If we're assuming that the +2/+0 and the +0/+2 are both to things the class relies on equally, yes. If the first one is to bows and the second one is to HP on a class that relies...

I'm assuming (don't know about anyone else) that you never need a new weapon just to become level appropriate. The axe you used at level 1 is fine at level 10. Or however the game handles "the beginning" vs. "mid-high power level". But you do. Monster stats are calculated on the...

Which is why we should have some difference.

Sadly, the wish economy breaks down here, because it is inherently based around magic stuff and we're trying to get away from always needing magic anyway. But i see no good way of preserving access to weapons without letting you buy them, except maybe getting the ability to locate a master smith who...

It could be a gold sphere ability instead. it's tied to a gold dragon power and we need to distinguish red and gold somehow, because they're already both themed as fire and are pretty much each-other's opposite numbers.

Is it even a vaild point in the first place? A whale that can move on land isn't water-bound, but it still dwarfs trucks, it's still a predator of massive numbers of tiny things, though those might not be krill, it still can't fly, it still can't riot and burn it's cities on account of not having ha...

There actually is. Oddly, it's in the Dracomonicon. There is a set of magic items that cause windstorms of varying strength for several miles around with a safe radius around the item. If you've got two items, then you can link them together so that they don't effect anything in the safe area of eit...

So why not cut out the whole superior genes/raped by destiny subtext to it and just say you got hardcore by training really hard? If you spend almost of your time training, getting good grades, believing in your friends, and never giving up you'll eventually be able to warp reality. Because that's ...

Let's say that being a dwarf makes you get +3 to appraise. Let's say that that somehow makes them better rogues because rogues need appraise at level*3. let's say further that rangers need spot, listen, and hide to be effective with ranks plus bonuses equal to 2*level, and have appraise as a cross c...

that only works if dwarf features and ranger class features mesh just as well as elf features and ranger features.

If that's what you mean, then i'm glad that you've actually come around.

Your race is a factor in what your character can and will do. No one's disputing that. what we are disputing is that your race making your dwarf who isn't gimli be at -1 to a noteworthy part of his character without +1 to an EQUALLY IMPORTANT part of his character is a good idea. it'd be like makin...

You know what the problem is? The reason this has taken 13 pages and shows no signs of ending? It's because this debate is ultimately like debating which is better for all games, a dicepool or a percentile die. If you want a game where you can have guys who are tactically smarter can play the same g...

Also, leress, i forsee many bad feelings when someone decides to ID a scroll by use and it turns out to be a cursed scroll of "rocks fall. everyone dies." Only if they are taking the game seriously. The Nethack I was working on take a more tongue and cheek approach to the game. With easie...

Not to sound defensive, but what does that have to do with it? Answer is "Pretty much.", really. For someone who is a tactics nut in some games, RPGs don't bring that out in me. Because the five-foot step has no story explaination whatsoever. Also, leress, i forsee many bad feelings when ...

Aktariel wrote:

Crissa wrote:But that's one of two reasons NetHack is a single player game!

What's the other one?

It'd lead to too many bad feelings every time someone TPKs the party by identifying a scroll.

I think that if you can project a massive windstorm just over the walls extending for miles in each direction, air attack is virtually impossible as well as preventing anyone above you from shooting unless they have a flying citadel with massive seige weapon batteries.

Which is why we have a dwarven rangery things list and a dwarven fightery things list and the same for the other classes or at least archtypes. "Wear mountain plate as practical armor instead of powered armor minus the power supply" isn't on the dwarven rangery things list, because rangers...

And some situations elves have bigger numbers but both get the ability (both get Perception, elves just have a Perception bonus), so elves might be superior at the class. But overall ...pretty much. Elves do elven rangery things and dwarves do dwarven rangery things and either is level appriopriate...

Assuming being a fighter is just as useful as being a ranger, it meets the "underpowered race?" test. It may not meet the "but players may want to be rangers" test, but that's a seperate issue from the mechanics balancing. But we want the players who want to be a dwarven ranger ...