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Then let's ignore minutiae of bonuses for the moment, it's very easy to design all bonuses as significant in the range of 5, 10, etc. and few being able to give out. HP in this system that's used is directly related to how much damage it would take to kill you in 4 hits. So if we say "The avera...

In this particular Preliminary Example, Racial Bonuses would equal a +2% bonus on successes, a real bonus, but very small in the wide spectrum.

I'm a D&D DM and Player and have been for years, but as I think of game systems, I like many other people try to think of a better way to create D&D. Which leads me to a few thoughts. 1. Ability Score =/= Ability Bonus. For example in 3.5, an 18 Str yields a +4, a 20 a +5 and so on. 2. Level...

I would absolutely recommend it for newer DMs as it gives the DM a large amount of freedom and helps them learn to improvise adventures. You can always have an overarching plot if desired.

That is horrifying and not surprising at all.

I am actually going to restart a campaign of mine that is similar to the West Marches Style: The details are below: Name: Black Marches System: D&D 3.5 Format: OpenRPG with Skype or Teamspeak Material Allowed: All Wotc 3.5 and more, see Here Starting Level: 1 , this will increase as the campaign...

I predict 5E being announced at GenCon 2012 for a release in 2013. Anyone else's predictions?

Complete Mage was actually one of the better 3.5 supplements, releasing a lot of content that people actually used and building on the concept off buff spells that could be dismissed to launch attacks.

True but it doesn't make the inclusion of persistent spell TO by default because it isn't always used in that way. The same thing with magic items or wealth by level. Just cause I have excess gold to spend doesn't make it such that I buy a candle of invocation and thus gold and magic items become T...

True but it doesn't make the inclusion of persistent spell TO by default because it isn't always used in that way. The same thing with magic items or wealth by level. Just cause I have excess gold to spend doesn't make it such that I buy a candle of invocation and thus gold and magic items become TO

Does that same "meh" apply when non-clerics find ways to mitigate persist? Like the Anima Mage? Or the Incantatrix? I don't really play clerics, arcane casters are just more my style. On a side note, I find myself very fond of the Thaumaturge base class presented in the version of the tom...

I always got familiars for increase of HP. In 3E that means always getting a toad. Also, using share spells with Polymorph is also very useful.

For those interested. I posted an identical thread here: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=565083

Throughout the years of 3.0-> 3.5 The CharOp Board, this board, and others have made posts and such detailing methods for strong builds, rapid accumulation of power, and often heavily breaking the assumptions of the designers of the game system. We have a lot of fun referring to Chain-binding Efreet...

Let's put this thread in a slightly different and better direction (imho). Do we really want to deny the players and the base game system story powers? By that I mean fun stuff we hear others do in stories: Raise armies of the dead, create abberant clones of our enemies in underground pits, enchant ...

There's a whole fun minigame of using religion to spread it to all your cities and the AI cities and declaring holy war that's entirely absent from Civ5. And indeed it's true that the religion mechanic gets its best use in modding. I would agree that Corporations and Espionage feel tacked on (becaus...

You're still not getting it: *Removed* City Maintenance based on - Distance to Capital. Concept using Forbidden Palace, Main Palace Relocation, Courthouses, Colony concept from BTS, Vassalage Concept from Warlords. Replaced with Global happiness - Building maintenance *Removed* Trade Network with ot...

Perhaps a better point to make would be this: In Civ4 we have more options out of the box than Civ5. Just like 4E did not come out of the box supporting many things that vanilla 3.5 does, so too does Civ5 not support many things out of the box that Civ4 vanilla did. No map trading, no tech trading, ...

As you wish: 1. UI & Menu stuff 1.1 Menu & Game Options * The legal mumbo jumbo stuff at the beginning of every launch that I have to click “Continue” to before accessing the main menu. Signing it once should be enough. * No automatic default savegame name when saving the game. * Savegames a...

Complaints about 3.5-> 4E are similar to Civ4 -> Civ5 It's too much like playing a video game and the combats are like padded sumo? No more like 1. Oversimplified the game 2. Next iteration is not D&D or CIv, it's a different game 3. Many features and niceities (monster lore, spell descriptions...

I'm not sure if anyone keeps up with some of the discussions about Civ5 such as here or there. Or looking at the reviews of Civ5 at Amazon.com

Complaints about 3.5-> 4E are similar to Civ4 -> Civ5

thoughts?

Generally speaking you should choose a career based on something that you would enjoy doing! Not necessarily the best money-maker. That being said one nice thing about Engineering is Co-ops and internships. Take a semester or summer off and work for a company. Get paid decently, get experience in yo...

Phone Lobster's review of Elemental being bad is accurate. I have shelled out the $60 for it yesterday. I'll just make several points of problems with the game. 1. The opening title and storyline feels very bland. Titans made regular folk their slaves while they fought each other but the little peop...

Tradition.

So.....4E is less class modular and requires more bookspace and is therefore inferior to 3E's system which is more class modular and requires less bookspace?