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Koumei wrote:
Including the ninja sex magic of Karakuri Ninja Girl, and the sexy dancer-ninja along the lines of Mai Shiranui from Fatal Fury?

Warp Cult in kimonos sounds like a good laugh.

Wow... just pure, unrefined lol.

A_Cynic wrote:So according to 4e, every npc or commoner out there is an ally or an enemy?

The phrase "you're either with us or against us" comes to mind.

Which is damned silly.

George W Bush being an uncredited designer of 4E answers many questions indeed.

The issue here appears to be PR insisting it is far more broken than it is according to RAI, rather than whether it actually does something meaningfully damaging to your average game, Crissa.

No-one sees this problem but PR.

Paizo has done dumber things in the past, Bigode.

Psychic Robot wrote:EXCEPTION-BASED DESIGN IT PROMOTES BALANCE.

STUPIDITY AND LACK OF DESIGNER EXPERTISE IT PROMOTES BALANCE.

Bigode, thou art a dirty ninja.

PR, the fundamental PROBLEM with RAI is that the rules rarely, if ever, have clear intent. Regardless, how the hell can you claim, from a fairly impersonal piece of writing, the intent of the person or people who wrote it? Your position is not exactly wrong, but just a little difficult to sustain in...

This is old news, Josh, but this is yet more proof that 4E was designed by idiot monkeys with typewriters.

Yeah, I'm with that.

The worst thing is, Treant actually wrote a very good wizard use handbook in the past, and seemed to say sensible things until Paizo came along and fucked him in the eyesocket.

@ Bigode: Knowledges are used to ID monsters. If you cannot do that, you, by nature, know nothing about stuff that lives on the Plane of Shadow. If you don't know that, you fail at the flavour of your class.

One thing which has been bugging me endlessly is the missing class skill list for the Shadow Warrior. I humbly propose the one a player of mine compiled for his Shadow Warrior in my game as a suitable candidate: Hide/Move Silently: SHADOW, 'nuff said. Concentration/Spellcraft: SLAs, 'nuff said. Know...

The curator has some formatting issues in the table. Otherwise, awesome!

Last I remember, they're about the same physically as humans, just higher ballistic skill and combat skill. So, you use them to snipe with from deep inside of cover, and never for soaking shots or hand to hand. Mind you, this was a long time ago. ... Would that be more reasonable? Turning Space Mar...

VP represents both near-misses and marginal hits. However, this was not the problem you had originally posited. Since your issue is with how the system handles injury, whether it is divided into one, two or ten pools is not the problem, which you had originally stated.

No thanks. That means you have two pools which you can absorb "damage" into. Why is this a problem? If you have X+Y = 10, if you make it to be Z = 10, the end result is still '10 points of whatever soaked prior to death'. If you divide 10 by ANY number, the final result is still 10. I am ...

Ok, most of those are obvious. I take it It's Dark Outside is Cityscape, and Skip Hates Sorcerers... which one is that? I doubt 'all of them' is the correct answer. According to Bigode's link, the latter is sadly Tome and Blood. I propose calling Complete Arcane 'Skip Hates Sorcerers Again', and Co...

Complete Arcane or Complete Mage, I think.

**CONTINUING ASIDE** Woah, that is not to say that the whale in Rifts is balanced. I never said that. What I meant was that using the words 'balanced' and 'Rifts' in the same sentence is ironically amusing, much like the fact that the CIA HQ is titled the 'George Bush Centre for Intelligence'. It is...

**ASIDE**

Leress wrote:If someone was to make a game where they are an option then they should be balanced (You can play a whale in Rifts)

I never thought I'd see the day when 'balanced' and 'Rifts' would be used in the same sentence.



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The advantage/disadvantage inherent in magic items under this system need not be numerical - in fact, it would be best if it were based on benefits and restrictions which were not only numbers, as these are fairly easy to dodge.

Draco_Argentum wrote:Sooner or later you'll be able to engage in shitting fetishes online via virtual reality, are you going to get in on the ground floor of that too?

There's no accounting for taste. Fetishism included.

Because everyone is sure that they've got The Gift. Not only that. Fantasy in particular is escapist - it is designed to make us believe that Joe Nobody can take on established awesome people (or The Establishment) single-handed and win, despite not being able to do so in real life. It's feelgood m...

Being attached to it is more to do with not wanting to change it for systems where it is used, rather than an inability to play in systems where it is not inherent. If this is not what came across, it was intended that way.

And your case, Talisman, proves that, as for anything, YMMV.