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- Thu Mar 19, 2009 1:55 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Its a thug. Its a brute. Its a fighter!
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- Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:35 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Magic, Nonmagic, and D&D.
- Replies: 63
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I'm sorry if I have hijacked this thread... The problem is that it really doesn't balance things for someone to be the MVP for half the session and worse than useless for the other half. So you'd need the game to ensure the wizard's moments of shininess and dullness were both within the acceptable r...
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:18 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Magic, Nonmagic, and D&D.
- Replies: 63
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- Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Magic, Nonmagic, and D&D.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 5090
But it can be assumed that the party will have motivations and that the DM will be sensitive to those motivations in such a way as to be able to balance adventures to not blatantly favor casters. In Spider-Man, 'do this or Aunt May gets it' is sufficient motivation to get Spider-Man to do whatever ...
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:32 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Magic, Nonmagic, and D&D.
- Replies: 63
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- Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:27 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Magic, Nonmagic, and D&D.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 5090
Not all adventures should really be time sensitive, though a game where all are would be interessting if stressful. Why not? Isn't there always something more that the heroes can be doing? Another wrong to right and so forth. If you ask me, the party should always be struggling to keep their head a...
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:20 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Magic, Nonmagic, and D&D.
- Replies: 63
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- Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Magic, Nonmagic, and D&D.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 5090
Why can't the two mix? I'm not trying to be confrontational, I genuinely do not understand your point. Why can't CR's be based on not just one encounter but several encounters strung together. In that case, casters are pretty cool until they use all of their spells up at which point they suck and f...
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:04 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Magic, Nonmagic, and D&D.
- Replies: 63
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That seems pretty heavy handed. Why not find roles for these characters to fill and make them uniquely qualified to fill them? Hitting things with a sword well doesn't mean you can't pick locks or track or do any number of things that magic isn't designed to do. Moreover, it seems to me that battle...
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:34 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Magic, Nonmagic, and D&D.
- Replies: 63
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A lot of people want to be Conan or Legolas, just like some people want to play Daredevil or Spiderman. Sure they don't rip holes in dimensions with their physical abilities, but they're still cool characters. Then the ability of PCs to play such characters needs to be phased out if they're not the...
- Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:41 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Racial Levels and Classes
- Replies: 25
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What I'm looking for is a system that has you take a race level and a class level each time that you level. It would be better to alternate between race levels and class levels. That way you don't have to think up as much stuff. So: Level 1: basic stuff Level 2: gain class-specific stuff (eg encoun...
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Magic, Nonmagic, and D&D.
- Replies: 63
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- Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:10 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Racial Levels and Classes
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3712
In order to do that, every race would have to have some sort of high-level ability. Exactly, that is why I want to see a system that has successfully done this to use a template. Anguirus, that sounds a lot like racial paragon classes. http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/races/racialParagonClasses.ht...
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Racial Levels and Classes
- Replies: 25
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- Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:31 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Racial Levels and Classes
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3712
Racial Levels and Classes
This is my first post on this message board so please forgive me if this is not in the spirit of the board or posted in the wrong place. What do you guys think about racial characteristics that level with the character, functioning similarly to classes allowing for level dependent abilities and alte...