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Right, but we're talking about D&D where a 6 foot man can't use a 15 foot weapon. So...I don't know how that translates into "a halfling should be able to use a reach weapon", square-cube law or no square-cube law. 1. The whole 15'-pike thing started as a rebuttal to the argument that...

Right, but we're talking about D&D where a 6 foot man can't use a 15 foot weapon. So...I don't know how that translates into "a halfling should be able to use a reach weapon", square-cube law or no square-cube law. Actually, there's a 15' "exotic" pike, IIRC in Complete Warr...

So, any others such "world encompassing" campaigns out there, especially good ones? I'm not talking worlds to adventure in, or campaign settings, but, literally, a collection of completely laid out adventures covering many sessions of play following something of a storyline and intended t...

Square-cube law. Huh? Are you saying that Swiss pikemen are defying the square-cube law? Nah. The cube square law acts in favor of halflings. But we're really dealing with the leverage equations. If a 6 foot man can use a 15 foot weapon a 10.6 foot weapon. -Username17 Right, but we're talking about...

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hogarth wrote:I agree that if humans get a 15' long weapon, then it's fair to have a halfling with an 8' long weapon. But they don't, so they don't.

Square-cube law.

Huh? Are you saying that Swiss pikemen are defying the square-cube law?

Holy Word vs. HD=to Caster Level= save or Deafened. Nope, that doesn't matter. It's extraplanar. It gets booted out of existence. It has Greater Teleport, not Greater Planeshift. You win instantly if you pass SR. Note that there has always been a save vs. the banishment part of Holy Word (in 3.5). ...

Yeah, because the 5 and a half foot human carrying a 12-foot pike is so much less stupid. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Bad-war.jpg I really wish people would stop sticking their 'lol selective realism' dicks into game balance. I agree that if humans get a 15' long weapon, then...

FrankTrollman wrote:Or go halfling hurler and spazz out with like a gajillion acid flasks. It has Acid Resistance 10, but you're doing 33 damage per shot these days.

Not in Pathfinder; you specifically can't sneak attack with a grenade-like weapon.

Not sure if keen is worth it. On the one hand,the chances of staggering the Gelugon is very low, on the other, the extra 18% chance to critical each round is nice. The chance of staggering the gelugon on a critical is 100%. The chance of staggering the gelugon for more than 1 round is very low. (As...

Divine Bond is a fucking joke. It's harmless; it's not clear from that snippet, but it stacks with whatever you have on your sword in the first place, so you can add something like Disruption or Axiomatic to your weapon on the fly. (At least you could in the Beta rules.) Aura of resolve is a joke a...

I already covered the Fail. But there's really nothing new and interesting there, so I shifted to a different sort of Pathfinder Fail. Which there was also no one interested in. I saw you mentioned an anecdote about some idiot with a dumb idea for a campaign. What sort of response were you looking ...

Psychic Robot wrote:Because we need more different people to post.

EDIT: Paladin preview up.

Yeah, I mentioned that, but people are much more interested in 3.0 Haste.

hogarth : Unless it's a linked power, dual-effect powers like area blast are actually weaker because it gives the opponent multiple chances to 'dodge' it, especially with expansion options. Huh? Instead of targeting your opponent's Defense + Toughness, you're targeting your opponent's Reflex + Toug...

Attacks generally either target Defense and Toughness, or just one save (Will, Fort, Ref). There are quite a few attacks that target Ref + Toughness (area effects) and some that target Will + Toughness (Mental Blast, say). I agree that there are plenty of non-damaging powers you don't want to get h...

ubernoob wrote:What if there are two casters in the party?

3.0 Haste only affected one person. There was a Mass Haste spell, though.

There's another route to take from Impervious Toughness if you're being a jackass: tradeoff in the other direction, but only to -5/+5. Jack your Defense up with a Shield or Dodge Focus or whatever is cheap and use Luck (you should have this anyway) and Ultimate Effort (Toughness) to save your ass i...

Lago PARANOIA wrote: Seriously, did 3.5E do anything the fanboys liked other than changing haste/harm/heal? Coming in distant fourth place is the monk example, which has its own fucking problems.

They made the Ranger class less front-loaded. And...uh...

New Pathfinder preview up (the paladin):
http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lacs

Well good to know you value adhering to an arbitrary CR guideline over the enjoyment of your friends. Because damn, scaling back those encounters is way too much work, if you don't like what they're doing, it's TPK time, Gygax style. There's nothing wrong with allowing the PCs to fail, per se , as ...

My dad bought the Basic D&D set for my brother and I in 1981 (? I think) and from there I got into AD&D/Champions/V&V/etc. I went to a nerd school, so there were other kids interested in RPGs. I took a break after some 2E games in college, then got interested in 3E when it came out and s...

House rule out all death monsters (big change, big change, massively restrictive, but most of BIG CHANGE YOU MORON). Wait -- so every time I neglect to put a particular monster (no matter how stupid it is) into my campaign, it's a BIG CHANGE YOU MORON? By that standard, every published module fails...

Interesting; so how did you get interested in D&D having never played RPGs before? My first actual experience with actual D&D stuff was playing Ice wind dale on my computer. From then I went through the Baldur's gate stuff. Then I went a while without becoming more ingrained until I showed ...

Roy wrote: Plus Fucking One.

You never played a tabletop RPG before five years ago? That would explain a lot.

Kaelik wrote:Do I know myself? Yes, Yes I know myself.

Interesting; so how did you get interested in D&D having never played RPGs before?

I'm not sure why you would argue with this statistic. It's not even unexpected. The hobby was codified by teens and college students in the 70s... And they're now dying off in old age. I'm curious mostly. I mean, as someone who started D&D around near the end of 2E, I'm certianly not from the 7...

I never said that at all, so don't put words in my mouth. What I'm saying is that the same demographic who likes tabletop RPGs generally likes video games, too. So they're competing for that demographic's fixed amount of leisure time. So why do videogames win out over attention? The reasons you giv...