The Gaming Den

Assuming that you did design your classes properly, though, and you did streamline the process then what's the temptation for people to pick up your new classes? That's a hell of an assumption. There's always screwups. As far as flavour goes, you should be able to use a rogue class (or whatever) in...

There's an argument here that it's mainly an internal argument by people who neither know nor care what outsiders think.

Do people complain about synthetic (recycled, extracted) iron vs natural iron? We ran out decades ago. Or mercury mined gold vs crystalline? Synthetic diamonds are not fake. However, there is a very large and concerted effort to make sure they're called that. Anyhow, give five more years and there ...

I can kind of see how trying to invalidate others peoples ownership of the company and all that entails might be helpful in his immediate situation, but how could claiming that he sold tons of fraudulent stock before a court of law possibly be a good idea in the long run? Threr's no really good rea...

I got pointed to this - I rather liked this bit "Republicans who had attended the convention called Principal Mike McCarthy to complain about "anti-American" things they saw there, including a closed box containing copies of the U.S. Constitution that were published by the American Ci...

CatharzGodfoot wrote:And almost a quarter of low level wizards had only one hit point.

1/4 of single-classed 1st level wizards with a 14 or lower constitution who weren't in groups who used house rules to increase HP at 1st level, yes.

Al this anti-multiclassing stuff puzzles me. I mean, one of the first things one of my friends said when 3.0e came out was along the lines of "So ... I can multiclass rogue and sorcerer then backstab with a ray of frost? Cool! " Multiclassing for flavour or for cheese (or both) was a selli...

Unless this is changed, Willpower helps reduce the effects of manabolts, but there's a fair few magic effects which target other abilities. Intuition vs. illusions especially. Reaction may help you shoot the mage in the face before she fries you with said manabolt. Willpower 5 instead of 2 means you...

None of this is going to matter unless, of course, your feeble attempt to try and ruin CGL's chances of getting the license renewed succeeds. [/color] This thread isn't an attempt to replace SR4. It's a look at what a replacement for SR4 might look like, which might (p<0.01 IMO, but we can hope) in...

Spider Eyes. Hmm. With low-light vision and/or a spot check bonus it might make the bar as a least invocation. I think you're basing it off a spell which creates fly-sized (spider-sized?) flying invisible scouts, which is a different story entirely from great big ugly eyes growing out of your own he...

Web line (Eldritch Essence, 1st), The Warlock's modified Eldritch Blast creates a thin line of spider silk, out to it's maximum range. The line is physical, and lasts about an hour. It is capable of bearing the warlock and an additional 25 lbs/caster level (the warlock is effectively weightless for...

But even that isn't the point. The point is that if you refuse to compare countries on the grounds that they have differences, then you're implicitly refusing to do research or make informed policy decisions at all . Don't want to compare the US to any European country because they have less people...

Not having a truckload of useless attacks to roll is better. I'm for the one combat-capable construct idea.

Another view on timing of any changeover, and Topps' motives. Does this guy sound credible?

http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?s ... t&p=923304

Kaelik, the point being made is that a dice pool system where you count hits is mathematically identical to throwing a bunch of weighted d2s (marked with 0 and 1) and adding the results.

Yes, the half-as-much-as-the-sides rule of thumb doesn't work with this model. Got that. In fact, I said that.

Since we can't even send people to Mars in the foreseeable future I can't see this as an issue.

In SR and in WoD I've seen fairly substantial variation in results with pools of 10-12 dice. The change of getting zero hits is very low, but so long as it matters whether you get one hit or four it's a good randomiser. Franks' rule of thumb clearly breaks down when you model SRs or WoDs dice as wei...

Eh, some people would want gold in the hopes that a nice economy would come back some time soon and others would still want their bling. Betting on the economy collapsing soon and simultaneously being able to keep and use your hoarded gold is kind of like betting on the rapture though.

Chaos mage is a tradition with a good name which gets some attention (well at least 1 player I've seen) because of it, and Vodoun is the normal possession tradition.

I've never seen a campaign setting book which could get stuff like this down to a well-polished sentence, and yes, I have read several. Not saying it couldn't be done, but they seem to find it necessary to embed useful info in multiple paragraphs of waffle. Waffle must be easier to write. I have see...

What is there that someone could take as stock from a gaming company? Free copies of the books I guess, but that surely couldn't come to much compared to the amounts being talked about here. Maybe a computer or two and a printer?

A solo guy sneaking around and fighting multiple enemies will get a lot of mileage out of grenades even without the throwing skill. Just drop one with a delay and slip away quickly.

It doesn't even have to be lethal, pepper punch gas grenades are useful in this situation.

I know fire and electricity are different damage types in DnD, but do they really need to be? A lightning bolt spell is different to a fireball spell largely from the different areas of effect really, they both fry enemies to about the same point. This isn't Shadowrun where you need to think about t...

I wonder why evolution gets attacked all of the time but neuroscience and gene theory does not. The next Big Thing as far as anti-intellectualism goes will be neuroscience. Count on it. Some of the anti-animal testing anger is aimed at neuroscience. This is because some neuroscientists perform test...

Oh, BTW my impression at the time was that the Taliban were scrambling for some kind of excuse to hand over Osama to cover their arses. They didn't get one and were probably praying that the US was bluffing and would start negotiating right up until the bombs started falling. "Destroying the re...