The Gaming Den

My friends and I were working on our own Pokemon RPG. Thank you for showing us NOT what to do.

Weren't those both in the core Monster Manual? They were. The level of munchkinery involved in half dragon celestials (and other such combinations) was a great damage to the game. D&D 3.0 was fun, but the abject twinks it brought into the game made it less fun. Are those really that powerful? I...

Vow of Peace I'd guess. At least that seems pretty problematic to me in a game about KILLING and LOOTING.

4e's mechanics are simple. You have a bunch of crappy powers. These are nothing compared to 3rd edition spells. Some are at-wills, some once per encounter, and some daily. Most powers do an inconsequential amount of damage and inflict some sort of useless effect such as sliding the target two square...

Doesn't the 3.5 DMG say specifically not to make those 19-20/x3 weapons?

Oh hell yeah I have no idea how the hell damage is being handled, but the 4e guys will be putting out a lot less if you're using RAW. As a 2e/3e caster, you'll have spells which actually kill people, they at best might stun for a round. Also if you're playing a 3.5 caster with 3.0 haste, don't forge...

What was it like before and what was it like afterwards? (Note: I may check to see if what you're saying is actually accurate.) Pretty sure you couldn't actually get it as a player in the 3.0 FRCS. I could be wrong. You're wrong. Spellfire was printed as a feat in the 3.0 Magic of Faerun, and bolst...

Spellfire also predates Magic of Faerun. He made a bunch of Spellfire expansion options in Magic of Faerun that powered it up to "stupid". What was it like before and what was it like afterwards? (Note: I may check to see if what you're saying is actually accurate.) Pretty sure you couldn...

Is it really that terrible to want an iconic character concept to be good enough for normal play? I think it's terrible to want a deliberately crippled character concept to be "good enough" that he's effectively not crippled. Strangely, I don't see this sort of hubbub about the lack of op...

kzt, that's kind of my point. In-universe, there are all these guys who proudly proclaim their willingness to kick puppies. IRL, not so much.

And of course, any noob in magic school can go out and tell you what your alignment is. Hell, you can even buy a magic hat which tells you 100 percent if what you're doing is an evil act. There really isn't much room for gray in the system. Actually, I think its really more gray than anybody is giv...

And of course, any noob in magic school can go out and tell you what your alignment is. Hell, you can even buy a magic hat which tells you 100 percent if what you're doing is an evil act. There really isn't much room for gray in the system.

Maybe there's just a disconnect about what D&D morality is. I don't see it as any worse (in general) than "kill bad fuckers who do bad things". If someone would like to point me to where the game encourages you to butcher orc babies or sow salt on the orc's fields, let me know. Comple...

So I was reading through some splatbooks and discovered the following little gem in Complete Champion. Apparently all the followers of the church of Corellon the elf-god gain status from...killing as many orcs and drow as possible, because the drow are supposed to be in hell, but they aren't, so cle...

To change the topic back to mechanics, a friend of mine has decided that Pathfinder is the mechanically superior successor to 3.5. He's citing some sort of reverse Oberoni fallacy (I'll get him to rephrase it later, this is from a discussion a few weeks ago and I may be misrepresenting him) that bec...

Alright. here's mine. At the time, I had been playing with an MC who was one of those old Gygaxian grognards who has no fucking idea how the game works. He had a variety of bizarre bans, such as banning monks for being overpowered (but wizards are A-OK!), banning any character who used a racial stat...

Played it for a year. Same issues as Darth Rabbitt, as well as lack of support for necromancers. Combat took too long, and we unanimmously decided to go back to 3.5.

There is one moment, I think, in the Harry Potter series, which shows Harry's true character. It's in the final "battle" between Harry and Voldemort, in which Voldemort says something to the effect of "You are only here because all your friends died for you." You know what? He's ...

I'm sorry, not sure if I was being clear. The problem I have isn't so much that the DM HAS more power than the PCs, I just feel there should be a hard-coded set of rules limiting that power so you can't do something like "fuck you, you die, no save, blah." Not saying players should be able...

One of the wonderful things about our beloved hobby of roleplaying games is the fact that we end up entrusting one gamer with control over the rest of the game - telling you what to play, potentially having the power to change rules, and so on. The question is, why? I understand that we need someone...

Am I the only one who thinks its hilarious that they nerfed finger of death, but flesh to stone is A-OK? Building a pathfinder wizard recently...most of out good buddy spells are still there. Despite the supposed wizard nerf.

What kind of magical effects can you drop with arcana? Anything besides illusions? And are there any open-ended, flexible effects such as silent image?

How much of a game's suckage can be ascribed to editors and how much to designers? Because I am wondering if the problem endemic to WotC's wunneful design skillz isn't the crappy editing. Let's see... -According to Ari Marmell, the editors changed the hell out of his shadowcaster, turning it complet...

I think the classplosion didn't happen for a couple reasons: 1. The designers thought classes were way more flexible than they really are/people don't care about character customization. After all, there are usually few choices in MMOs. 2. The 4rries decided to refluff everything, rather than get ne...

I can't wait to see him put game mechanics in his novel (reading Salvatore and seeing crap like "The Faceless One was a high-level wizard", anyone?). Wonder how he plans to justify all the 4.Fail breaks from common sense and outright stupidity. "The zombie had superhuman strength. Yet...