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- Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:09 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 3rd edition D&D, acid and hardness.
- Replies: 93
- Views: 14139
- Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:06 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Points of Light
- Replies: 100
- Views: 17609
It's been said before that it's best to describe campaigns rather than settings as either PoD or PoL. Hell, it can even switch between one or the other mid-campaign. Say your campaign starts in a city with the PCs as new recruits in the city guard. There's a criminal element to the city, but not a m...
- Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:32 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Official "4e Critique and Rebuttal" Thread
- Replies: 1175
- Views: 154467
- Sat Aug 29, 2009 11:24 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Dark Sun returns
- Replies: 739
- Views: 110008
- Sat Aug 29, 2009 11:18 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: TNE: Mini-tiers and Character Replacement
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8763
- Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:35 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: TNE: Mini-tiers and Character Replacement
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8763
If one guy wants to stop the enemy army on Front A by diplomancing the commander and another player wants to stop the army on Front B by raising an army of the dead, then that's cool because both armies get defeated for the purposes of the adventure and the players got to do it their way. The probl...
- Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:25 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: TNE: Mini-tiers and Character Replacement
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8763
- Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:05 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: 3E NPC/Monster creation
- Replies: 70
- Views: 12244
Honestly, forget about making NPCs real wizards, we want to make them close to what a wizard does, so they feel wizardly, but we don't want to actually ever use the wizard class. That's just a big massive can of worms which we should avoid at all costs. That seems like a bad idea to me. If your par...
- Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:58 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: 3E NPC/Monster creation
- Replies: 70
- Views: 12244
If you tie Caster level to HD then the one level of wizard might indeed prove useful (this is an idea out of Trailblazer). I thought about that, but then it gets ugly where you can do things like take 19 levels of fighter (or play as a level 19 monster) and then take 1 level of wizard and get all t...
- Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:20 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: 3E NPC/Monster creation
- Replies: 70
- Views: 12244
I was thinking about this, and it seems to me that instead of balancing monsters by the sort of party that could take them down, wouldn't it make more sense to balance them in comparison to an individual character ? Balancing by party is difficult/impossible because you have to make assumptions abou...
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:13 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Video Games
- Replies: 8271
- Views: 950039
No, I'm complaining because it is Chrono Trigger 2 but they also took a shit on it. Let me try rephrasing this. You don't like Chrono Cross because of its relationship to Chrono Trigger. If it weren't for the way it was connected to Chrono Trigger, you wouldn't have a problem with it. (Or at least,...
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:44 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Video Games
- Replies: 8271
- Views: 950039
Sure, I already said I can understand why you'd be disappointed that it wasn't Chrono Trigger 2. But the fact that it wasn't doesn't make it bad. Chocolate cake is not bad just because that's not what you were expecting. Chocolate cake can still be pretty tasty if you're not so focused on the fact t...
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: Enemies and Allies
- Replies: 34
- Views: 13927
But that's exactly how NPCs are supposed to work in campaign books. That's why they are statted out ahead of time. Sure -- if you have an NPC, then he belongs in the world, and you can encounter him in that world. But the point I'm trying to make is that if you have a specific NPC that you know you...
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:03 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Video Games
- Replies: 8271
- Views: 950039
Hey, guess what. You're still complaining because it's not Chrono Trigger 2.Lago PARANOIA wrote:Chrono Cross only interacts with the old game to give the finger to old plot elements (HURR HURR LUCCA DIED IN AN ORPHANAGE FIRE) and to whinge upon ridiculous plot tumors no one gave a fuck about. Dinotopia? Seriously?
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:54 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: Enemies and Allies
- Replies: 34
- Views: 13927
But you're talking about famous public domain characters like Dracula and Robin Hood -- character archetypes who should really be main characters, if not the focus of the whole campaign. and they're not likely to stumble across the PCs by accident so you should have plenty of time to stat them out ...
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:32 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Video Games
- Replies: 8271
- Views: 950039
Chrono Cross lost me the very moment they threw down the revelation that they were not in fact going to travel through time or interact with the original Chrono Trigger plotline at all. The fact that they subsequently killed all the characters from the first game and then wrote them out of history ...
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:24 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: Enemies and Allies
- Replies: 34
- Views: 13927
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:16 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: Enemies and Allies
- Replies: 34
- Views: 13927
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:53 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Video Games
- Replies: 8271
- Views: 950039
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder: the Lowdown
- Replies: 1819
- Views: 335288
Then wear some damn half-plate. Hooray for exception-based design! Wouldn't work. It applies to all heavy armor; the full plate thing was just an example. The point is that you have to be proficient in the armor you're wearing, made of mithral or no -- making it out of mithral just keeps from blowi...
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:03 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: TNE: To Tier or Not, and Mass Combat and Setting
- Replies: 56
- Views: 11384
So yeah, it's totally possible, even desirable for individual characters to exist simultaneously in multiple tiers and to use their abilities from the tier that is being interacted with at any given moment. Wait, what? I thought the whole point of the tier system was to match everyone's power level...
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:29 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: TNE: To Tier or Not, and Mass Combat and Setting
- Replies: 56
- Views: 11384
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:14 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: 3E NPC/Monster creation
- Replies: 70
- Views: 12244
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: TNE: To Tier or Not, and Mass Combat and Setting
- Replies: 56
- Views: 11384
- Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:07 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Alt Morality Axis and Defined Ethical Axis for 3.5
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2019