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Not sure I buy the bit about flavor being mutable completely, because people will still say "oh, so it's a cleric" because that's just what people fucking do. Anyway the mechanics are also not there since clerics also get all of the everything ever and Ashley very specifically doesn't, an...

You know who I really think of when I hear the word fighter? Ashley Riot from Vagrant story. Yeah, he uses some magic, but he gets all of that from books he reads so that's just magic items giving him some utility abilities and you seriously use your utility spells, almost all of the magic you get,...

The Master of Frogs is not an enemy, so this is not a mutual enemy. Try to reason with him.

Pop Friendship, we're close enough to Whateverthefuckistan that if another one's likely to be necessary we can buy one.

You're defining a magic system - you can just say that only one node can be converted into a mana stream at a time because technobabble and something. You could also say that different nodes of mana reserve don't stack, such that it's not a useful thing to do - unless you want there to be a synergy ...

Everyone that isn't a friend is a mutual enemy. Attack!

I concur with demands for fire-based scorpion cookery.

East is the only direction not tread by Dicklong before, so thattaway for nao.

What's a sword for if not attacking monsters? Attack it.

tussock have you considered playing 4e instead, Srsly. The Fighter is going to feel small in the pant whenever people do something other than swing at people for damage, but that sure as hell isn't a problem with every other class . That's a strawman, right there, at least if we assume his core pos...

East.

Loot the tree.

East, because this path ended up suspiciously linear when Dicklong did it.

Besides the fact that Jon Snow is a derp in all ways...? I think he does a remarkable job, considering that he's seventeen . Fourteen in the books. I can see it being potentially annoying that he gets most people on his side with relative ease and has no determined opponents who aren't shown as tho...

1) game systems give a default narrative weight for PCs. The majority of players in a game will show up with that default expectation. what is the default narrative weight for 3rd edition dnd? "Pretty Cool Guy" for full casters, "Short Bus Cancer Patient" as written and "Pl...

Fabricate doesn't cost "practically nothing". It's very expensive. It's years of time to study iron working and spellcraft to be able to cast it at all. It's a pound of gold to get the wall of iron, it's an hour of work to prepare spells. Actually casting the spell is just six seconds, bu...

It's unprecedented generosity for a wizard to spend about 6 seconds and not a single permanent resource to shit out a Fabricate a day for the poor smallfolk Judging by the history of revolts against the abuses of the elite, in a situation where the wealthy are both more vulnerable to and more depen...

It's unprecedented generosity for a wizard to spend about 6 seconds and not a single permanent resource to shit out a Fabricate a day for the poor smallfolk who live pitiable lives and can never hope to threaten him? (Not counting whichever fraction of his 8 hours, 15 minutes delay that he has to do...

like warhammer is if WAS balance3d in anyway other than pet armies.. the dark angels as a whole are balanced against the chaos marines, not that each dark angels is equal to each chaos marine; but that if it was all out between the two each would have equal chance, and the "player choice"...

I vaguely recall that the exclusion title thing was thrown out the day we got the ignore button. I think he's free and clear to partake and on top of that he did do an excellent job calling LM out on his shit that he should be forgiven regardless of the legality of it. No the X stay out thing still...

It occurs to me that DoomRL seems to have a lot of boxes ticked in the way of anti-grinding due to its objective of being relatively small. You can't just let infinite monsters spawn for infinite XP (anymore), a finite number spawn at the start of each level and new summons (or Arch-Vile reanimation...

Kill the PC in a story, and very little changes. Kill the PC in a character-driven story, and the story gets downgraded to a basic story that sucks. No, kill the PC in a character-driven story, and the story is simply cut short, possibly causing fallout that leads to new stories. Of course the PCs ...

So I'll sum this one up: In RPGs, roles cannot be played if their primary ability is expert knowledge the player does not have. I would be inclined to narrow this to expert knowledge the player does not have that some player, somewhere, has a good reason to have . After all, part of the Archivist's...

Steel plate chest armour saw continuous use from about 1350 to 1918, was out of favour for a few decades, and is now back in composite chest armour. It's great stuff, and it totally stops arrows. Continuous use? I thought there was a period in the middle where armour technology simply wasn't capabl...