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- Wed Mar 06, 2013 2:42 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Automatic Success and Failure on a natural 20 and 1
- Replies: 85
- Views: 10896
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...
- Wed Mar 06, 2013 2:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How everyone but LM has D&D tiers wrong
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12728
My Skype group sort of had an origin story session last, er, session. After taking advice in spoiler-free terms the person GMing this particular campaign had got us to agree to give him one free session that would be considered a one-shot for commitment purposes, because his premise depended on us n...
- Tue Mar 05, 2013 4:36 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Automatic Success and Failure on a natural 20 and 1
- Replies: 85
- Views: 10896
Well, it stops people from going totally off the RNG. I guess that's an advantage. No, it just changes what the meaning of going off the RNG is. Adding more AC or To-hit doesn't change anything, because you're off the RNG. The fact that you still have a 5% chance of hitting or a 5% chance of missin...
- Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Master Race's Handbook
- Replies: 240
- Views: 91820
- Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:20 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR [Spin-off]: Good
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12951
- Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:03 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Sidestepping Multiclass Requests
- Replies: 112
- Views: 17101
But my cleric has 8 Wisdom and can't cast any spells. OMG TRAP OPTION!!! I disagree, I don't consider metamagic feats an option for someone who can't cast spells in the first place. Which is why I pointed out that bad options aren't options. I don't know what to tell you. If you look at something a...
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 4:41 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: MTP, Original Content
- Replies: 112
- Views: 21024
pred preh If all you're saying is that it is impossible for WBL to be the literal truth at all possible points in time, I concede 100%. Get me another barrel, this one's split. Can someone link to the mechanics that are apparently unsalvageable because WBL can't be a strict law of reality rather th...
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:29 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: MTP, Original Content
- Replies: 112
- Views: 21024
Basically, PhoneLobster is unironically suggesting the 4e model where you can't rob peddlers and when you stab grizzly bears, gold pops out. This is an unavoidable conclusion of attempting to hard code wealth by level. Actions and adventures which by all rights and logic should give much more than ...
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 1:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: MTP, Original Content
- Replies: 112
- Views: 21024
Your inability to make a point without putting a word in ALL CAPS and frothing with bile is not endearing, PL, not even after 4 years of Den lurking. Unless you strictly enforce a correlation between wealth and power, I do. That was in fact very specifically what Frank was complaining about. The wea...
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: MTP, Original Content
- Replies: 112
- Views: 21024
It should be ... WHY? It is just as easy to argue that it should be HARDER to humiliate the peasant than kill him or get an investment off a banker. It is just as easy to argue that it would be easier to convince scrooge to die than give up a dollar. These are fucking subjective MTP realism argumen...
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: MTP, Original Content
- Replies: 112
- Views: 21024
- Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:40 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Shitty character concepts need to die
- Replies: 559
- Views: 64484
- Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:20 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Shitty character concepts need to die
- Replies: 559
- Views: 64484
...I started posting this before remembering who I'm replying to. Have you forgotten that you, yourself insisted that Beowulf is a pretty low-level character? Also Beowulf held his breath for one hell of a lot longer than an hour; they started tracking Grendel's mother during the night, found her la...
- Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:58 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: MTP, Original Content
- Replies: 112
- Views: 21024
Or indeed lean on the wall such that if it's there, it's there, and if it's not you can catch yourself before you fall over. I just had this image of someone running into a wall that had been illusion'd up somewhere where they couldn't see the actual conjuration, or illusion'd up such that it looked...
- Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:56 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: MTP, Original Content
- Replies: 112
- Views: 21024
Shadowrun illusions get a bit complicated when you start taking into account touch illusions, for example, if I make a realistic illusory wall and you don't resist it what happens if you try to run through it? Presumably, you go through that time, and get a metagaming penalty if you don't have a ha...
- Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:25 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: MTP, Original Content
- Replies: 112
- Views: 21024
Re: MTP, Original Content
MTP makes illusions unplayable, and Shadowrun is no exception with it's slightly better save mechanic. Every important aspect is answered by MTP. Can I make an illusion so scary that it ends the encounter? MTP . Can I make something so attractive that is makes someone walk forward, or ignores peopl...
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 11:09 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Shitty character concepts need to die
- Replies: 559
- Views: 64484
- Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Fixing multiple discrete attacks per turn.
- Replies: 54
- Views: 7943
I have a slightly off-topic question. What would be the effects of just having people increase damage instead of extra attacks? To give an example, when your BaB hit +6, instead of getting a second attack at +1, what about just doubling the damage (for example, 1d8+7 becomes 2d8+14, then at +11 you...
- Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:12 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Shitty character concepts need to die
- Replies: 559
- Views: 64484
- Wed Dec 19, 2012 2:13 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: D&D 5.Grek WiP stuff
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1706
Re: D&D 5.Grek WiP stuff
objection, the progression of number of actual usable powers for a person sticking to one class is O(n^2) not O(<whatever>^n).Grek wrote:-Prestige classes give you 1 to 2 powers per level instead of exponential powers per level like the base classes do.
- Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:52 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: De canistro textrinum
- Replies: 983
- Views: 83261
The point of using a different name is not so that the PCs can use metagame knowledge, but so that they know they don't have any. Kaelik might be really good at it, but I (and given how skeptical Fuchs was, probably Fuchs too) must expend some cognitive resources to throw away ideas that rely on me...
- Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:17 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Social Combat
- Replies: 178
- Views: 18874
Letsee... You seem dangerous lets fight -> Agreed! No social combat occurs. Situation resolved. You seem dangerous -> Wait, No I'm Not -> Agreed! No social combat occurs. Situation resolved. You've already failed. If you can meet the Myconids and convince them to stop being wary of you without roll...
- Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:33 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Things you can do with a +5000 to your skill, attack, or sav
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6949
Relevant to the thread? NSFW
- Mon Sep 24, 2012 7:05 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: TTRPGs should punish people who play DMFs.
- Replies: 271
- Views: 29195
- Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: D&D 2nd edition.
- Replies: 106
- Views: 41548
Exactly. If a dungeon isn't big enough to get a horse into, it's most definitely too small to have a dragon inside. And if there's no dragons inside the dungeon, why bother with it? The dragon's entrance could be in the ceiling, along a route that can only be flown, not ridden by a ground bound mou...