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- Sun Jan 09, 2011 4:19 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: RPG bloat...
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6104
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 2:10 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: defining high level
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2587
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 1:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: 3e Diplomacy.
- Replies: 40
- Views: 8134
Charm Person makes people friendly, that's the actual rules, changes attitude to friendly. Boy have I ever had that argument before. RTFM. Friendly folk in terms of the attitude rules are not like Charmed people at all. No opposed Cha checks to give orders, and even charmed critters resist things t...
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 12:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The reason why fighters will never have nice things.
- Replies: 773
- Views: 125365
But the fact is if you can fly and the opponent can't then the fight is already decided. Missile weapons. Things on the ground you care about. Hard cover. Concealment. Sure, on the plains of Hungary winged archers are even better than long range artillery, which was better than horse archers, but c...
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 12:05 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Fixing the Fantasy of Fantasy Gaming
- Replies: 362
- Views: 54076
- Sat Jan 08, 2011 11:11 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Africa and fiction
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3392
- Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:54 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Mechanic Round-up: Positioning in Games without Positioning
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4780
A simple example: two parties, a single room. One side has a couple of grunts and an archer and the other has a wizard and his bodyguards. The bodyguards are trying to hold the gate to the wizard can complete his spell. Can they block others from going past them? Can they block line of sight for th...
- Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: 3e Diplomacy.
- Replies: 40
- Views: 8134
- Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Requesting suggestions on making LotR work with 3.5/PF
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4964
E6, more items (magic boots, magic cloak, magic light, magic swords, magic armour, magic clasp, magic food, magic permanent bigness, magic scrying, magic boats, a magic horse, magic rings, magic staves, magic, magic, magic). Oh, and E6 handles up to about single CR 13 foes according to the author, y...
- Fri Jan 07, 2011 1:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The reason why fighters will never have nice things.
- Replies: 773
- Views: 125365
Low level: Ride a magnificent destrier, command vicious hounds, fight ten men. Save the town, rescue the Sheriff's men, have truck with the Barkeep's daughter. Mid level: Ride a flying ship, command fire and ice, fight a pack of trolls. Save the barony and push it's boundaries, rescue the Princess B...
- Thu Jan 06, 2011 1:24 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Mechanic Round-up: Positioning in Games without Positioning
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4780
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:45 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The reason why fighters will never have nice things.
- Replies: 773
- Views: 125365
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The reason why fighters will never have nice things.
- Replies: 773
- Views: 125365
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:31 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 3.5 Regeneration and Fast Healing
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4043
I've seen a troll get back up in the game precisely once, as the PCs ran away from the other trolls. The monk took the time to zip around, put it down again, and set it on fire as they continued to run away. Comedy central. So I don't think it matters. Either you control the field and they die prope...
- Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 3.5 Regeneration and Fast Healing
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4043
Isn't the point of regeneration that the monster isn't really dead when you kill it? Anyhoo, if you're making Fire Resistance into half damage with a small buffer, make trolls take double damage from Fire and Acid, and have DR 5/Fire or Acid, like they have resistance to everything else, but without...
- Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:02 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The reason why fighters will never have nice things.
- Replies: 773
- Views: 125365
- Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:04 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The reason why fighters will never have nice things.
- Replies: 773
- Views: 125365
I was noting the intense resistance that grognards have towards abandoning the conceit of '20 level Vanilla Action Heroes'. Speaking as a bit of a grognard, I think that's bullshit. In the old editions, you get to the realm of Lloth by swording a horde of 20' tall fire giants, their pets, and then ...
- Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:50 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Games for reactive PCs
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3589
http://www.squaremans.com/?p=19
I don't know if these boards have kicked that around before, search says no. It's far better than I could ever say on this topic. Up a tree is where they need to be.
I don't know if these boards have kicked that around before, search says no. It's far better than I could ever say on this topic. Up a tree is where they need to be.
- Sat Dec 25, 2010 11:02 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: DC's New RPG Outline
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4110
Re: DC's New RPG Outline
-Do I want some defenses to be rolled, or all of them to be passive? You should always get a usable defence on the character sheet. Things that drain HPs the attacker can roll, because you can have more HP, and are busy doing subtraction anyway. Things that impose conditions on you, you get to roll...
- Fri Dec 24, 2010 12:50 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How Spell Durations Should Work in 3e
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6784
- Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:22 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: T4E – The Five (Six) Roles
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2640
- Fri Dec 17, 2010 2:03 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Instead of charges....
- Replies: 73
- Views: 10633
NB: the proper price of a wand with 2% failure is the same as a wand with 25.5 charges left, as that matches the expected value over time with a base 50 charge wand (which is the mean number of uses remaining in all 2% failure wands). NB2: discovered wands have less than 50 charges, so you should pr...
- Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Roles - Do they serve a purpose?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3653
Why 4e roles are bad. Striker: I hit you. Defender: You hit me. Leader: You hit him. Controller: You don't hit him. X hits Y, or doesn't. No real depth there, and everyone overlaps anyway. Try a selection from something like ... A gets you there, B sets them up, C knocks them down, D cleans up the m...
- Wed Dec 15, 2010 12:56 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Class Compression
- Replies: 77
- Views: 16030
- Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:58 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why advancement and XP?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5016
Re: Why advancement and XP?
So I've been thinking about this a lot: why wait to play the character you wanted to play? Not what I'm doing. Starting with a guy, a little like me only fucking awesome, having trouble with Orcs and less trouble with Kobolds. Becoming a guy not at all like me, who counts Orcs he's killed by the sc...