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sake wrote:They also seemed to have decided that double weapons should be a 'trap' option inferior to dual welding in every way.

They're fine for whirling barbarians, who now get access to 2h-only attacks. The double sword is still a trap, though.

Prak_Anima wrote:what's Greenbound? I can't find it.

Lost Empires of Faerun.

Then I recommended Solid Fog for the wizard and pointed out that just about any D&D party is vulnerable to terrain + Save or Lose. I told him to be the guy to work that angle, especially for the cash prize and all. Well, for one, Solid Fog got nerfed into half movement instead of 5' movement. S...

Lago PARANOIA wrote:Did Pathfinder get rid of material components?

No, why? It just got rid of XP components.

Paizo's continuing with their PHB2...I mean, Advanced Players' Guide playtest, and one of the latest classes is completely baffling. Can someone read this and tell me what the fuck the alchemist is supposed to do? It's like Paizo looked at the warlock and said, "Hey, this is way too good. Let's...

Street fighter is an incredibly uninteresting game and you should feel like a bad person for citing it in any argument ever. This argument is bad and you should feel bad. There's a perfectly good argument against mentioning Street Fighter: people are not happy with mixing Eastern-style martial arts...

FrankTrollman wrote:Your PVP stats mean as much and no more than your stats versus Unicorns or Charmanders.

In most RPGs you're more likely to fight unicorns or Charmanders than other players.

You could also just list effects and note what kinds of creatures give those effects so it becomes less "I'm gonna go find a troll" and more "hey look, that thing's got regeneration!" or "Well, I slew an ettercap, so I can get an entangle effect" I'm just reminded of t...

well, look, we're talking about a world where big lizards fly and breath fire, statues get up and walk around, and floating bags of flesh turn you to stone because they're racist. If someone isn't magical in some way then they're really pretty fucking limited. I mean, it'd be like objecting to the ...

One way to keep fighters from equipping the party with monster parts is to use something from Godlike (a WW2 supers game). Characters with hyper intelligence could create gadgets, but the gadgets were the manifestation of their power so it really only works for them. Fighters could be special peopl...

Monster Hunter uses this premise of hunting big enemies and getting weapons suited to fighting that sort of enemy by using hides and fangs and whatnot. Monster Hunter is also a game where all the characters are essentially fighters, and enemies are generally designed so that fighting the tier 1 boss...

If you just want a list of go-to druid spells dumpster-dived from pretty much everywhere, I wrote one a while back.

Seriously, a Monster manual that only has a 1/3rd of the entire book any good like living graveyards and yakfolk is still considered a good Monster Manual. I'd argue that bad stuff in a Monster Manual is even more poisonous than bad stuff anywhere else. Once I've found one TPK-in-a-box, then the wh...

I'm also kind of curious about MMII. I've always found MMII to be a near-unusable book full of oops-you-all-died monsters, with basic stats ranging all over the place without regard for CR. There's the caster level < CR creatures like elemental weirds and sylphs and spellweavers, creatures like the ...

Honestly, if someone thinks it's somehow too complicated to say "I use twin strike" over "I hit it with my sword again," this forum is not likely to be their cup of tea, because designing games for those people is boring. Interesting games, RPGs included, ought to involve strate...

Not to be nitpicky, but in what sense is the Miniatures Handbook a 3.0 book? It was released about five three months after the 3.5 PHB and used the 3.5 rules throughout. It also had some neat ideas like the aspects of the gods as versions of the gods that you can actually beat up without using the n...