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- Tue Apr 14, 2020 8:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [High 5e] Odyssey of the Dragonlords
- Replies: 63
- Views: 18567
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:35 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [High 5e] Odyssey of the Dragonlords
- Replies: 63
- Views: 18567
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:50 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Explaining why Gloomhaven is not a substitute for an RPG?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3146
BTW, Eldritch Horror is an improvement on Arkham Horror as a boardgame. The Arkham Horror LCG is also quite good, although it is a money sink in the way that the board game is not, because you need to buy a new deck of cards for each individual scenario, rather than getting like six per expansion. ...
- Thu Oct 03, 2019 8:51 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5996
- Views: 1027483
- Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:35 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5996
- Views: 1027483
Random question: does anyone remember details about WotC's Setting Search back in 2002, or knows about a blog or something about it? Since Eberron has been officially announced as a 5E release, I'd love to get some background on that setting, but I haven't found anything beyond the most vague of des...
- Tue Aug 20, 2019 6:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cypher System fails
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3685
The larger question you might have is why WotC seems to be so chillaxed about former company employees selling ideas for real money that were obviously made while they were on the clock working for Wizards of the Coast. It's not just Monte Cook, several of their former employees have done this. -Us...
- Tue Aug 20, 2019 5:42 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cypher System fails
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3685
The chances of success are modified in your character's favor through skills, equipment and advantageous situations, if any. In addition, you can decide to apply Effort, which is like pushing yourself, which costs points from the related Pool (Might, Speed or Intellect), all of which combined also r...
- Mon Nov 19, 2018 9:19 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cypher System (Generic for Numenera) vs pathfinder?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3115
- Mon Sep 24, 2018 5:13 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Report Bugs Here!
- Replies: 429
- Views: 289651
When I try to access the The World of Future Darkness OSSR at http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=57149, I get this warning: https://abload.de/img/wtf6jdiw.jpg Win7x64 with all patches, Chrome Version 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit). It doesn't matter if I go as logged user or anonymous or usin...
- Wed Sep 05, 2018 9:37 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Numenera - Monte Cook's new thing
- Replies: 176
- Views: 55061
Is a shield-using Nano viable? I'm fine being stuck with either spells or weapons; if changing between the two is made impossible for mechanic/balance reasons. Absolutely. For some reason, a lot of people ignore shields - or the standard healing rules not based on special abilities - but they exist...
- Tue Sep 04, 2018 8:28 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Numenera - Monte Cook's new thing
- Replies: 176
- Views: 55061
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 7:27 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The appeal of players rolling saves
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2362
- Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:28 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: You Got Magic in my D&D!
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6039
- Fri Jul 20, 2018 12:59 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Delivering mail, hostels, and so on in medieval settings
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2946
- Mon May 07, 2018 8:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 5e D&D is Vaporware
- Replies: 618
- Views: 128609
On that note, is there a full 5E SRD released somewhere? I've found two, that only have (the same) partial material. I'd assumed only a fraction of their content released was open source, but I have no idea what sort of OGL they're running with, now. In short: No. There are the Basic Rules with onl...
- Tue Feb 20, 2018 10:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Borderlands RPG
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6916
Numenera... It's not about becoming Scrooge McDuck (the quintessential murderhobo btw), since the system is made so you can never have more than three magic items (not even in a bag). That is only true for the one-off random cyphers, 'real' artifacts (which would be something like BL2 guns and shie...
- Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:56 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Borderlands RPG
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6916
Numenera, or rather the Cypher System engine without the setting stuff, might be another contender. You could flavor a huge part of the Borderlands gear as cyphers, maybe raise the amount PCs are able to carry, and go nuts. Character options are sufficient to model any and all main characters from t...
- Fri Jan 05, 2018 9:18 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 429085
Adventurer Conqueror King looks pretty cool because, OSR wonkiness aside, they made rules for an adventurer economy (or an economy run by adventurers) and incorporated all the old advancement promises of castles, keeps, temples and guilds you could run or build. I haven't played or tested ACKS, but ...
- Thu Jan 04, 2018 7:24 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why is math so underrated?
- Replies: 234
- Views: 40346
Can the death of the RPG industry be reversed, as opposed to slowed down, by good design? Or is the tabletop medium simply unable to keep up in the long run? Not as long as crowdfunding is as popular as it is today. Between crazy overfunded projects from the likes of Monte Cook and the umpteenth sm...
- Thu Nov 30, 2017 9:26 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1746442
What I find mind-boggling is that they had to do this shit after the release. Again. UW has been announced, I dunno, like a year ago? What the heck have the authors and editors been doing in all that time? And that it's yet again a DEX-to-damage issue is... man, I don't even. This is just ridiculous.
- Tue Nov 21, 2017 7:41 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1746442
What would that be? There's a slayer with shadow images that comes to mind The Stygian Slayer? Combined with Sniper, that makes a decent combo for a ranged build. I'm not up to date on PF, or which archetypes are still good with alle the FAQs flying around, but I remember the Daring Champion archet...
- Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1746442
I honestly don't know what a 'wilderness system' would do. The basic idea seems to be that the players should have a way of buying their exploration success instead of wandering around aimlessly, but the way it's set up feels very artificial. If you gather enough points from decoding way signs or d...
- Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:35 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1746442
I don't care much about the Shifter, it was a safe bet from the beginning that this class would be shitty because the only times Paizo has ever managed to do martial classes without magics that don't utterly suck was when someone from the B-Team wrote an accidentally good archetype. What did disappo...
- Sat Oct 21, 2017 10:26 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5996
- Views: 1027483
The Slayer needs a few levels to become interesting, so at 2nd level the Ninja might be a more interesting choice. The Sniper archetype is very good for ranged builds, but at 2nd level you're missing the sneak attack dice for it's main feature to work. If the plan is to advance to higher levels, the...
- Fri Oct 13, 2017 8:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5996
- Views: 1027483
Eberron features a number of weird or magical types of wood, don't know which supplement they might be listed in, but there is some ranting about soarwood (?) being a vital component of the elemental airships (and at least two conflicting descriptions of its properties), and the the controlled expor...