hogarth wrote:
I certainly agree that if Lago created his own game, it would be an unplayable, unmarketable loaf of shit (more so than 4E D&D).
No one brought up ANYTHING about me designing my own RPG but you just had to get in your little sneaky, passive-aggressive, mewling little puss punch in there, didn't you?
Or if you are going to resort to this type of (micro)penis waving, you could at least provide a sliver of an example. Like 'Lago's idea on multiclassing are dumb' or 'Lago loves sucking the cock of ease of play in order to fish for audiences that aren't there'.
You do this cowardly shit all of the time, hogarth and it's annoying as fuck.
Psychic Robot wrote:
Elaborate, please.
The cleric class is a goddamn mess. While it was (and in some respects still is) very powerful, it's also really fragile. The class design, like all PHB originals, is all over the place and the fact remains that while the cleric has some very strong powers, for the most part the class is a turkey. It's split down the middle (though not as badly as the paladin or the warlock), has schticks that don't synergize, and the strength of its powers are all over the map.
This could have been fixed very easily if they just gave the more abusive cleric powers (righteous brand, consecrated ground, etc.) a well-deserved nerf... but the FLIP side to that is that they needed to show the class some love. But in the Dragon articles, the cleric is the most persistently shat-upon of the PHB originals. The powers published, with perhaps one or two, were too few and too unhelpful. So when the inevitable nerf came, the cleric (especially the Razor Cleric) was left holding the bag.
It was about at THIS time the people designing the PHB3 realized that they had run out of ideas. This is why you had useless concepts like the Battlemind and the Seeker. So they went, 'hey, you know what would be nice? If we published a divine healer frontliner class that doesn't suck!' and we have the warpriest. The problem is that A) this is a direct thumb in the eye to all of the Razor Cleric players beforehand, to have a class that was 'just the same, but better' and B) the warpriest didn't have enough good powers at the onset to justify its existence. While the chassis is very, very solid the powers are turkeys. So we got two underpowered classes when we used to have one marginally-overpowered class because WotC decided that people were morons who would buy fixes just because they said it was fixed. But given the very existence of Essentials, is anyone surprised?
Krakatoa wrote:I don't care whether Lago likes anything I like or not, I was just demonstrating that he exhibits a ridiculous know-it-all attitude, as if he knows more about DnD than the people who designed it.
You don't need to be a physician to tell someone that their leg is broken. Obvious flaws don't need any special kind of expertise to be pointed out. I personally think that it's more arrogant to go 'you weren't there, how would you know?!' or 'where's YOUR RPG?', like you need special training to point out that the Emperor Has No Clothes.
