Maxus wrote:I'm enjoying it because one reason I stopped playing for a while was consistently horrible luck with the dice.
Sorry, I don't follow.
Maxus wrote:That and the group had slowly gotten...weird. Half of them were all "YEEEEAH PATHFINDER"
The rest of the Internet seems pretty happy with it, so I guess it's understandable to buy into the hype, as it sounds like Paizo is the savior of 3rd edition or whatever. Don't get why it would interrupt the flow of a game though, unless they kept bringing it up while questing.
Maxus wrote:and the other half decided that D&D was the worst game in the world. One of them would literally hold forth for ten minutes on "No matter what it is, there's a game which does it better than D&D".
Seems kinda odd to declare this after agreeing to play D&D. Was it their first time playing? If they weren't having fun they should have talked about what wasn't working for them or left instead of ruining it for everyone else.
name_here wrote:Yeah, in GammaWorld you roll for d4 physical and mental mutations, and mr. "Half the X-men" got four of each, all positive.
Huh, didn't realize "Half the X-men" was one guy. I thought you meant that your party had a large amount of X-men inspired characters.
Seeing as I'm in that game, I'm going to help clarify.
radthemad4 wrote:
Maxus wrote:I'm enjoying it because one reason I stopped playing for a while was consistently horrible luck with the dice.
Sorry, I don't follow.
I believe Maxus had stopped gaming in general because of dice, got back into it for this game, and the dice have not fucked him in this game - which surprises me, because the dicebot, Yuffie*, is a total [EDITED].
(Similarly, the "We love Pathfinder" and "We hate D&D" and everything would, I assume, be Maxus' old group, not the people with whom he is currently playing.)
*Yes, named after the Yuffie of FF7. It should be no surprise.
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
Thanks, Koumei. I just got in from an afternoon out.
Rad: Koumei's got it right, but if you want to hear it from me.
I gave up the old group because of these three reasons.
1) Scheduling
2) Some folks suddenly deciding ennui was awesome and D&D was now too mainstream
3) Pathfinder coming out and some wanting to give our hearts and souls over to the New True Faith.
And just didn't worry about finding a new group for a while.
As for the dice, yes, I had really horrible luck in the old group. Like, I was semi-legendary.
My go-to example: I played a level 2 character who had a +7 attack bonus. +2 BAB, +4 Dex bonus (rolled a 17 and got a +2 from racial, using a rapier), +1 masterwork weapon bonus.
I hit once in about five or six rounds of combat, against something with 19 AC. And didn't go down because of my character's unmentioned class feature: Aura of Suck, which made opponents roll as crappy as I did.
I could call this an isolated incident, but shit like that happened to me all the time except for two areas: Initiative and HP rolls. If I rolled a d8 for HP, I was going to get a 6 or above, on an online dice-roller, and my characters were consistently in the first two to move because all of a sudden I rolled 17s and the like.
But for attack and damage and saves and skills? Yeeeup, I was lucky to get above a 10 on a d20. I maybe could have preserved a natural RNG if we just doubled my rolls.
It's been a breath of fresh air to play a weekly game where my character contributes something other than meatshielding. He's even managed to look awesome a couple of times by a couple of criticals or consistent hitting or something.
Whereas Koumei is a martyr to the 1-5 section of a d20, because Yuffie is a [EDITED].
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
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That sucks. Some sort of anti bad roll mechanism like this one would be cool (though that one's impractical for D&D at least as success probability depends on too many things. A +3 (capped at 20 so it's roughly equivalent to a reroll) to the next roll for every failed roll might be viable, but seems ripe for abuse, e.g. attempting impossible things several turns in a row to achieve something that's just highly improbable, while only doing this for the same action will discourage people from trying different tactics. Hmm, but if you're using a dice bot, one could be programmed to shift the odds of a roll in your favor whenever your rolls are bad.
I'm just not using Yuffie any more and rolling my actual real physical dice, which has the benefits of not using a dodgy RNG, being faster to resolve because you can roll all your dice in one go, and also "it puts the dice to use". When you have over 300 of them, you really should use them.
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
