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Does there really need to be a Cleric and a Paladin in core? Isn't that too much overlap? I would have a hard time describing the difference to somebody without talking mechanics.

THIS IS FUCKING DUMB. Anyways, if I want to play L&D, what game should I play? Keep in mind, I don't want the kingdom to be my character. I want to be Steven, the ruler of the Fire Kingdom in the Celestial plans, who can punch people so hard they go back in time. I recently got in a fist fight t...

There's just no fucking comparison when it comes to how much agency the players have in this scenario. -Username17 3e has more player agency than 4e. OK neato I agree. But does 3e have enough to play L&D? The stone stairs situation is tame compared to the shit I see people come up with about st...

I have a question for ya'll. This forum rails mother-may-I and MTP and DM fiat stuff all the time. But the Logistics and Dragons is plagued by these problems!! There aren't enough rules to know what implications of your logistics, its entirely DM fiat. What's the difference? Is it because its okay t...

Maybe I'm blind but is there a central location for the rules or do I need to dive through that thread?

OgreBattle wrote:Tarrasque seems to be smaller than a blue whale in length and weight.

Yeah but blue whales don't stand up.

I'm just saying you can't bring her to a beach or river or something.

I just walk to another town, more than happy for Big T to demolish this one. Walk at less than half speed even. What sort of creature can't move the length of itself in 6 seconds? I don't even understand how a 70ft creature can only move 20ft. That's like, the human equivalent of taking a single st...

If you want a good Tarrasque, you make it a campaign to defeat it, not a monster that you roll attacks against. This means gathering allies, finding the anti-Tarrasque MacGuffin, getting help from gods, protecting the city... Its like Lady of Pain right? If you give it a stat block, you've already f...

Somewhat borderline whether this is a game question, but it didn't seem worth a new thread of its own. Who is the most powerful magic-user people can name from a source older than 1970? This can include gods, as long as they are "people" like the Greek or Norse gods and not just big beard...

One of the many other problems with basing abilities on HD is that they are totally disconnect from ingame power. Mooks aren't mooks if you don't think they're mooks. And a level 4 party shouldn't treat a Pixie as a mook if it's CR appropriate either.

IMO It's not a class that deserves to exist. Use one of the other classes and say it likes dragons.

I finished Lord Of Light if anyone cares. That was fantastic. I'd like to bump Lago's question because the only responses were examples of things that did not qualify. So. What D&D or D&D-inspired viderojames have actually had epic-level campaigns/gameplay (or at least something that approac...

I guess the conversation's what on but what's everyones favourite epic monster? Xixecal http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/EPIC_Gallery/Gallery5a/44168_C5_Xixecal.jpg Dragons live on it, permanent winter surrounding it, CL 36 Blasphemy at will, immunity to nearly everything, absurd regen + fasting h...

When we recount our totally insane experiences the thing we come back to over and over is that our game was ONLY 13th level. D&D is totally insane and high level play done "right" looks like almost no stories I've ever seen. However Roger Zelazny's brilliant "Creatures of Light a...

The problem I've always had with Epic (or even 17th+ level) campaigns is that it's totally unclear what power level you should be operating at, even thematically. So even putting the borked rules aside, I don't even know what a "reasonable" character looks like. For example, a 20th level ...

You throw it after counting to three, no more, no less, three shall be the number thou shall count and the number shall be there. Four is not the number thy shall count nor two unless on the way to three, five is right out.

Source: Armaments ch 9-21

+1 @ fiat group level ups

It does cause problems though. We tended to just ignore XP costs unless they were really bad then we'd just have the person who used them a permanent level behind. Which obviously is stupid.

The rules as written can be used to played without alteration. I thought this was obvious in the context of Prak's post. Except "rules as written" is a very troublesome phrase. Clearly there are people who play 4E without (knowingly) altering the rules. Is somebody who doesn't penalize Mo...

In the case of the Ur-Priest, the text says, "To determine the caster level of an ur-priest, add the character's ur-priest levels to one-half of his levels in other spellcasting classes." Just as before, the contextual restriction to "caster level" is set by the first instance o...

Not that it deserves disqualification (as if that means anything to begin with!) but it does seem to break the spirit and the 'gentlemen's rule' to 'be reasonable' if that's what others are posting.

Because you bothered with the Psicarnum stuff you might be interested in these:

Dragon Magic

The Dragon Magazine is neato because AFAIK its one of the very few ways to get the swarm sub-type without Polymorph shit.

In what way did it violate the spirit? I'm not expecting a good reason but I assume its better than, "he beat us." Did other people post inane standard Rogue 20 builds?

Josh_Kablack wrote:It was a neat little diversion with a really appealing ancient era art style, but it just happened to completely invalidate a lot of the setting's history which had been established by the first series..

Like what? Am I missing something obvious here?

Hi! I was the brand manager for Dungeons & Dragons and the VP of Tabletop RPGs at Wizards of the Coast from 1998 to 2000. I can answer this question. There were plans to do a Magic RPG and several iterations of such a game were developed at various times. After Wizards of the Coast bought TSR, ...

tussock wrote:"Enjoy" the ignorant anachronisms that are hurting your games.

This is literally the stupidest thing I've ever read on Den.