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You're honestly going to tell me someone can mistake Frank's writing style for yours? Dude, Frank has one of the most recognizable styles on the net. I identified it by writing style. I had to look up the threads after my suspicion was raised. It was the writing style. That means you HAD to have cu...

All three of the above posters identified Frank's work word for word without any reference to him. Oddly enough, Frank Trollman is the only one that did not feel this was a problem. Lovely, care to point it out to me so I can identify it? Again, if you were telling the truth, then it would be a sim...

Caedrus, you don't find it odd at all that at least three separate people took a look at your work and said, "Hey! That's Frank's! Where's your citation?" You don't find that odd at all? I'm not aware of these "at least three seperate people," nor what work you're referring to b...

Caedrus, just letting you know that you are coming off as a complete d-bag. This may be partly related to your countering of logical arguments with emotional ones. Yeah, I'm a douchebag because I get angry at someone wrongly accusing me of simply copy-pasting all my hard work from another source. W...

No, I'm not. Caedrus' material contains more than a little bit of stuff I wrote,lifted whole sale. Or at least it did last time I checked. Someone appointed themselves a whistleblower and granted me the opportunity to look in on his secret project asking if I recognized the material and if I wanted...

I think Frank was thinking of someone else - I recall that someone had been found to be ripping stuff wholesale to use in their online revision thing, just making basic changes. I think it was a Bugbear or something. Like, had "Bugbear" in the name. Otto the Bugbear. His Fighter was just ...

I've always strongly believed in admitting when you're wrong, and I screwed up, albeit minorly. Arioch, you never offended me, I just kinda always talk like that. I actually made a mistake, though, with the bad advice jab; somehow, I managed to misread your name. Somehow, my insomnia-addled brain (y...

He's talking about the bit on Sentient Items in Book of Gears. To summarize: 1) A sentient item has levels in Wizard/Sorceror, and Int, Wis, and Cha scores. It also serves as a cohort. 2) It also takes up an item slot. Ah... I never actually read past Races of War. I should probably check that out ...

Hmm...not sure how it's broken compared to Leadership. Well, yeah, but that's because Leadership itself is overpowered. Seriously, how many feats give you that kind of power? Remember, if you play tome, your cohort acts as one of your magic items. It's not that much of a limiter but it's something....

Psychic Robot wrote:Frank: I suggested this. Is that sort of what you're thinking of?

I find it laughable and extremely depressing at the same time that Jason Buhlman finds a giant bat "unknowable."

Flying, horned, rideable mammal. Oh noes.

Talisman wrote:Hmm...not sure how it's broken compared to Leadership.

Well, yeah, but that's because Leadership itself is overpowered. Seriously, how many feats give you that kind of power?

Except that Familiars are a liability. Last time I used one (when I was an Unseen Seer), my familiar gave me extra actions using my casting stats, had skills like a Rogue of our level, and made regular use of UMD, and shared all the benefits of my buffs. And he was always hanging out warded and inv...

Leress wrote:Who the fuck gets alertness?

People with familiars! It's free.

If something's going to trigger off of misses, it needs to have some sort of limiting factor, like "expend an immediate action." Otherwise, as others have said, it becomes a bag of rats trick. As to the monsters suggestion, that's what I basically say to my players when they tell me they w...

I don't actually think that role protection is even possible in a tabletop game. I mean, people can point to a Rogue being unable to kill an undead or construct, but the Rogue can bypass those same things with Hide. A magic user might not have the right spell for a puzzle monster, but if he can tel...

What was the first and second edition scale of hit points, incidentally? IIRC, it was: *Roll for them at every level. None of this "max at first level" stuff. *Con barely helped at all (as was typical for stats back then) *At a certain level, you start getting a (small) fixed number or ju...

Go back to the first and second edition scale of hit points, and the system is largely functional again. What was the first and second edition scale of hit points, incidentally? Making a new spell depends entirely on your DM. Oh snap is it fallacy time? You're joking right? You think that "hou...

K wrote:3. 4e allows for free form RP!

Pssh, Magic: The Gathering allows Freeform RP. *Everything* allows Freeform RP. The goal is to make something that supports and facilitates RP, not just allows it. That's not a benefit of a system at all.

I don't understand why you need to have more ancient kingdoms and shit to tell new stories. People write any number of books about the wild west, and a whole lot of them take place in Dodge City or San Antonio. And none of them need to create extra Shade kingdoms of ever more powerful lizard people...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I just can't lend much of any credence to a tier discussion that doesn't outline some sensible criteria for defining its tiers. Last I checked, Jaron's list didn't have that. Honestly, in half the cases, other build choices are going to have at least as mu...

It's worse than that I've seen WOTC class board fixes that were better than the Pathfinder's Fighter. Likewise. My comment was just that it seems like it's in that 10-a-day ballpark that no one ever cared about. How come people suddenly care when Jason Buhlman puts his name on this crap? If I had p...

So let's see... one's already far weaker than the other, and got worse while the other got better. More Paizo Fail. What constantly amazes me is that it doesn't matter what these designers do (be it WotC or Paizo or White Wolf or whatever), they will always have these idiots denying basic reality o...

I have genuinely never understood why so much ink gets spilled over Level 20 abilities. They will probably show up in one game that you ever play in your whole life and only for the tail end of one adventure and not to any consequence. Heck, someone could get an army of the dead capable of conqueri...

Frank, are you thinking combat rounds are 12 seconds too? I assume so. That makes for rather long rounds IMO. Actually, I came to roughly the same conclusion a while ago for my own rewrite. One of the first things I did was look up a bunch of interesting fight videos (as well as chases and other th...

As far as size-based bonuses: in the real world, bugger things are stronger. Indeed, bugs (the buggest things ever, AFAIK) are pretty strong. : P Just a random educational nitpick: This is actually kinda a myth born of a misconception. The reason bugs are "stronger" and big things are &qu...