The Gaming Den

zugschef wrote:It's amazing how much better this thread is looking if you set Zak to ignore.

Outside of his annoying writing style he's been maybe the most sensible person in the thread outside of Fuchs.

Haha, I forgot how much of a fucking mess this board is. You're a real trooper for hanging around for 17 pages Zak.

I need to get more used to working with Excel, since the graphing on it is pretty helpful. I've been trying to get a better understanding of statistics and analysis on this regard, especially when attempting to make suggestions and discussing mechanics on some homebrew additions to games, and amateu...

Most time I see Factotum mentioned on other boards it's been in the context of gestalt builds ( I honestly don't even know what gestalt variant is).

Fist of the North Star or One Piece or something like that would be fine tossed in as weaboo fightan magic. I think part of the 90s hatred came from DBZ still being the most known fighting anime and it devolved into spamming blue and yellow beams back and forth.

Evasion stat: (SPD/10 + appropriate DEF/5).

Actually, it's SPD/10 OR appropriate Def/5, whichever is higher, except on non-damaging moves where only SPD applies.

RobbyPants wrote:When you say "Greyhawking", does that refer to plundering every last bit of wealth? That's what I'm gathering from context.

Yeah. Plunder everything that isn't nailed down, then take everything nailed down, then take the nails out of the walls, then take the walls.

But really, it could be that the necrotic aura of the Hammer of Lost Souls is able to effect you even though a timely duck sent it over your head instead of through it. I don't see how you invalidated anything, you just need me to change my description some. By this explanation, if you narrowly dod...

Well, there's still baseline DCs for shit like "climbing a wall" based on if it's rough or even, etc. It's when the DM tries to turn skill checks into skill challenge encounters that things start falling apart.

One 4e question though since I only really played campaigns up to early Paragon levels. Does the amount of situational and short term roll modifiers continue to stack up? It tended to get annoying sometimes on our drunken game nights to keep constant track of all the situational +/- X die modifiers ...

Daily martial powers is a bigger player vs character disconnect than anything core in 3.5, and your athlete analogy fits at best a WoF mechanic, not a "1/day, but exactly when you choose to use it" mechanic in terms of the player/character connection.

The problem is that while you can go anywhere, you don't know where your customers are. There's no interdimensional craigslist that exists for selling/buying magic items. Yeah you can go randomly jumping around asking questions, but chances are the majority of your time will be looking for potentia...

A high level wizard can travel extensively among the infinite planes and find infinite customers of whatever. He can also planeshift to Celestia and pick up buckets of gems from the ground. He's not going to make any high value items unless commissioned by someone that seeks him out specifically, an...

Old topic but I figured bumping something on the second page to ask this would still be better than making a new topic.

Are the new classes and rebalancings in the tomes based around the suggested 4 encounter/day in the core books, or around the 15 minute workday?

SKR also practically admitted that PF has mechanical trap options that flat out make you weaker for the sake of roleplaying. Personally, it's hard for me to get worked up about "trap" options. But that's probably because the number of times I've seen a player unknowingly take a "trap...

Well the VoP thread is dead, but Erik Mona closed it with a conciliatory gesture ... maybe there is some hope for them yet. SKR is still getting into it with the forum trolls over Vow of Poverty, so I doubt it. SKR also practically admitted that PF has mechanical trap options that flat out make you...

Novembermike wrote:Random disposition charts are a tool for DMs who don't have the character already generated.

And also a tool to help DMs keep things unpredictable and keep longer campaigns from getting stale.

Was there an actual 3.5 stronghold builder's guide, or just a 3.0 one?

Plebian wrote: yeah I think we all know 1E AD&D was a pile of steaming shit you don't have to point it out so relentlessly

Ah, so 1E really is just like 4E!

I just hate when people assume that once the Wizard can scry and teleport, but the BBEG's don't have defenses against it, and that those defenses can get creative as well. Need to rescue the Princess from the BBEG's castle, so you just teleport into her cell to grab her? Oh oops, the BBEG set up con...

So basically there's no reason for DnD's system to even exist. It's unneeded for out of combat roleplaying, and the system is broken in combat unless the casters aren't allowed to use their more effective spell combos or no one plays fighter classes.

hogarth wrote:By the way, apropos of the "My Little Pony" talk recently, there's this:

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?569 ... hell-Paizo

Not sure why people are claiming it's an April Fool's Joke when it was done almost a week ago on an MLP fansite.

Having your characters be pre-designed to work together and having a perfectly cooperative party is boring to RP anyway. Inter-party conflict is fun, and far more so when the scale of balance between classes isn't horribly skewed. Inter-party conflict is one thing, but when it requires the characte...

Making decisions based on how the character would react instead of purely how it benefits the player, letting the character develop and grow based on current events, interacting with other PCs as well in NPCs in a way that's consistent with the character's views and personality.

Having your characters be pre-designed to work together and having a perfectly cooperative party is boring to RP anyway. Inter-party conflict is fun, and far more so when the scale of balance between classes isn't horribly skewed.