The Gaming Den

Oh goody, I've always wanted to lose my identity and join a cult. So are we going to do a big mad suicide or something, or are we one of those loser cults?

I have an irrational love of anime, which is to say that I probably would watch anything if it was drawn by the Japanese. Here are a couple of my favorites.[br][br]Slayers[br][br]You almost have to have heard of this. Follow Lina Inverse, a hyperactive mage with the power of a lesser god as she deto...

Gah, I just read that ritual spellcasting crap. I thought it was going to be over when nightmarex swore to drop out because he was "tired of repeating himself," but then he comes back to call another poster a drama queen.

I'd like to thank leress for the spoonyexperiment link. I think listening to the review of final fantasy 8 has allowed me to get over the trauma that game caused me and that now the healing can really begin.

The real labor shortage that should exist in shadowrun is mages. The awakened are like 5 percent of the population or something. Even if every mage has nothing better to do than guard duty for the corporations, there still aren't enough to go around.[br][br]As for skilled labor, we always played tha...

I lurked around the WoW forums when I was trying to decide if I wanted to buy WoW. The only thing I really noticed was the fact that every class had a board full of people bemoaning the fact that they were the most underpowered class and that Blizzard was clearly prejudiced against them.

I always find myself surprised that the supreme court doesn't suffer a series of lethal accidents and diseases every time someone new comes to power. They are old and they are lawyers so they probably do not take care of themselves. It would not be that suspicious if four of them kicked off over the...

Losing your class features - It is not fun to suddenly be an npc class. At no point should a character have levels in an Ex-whatever class.

Hey_I_Can_Chan wrote:So sayeth Moore and Gibbons's The Watchmen.

Man, I just read that for the first time on Monday. Great stuff.

[br] You just walk around town with impunity because even if the entire cityguard comes out to arrest you for that barbrawl you just had where you massacred every participant, you will instantly butcher the lot of them and go about your marry way. [br][br]The thing is, a level 10 party is really a C...

In one game we stopped rolling damage and just used the average (rounded down). It really helped when we were fighting a tiger or something with five natural attacks, both in that the game went quicker and there was less of a chance that a closet troll could do enough damage to kill absolutely anyth...

Now I feel like I should look up Icelandic law.

[br] As for CR and LA adjustments, facing something with *double* base hitpoints should be not more than CR+2. CR+2 is reserved for actually having two of something. Sure, it's got some fancy moves, and an extra HD, but CR+1 is probably right on. [br][br]Good point. I was also actually thinking of a...

That's actually really powerful. Having Max Hp as opposed to average is a great deal for plus 1 CR.

Efreeti are Cr 8 monsters in a world where it is totally acceptable to form yourself into a roving gang and go around killing monsters for their stuff. Wish is, according to the SRD, the most powerful spell a wizard or sorceror could cast. I fail to see how an efreeti could reach the point where the...

I remember when the Char Op board was messing with that. There are two big problems that make this challenge hard.[br][br]1. The judge bans anything that he feels is cheesy. When talking about the test for what is cheesy he said something like a character who could upset the cosmic balance. Since we...

[br] So? Seperation of church and state os absolutely rediculous. It's not part of our constitution nor any other nations that I can think of. Whay wold the Republic have it? That hardly makes the Jedi evil any more then it wold make Christianity evil. Oh wait... [br][br]Anybody notice this? I mean ...

I was going to suggest the contingency (when I die) mind jar combo, but you seem to be lowering the level.[br][br]For a necromancer I would start things off with a casting of fear. It is thematic and it will probably remove a few players and those animal companions. Evard's black tentacles is anothe...

Brobdingnagian wrote: He couldn't have killed a troll at the office water cooler. Open fires and volatile substances (acid) are against the building code and company policy.

You don't burn them there. You hold their head in that water jug thing until they drown.

Jack Sparrow

A little gem from Giant in the Playground forums. A sixteen page fighter v. wizard thread with a very misleading title. The real highlight of the thread is Grr, who has taken the Oberoni fallacy to an entirely new level.

Nereas wrote:Well Force is probably the best "earth" elemental energy damage, as it fits best with what "earth" describes - solid things, blades, barriers etc.

Yeah, but then you are going to have people countering ethereal and incorporeal creatures by throwing rocks at them.

I initially favored the sword level approach, because finding new cool swords is really fun for people, and the game should maximize fun for people. Then you said that the sword is to be periodically replaced anyway, so I really don't care either way.[br][br]That being said, I do not think you will ...

[br] These are interesting counters, but in practice, how many of you actually do this, in play, on a regular basis? [br][br]All my arcane casters have multiple pouches. My current one has six. After you see the sunder spell component trick once, you only have yourself to blame if it happens to you....

Even if it was enough strength, you still need a place to stand...

I think he was talking about the master debater one...or maybe extremely flexible female bards.