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Prak_Anima wrote:Novembermike, stop being a fucking retard. Sure, I'll hold your God damned hand through the process when I get home.

If it makes you feel any better about it, I look forward to seeing the details of the process simply because it sounds wonderfully nerdy.

I'm really not seeing any good reasons against considering the omnicasters we've got lying around.

Get rid of the omni-casters, then. Idea: Would requiring more barred schools help at all?

Just put this in the other thread, will throw it out here, too. The fantasy source material for D&D has guys who, by virtue of a single awesome magical item (Excalibur, Mjolnir, Frostmourne, etc. etc.) become amazing and awesome. Further, being able to harness the full potential of the weapon is...

So the conclusion I have after 20 years of rpgs is that the fights are NOT realistic. They are pretty good simulation of whatever assumptions you build into the system. They are NOT realistic and attempts to make them more realistic get bogged down in defining things like what are the REAL results ...

He's also nothing special without his hammer

Nitpick: He beat up a half-dozen or so SHIELD agents without the hammer. I'd say he's a solid level 3 or 4 without it.

All that matters is that it's a wildly popular fantasy novel written in the 80s during 1e that spawned a nonmagical character with nonmagic weapons that killed giants and dragons and is so popular that he has been statted in 1e, 2e, 3e, and 4e in different sourcebooks. That's what people want. It w...

Source for what? For this: It's actually pretty surprising how little weapons and fighting styles matter. The Crystal Shard by RA Salvatore. It's probably the best-selling DnD novel written and it's set in the Forgotten Realms. But that's recursive. The Crystal Shard mimics D&D-style fighting b...

Well, its good to see people throughing out their SCA, Arma, fencing, kendo, mma, and fight book credentials. If you can find a better source of information to ground realism in, I'd love to see it. Being that people who actually fought lethal combat with edged weapons and plate armor aren't terrib...

Anime would have her shooting "wind" that looks like sheets of fire that cause the ground to explode while she flies through the air. That's aesthetic. It has nothing to do with mechanical ability, unless the fire/wind, exploding ground, or flight are actually written into the rules. They...

I prefer this: So do I. There's two ways you can get that. You can either make a giant fight something your character will never breeze through like it's nothing even if the odds do favor them, or you can make your character inhumanly strong/fast. No amount of skill will change the fact that a glan...

sabs wrote:no matter how good you are.. if you're opponent has an Iron sword and shield, and you have bronze.. you're fucked

It's got more to do with your opponent being ten feet tall than minor gaps in equipment quality.

Knowing a trick and having the reflexes and skill to use them appropriately is an entirely different matter. The good tricks are the ones that take, like, three hours to be usable in battle, and after that it's just training to improve accuracy and power. The latter of which the giant already has i...

Right, and we are assuming that the Fighter is the guy who is good at the dirty tricks of fighting. Thus, he beats the giant. Wrong. The "dirty tricks" are a set of easy to learn but still efficient tactics. Everyone with a BAB of +1 or higher is going to know these techniques. What the F...

Again, I have to ask if anyone here has actually fenced before? Yes. Fencing is a sport. It's useless in battle. Seriously, find an Olympic level fencing master and me, give me some armor and both of us actual, sharpened sabers, and I will win, because I will start the fight by dropping the toad-st...

Having a chance does not equate to a level-appropriate encounter. Sure, a master swordsman could beat me no matter how awesomely thick my skin was, but I'm not an amateur swordsman. I'm an almost completely untrained swordsman. I'd seriously probably have better odds of winning dropping my weapon an...

Don't call it Ki. Call it "Vital Force" or something.

Er, sorry. I misread that first sentence entirely.

You could make a game like that...You just wouldn't be able to kill dragons in it. Not without scaling the power of dragons way back from what it's typically been, at least.

And there's another for the ignore list.

actually I believe the two are one in the same

Your belief is objectively false. These words have definitions. They are different from one another.

Potential solution to the problem of "why hasn't anyone saved the world already," saving the world might just be really, really hard . If there's some reason that the powers that be want the world to be Iron Age, and all of them will put aside their petty differences to kill whoever made t...

You aren't arguing against anime abilities. You're arguing against anime aesthetic. It's different. So, ignoring whether your guy looks like Cloud Strife or Beowulf, you're going to need the ability to cut through a battleship if you want to fight a dragon, because dragonscale is really, really toug...

http://3alleypub.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/beating_a_dead_horse.jpg?w=450 Wonderful. Now that that's out of the way. I don't think Vancian casting is dissociated. It's easy to associate, actually, though when I first encountered it in the first Dragonlance series way back when, it seemed very, ve...

if the Ballista Bolt's attack also had a rider effect called "Fucking Impaled by a Giant-Ass Ballista Bolt; You're going to Die and you need a new cape,"

I want to write up a new system just to incorporate that effect.

All kinds of solutions seem simple when you have infinity on your side.