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I forgot another classic: * Mazes (both actual maps and abstracted maze-wandering minigames) What's your beef with maze minigames? Is it an always-bad dislike or a shitty experience dislike? Most people who make mazes are dumb gygaxian fucknuts who both a) make terrible mazes in which the secret is...

hogarth wrote:
I forgot another classic:

* Mazes (both actual maps and abstracted maze-wandering minigames)

What's your beef with maze minigames? Is it an always-bad dislike or a shitty experience dislike?

5e seems to be making money without making content and that makes the old school table top gamer in me sad. But it does keep power spiral in check better than Pathfinder's fire-hose of pointless and under powered options. I'm baffled that anyone would get excited for the release of a campaign book ...

FrankT: And the Complete Spacefarer was supposed to be part of a brand new line called the Campaign Reference Series. It is historical fact that they only ever made three of these books, and they are so obscure that as of this writing, none of them even appear in the fucking Wikipedia list for D&am...

Is there any way to make sword and board (specifically sword and shield, not just shield, or shield and shield) not suck donkey bollocks in pathfinder, even with third party materials? Or should I slap myself, disregard the notion, and just leave the style relegated to video games? Potentially you ...

Thanks for your guys help with the secret page trick. Now I have questions to help out the druid in our party. In 3.5 could a druid cast produce flame and share it with their animal companion so that it's natural attacks do extra fire damage? In PF could a druid cast produce flame on their animal c...

So, mechanical trap crafting is hilariously stupid. A CR 1 swinging log trap that mildly inconveniences someone who fails an easy perception check costs 1.000 gp to craft. That's 333 gp worth of materials, and 25 weeks of workif your skill modifier is +10. (DC 20 * check result 20=400 sp worth of pr...

If they were just lazy and incompetent , I could live with it. Just throw shit at the wall, scrape of what sticks too well. But they have to be such enormously dishonest shitweasels about it and call everything "FAQ" and "clarification". Take Ultimate Intrigue, for example. They ...

Given a similar level of optimization, is a Fighter significantly superior to a Barbarian that's not raging? Against better judgement I had wandered onto the pathfinder reddit and found some upvoted comment on how once the barbarian is out of rages because having a dozen fights in one day is totall...

I am pondering the idea whether I should use 4d6 with individual die rerolls for my homebrew system, meaning the players roll 4d6 and can reroll a number of individual dice up to their skill level (max 4). So far, so good. But I cannot for the life of me figure out, how to calculate the changed pro...

Because expecting better than lawyer/programmer grade precision from a bunch of English Majors selected by personal relations to crank out Extruded Fantasy Product leaves you predictably disappointed, yet you've been at it for over a decade. Once again, no one is doing that. And you are deluded. Cl...

Stupid tone trolls who whine about how we shouldn't discuss what the rules are because Good DMs (TM) just ignore the rules anyway, while at the time ignoring all the arguments for what good rules would be that have accompanied arguments about what the rules are. That's totally new, and we don't alr...

Christ. Look, the rules on this are vaguely written, particularly when subject to autism-level literal interpretation, so stop quibbling over wording that doesn't mean anything and make a sensible guess. You guys are the kind of people that try to drown dying PC's back up to 0 hp. Stupid tone troll...

So, in our hypothetic perfect D&D that's still actually playable past level 9 with only a moderate amount of Gentleman's Agreement; that is, not 3.X or Tome D&D; there are two important design goals as i see them: 1: The basic currency is armies. Not gold or turnips, but armies. Kingdoms tha...

I hate kingdom minigames that don't respect the rules of the main game. Kingmaker, for example. In addition to being poorly designed, because it's written by English Majors with high-pressure smoke hoses up their asses, the Adventure Path also had stuff like "an army of hundreds of trolls, with...

Well, it appears as if even a number of Paizo fans are losing their goodwill, if the rants about the latest errata for Ultimate Equipment are any indicator (a couple of moderately useful items were - unsurprisingly - nerfed into oblivion). I've glanced over a couple of recent threads on Paizo's cur...

I don't know about you, but if my my trusted friends and allies cast a hostile spell on me, I'll try to resist it. And probably wonder if they were mindcontrolled or something. If my trusted friends and allies cast a spell on me that I have no idea what is, because I'm not a smart PC and my Spellcr...

Enki Bilal for the dark, serious stuff, Milo Manara for the rest.

Generally speaking in Shadowrun what prevents everyone from replacing streetsams with drones is just that few players actually want to play a rigger, compared to those who wants to play streetsams. Many runs could be handled better by drones than by meatbags: stealth drones can be stealthier (and/o...

Do you guys have any tips for playing level 1-2 wizards against varied opposition in a dungeon environment which likely includes but is not limited to constructs, aberrations, mindless creatures, and if I'm really lucky, also the undead? (Assume the party does not consist of someone that it would b...

I haven't whined about anything, you're just making yourself look even m ore stupid by doubling down on the behaviour already shown. If you think i haven't engaged with this forum then you obviously didn't read the post that began this thread. Out of 73 posts in this thread, 12 of them are you whin...

I would buy the abridged Malazn version, i.e. "just the Bridgeburners and Karsa Orlong fucking shit up".

Honestly, focusing on the 'feels' is just going off topic. You made the statement that there was no misogyny, i explained how there was. Feels has nothing to do with it. This topic went off topic when the abuse started. You seemed to ignore that. So instead of maybe not being a passive-aggressive w...

ghost whistler wrote:OK cool your jets, I didn't mention anything because i didn't see the point. As it goes i'm trying to design a system.

With your vast experience, solid understanding of math, self-awareness and communication skills, I'm sure it will be a smashing success.

Guys, come on, you are way overcomplicating this. This is just lazy videogamey quest writing, where you are asked to bring ten bear assess and no one questions what did the bears do wrong. You are not supposed to think about this quest for longer than it takes to say "UPDATED MY JOURNAL"....