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- Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Review: Relaunched Dragon Warriors
- Replies: 7
- Views: 794
Re: Review: Relaunched Dragon Warriors
From what I can remember, all the monsters were scary, in that if you met (say) a harpy you'd have to roll to see if you ran away in fear. That seemed very much not-fun to me, and also (again, unless I'm mis-remembering) you got no benefit for having defeated the monster previously. Thus you could k...
- Fri May 14, 2021 11:19 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Complaining about 5e Adventure Paths
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4521
Re: Complaining about 5e Adventure Paths
Its possible (2% chance) that your first encounter in the jungle is a CR 8 tyrannosaurus. You will very likely be level 1. So your TOA game could be "dicked over by NPC, town seems cool, TPK". It recommends that you are 1st-6th level for the hexcrawl portion of the game, and that you star...
- Wed May 12, 2021 8:56 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Complaining about 5e Adventure Paths
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4521
Re: Complaining about 5e Adventure Paths
My favorite example is a gang of Frost Giants that will explicitly attack the party if they refuse to answer their questions, but I saw some of the 5e fans complaining about Zombie Girallons. I actually quite like the idea of the Frost Giants encounter - they've basically wandered in from a complet...
- Tue May 11, 2021 3:27 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Complaining about 5e Adventure Paths
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4521
Re: Complaining about 5e Adventure Paths
The designers of Tomb of Annihilation always seemed to take the opposite approach to how I'd have done it, right from the start. From what I can remember, my reaction went something like this: Me "Great, an adventure set way outside the Sword Coast, where we can play Chultans trying to restore ...
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 10:38 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Pathfinder Kingmaker
- Replies: 79
- Views: 16746
Part 4: Blood for Blood The Barbarian King, on the other hand, is a joke. His WILL save is better than the Barons (+8) but he has no ranged offense. His artifact sword has a weird trait in which it dispels any, “any offensive effect once only as it first takes effect on the sword’s wielder.” Note t...
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 10:02 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Worst D&D 3.X NPC Statblocks
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7914
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 2:42 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [5e] Thorough explanation of why it's terrible?
- Replies: 261
- Views: 75844
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 9:31 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [5e] Thorough explanation of why it's terrible?
- Replies: 261
- Views: 75844
RI like the example of the 3e wyvern and the 5e wyvern . Huh, looks like Pathfinder has changed most of the stats of the 3.5e Wyvern (including changing its Int from 6 to 7 for some reason) but its CR remains 6. Looking at that 2d6 Con poison (initial and secondary) in 3.5 I'm really glad Pathfinde...
- Fri Jul 24, 2020 9:53 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Rokugan Campaign Setting (d20)
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9584
Re: [OSSR] Rokugan Campaign Setting (d20)
The Rokugan Campaign Setting is a 3rd party d20 book and was published a mere two months after D&D 3rd edition’s Oriental Adventures . The entire book basically comes off as an attempt to correct what the authors felt Oriental Adventures “did wrong”. I hadn't realised the two books came out so ...
- Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:04 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [5e] Thorough explanation of why it's terrible?
- Replies: 261
- Views: 75844
- Wed May 27, 2020 8:49 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Swashbuckling Adventures Campaign Setting Ruleboox
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8144
Also, there was no equivalent to the New World, and so no reason to sail out of sight of land. I'm not very familiar with 7th Sea, but I was aware the nations were basically proxies for European countries. I'd always assumed there was a New World bit as well. It had never occurred to me that someon...
- Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:58 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Kingdoms of Kalamar Player's Guide
- Replies: 37
- Views: 11487
We also get a skill for miming (Pantomime), yes, I’m serious. Pantomime is its own thing, it's not miming. I said it was miming, because that's exactly what the skill description says it is. It's the author's fault they don't know what Pantomime means. :( OK, now I've learned something, so I suppos...
- Thu Jan 23, 2020 12:16 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Kingdoms of Kalamar Player's Guide
- Replies: 37
- Views: 11487
We also get a skill for miming (Pantomime), yes, I’m serious. Pantomime is its own thing, it's not miming. Since a pantomime typically includes singing, dancing, comedy and (bad) acting, as well as cross-dressing, then the Pantomime skill is clearly overpowered. It replicates four other Perform ski...
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:04 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Frostburn
- Replies: 125
- Views: 34169
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Frostburn
- Replies: 125
- Views: 34169
The other thing it wants to do is to get me to buy in to the idea that we should call all distinctively cold adventuring locations “The Frostfell.” in the same way and to the same degree that sometimes we refer to subterranean adventuring locales collectively as “The Underdark.” Finally I've realis...
- Thu Jan 16, 2020 1:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
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Thanks, pedantic is just what I was looking for.The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:Fun book, if pedantic.
The pathfinder book does a reasonable job of integrating the weather rules with the skill system, but ignore the equipment rules. Nice to see Frostburn not only includes equipment but also remembers feats.
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 12:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR Call of Cthulhu d20
- Replies: 48
- Views: 9412
I did find some third-party content for system, including Resident Evil and Silent Hill. I have the d20 version of Fantasy Flight's Nocturnum. Some parts of it are great, but most of it isn't (and it pretty much makes up its own mythos rather than building upon the classic elements, which annoys so...
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 12:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 955394
- Tue Jan 14, 2020 12:55 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 955394
Cold weather isn't that cold?
So, I added the hot and cold weather rules to my fantasy heartbreaker, which basically involves a cut and paste from Pathfinder, which I assume was a cut and paste from D&D 3rd edition. To add a tiny amount of value I decided to include the Celsius equivalents alongside the traditional Fahrenhei...
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 1:35 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Review: Dragon Warriors Book 6: The Lands of Legend
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7424
Warlocks need at least 11 Intelligence and at least 9 Psychic Talent. Higher than the Sorcerer (or Elementalist), who needs 9 for each, and the Mystic, who needs 9 for Psychic Talent and doesn't require Intelligence. So, more restrictions than the other magical types, but not by that much. Assassin...
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:02 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Review: Dragon Warriors Book 6: The Lands of Legend
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7424
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 2:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Dragonlance: Legends of the Twins
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5930
The lesson that Dragonlance’s writers want you to take away from this was that the gods were totally not at fault for the Cataclysm, that the Kingpriest and the Istaran government were not wicked men but people who were too Good-aligned for their own good in spite of all their atrocities, that the ...
- Tue Nov 26, 2019 1:29 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder 2e
- Replies: 666
- Views: 150374
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 12:13 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: A thread about Binders (And maybe a fix to them)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5297
Radiance House did their own version of the binder for 3rd edition, and updated it for Pathfinder i.e. gave it some more fiddly bonuses to keep track of. Their vestiges seemed to me to be a lot more flavourful than the WotC ones (and you can bind two at once at 4th level, not 8th). The pathfinder ve...
- Thu Oct 03, 2019 1:43 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Review: Dragon Warriors Book 5: The Power Of Darkness
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3648