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erik wrote: Mostly that very specific number comes from point-buy allocation for attributes.

You can buy attributes up to 14 at a cheap rate of 1:1, whereas at 15 it goes up to 2 pts per 1 attribute bump.

Got it.

Grek wrote: And the three deep one states together have:

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All in all, it's easy to justify why they've not been wiped out. There's probably people trying and lots more people who've tried and given up, but no real successes.

I would say that certainly justifies why. Too powerful, inaccessible, etc.

2012 Get a digital crew to seriously tidy up the back catalogue and get it all online, use every reseller who wants in. There's thousands of those fucking things and people will pay a few bucks each for them, money for nothing. Watch what moves. All the time. Talk about what's moving. What's wrong ...

tussock - thanks for the input. Points taken. Can you enlighten me about the 14+ Con though? Why not 16+ or 12 + :D RE: walls - I see now where it says 10'x10'. It's still kind of retarded that it's 10'x10'. Can you imagine how long it would take to remove a 10'x10'x1' section of stone or wood wall ...

Holy crap, do the rules really say that 10'x10' section gets destroyed? I thought it was bad enough that you could 'chop down' a door with a bow and a couple of arrows.

That crab link was great by the way. Thanks for sharing

HOWEVER, if you're expecting to just mindlessly plug scenarios into the system and always have it return desirable results, you're going to experience a lot of disappointment. Agreed. I'm not expecting it to return desirable results. I'm curious to know if the results are more/less catastrophic tha...

70% of the earth is covered in ocean. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find something on the ocean floor? Finding the Titanic took an extensive search, even though people knew about where and when it went down and it was huge. Technology has improved, but it's still extremely difficult to fin...

Many of these new players get frustrated during the game because they don't realize that as a fighter, CON is the 2nd most important score. Maybe, just maybe if they are new to the game, they should read their goddamned class description. Here I'll quote it for you since you clearly haven't read mu...

Better Analogy Time: T: Is Car A or Car B better for when you drive off a cliff? Kaelik: Why the fuck would you drive off a cliff? Are you dense? T: But is Car A or Car B safer for when you drive off a cliff? Kaelik: Here's a better way to solve your problems--don't drive off cliffs. T: But you cou...

I can brainstorm a reason: Because it isn't in their interest. The governments of the world are hopelessly corrupt, and they want to 1) maintain their grip on their own populations through fear, and 2) maintain the (land based?) trade status quo that emerged following the Cataclysm. I agree with yo...

Kaelik is saying that yes, it's possible to get off the RNG, but if you actually read the game thoroughly and do a bit of thinking, the actions you should take are obvious. What Kaelik is saying, and has said repeatedly, is "Don't do that", "Don't break the rules", and "Don...

True about ability score generation. Though 2e does have an optional method for generating scores, printed in the core PHB, that corresponds to the default method in 3.5e. I was assuming that method since most games I played in back in the day used that method then, and it was also the best way to c...

Makes sense about the CR/EL distinction. And you haven't explained how a 2e Fighter with 9 Str 3 Con and 18 Int is on the RNG either. Because he isn't. That's the point, when players make bad choices, they can in fact be off the RNG. There is nothing you can do to prevent that other than make player...

violence: I get what you are saying. But there are rules for sundering/attacking wood. Wood has a hardness (5) and HP (10/inch) associated with it. Hardness is like DR (I think), but 10 HP isn't all the much and a typical rowboat isn't all that thick. So you have to do 10 HP/inch, -5 HP/strike due t...

Also, too, I never stated this: I said it was wrong of you to extrapolate from the fact that skills go off the RNG to the fact that AC/AB go off the RNG, because that is unrelated. They were presented as two separate cases, both representative of possibly wonky math in 3.5. I never said that one was...

No, I wasn't. I didn't say HP, I was talking about saves, which are different depending on the classification of the monster. You actually did say HP. Go back and read what you wrote. Here, I'll save you the effort: And no, their saves and HP aren't determined solely by HD. Your whole fucking argum...

RobbyPants wrote: You should feel special. I don't know that I've ever seen him apologize before.

Haha. I figured as much

What he's saying is that existing splat books (which you haven't read) give out ways to SA undead creatures. So, in a core-only game, rogues don't SA undead, but with the right splats included, they do. Thanks for clarifying that RP. It's good to know. But... He didn't say that. He said I (A) don't...

All of your examples follow this same pattern. You know the HP and ThAC0/BAB scale faster. That is my main statement. Whether or not that impacts game play does not depend on the first statement. I know it does not mean that one side might not scale faster. However, one side MIGHT not scale faster ...

If you don't know the rules, then why are you opening your goddam mouth? Oh wow, is that how you treat people when they admit they were wrong or ignorant about something? Yes, I was unclear on that point - Nothing I could find in the SRD mentions that. Maybe I missed something. 1) The Greater Bargh...

Well then in that case, you should try reading the rest of the posts where I explain why. I have read them. And they are usually filled with shit like this: All your examples of "then you aren't on the RNG because" can be solved by just not becausing, and since every example you've ever g...

The issue is that while this makes stable pipelines essentially impossible in any area of political instability or uncontrolled wildlife, it makes supply chains of anything else merely difficult. You can ship corn or steel or pistachios in armed caravans, and you'll only lose one now and again. So ...

This does kind of beg the question as to both how and why you would end up creating an area that radioactive that is at least 100 km wide. It's still all Frank fiat - it's his game and world to design. If he wants trade passages through Central America, they are there. If he doesn't, they aren't th...

As far as I understand it, as long as it's a rule that, it's fine. So the d20 rolling mechanic isn't copyrightable. Having a fighter class or a fireball spell that does 1d6/level isn't either. The specific text used to describe those classes or spells is, along with art and other fluff. Also, as far...