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I feel like something went horribly wrong in this sentence "Characters have to start with 3 Skills at Rank 1, but even if they pick ONLY Social skills, there's still 5 of the fuckers, so they have to be socially competent at something." and I am no longer sure whether you were trying to s...

Second to defend your claim you will need to do exactly what I said where the definitions get broadened to the point of meaninglessness. I think he already did... his first three posts read more like he was gesturing toward (or misremembering from an elective taken in freshman-year) the widely repe...

Linking Chaos and Evil means that you consider change to be evil. ... But if you think that change is ok, then you shouldn't use Chaos as a synonym for Evil. Does chaos have to be a synonym for change? I mean, imposing order on disorder, or building an ordered system are indisputably big changes, a...

If only capital ships have enough power to make longer distance jumps then they immediately serve a purpose. In Star Wars tho that doesn't seem to be the case since even tiny x wings have hyperdrive. I'm surprised no one has pointed this out by now, but it was explicit in the Expanded universe (now...

I think giving tyranids a conscious goal and the ability to reason about how best to achieve that goal is simply too much personification. The Hive does whatever the Hive Tyrant tells it to do. Hive Tyrants are super geniuses who have hyper advanced botany that allows them to grow radios on trees. ...

So you no save no decision Rocks Fall Everyone Dies one PC, then that player gets to experience automatic failure on a bunch of his special abilities for a while, and then gets told that their character no save died a long time ago... Yep, no problem with that at alllllllll. One PC? Oh you sweet su...

Just looked it up, here are some choice facepalms The DM should not tell the player that the PC has been killed and replaced. (The attack happens off-stage and is not role-played.) The DM should let the player continue to play the character with no knowledge that the PC is now a doppleganger. The pl...

The evil duplicate ploy: Have a doppelganger fuck with the players in various ways. For extreme roleplayers only : have one of the PCs be replaced with a doppelganger without the player's knowledge . I'm not exactly sure how this works, but whatevs. "Oh, by the way, Fred, you need to target Je...

Roll under makes for more predictable math than the usual roll+modifier mechanic.

Pardon-fuck?

Sorry PL, I don't why this ... The "iterative probability only for skills" angle is just a transparent re branding attempt for "just make them keep rolling until they succeed the star trek trivia check" defense of trivial skills "mattering" because it rather obviously f...

"May I have a volunteer from the audience?"

"Can you confirm that the object on the table is, in fact, 10 pounds, and thus too heavy to lift with the well known Cantrip known as Mage hand?"

"And yet it floats in midair!"

maglag wrote:
That's because the DMG says that Sigil has at least one NPC of every single possible multiclass combination.

seriously? jesus. when did they write that? is it some kind of copy-paste error from the editions when multiclassing wasn't a freefor all?

ooh, a strong first entry

I need to come up with a character for a drunken oneshot on saturday. and I ave no ideas so I need a 10 level pathfinder build that is simple enough to play while very drunk. preferably not a sorcerer. allowed books are ultimate magic, ultimate combat , advanced players guide, advance class, advance...

Josh_Kablack wrote: anytime you are the only one playing a card into a particular alignment stack, it's obvious to the judge which card is yours

wouldn't the obvious solution to that be to make a rule that the judge close their eyes or turn their back or something?

So I decided to just post my current character sheet, aside from the fact that I keep breaking the cardinal rule (Do one thing and do it well) are there any obvious mistakes in my spell or feat selection? are there any magic items for 10,000 gold or less that I should be trying to get? Half-elf Sorc...

Yeah, I'm familiar with it as a thing (though I couldn't remember who was doing the assassinating and who was doing the dying until I looked it up before asking that question). I was really just wondering how widely known that even is. I think very. i mean I knew about it well before the relevant t...

so am I justified in concluding that nobody involved in writing this book (or Eberron in general probably) even considered the question of what motivated the warforged to act like soldiers and follow orders during the war?

You'd think Belonging and Esteem would've been necessary, but this isn't actually borne out by the book. ... It straight-up says "collectively, warforged don't give a fuck about anything, so go ahead and invent a purpose in life for your character". It's like your toaster suddenly gained ...

Still genuinely interested in an answer to this question... http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/hierarchy.gif We are asked to imagine a race that skips all the bottom rungs and goes straight to Self Actualization, which doesn't make any sense and might as well be Fish Malking for all the good it does in...

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/hierarchy.gif We are asked to imagine a race that skips all the bottom rungs and goes straight to Self Actualization, which doesn't make any sense and might as well be Fish Malking for all the good it does in a game. seriously? I mean I get that their physiological n...

my entire time earning my B.S. in Mathematics I have only seen ! used as a not symbol in the programming class I had to take. and Blicero, I don't know what in the wiki article gave you the idea it wasn't standard notation for uniqueness quantifier, they don't even list any alternate notation. there...

I have one session of 5e under my belt, and everyone was drunk. but that wasn't a huge impediment because 5e seems to be trying really hard to be babby's first RPG; skills, attack bonus, a bunch of racial abilities are all based on "proficiency bonus" based on character level, either you g...

I have one session of 5e under my belt, and everyone was drunk. but that wasn't a huge impediment because 5e seems to be trying really hard to be babby's first RPG; skills, attack bonus, a bunch of racial abilities are all based on "proficiency bonus" based on character level, either you g...

wasn't really looking to focus on it, but we do have ultimate magic, so maybe Augment summoning would could be a better feat choice for this level than Combat Casting. I had no idea what to pick actually, I was even thinking of taking some feats for the crossbow I've been using when I run out of goo...