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I'd be incredibly happy if they reduced the importance of those goddamn overfetishized magic flying dinosaurs to where they're little more than minor annoyances easily dispatched by local hunters/town pest control... but somehow I suspect that's not quite what Mearls was going for.

The magus is generally a better melee fighter than the bard, short of some crazy ass buffed to the hilt charop monster. Perhaps the thread was talking about how the magus blows compared to a Eldritch Knight or even a stock cleric.

But the marvel/dc moral extremes where everyone is either so lawful stupid that they refuse to use deadly force even when the safety of the entire universe is on the line or execute a pyschopath who has personally killed/mained hundreds and proven to be uncontainable by law enforcement agencies... O...

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Power corrrupts and absolute power something something...

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Oh goddamit, it's bad enough the game already tries to make a difference between an element and the magic version of the element, and we have such silliness as giant exploding balls of fire that don't have any form of concussive force nor ignite any flammable objects it hits. Must we drag the "...

Fun fact: even Kevin Sorbo used to complain that he wasn't doing suitibly awesome epic demigod-y stuff enough on that show

Other thing is luck. Absurd luck, that would never grace other characters. So you can have John McLane running from thugs spraying him with bullets and escape unharmed, or Sokka taking out Combustion Man with a one-in-a-million boomerang shot. That kind of bullshit is expected from "mundane he...

Hell, I've seen ENworld 5E threads where people actually complained about Wizards having Light as an level one at-will ability "because it solves the party's dungeon illumination problems too easily and make torches worthless". Frankly at this point I'm not sure what those sorts of people ...

If I recall that crap correctly, they did basically blame a lot of 5E's bad features on it being somehow intended to appease 3E/2E players, instead just saying "yeah, this is a total pile of shit, and instead of pointing fingers at each other, we should all join together and blame the hack deve...

Well, if history repeats itself, the Wizard will have at least two years worth of nearly endless crunch updates thrown at it until it's a playable class by sheer infinite monkeys at typewriters default... Granted, it'll still never actually feel like a 'Wizard' during any of that. The Rogue's pretty...

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Problem is, even if the license were up for grabs, I can't see anyone but Paizo being both in a position and interested in picking it up, and I suspect that they probably can't put together a worthwhile edition from scratch. Do better then WotC has recently, for sure. Do well enough to turn things ...

Wait, why the hell are Clerics of the God of Blowing Shit Up suddenly a bad thing? I thought the fact that last edition's clerics could blast the hell out of things with lightning and god lasers instead was a fairly well received and popular change

I mean, why on Earth are we pretending that Sorcerers casting Web at level 4, or Planar Binding at 12 is somehow less problematic than Wizards who cast Web at level 4, and Planar Binding at level 12? Because it really is less problematic. With a sorcerer you at least know he's always going to have ...

I wonder if it'd be possible to create a game that actually runs at the balance that pathfinder DM's fudge their games into. Delete the tier 1 and 5 classes, and tell the guy playing the sorcerer that he's not allowed to use any computer programs to completely preplan out his spells known/trades fr...

It was a one on one challenge between two paladins. We weren't getting anywhere so the mage became impatient and ruined the challenge. Would it have actually made you feel any better if it had been a Rogue who said "Bored now." and put a crossbow bolt into the back of the paladins head? S...

Yeah, I really don't see a connection between the two overused character archetypes and seemed rather fucking weird in the article. Hell I'm not even sure Magical Negro even existed before it saw use as a substitute racist pejorative in crazy south will rise again Tea Party circles. Certainly they p...

its like the races i was just saying about tiefling.. people SHOULD have them as an option, but it doesnt mean they need to be an option form the start. keep the core simple and make sense. First off the 'This race are only ever Monsters, and this race are only ever PCs' crap is dead... Seriously, ...

Wait... you can't see a difference between the warrior and rogue archetypes, but you can see a difference between a guy in a dress who's hands are glowing yellow and/or blackish purple and a guy in a dress who's hands are glowing red, blue, or slightly blueish purple?

If each minion has 6 HP and you do 36 damage to one of them, remove 6 minions from the table and figure out a way to narrate how you were just awesome. Okay... I generally liked 4e and even the SA forum, but that's got to be one of the stupidest PnP concepts I've ever seen. Some one actually felt m...

Also, pretty sure Psions get more than 2W at level 20. They actually really, really don't... Psion upper level at will powers are all asstasic shit that doesn't scale properly in damage or effect, it's one of the causes that lead to the 'Dishearten and Mind Thrust... FOREVER!' problem and why simpl...

Would simply uncapping most Direct Damage spells help any? I recall Neverwinter Nights 2 had it's own special version of the Flame Arrow spell that functioned almost exactly like Scorching Ray except it didn't have a cap on the number of rays it could eventually produce, which combined with being a ...

I wish they'd finally realize that this quick, casual family friendly D&D game ideal they really seem to want would work far better and sell better as a Heroscape/Decent Lite style board game.

Rogue's sacred cow is dead. That's murder and unkind. Well, by that logic I guess Fighters should be the only guys who get plate armor, Rangers should be the only class that can even hold a fucking bow or dual-wield, and Clerics are the game's sole healer. And every party should be exactly made up ...

From the something asful forum (which really is awful) ">You have to raise a common class character to level 10 before you can unlock the uncommon ones. Or you can unlock them right now for 400 Wizard Points." Would that mean that you'd have to buy points from wotc to be able to take pres...