The Gaming Den

Saving someone couldn't be a combat action or you'd become a CDG magnet. Then it boils down to the heal skill raising you from the dead with imporved flavour text. Fine with me.

Is there any support for spells where a failed save actually kills you? Can they be redone like 3.5 disintergrate and still be worth casting?

SoDs are a nuisance when you want death to be rare. They also give an unlucky die roll too much consequence. Just like the autofail on a 1 rule.

Lago_AM3P at [unixtime wrote:1087347300[/unixtime]]Holy shit, Frank made it onto Something Awful?

You'd better start wearing those way-cool Can' o Whup Ass t-shirts, Frank. On top of a black Will Smith wifebeater. And I better start calling you Don Frank.

That's awesome.

Link?

I'm fine with limiting access to actual magic abilities but some people really need to get a grip. HIPS isn't some mystical ability. I'm sure everyone here has opend a cupboard to get something and not seen it. Then gotten laughed at when someone else sees it straight away. If an inanimate object ca...

RandomCasualty at [unixtime wrote:1087095575[/unixtime]]The non-mounted fighter doesn't have anything "over you", that's a very flawed way of looking at it. He has less abilities than you do, because you've got a PrC and he doesn't.

Once again thats a result of the fighter as written being the worst PHB class.

1087031193[/unixtime]][br]No Lucky Blows: A person with this feat can take 10 on any attack rolls or saving throws, and regardless never misses on a natural one or is struck by a natural 20. [br][br]This dosen't seem that good powerwise. I also don't like the idea of taking 10 on an attack roll. Ta...

1087015631[/unixtime]][br]If people won't concede that point then the Fighter class simply can't exist past the first couple of levels and we need PrCs which are completely uber relative to the feats people will allow to take over for the rest of the drive to level 20. [br][br]That or give the figh...

RandomCasualty at [unixtime wrote:1086996935[/unixtime]]Next, when you actually deal with binding, it's no longer a check, it's a straight roleplayed encounter.

This is an RPG, there are mechanics for diplomacy etc. WW has them too so don't bother trying to claim D&D is for rollplayers or something similarly lame.

Lago_AM3P at [unixtime wrote:1086851614[/unixtime]]Why do we need more Big DM Penis locations?

I'll agree with this, if something is a 100% death chance no matter who you are then it dosen't need to exist.

Farscape rules, go frell.

1086726697[/unixtime]][br]I'm really starting to think we've gotten ourselves so close to the rules here that we can't really tell the difference so much between being what's broken, what's bent, and what's just a minor quirk of the system. [br][br]I don't think so, the point of knowing the rules i...

RC, you'd prefer VCL over caster level = character level.

If I could find the link I'd post it.

1086711747[/unixtime]] Why wouldn't you just walk away from the computer and have a beer every so often? [br][br]Because cheap-ass people like me shoot you even if you're in the can and therefore aren't dodging.[br][br]I just went through my 3.0 PHB looking for spells with an xp cost that would wor...

Time isn't the only thing that matters in a dynamic world. More to the point this is the same as ammunition capacity limits in an FPS. You get scads of rounds for your assault rifle and a few for the grenade launcher. The idea is to make it balenced if a PC uses all his grenades in one fight. If tha...

I'd imagine those working slightly differently seeing I assume they take place in a dynamic world. The plotless dungeon crawl basically assumes that the PCs can do whatever they want and the monsters won't do anything intelligent about it.

Add the plotless dungeon crawl to the list of things I don't care about.

What about frell?

Yeah, saw it right after I posted here the first time.

Boulie is right, removing caps will make people post more really funny "phj34r /\/\y 1337 p0\/\/3r5" threads. Sounds like a good deal to me.

But if you expend yourself now on some git then you'll be spent later when the tentacle beast shows up. As long as there are multiple adversarial parties you have to care about being out of juice.

Its funny because Frank edited the post.

Oddly enough I like it like that. Stop the darklord NOW!!! games are going to have power husbanding, thats part of the point. Lets loot that anchient place because everyone knows they had better tech/magic back then games are all about getting as prepared as possible by default.[br][br]What forceing...

The idea is to take things like that into account when writeing rules. I don't care if you want to cast as many as possible of your best spells in an encounter, as long as doing so is balenced.[br][br]I also don't care about people not adventuring every day of the month, IMO that'd be an improvement...

For anyone who dosen't know what Exalted is its like the revision of D&D. Except that there are actual improvements.[br][br]In Exalted you get willpower back the same as Vampire except for stunts and limit breaks, neither of which are applicable to D&D. The old storyteller's option of gainin...

I like XPH psions as a base. At least you don't get an arbitrary number of spells to prep.