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You're ignoring that a lot of people want a wargame with their characters in it that also accurately reflects what their characters are capable of in that universe. Nobody wants to be playing D&D, where their character can cast 4 fireballs per day and kill 20 goblin warriors with each one by th...

FrankTrollman wrote:

• Trapdoor's project is basically vaporware and they haven't done shit with the months and funding that they've had and there's no evidence that they have the vision, expertise, or managerial dedication to ever produce a finished project.

But yet Mearls still has a job.

I find it strange that people are talking about Blood War type stuff before anyone has even agreed on what mundane mass battles should look like. The more I think about this, the more I'm starting to think that it isn't even appropriate (for practical reasons) to add a true mass combat minigame to D...

Dogbert wrote:

ACOS wrote:Still waiting for the "The DM Punches You in the Goddamn Face Edition".

Wasn't that going to be Dungeonscape's scheduled expansion for Oculus Rift?

Alright, I've decided that when dealing with formations and such (i.e., mass units), "to hit" rolls shouldn't even be a thing. What you're looking for is a scaled-up, heavily modified mob template (which, itself, is really just a modified swarm; but I digress). Most units will be doing AoE...

Crawl -> Walk -> Run only seems like a sane progression because they're using one device (human limbs) emergently. If you were building an optimal crawler, walker, and runner from scratch they'd be tripping over themselves trying to emulate other travel modes because the design requirements of each...

@ Lago: I think one of us may be misunderstanding Dean. I don't think he's saying that skirmish rules should be the end-all be-all; it seems as though he's simply suggesting a crawl->walk->run methodology, which would seem to be the only sane way to approach this. [hr] Okay, I'm going to throw some ...

The kickstarter looks dead in the water though. 40k raised, 390k left to go, and 20 days left. Yeah, they had a strong start the first couple of days; but that dried up real quick. Erfworld's creator is pimping that kickstarter but looks like to no avail. Just check out the comments below the pimpi...

Krusk wrote:My 5e dmg came in late last week.

May you be not as forgiving as AngryDM.

Damn it, Frank - why do you have to be so pedantic and doctrinaire ? (edit: I was giving you too much credit) Seriously, I know you're smarter than this. Orion was clearly trying to highlight a distinction; and just because his specific verbiage isn't necessarily to your liking doesn't mean that the...

In 550k+ words of LotR tactical military decisions are featured exactly thirce, two of them being dubious Are you suggesting that D&D should only have one combat every two or three adventures so we can make room for walking through Midgewater Marsh and the Redhorn and other places which are per...

nice dodge on the rest of my post, Frank. Who gives a shit about the rest of your post? [...] And you responded with some rambling bullshit where you also failed to mention any. So honestly, why am I responding to any part of your post? http://i.imgur.com/XUAH5UQ.jpg I'm not entirely certain that s...

Still waiting for the "The DM Punches You in the Goddamn Face Edition".

nice dodge on the rest of my post, Frank.

Second, how often warfare plays such a big role in fantasy plots, that both commanders' tactical skills and force composition matter, so we can have a real minwargame? Well... we have Tolkien, Jordan, Brooks, Martin, and so on. Actually fuck it. Can you name a high fantasy series that doesn't call ...

Okay, so we actually do have a list of monsters by CR ..... in the DMG.

A mass combat minigame definitely doesn't need to be able to handle armies of hundreds of thousands. That is totally unnecessary. If the mass combat minigame could handle armies of a few hundred it would be completely useable. D&D is already a world whos identity is molded around its mechanics,...

That's ad hominem. Thanks for the example. This is a new low for the internet. I really expect people to cry ad hominem every time they are insulted, regardless of whether or not it is, but really. The two essential qualities of an ad hominem is 1) insult, 2) saying someone is wrong about something...

So, the only way people are allowed to have nice things is if their long-lost rich uncle happens to remember them in his will? otherwise, fuck off? Sorry, once you've had blackjack+hookers, there's no going back to farm life where everywhere you go involves going uphill both ways in the snow. (unles...

@Xhieron: Within that wall-o-text, I think that you may be minimizing the value of codified rules in terms of player empowerment. Without a codified rule for a thing, you're left with the whims of MC, which ranges from "fuck you, no" to "meh, whatever", and NI iterations of incon...

Prak wrote:That comic just makes me want to have a town in D&D that enforces it's laws by curses.

+infinity

Is there a term for whatever it is that makes DMs set players to the bottom of the narrative totem pole for this to happen? Inferiority Complex? noun 1. Psychiatry . intense feeling of inferiority, producing a personality characterized either by extreme reticence or, as a result of overcompensation...

It's official - Trapdoor, aka Codename: Morningstar, is jumping to Pathfinder, as per their new kickstarter.
I must say, I find their goal to be quite ambitious - for their sake, they better have generated as much buzz as they think they have.

Night Goat wrote:Man, I miss Quiznos. Haven't seen one in years.

There's one by my house .... in a gas station (much like Blimpie's). I blame it on piss-poor franchise contracts/support (guessing).

"Thorns and bushes?" I can't say I've heard that one before. Would you please clarify? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoMMmZ6CFO0 One of my all-time favorite commercials. I didn't get the sense that whatever the final product was supposed to be was let go of because it didn't look like i...