The Gaming Den

Give your boss a bunch of mooks; make sure they're spread out and that they've got plenty of hit points. Give them all White Raven Tactics. Boss gets to act until you get bored, or until everyone not on Team Evil is as dead as a proverbially dead thing. Apply said tactic in moderation and the BBEG c...

Yeah, well, I can say that - if what you're suggesting is even likely to be true - I'm glad to live under a system which (The Big Sky Fairy knows) has its flaws but at least there's no financial incentive for someone NOT to try to save your life... Again, your *feelings* on the matter are utterly ir...

This discussion was never about whether or not someone would "perceive animating a corpse as being bad", it was about whether animating the dead was automatically Evil. Taking your own cultural prejudices and projecting them into a world where animating corpses is not only possible but hap...

Taken over the whole spectrum of gamers, RC's got it right. There are a lot of people out there who use an evil alignment as an excuse to turn the game into a bad ripoff of Saw. And there's another point I don't think anyone has touched on; some players can't stomach what other players will do when ...

I think K touched on the real answer. The entire global economy as it stands is built on bullshit and fairy dust. A force majeur event like Superman turning up and saying "All your bank are belong to me" would cause financial armageddon. He doesn't have to kill people; he doesn't even have...

I'm with Frank. I've been using an informal version of his approach since the start of 3e. When faced with a particular challenge or problem, my players reach for their skills; something like the Mechanical Hydra is a great example; the fella who *always* includes Knowledge [engineering] would ask m...

Of course I've played with Mr. Antiquest. He has been part of my regular gaming group for the last six years or so, and I'd encountered him in other heinous incarnations many times before that. I just tend to set things up so that the adventure plays out no matter what the players choose . It's not ...

Good point. What I was thinking when I wrote it was more specific than I explained; if your actions in reanimating a person's dead body screwed up their chances of a Good afterlife, that's Evil. We were, after all, discussing the general case: "Is animating a random dead body an Evil thing to d...

Quoth K: "Animating zombies is morally wrong because it violates the dignity of the person." Animating the lifeless husk of someone after they're dead isn't violating their dignity because there's no-one left in there to have their dignity violated. Sure, in D&D cosmology there's a cha...

Amen to that. Nine times out of ten, the PC's in my game are merely under the illusion of choice, which is good enough. You don't spend a week writing up a bunch of interesting NPC's, balanced encounters and a metric assload of plot _just in case_, but at the same time you don't want - and I mean, e...

Well, this is more ingenuity stuff than it should be about having a skill. Honestly if someone wants to find a stick and sharpen it into a spear, or chop some wood and use vines to make a raft, I'm okay with that just working as part of the scenario. You shouldn't need craft (raftmaking) because ot...

1183473787[/unixtime]] 1183463286[/unixtime]]I think that a core class that:[br]-can only do one thing... mediocrely[br]-has no unique features[br]-has nothing noteworthy about it[br]-is good for 2 levels[br][br]is a good thing? Especially because it is just like real lifez!!!one11![br]http://board...

1183391654[/unixtime]][br][br]You're a kind DM. [br][br]I suspect my group would be surprised to hear you say so![br][br] 1183391654[/unixtime]]Usually in my group, we tend to offer extremely good compormises with NPCs; and roll high diplomacy checks. [br][br]Well it's all situational. If you're ta...

I tend to use Diplomacy checks when:[br][br]1) The situation is just too weird and alien for the player to deal with, although it might be meat and drink for their character; nine times out of ten I'll be asked in this situation "Can I just make a Diplomacy check, please?"[br][br]2) Occasi...

Ah, the old ones are the best, sure enough!

1183293501[/unixtime]]There is one section of the stat block that contradicts itself under the Special Qualities second. It states that the swarm takes half damage from Slashing and Piercing weapons, yet under swarm traits it states that Tiny or Diminutive do not take damage from weapons .[br][br]W...

1183309578[/unixtime]]The key is that the person is conceding a bunch of options so that the Monk player can keep up with what is going on. And he wants to know what he can do, given his restricted option set that will make him beat the Monk. [br][br]And he has conceded so many options that his Wiz...

Just dropped in on my way somewhere else, and... well doesn't that just suck. The voice I hear in my mind saying "En garde, bitches" just got a LOT squeakier. Ah well. [br][br]That's the "nerfing of the monstrous crab" that sucks, not the Encounter, in case anyone was in danger o...

Another vote here for you to carry on... Interesting stuff and entirely different from my own experiences!

1183215798[/unixtime]]Just for the record, a large number of "kick-ass feat chains" have BAB requirements, so the fighters are going to get hosed to some extent. [br][br]Oh yeah, I don't think that's in question. My point about the potential abuse of feat chains was more to do with spellc...

1183150163[/unixtime]]Anyway, on the E6 thing. The guy doesn't actually specify that 4th level spells don't exist. [br][br]No, I know he doesn't - although he is explicit later on about characters not having access to any ability, ever, that isn't normally available by 6th level. I was suggesting t...

1183143361[/unixtime]]The first and most obvious one is to simply make everything of CR 11+ into a legendary critter that may not even exist. No Titans, no problems. Heck, even if there is a Great Wyrm somewhere, there's just the one of it so it's basically a plot device. And plot devices can be co...

I don't think that's so much the issue: after all, you can simply say that anything above, say, CR12 just out-and-out doesn't exist and there's nothing higher than a 3rd-level spell available to anyone. This does solve a whole load of problems outright, although it causes some others. [br][br]I actu...

1183081634[/unixtime]]Let's not give shitty wotc boards classes too much attention, ok? :) [br][br]Don't be a party pooper: making fun of WotC, the WotC boards and the huge steaming piles of awful produced by the aforementioned is why I'm here! :biggrin:[br][br]The Juggernaut is an unmitigated pile...

We are indeed short of time, so if you want to offer some suggestions as requested, that'd be great...[br][br]I'm absolutely not going to have the time to finish all of this in two days with the current rate of external contribution, not no way no how, but if you look at the blog they seem to be sug...