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People are desensitised to killing in huge numbers - an army of nameless orks is around every corner, whereas one dragon is an individual and therefore killing all the dragons means killing a lot of individuals as opposed to killing millions of nameless orks. Sure (except that it's not Warhammer). ...

I know. I was referring to: If you're encased in metal, the electricity will follow the metal. If your boots are metal and nothing else, the power will go through your body to get to the boots. If you are not connected to ground at all though, electricity won't go through you at all. (emphasis mine)...

Uh, the thing's that, hilariously, the whole "we should try to understand them" can work with goblinoids, and can't with chromatic dragons. Where is this portrayed, exactly? OotS subscribes heavily to a 'Red vs. Blue' system of morality. In "always Chaotic Evil". There's evidenc...

Uh, the thing's that, hilariously, the whole "we should try to understand them" can work with goblinoids, and can't with chromatic dragons. So, Vaarsuvius' act was less morally questionable than most stuff that passed unnoticed - why the sympathy for the dragons then? But really, can you t...

Every single one of Vaarsuvius' victims' CE - that's gotta be the most retarded decent into evil ever. Not to say that s/h/it won't be goaded into targeting innocents soon, but that familicide did the world a fvcking favor.

Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:Excellent. One down, several billion to go.

How about you stop being retarded and explain WTFH you mean with "not connected to the ground"?

Ghost's death renamed. As for "not magic", it didn't exist in the original concepts. Characters do stuff. Period.

Yes. And I guess that's how emanations (not in the rules meaning) should be written.

Because it's hard to teach people to roleplay and to create coolness and fun. I can't think of a way to do it, can you? Actually, it's because the default expectation for people in the same group's that they're of the same power level - and, should that expectation be knowingly ignored, that there ...

Which is to say, they're just the one guy in four hundred. A) a bit less in any case, as there's some infinitesimal odds of an Australian spending their entire life without being bitten twice - maybe not so infinitesimal, given that it's likely that this happens because another species kills them b...

Narcissus wrote:Dude, there are always new moronic mistakes.

Don't I know. The thing is, they come once every 20 pages of threads, and I mean literal 20 pages repeating a single moronic mistake.

Level 1 is an aberration. There are many levels where warriors kill people with 1 full attack, and there are many levels where spellcasters can kill multiple people with a single standard action, but those aren't guaranteed. What your stuff gives us' that, with 24-point buy and regular enhancement a...

I disagree. To someone who is interested in learning about game design, the arguments against moronic ideas and creations are often as helpful as if the original post was well-considered. It's really great to learn from your mistakes, but even better to learn from other people's. How many times do ...

Tripping a Flying Defender A winged creature can be tripped, and if it is, it falls as if it didn’t maintain its minimum forward speed. See Fly, page 92. Minimum Forward Speed: If a flying creature fails to maintain its minimum forward speed, it must land at the end of its movement. If it’s too hig...

Yeah... but, that's pretty much what happens. Someone dies unless the person that won the fight decides to not actually kill their target. Sorry, I meant "every single one of your hits' an automatic instant kill with the numbers used", not just high lethality in the sense of "combats...

As far as I know a tripped opponent who was flying falls. Making Trip an extremely effective mid-air combat routine. Assuming that you can get to the enemy in the first place. But if you have bolas or something that let you do ranged trips, that can quite effectively beat the snot out of flying ene...

Might not be exactly what you want, but your analogy leads to "cosmopolitan".

But let's not forget to thank Sweden, though.

Nothing in IH that I am aware of suggests a significantly lower power level than standard D&D (Standard, not optimized). I'm talking about how non-magical the characters feel, not power level. Limiting power levels' achieved by limiting levels - which I believe's been said multiple times. I dar...

Checked out Diablo S w ing Orchestra. They're weird in a very good way. Thanks for the tip. Fixed. And glad to be of use. Various other stuff here's awesome; my shout-out goes to Assemblage 23, VNV Nation, and Ministry's No W (well outdated by now - fortunately). Lastest developments would be Anime...

Not really news, of course.

Cielingcat wrote:As much as I miss "fvck," I don't think we should actually reinstate word filters. Now, if we could all agree that we should filter "fuck" to "fvck" for like, nostalgia's sake, I'd be all for that. Simply because I loved that word.

The Creator has spoken.

Is still enough to have magic gear. I said: build the bonuses that'd be bought into the characters. As dispel magic won't be a normal tactic, it makes basically no difference that it's not items. Or stop the idea that having a 95% chance vs. an encounter of your level is a normal fight. Since I'm t...

No, it isn't. It still is set up based around the idea that you have magic items and so on (whether you have wizards blasting for "piddly damage" or breaking the game). A) have you checked the miserly wealth you have by level 10? B) the non-magical monsters don't (often) require magical s...

Since we want something where ogres or the like are meant to be challenging to the best if we want something representing Arthur's knights or those kind of fighters, instead of being something a reasonably well trained legion will pulverise (which is made up of people several steps below larger-tha...