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I can see what they're doing with not letting NPCs benefit from magic item bonuses. That actually makes sense. Because in 3E it was a total bitch to assign all kinds of crazy magic crap to your NPCs to make them compete in the christmas tree world.[br][br]So it they're keeping the whole item buffs, ...

One of our goals in 4th Edition was to reduce characters’ reliance on magic items. [br][br]Consider that goal a failure. [br][br]Do the designers just state a goal at the beginning and hope people are so dumb that they will just assume whatever follows is going to be consistent with the stated topi...

It'd be kind of interesting if mooks didn't have hp. They just got like improved evasion or something and like if they took any damage at all, they were out of the fight. Makes it easier to put down a bucket load of goblins and track them.

1201133620[/unixtime]][br]She might however live in your house, on your money, get you to pay for her to raise children, and get you to run her various errands FOREVER. [br][br]And even if it came down to a choice between the love of your life and your family... [br][br]I'm simply going to say its ...

1201128526[/unixtime]][br][br]Think about there are literally thousands of people in the US who go to "free" seminars to learn about time shares so they can "earn" a free gift. They go with no intention of buying a time share (because time shares are stupid). And yet, every year...

1201004725[/unixtime]][br]I mean really what is the alternative? "Lets pull bullshit DCs out of our ass for everything, ever."[br][br]You got anything better? Try me. [br][br]Honestly anything is really a better system than the one you are proposing. Hell, the D&D 3.5 diplomacy system...

1200990253[/unixtime]][br]Didn't you like five whole minutes ago in this thread want to play "political" campaigns where you take out the king by accruing an ever growing army of allies against him?[br] [br]We have different views of political games. Politics is about give and take, not a...

1200977392[/unixtime]]Look, PL's system is pretty damn reasonable. [br] [br][br]Honestly, I can't imagine why everyone wouldn't be a diplomancer. You gradually accumulate this snowball army of troops that keeps getting larger and larger, so anything that you can't beat socially you just overwhelm w...

Yeah I get the feeling the +4 thing is a strike attack. While you can do it all you want, it also means you probably can't use other strike attacks.

If leaders get stuff like white raven tactics and other initiative manipulations, they'll be all about the win. Sure, they won't be the guys actually winning, but maybe having one on your team means the wizard gets to act twice in a round or something, and then they're certainly tactically useful. [...

1200722748[/unixtime]][br]Um, the DM can already do that if he's inclined to be a dick . 20th level Wizards can already Dominate Person your entire party. For that matter a 20th-level Rogue can give you a to-do list and an 'or else.' High level characters can bully the PCs no matter what. This port...

1200707401[/unixtime]][br]In other words he takes control of everybody else one by one in social encounters using MY damn methodology.[br][br]I find it especially hilarious because his "foreign allies" that you take control of are also kings![br] [br]Wtf is with you and 'taking control' o...

The problem is PL, that your system isn't social, it's just a fucking mind control ray. [br][br]If there's a social system, I want it to be more about political plots and less about instant complete mind control. [br][br]Social solutions generally take time. The duke doesn't walk into the king's roo...

Well obviously, social skills are supposed to get people to do stuff that they wouldn't normally do if you didn't have social skills (or at least give you a greater chance of getting them to do that thing). [br][br]Now, the only real question is how far you can go with your demands. I personally pre...

1200612236[/unixtime]][br]It's also because they believe in the GM to fix everything for them. [br] [br][br]Yeah, that thinking just makes me roll my eyes when I see it. [br][br]They say: don't change the rules, just let the DM play the stealth nerf game to try to keep everyone balanced. And magica...

Yeah it's balanced because it assumes that both sides get their per encounter abilities back, so you start even.

Also we're not sure how healing works yet... so it might be hit point attrition that stays. I don't know.

Yeah honestly, I like just having cold iron be anything iron or steel that hasn't been touched by magic. So basically you've got to have a non-magical sword, not created by fabricate or anything. The whole point of cold iron is basically that it represents technology over magic, and it wards away cr...

1200516602[/unixtime]][br][br]Am I the only one who has house ruled the flying maneuverability rules out of existence? It is bad enough trying to bring a 2d game into 3 dimensions without including crap about how you can only make a 45 degree turn for every five feet you move as an average flyer. E...

1200496204[/unixtime]]Bah, I don't want a sex-tape about on the intertubes. That can be very bad for things like... work, and um... getting a wife/kids... [br][br]Eh. What are the chances someone is going to find it, unless you're forced to give them your full name or something, the chances of some...

1200473651[/unixtime]][br]If you're asking to borrow someone's horse, you probably don't enter social combat in the first place. If you can convince him to lend you the horse by having a good reason or offering pay or telling him you'll kill him otherwise, no social combat is necessary.[br][br]Soci...

You know, I never wanted to visit Prague until now.

Just when you thought humankind was beyond redemption... they go and do something awesome like that.

Actually come to think of it, where the hell is Prague anyway and I wonder how much it would cost me to get there?

1200439262[/unixtime]][br]Social Combat ensues, chatting goes abstract.[br][br]Opponents are defeated and though far from mind controlled they are certainly now sufficiently under the influence of the party to break any conceivable impasse.[br] [br]Well, then you need modifiers, and a lot of them. ...

<r>The moment one of my players showed me shivering touch, I just laughed and told him that there's a snowball's chance in hell I ever allow that spell in any of my games. <BR>[br]</BR><BR>[br]</BR>But Renegade paladin wouldn't do that. He is of the rules lawyer DM school, whereby instead of just st...

1200432192[/unixtime]][br]Illusionary Darkness, if I haven't mentioned it, is useful.[br] [br]I'm pretty leery of illusionary darkness. That sounds like a glamer, not a fighment, because you're concealing light, not really creating anything. It's like turning something invisible by creating the ill...

1200281559[/unixtime]]OK... So what are some uses of Silent Image?[br][br]My main concern here is that I suspect that the DM is one of those "opponents know everything" kind of people. Not on purpose, but just because it happens. That being said... even if our opponents don't see through ...