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That's not so much granularity as it is simply complexity. Granularity is more about defining individual actions to ones of more detail. A system with individual combat rounds and attack rolls is more granular than a system that resolved a dice with a single roll. A system that mapped each parry and...

They also indicated that classes don't necessarily work the same way as each other any more. So it's quite possible that the Essentials Fighter (say) doesn't have any daily powers. Who knows? Yeah my guess is they're going back to the idea that some classes have more encounter powers and some are m...

3.0 was a system that everyone saw with a ton of potential and people wanted to see it get balanced. 3.5 promised to balance a lot of the broken 3.0 stuff and that would basically get it sold. I mean there were complainers back then who said "we don't need a revision, 3.0 is fine" but I th...

I don't know why the WotC shill squad shits acid blood every time someone points out that this is really obviously a change of magnitude at least as extensive as 3.5 was to 3e. It makes them look retarded. Yeah, especially given that each class is getting its own table for power progression for som...

There is a ton of information freely available. Googling "how to choose a roof" comes up with a series of good links on the subject. Crissa was equating a glossy ad with a product data sheet, and then using the ad's lack of detailed technical information to justify a need for government r...

There are several different methods of handing out abilities, and the usual results are that you either want to be an X-Man or a D&D Wizard. Very few ability acquisition systems encourage anything else. I'd actually say Magic: the Gathering is nice since it allows both. You can very well go wit...

There has to be a *reason* why individuals would go down the sick and twisted path, and pay horrid, soul-damning costs. There has to be a perceived benefit from a short-to-mid term point of view. Yeah absolutely, it needs to both be better in some way and have a real cost (at least from a PC perspe...

There are certain times when regulation does more bad than good, but that doesn't mean you can automatically ignore everytime regulation has helped either.

Evil characters can be loyal, evil characters can achieve good ends, and rules should never influence the personality of a character. They can enforce the character having quirks (fiendish spheres) but the player better be able to choose what those quirks are. They can influence the way the charact...

What does corruption mean to you RC? Effectively when I think of corruption in the sense of black magic, I see it as sort of a dark side of the force. Something that basically draws out the negativity and evil in your soul and basically drives you to greater and greater acts of evil. In some cases ...

mean_liar wrote:It's only misleading if you're really into the specifics.

It's misleading if it's advertised as the kind of product you're looking for in an attempt to deceive you into buying it. There's no need to use false terms that don't apply.

I fully agree that Arioch's idea is one of the worst proposals I've ever heard/read/whatever, also. I think we might be slightly better off reanimating Hilter as a mummy and declaring him eternal ruler of the earth. Yeah, next he'll be saying that medical records and psychiatric evaluations should ...

I don't feel like you can write effective spells that go on anyone's spell list. Seriously, that's just nuts. You expect that cleric spells are going to be weaker than wizard spells because the cleric chassis is better. If you write for wizard and cleric at the same time, then the spell cannot be ba...

Crissa has expectations for her roof. She wants it to last a long time. She wants it as close to mold-proof as she can get. She wants it to not contain asphalt. She wants it to be easy to maintain. She wants it to not be gross to the environment. I'm assuming that she'd also like the price to be wi...

Oh hell no, let's not start that 'post stupid WotC threads' thread again. Just look at the first page of their general decussion forum. Heck the stupid rage thread I made questioning the validity of using errata to make 'because one of the Devs still masturbates to old 2E PHBs' changes like the rec...

It is incredibly stupid. I don't actually plan to post ever, and I would only post about Starcraft II, not WoW, but bottom line, it is the dumbest thing ever. Every prospective employer in the entire world needs to know that I play Starcraft II, so that... I can make friends with people easier? Bec...

They trick you because you don't know about fine print and legalities. Which is exactly my point - people who care get themselves informed. It doesn't take a degree or special schooling to read a warranty. Actually for car warranties, yeah it does. Because they list what's covered. What they don't ...

I'm going to have to disagree with you here. You're buying something that costs thousands of dollars. You are not only making a huge up front financial investment, but you're making an investment in the overall value of your house and your quality of life as a resident of that house. You've mention...

Caveat emptor. Yeah yeah. You guys are being idiots. That trash on the street? Oh, there's something more important to pick up. That tipped over empty can of oil? It's not as important as the BP spill, is it? If you never deal with little problems because someone else has it worse, then the problem...

Now that's a published adventure. Expecting some homebrew campaign to go better is unrealistic at best. I mean, I played in one of Frank's campaigns and we got to the city twice, and one of the times I went alone because I was the only one with Teleport and that time it was to relay a message and p...

You can draw parallels between characters on any show. The fact that you can compare any character to some other archetype that's been done before doesn't really say much to the show's quality and certainly isn't a reason for disliking it. I can say "Those are characters I've seen before" ...

Straight up figment Illusions can never hurt you in 3E. Ever. You need shadow magic for that. Good illusions generally create something the opponent doesn't want to touch (like green slime), things they probably won't bother to touch (illusionary walls to block a branching corridor) and vision contr...

I think we aught to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan today. I don't think either one of those countries is worth one drop of American blood. Once we pull out, the real fighting begins anyway, we may as well let them get on with it. Yeah, pretty much. The real sad part about Afghanistan is that it s...

And saying "A wizard did it" is only a cop out when that's all you say. Saying "A wizard did it by..." is not. Well if you can't have writing without wizards, you pretty much can't have wizards, because you need writing to even have wizards. Basically all you're allowed to use i...

The rules don't work. The designers don't know how they work, the players don't know, and attempts by both to clarify are doomed to fail. Just toss it in the pile with illusion, charm, diplomacy, and all the other things in DnD that are almost entirely made of houserules. I have yet to find an RPG ...