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by karpik777
Sun Jun 07, 2015 6:11 pm
Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
Topic: Video Games
Replies: 8271
Views: 942685

Um... no it don't. The world has pretty clearly gone to shit for a very long time in FO3, and that is very effectively conveyed by the desolate, twisted and empty landscape. Between the amount of non-spoiled food everywhere, the fact that so many places weren't yet looted (despite being relatively ...
by karpik777
Sun Jun 07, 2015 5:09 pm
Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
Topic: Video Games
Replies: 8271
Views: 942685

Everything in New Vegas feels like "200 years after the apocalypse, people are rebuilding" There are just cities full of people, and camps full of people, and City Camps full of people. Funnily enough, one of the problems with F3 is the game feels like the nuclear apocalypse was a recent ...
by karpik777
Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:12 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: [OSSR]Monte Cook's World of Darkness
Replies: 65
Views: 28580

I imagine the preview images are allowed to be used, no ? How many previews will have enough art to fill a single post in an OSSR? Also, if someone is interested in the art, they can go and check that themselves - the quality of rules/fluff should matter, not pretty pictures in books (though judgin...
by karpik777
Thu Jun 04, 2015 11:41 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: [OSSR]Monte Cook's World of Darkness
Replies: 65
Views: 28580

silva wrote:Hmmm, makes sense. Though all games at this point have previews on drivethrough/indiepressrevolution/etc, right ?
What does that change?
Whipstitch wrote:My cursory google image search didn't yield a goth slowbro. Internet, I am disappoint.
Image
by karpik777
Thu Jun 04, 2015 4:29 pm
Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
Topic: Video Games
Replies: 8271
Views: 942685

What is this shit and is there are a need to retcon the ending of the first game? I imagine they did it so you start with more basic weaponry and have to do research - if they made the game set after X-COM's victory, you would have plasma weapons, top tier armor, several fully geared mech suits, we...
by karpik777
Tue May 26, 2015 5:39 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Ever been a MTG set where Black wasn't evil? Was good?
Replies: 33
Views: 5689

Are there more Abzan cards in that block than what the query showed? It looks like that's everything at least with Abzan in the title, but there might be more that got missed by that filter. These should be all As for Tarkir, one thing to note is that they replaced the clans with new ones, lead by ...
by karpik777
Sat May 23, 2015 9:18 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
Replies: 6614
Views: 720260

The Books you get to read in school are terrible by definition, because they are not written for/meant to be read by children usually. This is one of the main reasons. Another issue is that often they are chosen not because they're particularly great works, but because they represent a certain arti...
by karpik777
Tue May 12, 2015 6:57 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
Replies: 3802
Views: 947324

hyzmarca wrote:This, unlike all other proposals, has the advantage of potentially being effective at combating the problem.
I'd imagine dropping nukes and napalm on every inch of Africa (or, at the very least, on every inch of it's northern half) could work. Though your idea seems like a more likely scenario...
by karpik777
Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:49 pm
Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
Topic: Video Games
Replies: 8271
Views: 942685

What exactly is wrong with the Workshop? It seems to work pretty well for me, but then again I'm not all that much into serious modding. It admittedly doesn't work with SKSE because apparently it can't deliver executable files, but I haven't encountered problems beyond that. The automatic update sy...
by karpik777
Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:48 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: D&D 4E Sales Figures Debate
Replies: 308
Views: 36323

It is very possible, but 60% or so is not good enough for me personally. Seeing how 60% is often good enough for a court verdict, don't you think this is somewhat absurd? Also, if you'd go home and find your girlfriend/wife/boyfriend/husband/whoever you'd have in bed with your best friend, both of ...
by karpik777
Tue Apr 21, 2015 8:24 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: D&D 4E Sales Figures Debate
Replies: 308
Views: 36323

so...why are you rejecting the amazon best seller list? do you have another way of directly comparing sales of pathfinder to 4e? because I know of no other way. Because it gives us no numbers - if 4e sold 11 books while Pathfinder sold 10 it would be nr.1. But it would be a failure in WotC's eyes b...
by karpik777
Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:51 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: D&D 4E Sales Figures Debate
Replies: 308
Views: 36323

while misleading that is true. but of course I only accept data that is both useful and correct. A pity you didn't show any useful and correct data for your argument, since something like Amazon's top 10 or anything else along those lines is completely useless. I will say it again WHEN PATHFINDER A...
by karpik777
Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:30 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: D&D 4E Sales Figures Debate
Replies: 308
Views: 36323

I have different points, 1) 4e was very successful. 2) it was very popular, and I think, but can not know, still popular today. related but not the same And the solid evidence for those points is what? You claim everything mentioned here is "insufficient data", so what sufficient data do ...
by karpik777
Mon Apr 20, 2015 12:12 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: D&D 4E Sales Figures Debate
Replies: 308
Views: 36323

CaptPike wrote:4e was widly popular by any and all data I am willing to accept.
Fixed that for you.
by karpik777
Sun Apr 19, 2015 8:20 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: D&D 4E Sales Figures Debate
Replies: 308
Views: 36323

souran wrote:The vast majority of markets have room for multiple actors. Being second is not a failure.
When you have a brand that was first for a long time, having the new version stop at second place isn't a success either.
by karpik777
Sun Apr 19, 2015 1:35 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: D&D 4E Sales Figures Debate
Replies: 308
Views: 36323

But we don't know that 4e was canceled for performing like a barrel of limp dicks. Maybe they were cancelled and the heads were routinely fired for doing too well. Yesssss. It all makes perfect sense. [devil's advocate]It would certainly be possible that 4e did well, but was canceled, and people we...
by karpik777
Sun Apr 19, 2015 1:02 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
Replies: 8556
Views: 1691882

Actually it's the other way around. For example, size categories only grant +1 on grapple/trip/similar, so non-casters actually stand a chance of succeeding at that stuff against giant opponents. However while a 3.5 grapple was BAB+str. bonus+size bonus+applicable boni vs BAB+str. bonus+size bonus+...
by karpik777
Sat Apr 18, 2015 12:55 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
Replies: 8556
Views: 1691882

-No incantrix/shadowcraft mage/Initiate of the sevenfold veil/Cheater of Mystra borked or other borked Prc mages. It is only because they replaced those with spells and feats (ie. Blood money and Sacred geometry) Also note how in Unchained they gave Monk full BAB but nerfed his will save because a ...
by karpik777
Fri Apr 17, 2015 8:51 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Zero Buzz on 5E...Is It Dead Out The Gate?
Replies: 2279
Views: 308450

WotC has of course memory holed the original articles and no longer hosts them as far as I know. For the record, most of the stuff is there. You just need to edit the urls - replacing the "www" part of the adress with "archive" (and www.archive.wizards doesn't seem to work for m...
by karpik777
Sat Mar 14, 2015 6:23 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
Replies: 8556
Views: 1691882

And then take note that the designers, as, IIRC the FAQ evidences, operate under the assumption that if you full attack from stealth, only the first attack receives the sneak attack damage. I'm not sure about that - while it is not about full attacks (a quick search didn't show me results connected...
by karpik777
Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:04 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
Replies: 8556
Views: 1691882

This seems to be the original playtest - you may compare yourself ;)

https://data.archive.moe/board/tg/image ... 424390.pdf
by karpik777
Sat Jan 24, 2015 1:31 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: Redhurst Academy of Magic
Replies: 69
Views: 40368

As for the red text on the sidebars/rules - the version which had it was supposed to be for the DM, while the one without any of that was intended for the players. IIRC, both were called the "Student's Handbook" so knowing which is which was impossible without opening the book/pdf.