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... And there I was, thinking I contributed. Darn you and logic! Darn you straight to heck, where you shall be uncomfortably warm until you decide to leave at a time convenient to you.

FrankTrollman, on Abstract Game Balance

I'm gonna throw my vote with ckafrica: Ultimates should be 1/encounter super special moves that not only do a tone of damage, but also always do a special effect, such as set an area on fire or make the affected area difficult terrain, or stun or something even when they miss half the time, and shou...

Some characters I've been working on over the holidays. Gotta fit MacGuyvering into the Ex-Techpriest done. Mutant (300 points) Having recently escaped the slavery imposed by a rival church which obliterated his birth genestealer cult, Xaxus licks its wounds and cautiously watches the backs of its l...

We bound "The Tomes" in a green cover, and call the collected works "The Green Book".

I guess you are assumed to be changing clips whenever it is appropriate, the Ammunition number is when it jams/disaligns/vents plasma on you in the middle of combat and said fantastic awesome-spewer becomes an improvised close combat weapon. 1 cm = 0.5 m in order to calculate an event successfully t...

Why not just give him the Ambidexterity Trait and the Natural Weapon + Extra Arms (x2) mutation Perks. And have s/he Fight with two (or 4 in this case) natural weapons Attacking With Two Weapons: .... If a character attacking with two weapons scores net hits on their attack, they may sacrifice one h...

I know it's currently unfinished, but... When do amunition checks come into play? And what is the relationship between those checks and the "ammunition" value of a weapon (number of hits on a logistics test to have it, artisan test to build it, firearms test to load it)?

Bullshit, I was agreeing with Frank, not arguing with him; maybe expounding on his example a bit. Methodical optimzation of a build beats random generation of a build , beats the intentional crippling of a build, but none of those make it so they can't compete. But, actual round to round combat acti...

OH-MAH-GAWD! I'M CONTRIBUTING! I'M REALLY, REALLY CONTRIBUTING! I'm so happy I could... Words fail to express my elation, and Interpertive Dance loses somthing in its transition from movement to text; therefore I am forced to use the last possible recourse : Emoticons . :biggrin: X 9000 + 1 My warha...

In this post, I'm not arguing with anyone, just observing and stating my opinion. Please excuse me for I am responding while being ignorent of the specifics of Combusken, as I have not kept up with any pokemon game past Yellow. I don't know Frank, Double Kick is pretty bitch'n, but so is Fire Spin i...

*stuff* There is no fail within that post. At Ice9: yah... I kinda figured that was what everyone else was thinking. I picked that choice because it didn't involve the Wizard's relationship to his intelligence score, only his actions in play, which I, incorrectly, assumed were supported by that par...

...are punished for taking I agree with everything you said except this. At no time should a player be allowed to select a limited resource (in this case, an ability) that activly punishes them for using it ; the opportunity cost for selecting any given ability of a particular level must be equival...

...but the game as written "What game are you talking about?" is the follow-up question that is irrelevent. It has never been specified to which game we are discussing, only that we are discussing game design as it applies to the entierty of recreational roleplaying . Yah, in Origional D+...

Am I pandering to ignorance? Am I advocating filing the sharp edges off of the game? 4e has a grand total of, what, 7 - 9 builds? Tops? Does it not have 9,000 options to push you under the RNG unless you know exactly what you're doing? I'm not advocating the removal of level appropriate abilities, I...

Then that means you want to cut me , yourself , and everyone on the damn planet . Nobody was spawned from their mother with the innate ability to sit down at an unfamilliar game, for the first time, and not totally fvck everything up . Everybody starts in square 1: cold, ignorent, and alone with (in...

Insisting that options be removed because they're inferior even when its clear as day that you're picking something inferior by picking them is like insisting that you can't pick a first level spell as your new spell at 15th level. And that is the major problem: Intentionally leaving land mines in ...

I did a test run through level 3 on November 30th, seemed good. Try it out for yourself, you'll see it's a suprisingly rounded class. And I always love it battle reports and excerpts from actual play.

I was under the impression that if you did not select a particular Race/Class/Feat combination in 4e, you fell off the RNG, hard , and that the Problem with 4e Powers (all 9000 of them) were the exact same, each with a half-assed cosmetic facelift. In 4e, you can't consult a dartboard for character ...

Instead of magically taking 2d6 points of "mooning damage," why not I just "magically" tell that player to get the hell out of my house. Just as an enabler to a wife beater is part of the problem, being an enabler to a life waster is also part of the problem. Be part of the solut...

I don't think you can stop stupid play, and I think that learning how to play well is one of the fun parts of a game. I do think that it's possible to start from the rule that 'There are no bad choices in character creation, with the possible exception of play style conflicts.' This paragraph is fu...

Pandering to "Player Crazyness" is bullshit . Fine, you drop your trowsers as a free action, whatever ; what are you going to legaly spend your move and standard actions on? If the game says: Spend a Standard Action to bare your Ass at a monster, it has to be the equal of cutting said mons...

If you say that you can "moon" someone as a combat action, it damn well better be worth it in actual combat, otherwise you, personally, are a sadistic bastard and I hope you die from cancer, in a fire. It should be nigh-impossible to totally fvck up a character by just consulting a dart bo...

Whelp... Lets see what I can do with this.[hr] Alekzandr "The voices in my head don't like you."[hr] ...was a troubled boy, disenfranchised by the iron heel of an Inquisitorial purge that robbed him of his father, and dismayed at the number of late night “guests” his mother entertained to ...

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