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Hint: a secret knowledge that allows you to bypass the laws of physics as experienced by other people is fucking magic, you fucking twat. Depending on what you mean by "the laws of physics as experienced by other people" this would include things like blacksmithing or writing under the ca...

Only characters with sufficient karmic significance (i.e. PCs and significant NPCs) can punch the ghost. So if the "mundane" character is actually magic , then they can punch the ghost? Only if you consider PCs and significant NPCs to be magical by virtue of being PCs and significant NPCs...

The lowest bar I can think of that would mean "some random NPC villager would not be able to punch the ghost and yet simultaneously a mundane PC can punch that ghost" would be: Only characters with sufficient karmic significance (i.e. PCs and significant NPCs) can punch the ghost. I wouldn...

That's it. There is no option four, and there is no option where you non-magically punch a ghost that doesn't involve you either shitting on the conversation or your character being a stand-in for a random NPC villager who sucks. It is not possible to non-magically punch a ghost and still be "...

Here's a potential, but avoidable pitfall: If I can generate exposes easily, I just hoard them until I dump them all at once. That's extra true if I can generate fake exposes. Iterative probability, go! If you do that, then your stories will just be competing with each other. Iterative probability ...

I like crosswords, especially cryptic crosswords. If a GM told me that I would need to complete a cryptic crossword on my own time in order to allow research of a spell, I would feel uncomfortable about the request - even if I would have enjoyed the crossword under normal circumstances. I would prob...

Use a smaller number of larger dice.

There is a subgroup of D&D fans and MCs who are much more interested in how they can use d20 character stats to give some shared assumptions to their MTP than in playing the game as written. BUT, if they do this, there will be occasions where people will want to suddenly drop back into much mor...

Listen, here's the preposterousness of what you're arguing. 1) X and only X is going to attack Y today. 2) Y casts CoP and asks "is Y going to be attacked today?" 3) CoP says "yes, Y is going to be attacked." 4) Absolutely no information about X has been imparted to Y. That's tr...

What the fuck do you think, "And you grind them into dust" is if not a fucking call to drive people away from the hobby. I'm sorry but people not getting into D&D is a hundred times better than them thinking that they should be playing pretend instead of D&D. And if they make up m...

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If your going to play D&D "rules light" the way nocker advocates why are you bothering with D&D at all. Did you read Nocker's post? He already answered that question. Just letting people play pretend when the game is too hard for them breeds the sort of entitled assholes found on ...

Lord Mistborn wrote:

Roog wrote: Yes. Although now that I look into it, I may be using the phrase somewhat loosely.

Who exactly is the Poe in your scenario

Your first post.

K wrote:Poe's law?

Yes. Although now that I look into it, I may be using the phrase somewhat loosely.

This is a Poet's Law moment for me.

I've already listed some of them. Passive defense: Anything that (...). Any (...) Active defense: Anything (...) An example (...) Reactive defense:(...)as it includes (...). Passive defenses and most active defenses amount to simple stat stacking, so only the end result matters (in this case, that ...

Mr. GC wrote:Expect major enemies to also have active and reactive defenses. Just like you... you do have those... right?

So the major enemies have unspecified defences, just like the PCs.

How would I know what defenses the PCs actually have, unless you tell me?

They actually have defined characters of course. You do realize the point I was making right? Yes, but your players realy do have more information overall about what is going on, than what you are posting. The information they have on their own abilities and previous encounters provides a context i...

That's not just a smartass comment. Your player's know the details of their characters, what they can handle, and what they might reasonably expect to run up against. Yet when you post here, you expect people to deduce the nature and level of both the PCs and the monsters. The level was easy to nar...

I'm giving far more here than I'd give my actual players and they'd figure out most of this shit if just given the skeleton of it. So your players don't even get to see their own character sheets? Because that's the only way they could have less information than what you have posted. I mean about t...

Mr. GC wrote:I'm giving far more here than I'd give my actual players and they'd figure out most of this shit if just given the skeleton of it.

So your players don't even get to see their own character sheets?

Because that's the only way they could have less information than what you have posted.

That's not a scenario.

That's a brief description of a couple of run throughs.

Lord Mistborn wrote:He also posted an example of a hard scenario that is still beatable.

Where is that posted? I don't see it in this thread.

I regret having used the word "aware" at all in my first post; it was in there as a reference to how it comes into play in some games' initiative mechanics. All I was trying to say about that is tht round--by-round tracking doesn't inherently need to be randomly generating a fixed turn or...

My arguments regarding class distinctions were an attempt to dig at the intention of the rules, since bonus feats are not defined in writing. What makes you believe that there is any specific intention of the rules? If you are talking about Pathfinder, it's quite possible that the only intention wa...