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Fae seem vulnerable to being used as an excuse for asshattery.

I never noticed the Druid was a female before, so that point is yours. Regarding the Paladin, my problem is with her armour. It may be a minor point to most but armour with breasts, for lack of a better term, is a really bad idea. That doesn't make it intentionally cheesecake though ... swords are ...

D&D editions made sweeping changes in alternate/additional rulesets in previous editions ... Pathfinder could/should simply do it's own version of Unearthed Arcana.

The whole animal companion system.

Sashi wrote:Something like "Unless otherwise stated, a character has 6 Move Points (MP) and may spend one MP to move five feet up to their maximum ground speed".

Too gamey and complex, better to just destroy verisimilitude.

You do have an action point system, the "points" are "feet of movement" which clearly do not map 1-1 to the actually number of feet you can move How do they not map 1-1? In 6 seconds you can move up to your movement, seems pretty 1-1 to me ... so somehow a centaur can open a doo...

last time I read the playtest document, in D&D Next you had "actions" and "movement". As in you have one "action" and thirty "feet" of "movement". then attacking or casting a spell costs "an action", while moving five feet costs five &...

reading the story call of cthulhu I doubt the vessel that head on'ed cthulhu was even 10,000 tons, and it sustained no damage in the collision. To me it has always seemed it's the CoC players who play up the hopelessness angle to present their roleplaying as more mature than the juvenile powerfanta...

How about this ... all people have to enter one year of indentured servitude on adulthood unless it's bought off. Servants can be bought sight unseen for 1 physical credit. (With government printing money and stimulating the economy if there is too little demand and increasing taxes and destroying m...

They printed the sniper goggles too ... maybe someone at Paizo just likes rogues?

They don't pimp ToEE any more than Arcanum (other than using a similar graphics engine).

Maybe a producer stuck his dick in and said "here is the ending I want because we only have the CGI resources to do one," but there was obviously a serious creative breakdown of some kind at the end. Except of course it was Mac Walters who pushed through his vision for the end unimpeded (...

K wrote:It seems like a pretty good case for why writing by committee with input from producers is a terrible idea.

So you like the ME3 ending?

EA seems to have been experimenting somewhat with how tightly they can compress the schedules on a Bioware games ... but the direction the writing has taken is entirely on the heads of the writers.

Everyone hates it ... and they still don't seem to have any clue that what they did was wrong. To me it seems they don't have a single good producer left, their entire decision making has been taken over by writers (see the Penny Arcade post about how the ending came the be). Which is a recipe for d...

I think it's 2D art with some 3D effects and models ala ToEE.

-Raising the system requirements on your RPG software with pretty 3d graphics and shit is retarded. A lot of people play RPGs on shitty computers. In my most recent game, we had a guy who had to go to the hospital for back surgery and was out for a few weeks - so he made weekly sessions by using hi...

Dynamic lightning maps and webcams are a nice idea, but it all adds either prep time for the GM (making a map) I'm pretty sure I mentioned paid modules and map packs ... picking a decent looking dungeon map from a map pack, throwing the monsters onto it and letting your players enter stage right is...

So how would you go about designing a tabletop game that was intended to be played over IRC rather than face to face? First off screw IRC. It needs to have a pretty 2D map with dynamic lighting, accurate visibility for players and 3D animated models (low poly ToEE style, this is not a ton of work)....

"Tim: By mature, we do NOT mean sexual references or boobs or blue jokes."

So no brothel with a sheep this time Tim?

John Magnum wrote:I would hope to see something that slightly resembles the actual game. And also isn't nearly identical to the 4e house style.

Have they even decided on polygon budgets yet? (And are they telling?)

So pretty much we're back in Bard land. "He knows Charm Monster , which is a totally rad spell (even with its modest nerf in Pathfinder that gives enemies a +5 Save bonus on the second round of combat), but he has a lower Save DC and less spells per day because of the shitty casting system he ...

The cleric is expending a domain (though it's one of the better ones), a feat, a couple of spells, and about a fifth of his WBL. The summoner is using the entirety of their class features. Sure ... they can only throw around worthless crap like charm Monster, black Tentacles, greater invisibility, ...

Attack Bonus: +12/+12/+12/+7 (+6 BAB, +4 Dex, +3 Enh, +1 PBS, -2 rapid shot) The difference is that the Eidolon could be attacking with 3 bows among all kinds of other shenanigans. Generally you'll stick to a plain natural weapon pouncer because it's harder for your DM to accuse you of being a munc...

The one in Magic of Eberron is better.