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Are you sure about that? Adventurers have access to healing magic, while peasants do not. I mean as an adventurer you can heal and resurrect people. It really seems logical that every family should invest in a kid or two becoming high level adventurers. do you know what usually happen to the family...

Actually, Voss is right. The Original 1974 D&D didn't really have descriptions of Alignment beyond a "Team Jersey" thing in the books. Nothing about motivations or Good and Evil, but "what side are Dwarves on?" AD&D came 4 years later. Most we get in the Greyhawk supplem...

So between the Planescape thing and the Mongrelman entry in the MM I seriously want to know how the people who wrote AD&D made their Alignment /Moral system so hideous. Mongrelmen are basically harmless and LN but are shunned by team good because they are ugly. [...]Seriously what the fuck well...

Thanks. I will think that over. Looks like the options I have are pretty well laid out, it's just a matter of tracking copies down and checking them out. You could check out Witchcraft . It sound very much what you want (near the end of the world and stuff), and you can mix and match with the other...

Parthenon wrote:The more I hear about WH40K, the more I think a group of argumentative children wrote it. With crayons.

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(The only bit not in WH40K is the three dicks. Probably.)

I never noticed before how WH40K sound a little like Axe Cop.

OgreBattle wrote:multiclass farmer/prostitutes

"I've got some extra plump crops off in me shack, if you'd like to purvey m'lord" *wink*

somebody make a Farmer chart, from brazen dirtscratchers to High Class Estate Owners with vast acres.

You mean 'huge tracts of land', right?

Well, I'm even less sure what dissociated mechanics are than I am about disassociated mechanics being more than a useless buzzword Those words are synonyms, they mean exactly the same thing. Evasion never bugged me at all. The character is just better at finding good cover to dive for, and perhaps ...

Alternately, Eberron handled this by gods being very distant, not communicating much, and not really giving a shit about their Clerics' alignment. So yeah, the scheming high priest is still getting his power from the god of love and sunshine, but that doesn't actually preclude him being a dick who ...

Orcs don't need -2 to INT to "overcome adversities", but because orcs are, on the average, dumber than humans. And this only if in that specific game/setting orcs are dumber than human. Exactly as a halfling should have a negative bonus in strength or a elf a bonus in dexterity. (if you ar...

Where does the magemart idea even come from? I can't recall an example of it in fiction, off the top of my head, at least one that wasn't a joke or a trap. The 3E DMG implies that you can buy any magic item you want, and the Magic Item Compendium straight up says that DMs should allow players to bu...

I must missing something obvious, but where does it say that the efreeti is neutral when summoned? Because I'd think that in that situation would be more logical for him to be unfriendly, if not hostile, and this mean a DC 35, or even 50 to make it friendly. Not that this make diplomacy rules any le...

Well in 2E, the dragon could practically one-shot the party with a single breath-weapon use, unless I'm fabulously mistaken. In 3E... yeah, the problem with them is well-documented. In 4E, they have about 8.3 trillion hit points each. Not sure if they deal horrendous damage or whatever, but killing...

OTOH elves are not humans (nor other races) and it is silly to expect that their mind and bodies works the same. maybe IE have perfect memory, once they learn something they never forget it, and the same is true for muscle memory. But I not really familiar with shadowrun, so I don't know if there is...

You can't hollow it out or move any of it... I guess you'd be living in its frozen lungs and gut, then? Well, you could kill it, carve its insides as you like, raise it as an undead and then put it in stasis. edit: or maybe flesh to stone, carve it out, stone to flesh and a quick temporal stasis be...

Temporal Stasis the Tarrasque, it should be big enough for a comfortable living inside. Then no one will dare dispel it. You can't hollow it out or move any of it... I guess you'd be living in its frozen lungs and gut, then? Well, you could kill it, carve its insides as you like, raise it as an und...

K wrote:Am I the only one considering making fortresses out of creatures in a temporal stasis?

Forget the classic fortress of bones and skulls, someone could have a fortress made of slaves/war prisoners in temporal stasis.

that give a total new meaning to "human shield"

There is "take 10" for that.

A system that handle it well is -IMHO- JAGS. I don't remember the finer details because it is some time from the last tie I've read it, but it can summed up like that, every skill have two values, a numeric rank, that work as usual, and a grade of mastery divided in four grades (something like appre...

Not according to 1st ed Manual of the Planes... the Negative Plane was completely sterile. I don't think that many of the things mentioned in this thread would even work (or would be incredibly difficult to make) in 1st ed. Beside even if the negative plane was sterile (and with sterile do you mean...

I suspect that time spent around undead probably involves catching weird flesh-eating diseases, something DnD handwaves away. Well, first, all of the negative energy infusing undead bodies probably wipes out germs and viruses and such just as much as it harms larger lifeforms Or maybe negative ener...

A problem with D&D 3.x skills is that maximizing is too easy and come with practically no opportunity cost. Unlike many other games there is almost never a reason to not raise a skill to the higher rank possible, maximizing is essentially always the right thing to do, (with some rare exceptions ...

You can have well-balanced things and just live with the fact that some things won't be perfect and won't get fixed until the next edition. I mean, if CCGs and MMOs are willing to do updates every few months to balance things, I don't know why TTRPGs can't do the same. Well, for once because CCG an...

In fact, from what I've seen, that's the #1 reason why D&D loses players from one edition to the next. Players with large collections of dead tree rule books look at their hundreds and thousands of dollars of a book collection, look at the new edition, and ask "why do I need this?" In...

I would assume he thinks so for the reason he gave above: Kobold slingers' ammo presumably isn't made from their own by-products. I happen to (sort of) agree with you, and think that the logical conclusion is that there is an aftermarket for Thri-Kreen saliva. Or maybe that Thri-keen saliva lose it...

Note that both the"you can fly"/"jump off that cliff" and the protection from fire/fireball yourself (or stand still while I fireball you) are two separate Suggestions that would require two separate saving throws for each one.