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How is the PDF itself? because the Pathfinder one seems like a mess of JBIG2 images and broken bookmarks that link like shit

I play games, any game for Fun and I can forgive alot if I am having a good time


and 90% of the time that comes down to the DM, and a good DM can make up for a lot of flaws in a system

You yourself brought up Batman. Good example; and do you know why? because Batman is one of the very few "superheroes" withiout actual superpowers; and despite this, he routibely beats superowered adversaries, including other superheroes gone rogue. How? Through skill, endurance, strength...

Look at 'world' as relative and it can make it easier


at lower levels your 'world' might be the town you grew up in so saving that place from some threat would be not only possible but also realistic

and as your character levels their world view grows also making the challenges greater

If I don´t know what the target ACs for a creature in my level are going to be, how could I possibly evaluate the utility of an additional +1 to-hit? Are we supposed to be getting +3 enhancement bonuses to attack rolls or not? How about our Strength values? A +5 Inherent and a +6 enhancement are sh...

RandomCasualty2 wrote:Yeah from what I'm seeing, FantasyCraft seems to have done a lot of things wrong.

but really is there a game made that can say they haven't?

I was wondering something that wasn't clear in the book.

Are the Splinter Race feats free or do you need to use your level 1 feat to get them?

I have a question, is tumble easier to pull off than the other combat related tricks? PF tumble has to beat the foe's CMD iirc. It's basically unworkable. Jesus......why? And looking at the book that just finished downloading I see that thts only for 1 opponent and threatening squares, going throug...

I have a question, is tumble easier to pull off than the other combat related tricks?

My Favorite part of Pathfinder right now is this http://i37.tinypic.com/einofq.jpg As with the changed rules to Level 0 Spells a Cleric can prepare this to one of the level zero slots and cast it x amount of times a day where x is the number of standard actions in said day now I haven't bothered to ...

the book does say that melee weapons are still around because of crazies and eccentrics Swords are not viable from mechanical standpoint - using one means you are crazy. They are also not viable from setting standpoint - everybody knows that using one means you are crazy. The swordfighting skill ex...

again because of the rapid ease of saving yourself and being resleeved after combat being suicidal isn't nessisarily a bad thing just a temporary setback Unless people can bring the resleeving equipment with them to the fight and easily use it in combat, it's a pretty poor choice for actual wars. T...

what are you talking about, the melee weapons for the most part of have good AP, deal good damage and wether or not you use them shouldn't be decided on rules anyway it should be based on how you want to make your character I'm sorry, but this is just wrong. Take your ROLE vs. ROLL bullshit elsewhe...

Proof. All the militaries in the world use ranged weapons - and my country (the British Empire it was called back then) regularly destroyed numerically superior opponents because our troops had significantly more ranged weapons than their opponents This is an assumption that feeds into later induct...

You said the rules were equally viable, except that guns were better. This is a literal contradiction and I don't know how you can say it with a straight face. why is more damage automatically better? Better is a very broad word, and yeah the rules work for both melee and ranged combat. viable - ca...

Cielingcat wrote: wat

I'm not sure I understand what problems you are having with what I posted

and yeah you are forgetting the most important option the person wants their character to use a sword If that's the case, then why don't you want the rules to make using a sword equally viable to using a gun? You're basically saying that anything a player wants to do should trump all rule mechanics...

what are you talking about, the melee weapons for the most part of have good AP, deal good damage and wether or not you use them shouldn't be decided on rules anyway it should be based on how you want to make your character for example -cammo cloak -speed enhancing drugs -making good use of cover a...

... there a multitude of reasons and situtation when melee combat can be used just as effectivly if not more so than range combat... The issue with this game is not that melee combat shouldn't be in the game/setting or that melee combat isn't cool. It is quite cool and should be in the setting. The...

obviously anyone with a different opinion must be a fanboy..... Bro, you have three posts, your first one is talking shit about a review using standard fanboy logic and your most recent is the classic "Break up posts and fail to make points rebuttal-fu" technique. You're not going to win ...

People aren't all equal, but a party of characters in a tabletop should be. It slows the game down and can kill the mood if they have to bail out party member all the time. It also makes presenting appropriate challenges to the party tricky, considering what may give a fair fight to most of the par...

What if a paticular place you go bans person ranged weaponry? That's called "DM Fiat" or "Throwing the melee guy a bone at the expense of everyone else because he elected to make a useless character." Now, maybe they could go to a place where violence is banned, and in that case...

I don't like your opinion therefore its wrong you could have typed that and saved all that time...research an internet forum what the fuck are you on about you think this place is so special that people need to invest time to read up all over the place before even posting.... . As such, when I start...

Explain to me why someone who grew up in a universe like that would decide to grow up and be a sword mercenary. Now explain why they would keep doing that without either getting killed or discouraged? Making nonviable decisions is bad roleplaying. BECAUSE ITS THEIR CHOICE wether its a good one or b...

This forum as a whole and this board specifically is mostly concerned with mechanics and design. Can you agree that it's shitty design to have the melee-focused people be jokes compared to the people who use ranged weapons, despite melee skills costing as much as ranged skills? Do you like making c...