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by Omegonthesane
Thu May 23, 2013 1:47 pm
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Let's Play Fighting Fantasy #8: Scorpion Swamp
Replies: 348
Views: 48436

Everyone that isn't a friend is a mutual enemy. Attack!
by Omegonthesane
Thu May 23, 2013 6:14 am
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Let's Play Fighting Fantasy #8: Scorpion Swamp
Replies: 348
Views: 48436

I concur with demands for fire-based scorpion cookery.
by Omegonthesane
Tue May 21, 2013 6:34 pm
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Let's Play Fighting Fantasy #8: Scorpion Swamp
Replies: 348
Views: 48436

East is the only direction not tread by Dicklong before, so thattaway for nao.
by Omegonthesane
Tue May 21, 2013 2:44 pm
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Let's Play Fighting Fantasy #8: Scorpion Swamp
Replies: 348
Views: 48436

by Omegonthesane
Tue May 21, 2013 1:11 pm
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Let's Play Fighting Fantasy #8: Scorpion Swamp
Replies: 348
Views: 48436

What's a sword for if not attacking monsters? Attack it.
by Omegonthesane
Tue May 21, 2013 11:47 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: What to ban to make 3.0E and/or 3.5E playable and fair?
Replies: 90
Views: 16138

tussock have you considered playing 4e instead, Srsly. The Fighter is going to feel small in the pant whenever people do something other than swing at people for damage, but that sure as hell isn't a problem with every other class . That's a strawman, right there, at least if we assume his core pos...
by Omegonthesane
Tue May 21, 2013 6:26 am
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Let's Play Fighting Fantasy #8: Scorpion Swamp
Replies: 348
Views: 48436

East.
by Omegonthesane
Mon May 20, 2013 9:40 pm
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Let's Play Fighting Fantasy #8: Scorpion Swamp
Replies: 348
Views: 48436

Loot the tree.
by Omegonthesane
Mon May 20, 2013 6:23 pm
Forum: In The Trenches
Topic: Let's Play Fighting Fantasy #8: Scorpion Swamp
Replies: 348
Views: 48436

East, because this path ended up suspiciously linear when Dicklong did it.
by Omegonthesane
Fri May 17, 2013 12:37 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR Request Thread
Replies: 657
Views: 170422

Besides the fact that Jon Snow is a derp in all ways...? I think he does a remarkable job, considering that he's seventeen . Fourteen in the books. I can see it being potentially annoying that he gets most people on his side with relative ease and has no determined opponents who aren't shown as tho...
by Omegonthesane
Wed May 15, 2013 5:54 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Dealing with conflicting expectations of "narrative weight"
Replies: 57
Views: 10103

1) game systems give a default narrative weight for PCs. The majority of players in a game will show up with that default expectation. what is the default narrative weight for 3rd edition dnd? "Pretty Cool Guy" for full casters, "Short Bus Cancer Patient" as written and "Pl...
by Omegonthesane
Wed May 15, 2013 5:47 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Adventurer Economy
Replies: 120
Views: 15362

Fabricate doesn't cost "practically nothing". It's very expensive. It's years of time to study iron working and spellcraft to be able to cast it at all. It's a pound of gold to get the wall of iron, it's an hour of work to prepare spells. Actually casting the spell is just six seconds, bu...
by Omegonthesane
Tue May 14, 2013 6:48 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Adventurer Economy
Replies: 120
Views: 15362

It's unprecedented generosity for a wizard to spend about 6 seconds and not a single permanent resource to shit out a Fabricate a day for the poor smallfolk Judging by the history of revolts against the abuses of the elite, in a situation where the wealthy are both more vulnerable to and more depen...
by Omegonthesane
Mon May 13, 2013 3:30 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Adventurer Economy
Replies: 120
Views: 15362

It's unprecedented generosity for a wizard to spend about 6 seconds and not a single permanent resource to shit out a Fabricate a day for the poor smallfolk who live pitiable lives and can never hope to threaten him? (Not counting whichever fraction of his 8 hours, 15 minutes delay that he has to do...
by Omegonthesane
Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:49 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Maladaptive RPG behaviors (PL, nocker, stay out)
Replies: 94
Views: 16228

like warhammer is if WAS balance3d in anyway other than pet armies.. the dark angels as a whole are balanced against the chaos marines, not that each dark angels is equal to each chaos marine; but that if it was all out between the two each would have equal chance, and the "player choice"...
by Omegonthesane
Thu Apr 25, 2013 11:20 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Maladaptive RPG behaviors (PL, nocker, stay out)
Replies: 94
Views: 16228

I vaguely recall that the exclusion title thing was thrown out the day we got the ignore button. I think he's free and clear to partake and on top of that he did do an excellent job calling LM out on his shit that he should be forgiven regardless of the legality of it. No the X stay out thing still...
by Omegonthesane
Tue Apr 23, 2013 2:06 pm
Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
Topic: Roguelikes
Replies: 39
Views: 11051

It occurs to me that DoomRL seems to have a lot of boxes ticked in the way of anti-grinding due to its objective of being relatively small. You can't just let infinite monsters spawn for infinite XP (anymore), a finite number spawn at the start of each level and new summons (or Arch-Vile reanimation...
by Omegonthesane
Mon Apr 15, 2013 11:38 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: The Difficulty in RPGs thread
Replies: 578
Views: 59015

Kill the PC in a story, and very little changes. Kill the PC in a character-driven story, and the story gets downgraded to a basic story that sucks. No, kill the PC in a character-driven story, and the story is simply cut short, possibly causing fallout that leads to new stories. Of course the PCs ...
by Omegonthesane
Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:44 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
Replies: 92
Views: 11868

So I'll sum this one up: In RPGs, roles cannot be played if their primary ability is expert knowledge the player does not have. I would be inclined to narrow this to expert knowledge the player does not have that some player, somewhere, has a good reason to have . After all, part of the Archivist's...
by Omegonthesane
Wed Mar 06, 2013 2:42 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Automatic Success and Failure on a natural 20 and 1
Replies: 85
Views: 10637

Steel plate chest armour saw continuous use from about 1350 to 1918, was out of favour for a few decades, and is now back in composite chest armour. It's great stuff, and it totally stops arrows. Continuous use? I thought there was a period in the middle where armour technology simply wasn't capabl...
by Omegonthesane
Wed Mar 06, 2013 2:38 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: How everyone but LM has D&D tiers wrong
Replies: 59
Views: 12567

My Skype group sort of had an origin story session last, er, session. After taking advice in spoiler-free terms the person GMing this particular campaign had got us to agree to give him one free session that would be considered a one-shot for commitment purposes, because his premise depended on us n...
by Omegonthesane
Tue Mar 05, 2013 4:36 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Automatic Success and Failure on a natural 20 and 1
Replies: 85
Views: 10637

Well, it stops people from going totally off the RNG. I guess that's an advantage. No, it just changes what the meaning of going off the RNG is. Adding more AC or To-hit doesn't change anything, because you're off the RNG. The fact that you still have a 5% chance of hitting or a 5% chance of missin...
by Omegonthesane
Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:21 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: Master Race's Handbook
Replies: 240
Views: 91468

Yeah, he does. Curiously, his atheism persists past him contacting the mind of a dwarven god. That is NOT atheism...I'm not sure the word, but I defined atheism is the belief they don't exist. Not that they "don't deserve respect" version. According to Wikipedia, alatrism is the word root...
by Omegonthesane
Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:20 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR [Spin-off]: Good
Replies: 31
Views: 12812

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by Omegonthesane
Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:03 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Sidestepping Multiclass Requests
Replies: 112
Views: 17005

But my cleric has 8 Wisdom and can't cast any spells. OMG TRAP OPTION!!! I disagree, I don't consider metamagic feats an option for someone who can't cast spells in the first place. Which is why I pointed out that bad options aren't options. I don't know what to tell you. If you look at something a...