The Gaming Den

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...

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...

pred preh If all you're saying is that it is impossible for WBL to be the literal truth at all possible points in time, I concede 100%. Get me another barrel, this one's split. Can someone link to the mechanics that are apparently unsalvageable because WBL can't be a strict law of reality rather th...

Basically, PhoneLobster is unironically suggesting the 4e model where you can't rob peddlers and when you stab grizzly bears, gold pops out. This is an unavoidable conclusion of attempting to hard code wealth by level. Actions and adventures which by all rights and logic should give much more than ...

Your inability to make a point without putting a word in ALL CAPS and frothing with bile is not endearing, PL, not even after 4 years of Den lurking. Unless you strictly enforce a correlation between wealth and power, I do. That was in fact very specifically what Frank was complaining about. The wea...

It should be ... WHY? It is just as easy to argue that it should be HARDER to humiliate the peasant than kill him or get an investment off a banker. It is just as easy to argue that it would be easier to convince scrooge to die than give up a dollar. These are fucking subjective MTP realism argumen...

If your GAME does not balance rewards vs challenges then YES fucking hell it is broken no I don't give a shit about your "realism" bullshit. Realism is not an acceptable argument and YOU don't accept it... except when you use it... which you do only when you have NOTHING ELSE to offer. In...

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h295/SamuelButler/Bwa%20hahahaha/Cannot-unsee_cat.jpg :rofl: Grendel's Mother lives in a cave that is "protected from the water". As in: a fucking underwater air filled cave . Going there and then coming back doesn't require any special feats of breath ho...

...I started posting this before remembering who I'm replying to. Have you forgotten that you, yourself insisted that Beowulf is a pretty low-level character? Also Beowulf held his breath for one hell of a lot longer than an hour; they started tracking Grendel's mother during the night, found her la...

Or indeed lean on the wall such that if it's there, it's there, and if it's not you can catch yourself before you fall over. I just had this image of someone running into a wall that had been illusion'd up somewhere where they couldn't see the actual conjuration, or illusion'd up such that it looked...

Shadowrun illusions get a bit complicated when you start taking into account touch illusions, for example, if I make a realistic illusory wall and you don't resist it what happens if you try to run through it? Presumably, you go through that time, and get a metagaming penalty if you don't have a ha...

MTP makes illusions unplayable, and Shadowrun is no exception with it's slightly better save mechanic. Every important aspect is answered by MTP. Can I make an illusion so scary that it ends the encounter? MTP . Can I make something so attractive that is makes someone walk forward, or ignores peopl...

[cut for length] That isn't the big issue - there is nothing about setting an adventure in Hell or on the sea floor that instantly makes it qualitatively different to a "low level adventure" once all the boxes are ticked. You're right to point out that characters need to tick that sort of...

I have a slightly off-topic question. What would be the effects of just having people increase damage instead of extra attacks? To give an example, when your BaB hit +6, instead of getting a second attack at +1, what about just doubling the damage (for example, 1d8+7 becomes 2d8+14, then at +11 you...

So tell me K, how does "has an army of little peons who are mopped up like so much trash by any challenge worthy of his name and can't even follow him many places" a useful ability for a party member? Or am I missing something here?

Grek wrote:-Prestige classes give you 1 to 2 powers per level instead of exponential powers per level like the base classes do.

objection, the progression of number of actual usable powers for a person sticking to one class is O(n^2) not O(<whatever>^n).

The point of using a different name is not so that the PCs can use metagame knowledge, but so that they know they don't have any. Kaelik might be really good at it, but I (and given how skeptical Fuchs was, probably Fuchs too) must expend some cognitive resources to throw away ideas that rely on me...

Letsee... You seem dangerous lets fight -> Agreed! No social combat occurs. Situation resolved. You seem dangerous -> Wait, No I'm Not -> Agreed! No social combat occurs. Situation resolved. You've already failed. If you can meet the Myconids and convince them to stop being wary of you without roll...

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Now I'd like to point to that "cutoff from reward" thing you say. That's some pretty bizarre thing to say regarding a RPG. The "reward" of playing D&D is that you have a good time with your friends. Then why do you gain XP? -Username17 As a mechanism to facilitate noticeable...

Exactly. If a dungeon isn't big enough to get a horse into, it's most definitely too small to have a dragon inside. And if there's no dragons inside the dungeon, why bother with it? The dragon's entrance could be in the ceiling, along a route that can only be flown, not ridden by a ground bound mou...

Of course, that potentially opens up another can of worms in that people start asking questions about why the mind flayers and ogres and bearded devils don't have class levels. "They have more than 4 HD to begin with, and class levels are an abstraction I'm using to make peons not fear houseca...

OgreBattle wrote:do the orcs and kobolds also have class levels?

Same question for all the other 1 HD "intelligent" races.

I would guess yes, for the ones that get their intelligence taken seriously, and no if you want to run the race as anthropomorphic pests at risk of offending everybody ever.

Can you elaborate? Underpowered compared to what metric, the Tome classes, an optimised Rogue, or what? The classes presented are strictly superior to a single class Fighter, but that's... kind of difficult to *not* achieve. I know for a fact the archetypes aren't all well balanced against eachother...