The Gaming Den

Yeah, that was James Jacobs who said "LET THAT BE THE LAW" when he was confronted with the fact he had an NPC use Vital Strike with Spring Attack in an AP. But not before saying you couldn't. Of course Bulman now steps in and says that nothing you read on the boards is official, so I guess...

Hell, instead of "take 10", sometimes I just say "take victory"...if they +11 to their open locks and the DC is 21 for some reason, I'm most likely to say "meh, you open it". How is that different from "take 10" (other than the jazzy new name)? Think he meant...

Universally so from what I've experienced, but it's not just you; look at the changes from 3e to 4e (you can only take 10 on "mundane tasks" in 4e, and there is no take 20). I occasionally get some resistance from it on the GM side when I remind players they can take 10, but it's not terri...

The Cleric part is exceedingly dumb. It would take 10 seconds to delete the endless repeats and leave only the sort of almost complete thought part. Point taken. Edited So....this is supposed to be funny? What am I missing? A different sense of humour. Guess I was right when I shelved it the first ...

I wrote this forever ago and shelved it, partially because after the Monty Python reference I realized I was totally out of material and decided quitting was better than forcing it, but mostly because after reading through it I got the impression it was one of those things that are awesome in my hea...

Offtopic but is your avatar a necromancer from the Nox game? That's about the last game I'd have thought to see turned into an avatar.

Yeah I never liked that solution either because of the constraints it puts on how you run your game. If you run sandbox games the players will have the time to craft whenever they decide they want it (or at least not incredibly far off), so that bit of advice comes down to "run a different game...

Oh, I thought of one more thing: getting rid of XP loss was a good idea. Yeah it was. Too bad they are still wanking to gp loss, but whatever. -Username17 You talking about crafting? If so, how is going from 'you ride the Gravy Train to get double wealth' to 'you don't need any tricks, you just get...

I've rarely ever used them. Generally all my dungeon crawls tend to be places where people are living, so designing traps with the thought that the people living there need to be able to navigate them always put a damper on how crazy they could be. For the most part they break my suspension of disbe...

My 3.0 MM doesn't have a picture for the Marilith or the Erinyes, so I'm kind of curious about this myself.

Fine. In 3.0 haste was so much better for casters than Fighters . Very true, they fixed the haste so that it doesn't give another action, but then they went and made metamagic rods of quicken. so the Wizard can still cast 2 freakn spells a round. 3.0 also had some really stupid fuckn prestige class...

hogarth wrote:From what I understand, the mechanics of the Dragon Age RPG have little or nothing to do with the mechanics of the video game. Bioware is just licensing their name and setting.

I haven't played the game. Is the setting any interesting?

Crissa wrote:Didn't magical weapons/armor 'just fit' in 3.0?

-Crissa

PS, there weren't small versions of every weapon. The rapier, for instance, just vanished as a small weapon.

They don't in 3.5? 3.0 armor does resize, don't remember any mention for weapons.

Wup, here we go. First to file versus first to invent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_f ... _to_invent

Though it's probably true in practice that first to file wins pretty much all the time.

... mistakenly believing it's how the US system worked, defended granting patents to the first guy to get to the patent office. uh... citation needed. I remember reading something making the exact opposite argument and I think it was from her, Although I may be mixing her up with some other free-ma...

The cover change was made to facilitate the board game aspect... I'm not seeing how, it's still up to the GM to decide whether or not something gives cover. Unless the only cover we care about is corners, I guess. Chapter by Chapter... This list makes the 3.5 update look less like god's sweet boon ...

The fuck is objectivism? Ayn Rand's Philosophy? You've probably heard of her, but was a staunchly anti-communist novellist who turned philosopher in her later years. I'm hardly well read, but from I understand Objectivism is a bit of empiricism, Aristotle, egoist ethics, and free market economics. ...

Yeah, I know, old stuff. Blast from the past. I stopped gaming shortly before 3.5 came out and picked it up again near a year ago, and I'm puzzled by some of the changes. Hopefully this doesn't dredge up old arguments. Cover is weaker. I guess people will spend less time worrying about it now than t...

Also, remember that a lot of people are really using D&D "rules" quite lightly anyway. ... However, I have now played with LOTS of people. I have played with 1e supports, 2e fanatics, people that had never played any games other than 3e, I have played with people the liked gurps and g...

Ah-hah, double agent! Who are you really working for?

Come to think of it I might have found this place when people started complaining about it on the Paizo fora.

Yo. I can't remember how I first found this place, it might have been some search on tripping fighters in 3.5 v pathfinder, or might have been a search on why my 4e wizard keeps getting nerfed. Or maybe it was a link to a post about the CR system. Anyway I ended up here about a million times and fin...