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Prak wrote:At least not RAW soulknives unless it's an experiment.

I had a player want to play a soulknife once.

I told him okay. Add +1 LA to the character. Now pick a real class.



...I'm pretty sure I gimped him even with that, but I was trying to do him a kindness.

RadiantPhoenix wrote:Who are you quoting?

He is quoting Dean, picking up from the Pathfinder thread (which got derailed with stealth system discussion for a couple of pages)

Yeah, if someone forced me to run Schoolgirls and Sorcery with d20, I would just say that adults are level 5 or so. Hell, I might make adults "epic" if I wanted a full 20 level game. Of course, it occurs to me that this gives us high schoolers with the ability to shape mountains... which ...

So this is an interesting look at things, since it shows just how fast 5e spiked relative to Pathfinder. Then again, Pathfinder's slow start is to be expected since it isn't fucking Dungeons and Dragons. Meanwhile this other chart shows D&D at its height compared to Pathfinder, and you can see h...

This is a load of horseshit. MMO players are constantly whining that this or that is an "exploit." People doing legal and effective things is the cause of about 400% of all dramabombs in the MMO forumosphere. This is exactly the sort of bullshit that comes from somebody who doesn't play. ...

I dunno: when some exploits were found for killing certain Epic Level Bosses in Neverwinter, some players went around teaching others and saying "This is how we do it." But the methods of doing so were quickly patched out... because a whole bunch of players whined that it was a thing you ...

SubversionArts wrote:Add "Toon" to that list.

If by "add" toon you mean "replace the entire list with toon" I might agree.

But then again, the game "Toon" does exist, and telling the people who play it that they aren't allowed to play RPGs ever again seems a bit extreme.

virgil wrote:Has there been a review of the DMG yet?

Not that I've seen.

I tend to think there should be explicit tier breaks. When you cross the threshold into a new tier, you gain access to a new set of stuff you can do, and stuff from the previous tier becomes somewhat easier for you. But you advance the actual skill bonus completely independently of those tiers. Basi...

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So I read the Ranks and Measures thing from the d20heroes srd posted near the beginning of the thread, what if you tied something like that in with your dicepool for mass combat? Relinking for visibility: http://www.d20herosrd.com/home/ranks-and-measures Basically just take the volume table, and use...

The kickstarter looks dead in the water though. 40k raised, 390k left to go, and 20 days left. Erfworld's creator is pimping that kickstarter but looks like to no avail. Just check out the comments below the pimping post . Yeah Rob Balder hawking their kickstarter doesn't give me any more faith tha...

Regarding the lazy-lord playstyle, 3e spells Snakes Swiftness and Mass Snakes Swiftness are ones I generally enjoy. They're low level and cheaply wandable, letting you convert actions you don't have anything better to do into extra attacks for allies. Yes, casters typically have something better to ...

I swear I get disappointed every time I click this thread expecting 5e hate only to remember it got taken over by a derail about transphobia.

Also, hi everyone, I'm fearsomepirate and found this forum by Googling "I hate Pathfinder."

I like you.

but...Vader + 5 mooks is REALLY a CR 10 challenge?! I agree with him on this. I'm pretty certain they've given stats for the guy, and he was not level 9 or whatever to make that an EL 10 challenge. I'm pretty sure it came up that he was like a 19th level character. If that plus a handful of minions...

Point I am confused on after reading all of this: What is the actual resource schedule for getting force powers and using them? Like I get that some force powers require force points to either use or augment, and those are very limited (unless you take that one talent that a few times so you can use...

Force Lightning [DARK SIDE TAGGED!] - Has really short range, gee. Might as well walk over and hit them with a lightsaber. Use the force is now your attack bonus vs reflex, and on hit you deal 8d6 damage and a condition step. On a miss it's just half damage. This isn't a AoE or blast so it ignores ...

I enjoy playing Dumb Melee Fighters. Not even just stuff like Casters that can melee or ToB style characters. But I'll occasionally roll up a straight 3.5 barbarian or fighter just to spend a few sessions beating on stuff mindlessly.

For what it's worth, in my games I made it so Weapon Focus can be used to add 1 point worth of weapon special properties* to your chosen weapon, and you can change what that point is with a move action. Greater Weapon Focus adds a second point, and lets you swap as a swift action. It actually works ...

Chocobo Kick: Attack for +Xd6 damage per hit, where X is the Summoner's CR minus the victim's CR. Convert fractional CRs to log ("normal") CRs. (e.g., 2/3 is 0, 1/2 is -1, 1/3 is -2, 1/4 is -3, 1/6 is -4, 1/8 is -5, and 1/12 is -6) This sounds both needlessly complicated and completely wo...

Whoa whoa whoa. A game world where this facet of magic item creation is true doesn't necessarily mean Low Magic. Harry Potter and Naruto are very low on crafted, let alone named weapon kit and I wouldn't call either of those settings Low Magic. I don't know about Naruto, but Harry Potter is a world...

One problem is that I don't know what makes things "Final Fantasy" anymore. There are now so many Final Fantasies that have such radically different takes on the world and character abilities that I genuinely have no idea what a table top RPG would even be trying to emulate. Dress spheres...

3.5 made a feat for that, although it was a particularly shitty feat. Nice thing about combat maneuvers over feats is if you are in the one in a million situation it is worthwhile, the option is there for you. Whereas with a shitty feat you take it and spend the whole game wondering why you wasted ...

I went to a B&N last week and decided to check out their Tabletop Game selection.

Only to find out that they no longer had one.