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You have any new thoughts to add to that? There was also a previous discussion on whether paragon classes should enhance base class abilities or just offer a new set of level appropriate powers to basically replace them. How would you design a paragon path that an arcane caster, sneaky rogue, and a...

It is an eyesore unless the colors are selected appropriately (it looks fine on 4chan for one). I was mostly talking about jumping to sockpuppet accusations.

Oh, don't be so harsh. Several boards I know have their rules specifically prohibit 4chan-style quoting, and I've seen a number of people use that style elsewhere, though they usually limit themselves to using italics rather than color.

The issue is that people apparently adjust for lighting in two different directions. Here's the effect with color balance pushed to unambiguous in either, taken from the first hit on Google. http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Untitled-12.jpg I can see how someone could be unsure if the ...

Why do we need that sort of thing anyway? Warrior type feats and PrCs will be picked by warrior types and not wizards because they advance weapons fighting and not casting. Caster PrCs will be picked because they advance casting. Sure, one of the benefits of a class based system is being able to sto...

Why is the dementor "kissing" at range instead of having a ranged Drain Happiness and a pinned-in-grapple Kiss, like vampire blood drain? Why a Silence effect instead of just a high Move Silently (it has Int and should have skills)? You forgot to specify they are blind. The fact that they ...

The Factotum beef is that JaronK does not allow Rogues to use flasks and Rings of Blink, putting them at a low tier, but argues for the power of the Factotum, which is a shitty class, using a skill from a setting book that has a list of classes allowed in that Factotum is not on because the book and...

I remember Factotum being personal for Frank, but what did Archivist do? Also, Tiers do not gauge "in-game power", but potential brokenness. 3rd Tier classes (or 4th, IIRC) are considered optimal. Not 1-2. Archivist by 20th is allowed to plunder all divine spell lists for spells, learning...

As I understand it, people who say that whites cannot experience racism are doing so with a lot of implied specifications- what they generally mean is "native born whites in America cannot experience racism in America" because they classify racism as an institutionalized attitude rather t...

Seerow wrote:
You're not? Where do they get the "all knowledge skills are class skills" then?

All knowledge skills are class skills because any particular wizard could have studied a particular field. They don't automatically have any of those knowledge skills however.

For some reason, while reading that post I imagined Arioch's avatar - the undead fairy pony thing - locked on someone's patio trying to get back inside so he can join the D&D game. Is that a mushroom growing out of his head? Is he infected with that fungus from the Last of Us? Well, kind of apr...

My assumption is that the werecow is the "kind of a minotaur" option.

I felt the mandatory chart can never be without its twin.

The zero point being zero distance is pretty crazy by the Listen table. It's DC 10 to hear a normal conversation well enough to understand it, and DC 25 to understand whispering.

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:New episode is this week, right? /mlp/ can't take much more shitposting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB7NR90hkcQ

Nope, the official release date still "Spring 2015". So expect it in like May or April at the earliest.

The party is going to have a serious discussion about whether survival is worth taking a bath in a font of pure chaos and shit.

I think part of the reason why people want to believe in Manipulate Form is that they can't accept how unbelievably bullshit it actually is. Sarrukhs are supposed to be a progenitor race responsible for all the reptilian races in their setting. By the backstory, dragons have breath weapons because s...

What irks me about the sarrukh's ability is that it's completely open in scope. The Pun Pun writers make you believe that that ability means "it gives you any published ability" but the text doesn't say that . It says "any". So I can bypass the whole needless complex Pun-pun cre...

Just a note, to conduct photosynthesis a leaf does not have to be green. Not to take away from the larger point that photosynthesis won't account for much energy intake for a human-sized animal; I'm just sayin. As for not having reasons for taboos, many taboos don't come from a place of reason or o...

That's Lesbian Bear Storm, not lily.

Darkbolt became 1 bolt per 2 caster levels, each dealing 1d8 and stunning for one round, instead of a single bolt that dealt 1d8/2CL and stunned. It also got bumped up 3 spell levels though.

Why would sundering armor require damage delay though? It's a cool visual, but I can't even think of this effect doing anything useful in any source material. It's just a matter of pacing the impact of an attack in a scene. The only usefulness I can think of is increasing the delay so dramatically i...

I foresee much rage about Twilight teleporting out of the trap and leaving her friends behind. The previous trailers involved shots of Rainbow and Rarity with the equal sign marks, and I think the shot of Twilight watching five lights floating through the air is when it happens. Comparison of the ma...

This actually seems like a reasonable place for the roll-under system. In most cases it's dumb, but so far it sounds like there are literally no complex situations. There are fairly frequent opposed rolls though, and the kills scoring sounds like it would benefit from degrees of success, with numbe...

Yea both of you are sort of on it. Effects only *might* work if they are coincidental to the user. So in-character you aren't sure if you're crazy or actually magical. Aside from separating out player knowledge from PC knowledge, the mechanics are where it gets sticky in having theme reflected in w...