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This just in: Every superhero comic is automatically Watchmen to Frank.

A superhero RPG worth its salt has to have Spiderman vs Hulk conflicts resolved like this: * Hulk knocks down Spiderman in one punch, but Spiderman's high dodge means Hulk has a terrible chance of hitting. * Spiderman can't outpunch Hulk, period , but there should be other ways to end the fight: Or ...

Every hour a whooping +600 to attack and damage rolls. At the end of a 8-hour workday that's a disgusting +4800 to attack and damage rolls. And yes works for all attacks, melee, ranged, whatever. See that dragon? Now you don't. All at fucking level 1. I fixed it for you. Since you can make one CDG/...

The fallen empire only, final destination thing is sad because it betrays a lack of creativity from the clowns running WotC. It's like how in one of those 5e monster books, every single evil humanoid race is doing the will of their evil gods. It was already bad enough that WotC radicalized gnolls f...

The fallen empire only, final destination thing is sad because it betrays a lack of creativity from the clowns running WotC. It's like how in one of those 5e monster books, every single evil humanoid race is doing the will of their evil gods. It was already bad enough that WotC radicalized gnolls fo...

In a cooperative storytelling game, Hulk and Spiderman are being written by different people, and they each desire a victory for the character they are writing about. Hulk must redmist Spiderman for real because conflicts in a cooperative storytelling game are resolved impartially. Frank is doing t...

The hole on Frank's logic is to treat every RPG as a physics simulation game. He can't imagine Hulk and Spiderman fighting "in a RPG" because when you assign a Strength value to Hulk and this strength is tied to physics based damage (where things have hit points, for example), then it must...

We can't cover all the bullshit. There's too much. Iron Heart Surge is the Crusader's fuck-you to clever fighters and de-buffers. Nitpick, Warblade not Crusader. Unless the naming sheme is so fucked up, that Iron Heart Surge is not in the Iron Heart discipline/thingy. Thankfully, it is. My personal...

No comments about Iron Heart Surge? I'm disappoint.

It's actually very easy to write "monster-only powers". You just need to tie the power to something PCs don't want to do. Having [NPC-only power] requires that the character... a) ...stays put at a very limited place b) ...be a slave to [DM's dick NPC] c) ...have no possessions d) ...betra...

I never noticed that the penalty damage for ignoring a mark isn't as much as a striker's damage. That's hilarious. That's awful. The mark doesn't penalize damage, it is a -2 penalty on attack rolls. Still awful, though. I never really understood the difference between controller and defender. Just ...

Just take Warblade/Swordsage/Crusader instead of Fighter/Monk/Paladin, dump all the corebook classes (except for Bard and maybe Rogue) in a ditch, make spellcasters more akin to Warmage and Beguiler, create analogues to Barbarian/Ranger and maybe 5-6 more disciplines (there are no ranged discipline...

I wonder how many DMs look at fuckery like this, have a "haha, no" moment and then replace it for something more sensible.

I never ran a module "as-is". I always mostly took maps / NPCs and melded stuff on whatever campaign I was running at the moment.

Ancient History wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringing_Bell

Read the plot of the book.

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Awesome.

I didn't think I could get any more angry and disappointed by 4E, but this review is proving me wrong. I was SEETHING (save ends) at several points and we're not even at Paragon Paths or Skill Challenges yet.

It has been the case that I have seen an owner dislike a buyer's offer so much that not only did she say no, but it was no with prejudice. She did not want to sell to that buyer, and was not interested in hearing other offers. One can totally make an offer low enough that it comes as an insult to t...

Even when I just used LOGIC and FACTS to demonstrate that being a "straight best of everything" gestalt is also balanced by keeping the gestalt 1 level behind you insist on the weaker multiclass idea. Which is fine, actually. If I had to write an actual complaint about 2e style multi-class...

A) Given the same levels of optimization, a level N gestalt character is patently weaker than 2 level N single-class characters. The gestalt has less HP, half the treasure and, most importantly, half the actions. Because the way challenge rating works, we know that two characters of level N are wort...

"Space Travel" is still an absolutely worthwile goal to pursue, because right now we're a single planet species and that sucks. It's insane that we're seemingly funding this by rich private investors instead of public agencies. Still, I'll take SpaceX over NASA's ever shrinking budget. But...

Missing for your pitch: What will the PCs do ? Once you answer that and come with some actual adventure ideas, it'll become clear what kind of abilities the PCs should have. This in turn will give you a list of classes/feats/features you need to incentivise or cut out. As for weapons of mass destruc...

Whoa. I posted this over a year ago and haven't been on the forum in a while. Great to see what everyone thinks of this game. I will not be giving it a try then.[/i] You can also wait for the inevitable sale, after all the patches they're making right now. I don't regret having bought it because th...

If Kingmaker's walking, travelling and loading speeds were about 3x faster, and if Kingdom management's failures didn't carry the risk of a Game Over, I'd not mind this "random events guarantee that each game will be unique" fuckery. But as is, the game is simply too slow and involved to h...

Why is so much of the developed world sliding toward far-right fascism? Is it an increasingly successful propaganda campaign run by Putin? The fact that it's been 70 years since WWII and society is forgetting lessons learned? Angry whites are decreasingly prepared to cope with a global economy? It'...

And when you find out the when, you have to wonder about the where . . Most of europe seems to be moving to the right as well, with germany smack dab in the center of it all, trying to not do that . . but elections here seem to indicate germany also sliding further right . . Portugal is doing fine ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ja ... 06391.html
Seriously wondering when it's the right time to request political asylum.