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- Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:37 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Middle-Earth: The RPG
- Replies: 64
- Views: 4714
- Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:48 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Sacred Cow Cookout #2: Game Morality
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3292
Additionally, while Belkar is evil, he's working for Team Good. His methods are suspect outright evil, but his goals - enforced upon him to be sure, but still his goals - are good. It's a case of the lesser evil opposing the greater...the Good Guys ally with the lesser evil because they need to beat...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:41 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Middle-Earth: The RPG
- Replies: 64
- Views: 4714
A question or three. The overwhelming majority of the tales of fighting against the Enemy have to do with Men and Elves. Should Dwarves be possible PCs at all? Yes. Dwarves are referenced in the First Age...King Azghal, who seriously wounded Glaurung the Dragon; Telchar the Smith, who wrought Narsi...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:42 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Healing surges and other such fail.
- Replies: 693
- Views: 43374
Well, two huge problems Talisman: 1) If you literally have a 10-20% chance of stopping the Princess from dieing, is it really that good an idea? And yet again, I'm not referring to situations where your chance of success is so minimal as to be near-nonexistant. Because prior to level 15, there are ...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:36 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 3.5 Skills... too many areas or not enough points?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2405
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:20 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Why can't 3.x skill monkeys have nice skills?
- Replies: 124
- Views: 35952
Even the knowledges sorta scale if you only use them to ID monsters; they just suffer from general lack of utility. My players find plenty of utility for the Knowledge skills. I'm also drawing a blank on which casters are also good at skills, by which I mean have interesting class skills and not ju...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:05 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Healing surges and other such fail.
- Replies: 693
- Views: 43374
You fail to recognize the actual irony: that you're refusing to calculate the single most important thing about being a hero. Congratulations. You fail to communicate clearly. And no one cares about something fixable with a wand and and 2 min - we were talking actual depletion. Agreed, but that's n...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:32 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Low level 4E combat is a bunch of bullfuck.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3325
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:30 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Breaking magic away from classes
- Replies: 105
- Views: 7079
Then you're really talking about revising the non-magic feat system, because even in a Races of War game a fighter would be best off ditching two feats for full wizard casting. So what do you recommend? One feat per spell is obviously retarded. One feat for 1/2-level casting seems worthless by itse...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:24 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Healing surges and other such fail.
- Replies: 693
- Views: 43374
*sigh* I don't think either Elennsar or I (or anyone else) ever argued in favor of a mindless berserker charge. Nor did anyone argue with the idea that, if the situation allows for it, the smart thing to do is to rest up before the Big Fight. I am saying that refusing to take risks on the chance tha...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:06 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Why can't 3.x skill monkeys have nice skills?
- Replies: 124
- Views: 35952
I'd say the top skills, like UMD and Tumble, don't need any help since they auto-scale. If other skills were brought up to that level of usefullness, I'd be happy. IMO, a skill's uses should be slightly less powerful than a spell castable by an equal-level caster (8 ranks -> 3rd-level spell), since ...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:58 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Things that piss me off about Americans.
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5359
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:07 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Low level 4E combat is a bunch of bullfuck.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3325
I would say that this is the single thing really holding up Fantastic! more than anything. Writig up powers is incredibly dull, and for a game to be interesting and playable it needs to have a lot of powers. I like writing up new powers/spells/feats/edges. Maybe I should take a look at Fantastic! I...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Breaking magic away from classes
- Replies: 105
- Views: 7079
Off the top of my head, I'd say the first feat would grant access to, say, one school of magic and bard-level spellcasting. Additional feats could upgrade the casting to wizard/cleric, add more schools, etc. At that point you might as well just give everyone full spellcasting for free. Nonesense. I...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:57 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Healing surges and other such fail.
- Replies: 693
- Views: 43374
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:52 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Why can't 3.x skill monkeys have nice skills?
- Replies: 124
- Views: 35952
Eenteresting...sort of like bards and Perform, but for all skills and everybody (or at least, most skills and most people). I'm up for it as long as the overtly supernatural stuff is reserved for higher levels, where everyone has to be overtly supernatural. Like Tarkis, I don't mind a 15tj-level rog...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:36 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Things that piss me off about Americans.
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5359
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:31 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: TNE and centaurs: A moral tangent
- Replies: 66
- Views: 7618
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:24 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Teh most awesomist class EVAR!!1!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 33838
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Healing surges and other such fail.
- Replies: 693
- Views: 43374
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:05 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Breaking magic away from classes
- Replies: 105
- Views: 7079
- Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: healing and heroism: an Elenssar free thread
- Replies: 53
- Views: 7682
- Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Healing surges and other such fail.
- Replies: 693
- Views: 43374
Brilliant! I disgree wih Elennsar here, but I think he is making part of a good point. That is: metagaming is inescapable. Anyone who has played RPGs for any length of time, and who knows anything about the system, is going to be metagaming, if only subconsciously. A skeleton isn't a threat at all p...
- Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:20 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Things that piss me off about Americans.
- Replies: 47
- Views: 5359
- Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:15 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Web sites that makes us laugh, cry, or both
- Replies: 662
- Views: 107776