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Regarding Personal Attacks: Now then, the rules:[br][br]Do not talk about "inappropriate" subjects. "X"Rated subjects are certainly not allowed, and you're moving into uncertain territory at an "R" rating. ... Do not continually bash or personally attack (or counter att...

Yes.

Also personal attacks are specifically against the rules, so even if she had the opposite opinion (which it appears she does not) he'd still be acting like an ass.

and who exactly is she trying to fight, since her own pall Erik Mona was working there at TSR and can easily disputer her misinformation with facts...and i think he has debunked the "campaign setting causes TSR's downfall" rumor in the past. This warrants it's own response. Erik Mona may ...

I've been here long enough to know that I shouldn't take the bait, but I will. First off, Lisa Stevens does respond on the Paizo boards. If you want her to see and/or respond, you should post there. Secondly, Lisa Stevens is not a bitch. She's actually a very nice person and a dedicated gamer. From ...

Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Purchase even though most people thought it might be illegal. We tend to consider the presidents that made gambles and won as 'great'. The United States without the Louisiana Purchase would be a very different story. Despite the fact that he thought we should al...

So 'nova-centric' is just like Spell Points from Unearthed Arcana. If the mana (or spell points) recharge either during the fight or between fights, that's the non-nova version. Ie, if you have 40 spell points at 'full', but you gain 1 spell point per round, you could quickly blow through your spell...

I think the fact that Josh_Kablack is stepping up to provide some suggestions for the class is great and worthy of accolades. I also think that if you're giving your player a 'new' class, it's worth kicking the tires a little to see what shakes out. Regarding the 'can't put it down' ability - I don'...

While Acid as an 'energy type' is stupid, that was required to ensure it would work with other energy types that are less stupid. Protection From Energy (and others) need to be able to resist fire or electricity. If they didn't cover Acid as well, Acid would be the superior option. Likewise, if Acid...

I think using a spell point system (ie Unearthed Arcana) would be the way to go. Rather than using the wizard as a basis (which is the only choice that usually makes sense, use the sorcerer instead). Every time he 'finds a rune' or some spell from a book, he adds it to his 'spells known'. Like a sor...

Does someone mind describing how that works?

From the quote about the door remaining DC 17, I'm getting a totally different vibe. Basically, they're saying that the DC for breaking down a door is a static DC. If you get better at breaking down doors, you'll have an easier time breaking down doors at higher level. This is a repudiation of the 4...

This does mean that you have to boost the underlying generic defensive numbers at a faster rate than the offensive numbers unless you want your game to tilt to Rocket Launcher Tag over time. I agree with most of the suppositions, but I'm not convinced that the prescription is necessary. Particularl...

I fucking hate Mana points and can prove with charts that they don't actually do the things that people say they want them for. But the reality is that people do like them, and for that reason a mana points class (or several) should be included. It's basically just a system where you get unlimited ...

So my wife's friend's awful husband ... TLDR - Is it worth going to a playtest of this run by someone like Mearls? That depends on whether your wife wants to go because she's friends with the doofus's wife. If she wants to go, man up and go along. If she doesn't want to go, volunteer to be the excu...

Grabbing People The purpose of the grab varies depending on the relative power of the characters doing the grab. Major villains want to grab the princess and carry her away. Guards want to grab the Ogre just to slow him down while other people get some kind of real resistance together. The hero and...

You are seriously arguing that tossing the ring that turns people invisible, attracts undead ghost sorcerer kings, and corrupts everyone who gets near into the fires of the mountain where it was forged just so happened to result in a volcanic eruption that coincidentally caused the collapse of Bara...

I am flabbergasted at how idiotic deaddmwalking is being. Feel free to explain to me why I'm being idiotic (and be sure to use small words). My point regarding the level of magic in Lord of the Rings is that, yes, it is a magical fantasy world. However, we accept that magic 'a priori' - if the tale...

Yeah, the destruction of the Ring just happens to coincide with the immediate destruction of Sauron's fortress of Barad-dur, the Ringwraiths, the land of Mordor itself, and causing all of his forces to apparently forget why they were there and run off as if coming out of a spell. Either there was a...

I don't know what part of this isn't clear - DragonChild did not try to claim that everything about the character generation system in World of Warcraft is good, or even that all of their design ideals were applied equally. He said something akin: the way these things work are good as an example . H...

One area that I think 3.5 got wrong was with nested attacks of opportunity. Imagine, for a moment, two characters with 6 AoO each (combat reflexes, +5 dex modifier). Character A moves through Character B's threatened Area. Character B decides to attempt to Disarm Character A (not a weapon), but does...

I don't play WoW, but I think DragonChild's actual points may be valid - he doesn't compare the rogue to the Death Knight - he describes how the options a Death Knight has are balanced against their other choices at those levels. The fact that a class has meaningful choices without the ability to ma...

While this is just feeding the derail (discussion of magic-level in LotR has nothing to do with whether guns can exist in fantasy) the point about the corruption is worth looking at. It didn't have any corrupting power that tugged on the people around Frodo, and certainly didn't turn Frodo to Sauron...

Ok, so Diablo III came out and people are playing it. Several things came to my attention: 1. Everyone has an option for combat control, defense, healing, AoE attacks, single target. Everyone can solo things. 2. Everything uses a mana-like resource that is specific to the class and some attacks add...

More importantly, how does the DM adjudicate either one? Unless he is both a great battlefield tactician and a Renaissance thinker, how does he decide if what they're suggesting is a good or bad thing? And, of course, there must be guidelines about what either one would allow a character to accompli...

LotR is low- level , not low magic. I'll take that. There is a fair amount of 'magic' that PROBABLY exists, but isn't definitive. But there's enough definitely there that it doesn't qualify as low-magic. I don't buy that Ents have to be a magical race (or that other races were necessarily created b...