The Gaming Den

Ugh, Fallen Enchantress.

Since it's been brought up, did they actually do something in their 3rd rebuild of the Elemental game that was worth installing it for?

Fair enough on energy resist being too fiddly, though reflex saves won't assist you against fire elemental punches. The comparison of Master Hunter Wardens to Kantian Pallys goes poorly for them though, as the Pally can grant immunities via aura and also have a special mount cohort with potential of...

The energy resist thing was a reference to the favored enemy bit, not in general (though yay patching). If your favored enemies are elementals, why do you not reduce their energy damage as well as their physical damage without casting a spell? Similarly, if you take dragons, why do you not reduce th...

I think I would have gone a different way with the bonus feats. Rather than putting them in the Master of the Wild feature, I'd have just given them a bonus one to pick from at 5 or 10. That feature seems all about whether you hate certain foes super hard or have a pet that helps you kill stuff, and...

Losing X numbers of levels will always run you into the cohort problem - rather than giving up those levels you can spend a feat to get a guy with the same or more levels that that in a class AND a second set of actions with which to use them. You can solve that by not using the feat or by setting c...

Gestalt is completely broken, but 2e multiclassing is closer to being balanced. Really. /facepalm Ok, I'm going to assume that there's a huge reference problem at this point. Since you have previously quibbled over numbers as justification to completely dismiss an argument without otherwise interact...

Ignoring spell selection because I can't be assed to think about it at the moment. Also doing features in random order, because I've got less time now than I thought. Bonus feats are fucked. Actually fucked. Let's say they take Beast Master. They get Track, Beast Master, Great Fortitude, Bonus Feat,...

Continuing to complain that people don't understand 2e is really hilarious, given the people you're accusing. Kaelik didn't laugh nearly long enough. If you want the thread to stop shitting itself, stop shitting it yourself. Several options have been presented, but rather than engage with any of the...

So is there or isn't there good alternatives to multiclassing in 3e? I imagined someone will say Prestige Classes to that. The default multiclassing is a pile of ass, unless you're playing in a lower balance game and can afford to voltron classes together for power. If you are playing in one of the...

I think there's a space for a Warden Ranger like the Kantian Paladin - a little bit thug, a little bit utility caster, something extra and unique to keep them level appropriate - just with druid spells and nature themes instead of cleric ones. You could update the favored enemy thing to provide usef...

Stuffing forced arbitrage certainly doesn't make it a contract of adhesion, but it's not as if you get a chance to negotiate it with General Mills before you like them on facebook. Doesn't that make this a contract of adhesion that happens to contain mandatory arbitration (which would then be subjec...

The problem is that I'm kind of in college on a computer science track, finals are in three weeks, and there is stuff on that drive. Good news is that apparently it might be possible to temporarily resucate it with system restore or reinstalling windows. EDIT: happily, it turns out that crashing co...

Finally had some time to read and ponder the update. New system seems to have done away with the point spending thing, as everything is just a 1 point order now. It's unclear what the actual leadership score (and thus number of orders per week) is though, because it's not written in. I think it's su...

If it's not particularly shadow themed until level 6 (and I haven't read through recent changes to actually know if it is), then it doesn't matter. People who don't want shadow powers will PrC out, and everyone else gets mandatory phlebotinum and is better for it.

So, game is out. Any initial impressions to share?

I thought my cooking examples weren't bad, but here are some others: In various magic systems in Thaumatology, effects of a ritual are based on the MoS - in one instance, damaging spells will do 1d-2 on a MoS of 1 and 2d on a MoS of 4. Similarly, a MoS of 2 will get you an effect that lasts up to a...

Since Antumbra's quote mentions the existence of mechanics explicitly using MoS/MoF values, can someone throw down some examples? I can think of a bunch of things to do with them other than the obvious opposed roll thing, but I want to know what's actually in the rules. Anyone mind answering my gene...

That's rounding. There is a 0.41% chance that you get 5 hits on 5 dice, which is appropriately rounded to 0% for the display. Chart might be better if it showed to the tenths place, but it would also be a lot more crowded.

Catalyst should make a splat where you all play awakened dogs and go on runs against animal control to place awakened pups with sympathetic families. Call it 'Found Puppies' or something. Maybe another one where you plant awakened plants to defend yourself from wave after wave of blank eyed street t...

codeGlaze wrote:Is there a Witcher 3 in the works?

...maybe they have a really lucrative deal with the title, otherwise.

GOG is owned by the people who make the Witcher games. I'm pretty sure their deal is amazing.

@Genies: Someone made a Genie class. It gets the "grant 3 wishes a day" thing at level 11. It is kind of underwhelming - it doesn't get a lot of abilities, a lot of them are less about OOMPH and more about flavor, and it gets them fairly slowly to boot. I think someone made some level 1 g...

Vampirism and lycanthropy conversation starts here-ish . It mostly devolved into 'use feats or items, but really items', and then was never hashed out because the thread wasn't really about that. If you're going to use items to give people positive things from these afflictions (like control of it, ...

Scroll cast - full round action, or 1 round? Full round should be sufficient in conjunction with the slot usage. I was looking for clarification, not justification, and this is still unclear. Or at least insufficiently clear IMO, because people get sloppy with at table language and often talk about...

I can make some shit up that sounds reasonable if it helps with your empire problems Chamomile. While you get less direct contribution out of any individual in a short life span species, you also have a much shorter time when the old guard can hold progress back because they're grognards. Generation...

Scroll cast - full round action, or 1 round? It looks like you want full round action, but it should be more clear (because stupid terminology issues). Wands look interesting. So long as they're smaller in effect than the trigger spell (to avoid trampling on fire mages / sphere users with at-wills),...