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by Bigode
Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:39 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Solution to wolfpack tactics aka Ganking?
Replies: 24
Views: 2600

Re: Solution to wolfpack tactics aka Ganking?

[*]Down among the dancing quanta, everything exists at once: Turn order is only an arbitrary construct to make the game comprehensible - it's a simulation of simultaneous events, so you do not count wounds or casualties until the end of each round. Loosely, this is how Axis and Allies works. Going ...
by Bigode
Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:45 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: 3.5 Trip Question
Replies: 38
Views: 4557

Wait, no rulebooks in Russian? And, if they could read the English ones, why translate?
by Bigode
Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:43 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Forgotten Realms Gods are Dicks
Replies: 43
Views: 6320

It's called Stone , Kelemvor. There are more things to build things out of than the souls of the damned. Learn2Architecture. If nothing else, import from the Prime Material or wherever the dwarf souls go. Maybe Soylent Green protects against both teleportation and etherealness? :P But even if the g...
by Bigode
Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:30 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Help wanted: Assistance with character generation!
Replies: 107
Views: 9706

Beguilers are awesome also because they're Int-SAD and get, voila, UMD, for any spells you might miss. That said, I'm not seeing why one wouldn't leave it after level 6 just like with the dread necromancer - staying until level 14 for +2 DC once/round, until 20 for ignoring a commonly-ridiculed defe...
by Bigode
Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:47 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Official Thread for "Non-Flashy Fighter Discussion"
Replies: 267
Views: 20510

As none of those people have any control over this thread (OP powers go to PR, concept powers would go to me if I intended this to be "mine"), I figure that ignoring your insistence that you get to dictate what happens in this thread count as perfectly reasonable behavior and your arrogan...
by Bigode
Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:24 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Official Thread for "Non-Flashy Fighter Discussion"
Replies: 267
Views: 20510

I'm not interested in changing anyone's design philosophies. I am interested in seeing a game about swordsmen actually be about the swordplay, not the dirt clods laying on the ground. The closest to doubt benefit I can give you's pointing you've been multiply requested to take it elsewhere (showing...
by Bigode
Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:16 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Official Thread for "Non-Flashy Fighter Discussion"
Replies: 267
Views: 20510

TGFB wrote:... trying to fundamentally change the game design philosophies and principles of the Denizens when you know they are not interested is trolling, and will no longer be tolerated.
by Bigode
Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:13 am
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: More Achievement Feats
Replies: 33
Views: 9496

Origin. "They hatin'" == meme.
by Bigode
Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:37 am
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: More Achievement Feats
Replies: 33
Views: 9496

Given that Frank challenged Koumei to be as stupid as Paizo, that might count as a success.
by Bigode
Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:31 am
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Jokes that make you laugh cry or both
Replies: 26
Views: 3350

Despite xcvd's desperate attempts to convince us otherwise, there's no way this joke would work for a math professor , because everyone knows that just declaring your major as math causes a forcefield to form around your lower trunk, preventing any human flesh aside from your own from ever making c...
by Bigode
Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:49 am
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Lopping off tyrants' heads to get them to behave.
Replies: 9
Views: 1268

Re: Lopping off tyrants' heads to get them to behave.

It's supposed to demonstrate that justice reigns supreme and that good ultimately triumphs over evil, but all it really does is reinforce the idea that might makes right when you really think about it. So, when you think hard about it, you find an actually true lesson? Better than intended by most ...
by Bigode
Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:01 am
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Lopping off tyrants' heads to get them to behave.
Replies: 9
Views: 1268

Last I checked, you become President Babyeater after killing President Dogkicker, and it's extremely debatable whether you previously had any intention other than getting hard-to-achieve nutrition.

EDIT: why do I feel this actually belongs here?
by Bigode
Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:58 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: [Random] Is this writing as awful as I think it is?
Replies: 26
Views: 3746

zeruslord wrote:Calling your shadow-stuff or Tainted Earth or whatever "dark matter" is just going to confuse people.
I'm fairly sure that's what the author did, and that most readers don't know enough to actually confuse anything.
by Bigode
Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:57 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: [Random] Is this writing as awful as I think it is?
Replies: 26
Views: 3746

The only observation I have's that antimatter and dark matter don't seem to be the same (in part because the solar system isn't blowing up near-instantly).
by Bigode
Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:30 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
Replies: 3789
Views: 494301

But in all seriousness, Count, if you think that my implying that Bigode has hemerrhoids from repressed rage is offensive, then I see what you mean and I take it back. Who are you, and what did you do to whoever used to be Lago_AM3P? Damn, I even thought "butthurt" meant "sexually ab...
by Bigode
Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:23 am
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
Replies: 3789
Views: 494301

I'm not really surprised that you mixed up feeling shame for real events that happened and are still happening today that the overclass is ignoring with fictional hypocrisy . But Lago, men (a bunch of men I'm about as related to as I am to Hitler, possibly less) are still being troglodytes who only...
by Bigode
Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:02 am
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: The Blade of Radiance (base class)
Replies: 38
Views: 11620

Also, arguing about what level you can enter the wish economy seems uselessly pedantic. What's wrong with the level 11 baseline? I don't think it's quite the Oberoni fallacy to say that stuff found on the corner of cheese corridor and stupid street shouldn't be the baseline for comparison. I think ...
by Bigode
Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:37 am
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
Replies: 3789
Views: 494301

I'm not sure of the point that you're trying to make, Bigode. That was a zinger of some sort or an attempt to catch me in an act of hypocrisy I think. Why don't you spell it out for me? We have to feel guilty for our penises and accept being treated as dogs. According to Lago PARANOIA (as far as I ...
by Bigode
Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:04 am
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
Replies: 3789
Views: 494301

This is all that needs to be said about Scrubs, pretty much: Scrubs: Elliot breaks up with J.D. about 90 seconds after sleeping with him to return to her last boyfriend, Sean. J.D.'s jealousy is depicted as petty, and the right thing to do is "remember [that he's her] friend" and help mak...
by Bigode
Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:36 pm
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: The Blade of Radiance (base class)
Replies: 38
Views: 11620

Candle of invocation (AFAICT). And adventuring for wish-level items in Tome.
by Bigode
Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:15 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Octopus Rules Question
Replies: 22
Views: 1583

Prak_Anima wrote:wouldn't it just be easier to say that a given creature's slams can do slashing?
Possibly, especially given that tentacles as-is need the specifying anyway ...
by Bigode
Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:08 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Octopus Rules Question
Replies: 22
Views: 1583

Prak_Anima wrote:well, here's a question, is there any compelling reason for tentacles to not be slams?

Or pecks bites?

Or stings gores?

I mean, c'mon, there are four basic natural attacks, but so many creatures tack on random shit.
Tentacles can deal cutting damage while slams can't, and pecks already are bites.
by Bigode
Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:46 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Octopus Rules Question
Replies: 22
Views: 1583

Thanks, Roy; this "make a man warm" thing doesn't suit me. :D
by Bigode
Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:55 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Octopus Rules Question
Replies: 22
Views: 1583

Narcissus wrote:That's what I was thinking...though I don't know if the rolling head is laughing at me or WOTC.
It means "congratulations for finding something retarded".
by Bigode
Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:28 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Octopus Rules Question
Replies: 22
Views: 1583

Size to breaking yeah, but not charging, unless it's omitted from the SRD (or a Rules Compendium stealth change). Well, I also think that the ink cloud is permanent, which means that you can get an octopus familiar, and do some sort of crazy thing with non-dispellable 10' by 10' by 10' cubes of tota...