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- Tue Dec 16, 2014 8:13 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lesser of Two Evils: Pathfinder or 5e?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 11283
PF has a fuck load of options and content and advice and all of the other things that come with being an older game from a company that likes splats. Whether this is good or not depends on how much reading you want to do. It has more rules for more things, so you spend time looking things up instead...
- Sun Dec 14, 2014 11:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32620
It honestly doesn't matter if it's d6, d20, or d1000. Any flat RNG is going to be more swingy than you probably want if you have a built in exponential converter. Why should you have 20 guys voltron up into a unit to fight the dragon if they can just roll their individual attacks and lean on iterati...
- Sat Dec 13, 2014 11:37 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32620
- Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32620
You can refuse to take anything from anyone for any or no reason, and still not be wrong. It doesn't matter if you're offered shit or delicious candy. You wouldn't be wrong if you'd ignored Frank before you started posting because you thought he was a prick already, and you might as well have. Just ...
- Fri Dec 12, 2014 8:10 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32620
- Fri Dec 12, 2014 7:48 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32620
Frank did not insult you. Frank insulted your original objection and then told you that you should feel badly about holding that position. If you can't separate having your ideas insulted from being personally insulted yourself, I suggest you find a nice hugbox to hang out at instead. Just to remind...
- Fri Dec 12, 2014 12:12 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32620
Defaults are important. There are measurable psychological effects associated with assigning things to defaults. People are more likely to use them as-is or to use them as a starting point for their own modification because it is less work to use what's there or make minor changes than to start from...
- Mon Dec 01, 2014 1:55 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: New-to-You Games (New and First-time-playing)
- Replies: 120
- Views: 43315
- Tue Nov 25, 2014 10:04 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 406728
- Fri Nov 21, 2014 4:05 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How to make larger creatures "feel" large? (3.x hack)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5226
- Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:30 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What should one dislike about DnD5e mechanics?
- Replies: 95
- Views: 16001
Modern tabletop games seem to rely more on having a generally applicable framework and the DM not being a jerk than on having a rule for every specific, conceivable thing. I think this is a good thing. Since playing some other games, I've become much more relaxed and open-ended in how I DM, and the...
- Tue Oct 28, 2014 6:54 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 936538
Finally, you get some legitimate crisis by taking 36 millions of people out of misery in 10 years. Housing got awfully expensive, for example. So you have a mass of people whose lives are actually objectively better than 15 years ago, but that can point to some areas that are bad right now. The iro...
- Sat Oct 04, 2014 10:05 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: DSMatticus Want Make Vidya Gaem
- Replies: 53
- Views: 19775
I suspect you're underestimating the difficulty of Deadly Space Hobos and making all of those disparate pieces work nicely together and not be either a total cluster fuck or a boring piece of shit. Granted, Banished was built by a single guy in not too long a time, but you want to do a few more piec...
- Wed Sep 10, 2014 9:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Zero Buzz on 5E...Is It Dead Out The Gate?
- Replies: 2279
- Views: 302916
- Mon Aug 11, 2014 12:38 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: I read Paranoia and I don't want to live anymore
- Replies: 49
- Views: 9383
- Thu Jul 17, 2014 3:40 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 500 word challenge
- Replies: 219
- Views: 51643
- Sat Jul 12, 2014 12:56 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: So, Anime You Like Lately
- Replies: 1139
- Views: 166284
No Game No Life was solid, and I look forward to its return. The main characters never lose, but the way in which they win is at least interesting (most of the time, the chess match ending was disappointing). The build up and ending where they let in on the secret works nicely, and I thank the write...
- Fri Jul 11, 2014 7:02 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: New Spells
- Replies: 34
- Views: 19290
I wouldn't go with splitting the combat/other uses of it. Spells with different possible uses are fun. And sticking the plot away from the combat is one of the places 4E fell down. 4e removed a lot of the plot stuff from pc hands, and I'm not suggesting doing that at all. And this isn't giving a sp...
- Thu Jul 10, 2014 7:15 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: New Spells
- Replies: 34
- Views: 19290
How much? EDIT: Did some edits myself, toning it down. How about now? My default position on spells is that each spell level can be about 2x better than the level before it (this ties in with power growth of characters, and how every two levels (1 spell level) you're supposed to get about twice as ...
- Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:30 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Bring on the Beatings! CG Paladin Alternate [Pathfinder]
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3963
I'm pretty sure sarcasmoverdose is using these balance categories (or the old names for them anyway).
We don't much care for the tiers around here, reasons available upon request. You can sort of map some aspects of them to these categories if your used to thinking in those terms already though.
We don't much care for the tiers around here, reasons available upon request. You can sort of map some aspects of them to these categories if your used to thinking in those terms already though.
- Tue Jul 08, 2014 5:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Wanna scratch my wargaming itch
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3610
There's one where you build your own figures with legos. Really . As a bonus, it's CC licensed if you want to look it over without throwing money at it. Not that I know if the game is any good or if you have sufficient legos or people to play it, but I thought it worth mentioning as a model alternat...
- Tue Jul 08, 2014 5:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Legend: some dude's d20 clone
- Replies: 298
- Views: 62522
They did another round of errata back in May, but they still don't have a monster book. The monster book still has no firm release date or even a preview. So while the basic document is probably tighter now (not that I've read it), you're still rolling all of your own opposition and encounter design...
- Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:33 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Gaming promo: I am out of touch and have no idea what to get
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3643
The Deus Ex box on there looks like the directors cut, and it should be on your list. If you like set piece action movies, Tomb Raider is easy to recommend. It's a series reboot, so not having played it in forever doesn't matter. I liked both of the darksiders, though 2 is probably better done. They...
- Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:18 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Video Games
- Replies: 8270
- Views: 927493
- Thu Jul 03, 2014 2:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Beasts of Burden and War.
- Replies: 66
- Views: 18958
If high level characters are all going to end up on a dragon of some color anyway, why are you concerned with every race getting a 'flying' mount? Every PC likely needs access to one, but it seems odd to say that all of the underground races have flying mounts for burden and war. Wouldn't climbing, ...