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I personally don't understand why anyone thinks it is a good idea to have the rules prevent you from remaining hidden just because there is unbroken line of sight between you and the observer. That statement right there invalidates the entire concept of even having a stealth skill. If you stop bein...

Isn't "Distracted" defined in a few exceptions, besides relying on the DM and roleplaying?

That looks pretty good.

http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=1072663 This thread has a lot of potential. That, my friend, is the Holy Grail of Fail! Is that Tenzhi guy usually more perceptive, or does he have 4E blinders on? It says he's been posting for years, so I figured he'd have some insights, but it's like wal...

But there are still Minotuars and Bugbears that can make them oversized, creating 2d6 weapons for sure as a minimum. Why is it that they always represent oversized weapons by increasing the die type? It's annoying complex and could have more easily been solved by just saying that the oversized weap...

I'm not so sure that Low level people should not be automatically detected by giant monsters. and High level people should not automatically be able to pilot boats and cook fabulous crepes just because they are high level. are necessarily connected. I think we all agree that a good game should have ...

Wait, his counter argument is Magic the Gathering? Is he seriously suggesting that we're going to need to be passing around spoiler sheets and restricting monster and class sets in order to achieve system mastery, and that therefore EBD works? -Username17 Ah, Magic. The game where you literally don...

On another note, Frank and I have been discussing the idea of "under levels" that are below a starting level for adventurers. This is so that a starting adventurer doesn't have to kill rats to xp, and so that even a 1st level guy can have followers and henchmen if that is necessary. I was...

So having a system of opposed or unopposed movement really benefits from having a reverse-order initiative declaration. That sounds interesting. Do you thing there could be some overwhelming results, though? If the system allows interrupts, that could get really annoying to guys that fail initiativ...

Never heard of Tannhauser. Tannhauser However, anyone in melee with you is vulnerable to a Hedge Maneuver that puts them also overlapping with the slime pit and thus in danger of falling in, and fully overlapping it means they fall in (doable with another Hedge Maneuver). And there's your rule. You...

You have a stretched circle representing "The Twin Plateaus", then you have two circles that just about fill the larger one without intersection (Plateau A, Plateau B). You draw a small circle that overlaps the two Plateaus, "The Bridge of Despair". Plateau A, B: Close Range Bri...

...So they have 'Sarah' doing nothing but casting Magic Missile at the Darkness, which the others constantly bumble into? *stare* Yeah, it looks like their strategy was, "Warmage casts MM. . . . . . That's it." If only there was some, I dunno, spell or something that prevented fire damage...

That movement system has a lot of promise, but I'm concerned that it's not expandable. For instance: The distance between two people in adjacent squares is somewhere between 0 and 10 feet on a D&D map, and that's honestly the entire width of a 3m room. That's something I wouldn't map on a battle...

I actually think discussions of whether someone's work will continue after they kill their estranged wife and then themselves is perfectly reasonable and the people who jumped on him for it should check their dicks into a pencil sharpener. As always, it depends on tone. IMO, he sounded like a jacka...

Why harsh on Sarah? At least she did something. I might have missed it, but I don't think the Ninja and the Bard did anything at all, except give the Cleric people to heal.

That's truly sad.

I'd like to say that's the first time I've seen trolling in a condolences thread.

Where do you get that the non-combat stuff is taken out?

I've had some very fun adventures w/ D20 modern, but I think it isn't workable as a system. It has a weird mix of too lethal and not lethal enough combat, so that the system can be gamed too easily. Also, the class system is a disaster.

That, and everything scales evenly. Everybody's offense bonuses and defense bonuses go up exactly the same. (Well, in theory, the monsters get kind of screwy IMO.) Your -1 always is a 10% disaster. In 3E, things scale unevenly, so your -1 ends up being less important. It usually only matters on your...

-1 to hit is not "far off the random number generator" when your random number generator is a twenty-sided dice. It's possible to play a mace fighter, and be at -1 to hit compared to someone with a longsword. -1 is about as far off as you can reasonably get in 4E. I'm not going to get int...

Let's see - in terms of character construction, as opposed to in-game tactics: -1 from the wrong race -1 from the wrong weapon (eg using a simple weapon as a martial class) -6 from using powers based on your worst stat -5 from not having a magic weapon -1 other Most of that just shows that it's imp...

I'm not arguing that racial mods shouldn't exist. I'm arguing that two +2 stats (or, equivalently, four -2 stats) is better than a +2 stat and a -2 stat, if the goal is to decrease the penalty for picking a bad race/class/build combination. You're arguing that a lesser modifier is better because it...

lol

Also, they have knock-knock jokes.

Wow. Okay. Listen, I've worked in a game store for the past ten years, and I can tell you without reservation that if I sold people Descent as a GM-less game, they'd come back in and complain to me that I had lied to them. I could bust out the technical differences that make a fundamentally bullshi...

The penalties for not min-maxing in 4E are immensely larger than in 3E. The change to races, on its own , reduces the worst penalty for not min-maxing from four points in your primary stat, to two points in your primary stat. That there are other things in 4e that you believe make it important to m...

No, he's right. While the penalties for failing to min/max are on the whole much larger in 4e (because everyone has one one thing they are good at, so generalists don't end up having saving graces in unusual circumstances), the penalty for picking the wrong race in 4e is indeed smaller. I don't thi...