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Out of combat stuff got tottally nerfed and rituals pretty much suck. Basic illusions are now a 10 minute ritual to create an image o fsomething that can't go more than 20 squares from the origin point and cost you 500 gp to cast. And you don't even have great control over the illusion. It can't hav...

But even if he gets elected King of Earth, he won't actually be able to control everything. Not even most things. Last night I was out with some friends and a woman behind the counter seriously refused to give out an ice cream cone with two scoops of two different flavors. There's no rule that you ...

I can find a place for them for higher level PCs, its just the mix of equal level minions with equal level real critters that bugs me. Except the giant rat minions. I can accept the idea that a 2 foot rat dies to a sword or spell without much effort involved. Yeah, it's a little bit odd that you've...

I'm sure that once the message get's out that Superman is world class douche and he's trying to kill everyone, and then the TV stations go down, people will have the message. People know George Bush is a world class douche and we still listen to him. You really don't have to like your leaders to ta...

They keep paying taxes when we have unjust wars and disasters where the government abandons the area and terrorist attacks with no clear enemy to fight. Why is Superman different? Because superman isn't showcasing a corrupt government, he's showcasing an ineffectual government. The government right...

They do seem to like forced movement effects- push/pull/slide X squares, and sometimes they're useful, but the KotS rogue has no other additional effects but forced movement ones, and quite often, you don't want to use them, because you're pushing the target out of flanking or freeing it up from th...

The info about rituals will make or break the class. If they're limited to wizards, you've got the potential for 'god among mortals' again (depending on how they work), if anyone can get them, wizard's might as well be a multiclassing feat chain that you can just cherry pick. From what I've heard, ...

My point is that you don't. The government already runs as if our leaders were in hiding. We don't see them except on TV, from locations that are undisclosed until later, where they make decisions without ever asking us. The whole government runs without anyone at the controls. Right, while our lea...

Then here's a question: Disregarding some of the aesthetic changes (such as dragonbortions), is 4e more or less like D&D? And is this a good thing or a bad thing? That's a pretty loaded question. By definition, the more changes you make, the less the new product will be like the prior edition. ...

As far as I can tell, LotR is around level 3-5. Gandalf is seriously tossing down Pyrotechnics and Knock and stabbing people with a sword most days. Ring Wraiths are CR 5 Wraiths who are wearing NPC equipment and a pack of those is hardcore when you are 3rd level but by the end they get killed beca...

Thanks! Those are some of my main concerns, except as a player, not the DM. So, how can I have my character act that keeps things balanced in between no-win and cakewalk? Obviously, there will be times when the narrative is best served by failure, or by success. But what if it's not clear? I'm temp...

I really don't think so. I think once Superman goes to take a wiz the building evacuates and the politicians proceed to run the country from an undisclosed location. The thing is that this isn't really a nuclear scenario where hiding in a bunker does much good. Because there is no apocalypse and yo...

By the same token, you can just be a badass and people won't do what you say. I mean, if Superman pops into the mayor's office and starts tossing around orders under threats of laser eyes beams, people are just going to evacuate. It's a classic hostage situation. The only thing that bears mentionin...

http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/pathfinderRPG/feedback/alpha3/racesClasses/knownBugInRogueAdvancedTalentsFeatOption Ah, actively arguing against fixing rules. I gotta say, those guys just piss me off. It's one thing to say that the DM can disallow broken aspects of t...

The traps, and encounter hazards are done fairly well. Its more than just search, disable device, done- depending on the trap, it can be destroyed, disabled, worked out and turned off with Arcana checks, avoided, and a couple other options, which makes them more interesting. How do they handle trap...

I was thinking of The Riddle of Steel (which was inspired by Conan), a lethal fantasy RPG suggested in another thread. What do you folks think? Riddle of Steel is fucking simulationist hell. You fight more than one guy, you die. And I do mean just two guys. Winning a 2on1 is nearly impossible. You ...

The main problems with freeform is that it can turn into either the no-win situation, or the PC cakewalk. In either case, most of the times, PCs tend to get bored or just plain frustrated. Since there's no randomness and no systems, that means that every encounter should basically be a puzzle encoun...

For example, in Shadowrun, people wouldn't wipe their ass with a +2 pistol of whatever the fuck. Or rather, they would, but if anyone tried to sell them with a markup comparable to what they get in D&D they'd get laughed at. Hell, even as a random drop a pistol that shoots electric bullets is a...

I have mixed feelings about the 4E system. It doesn't make sense at all from a consistence sense, but it does stop the "loot everything in sight" paradigm that got ever annoying in 3.5. Because while I personally like a consistent world, I really don't want to bother worrying about what eq...

Heh, I've been unable to use my old account, and couldn't find that weird registration code until today. For whatever reason, I never thought of looking in the caption under About the Gaming Den, I was actually looking in the message board itself and in the posts. Wow I feel stupid. Unfortunately I ...