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by CapnTthePirateG
Sun Dec 23, 2018 6:29 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
Replies: 202
Views: 87860

Mearls is on record as hating world building, hence Points of Light.
by CapnTthePirateG
Wed Dec 19, 2018 1:50 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
Replies: 202
Views: 87860

The amusing thing about the pit fighter is that it's much better in the hands of a melee cleric who fights with Wis and weapons already. As I recall the Essentials cleric has a bunch of Wis powers that use weapons that you can pit fighter through. It's a recurring theme in this edition, where the pa...
by CapnTthePirateG
Mon Dec 17, 2018 7:22 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
Replies: 202
Views: 87860

The amusing thing about tanks v DPS in wow is that a DPS will fucking die if they pull aggro, full stop. 4e strikers are fairly durable due to padded sumo and interrupts, but the same things mean you can't burn your cooldowns to kill enemies before they escape and raise the alarm. It's less an MMO b...
by CapnTthePirateG
Sun Dec 16, 2018 6:01 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
Replies: 202
Views: 87860

Gnome is a WoW race, which is the silly part of this whole thing. The WoW echoes are reminiscent of people not really understanding wow either, because WoW characters have much more out of combat utility than 4e characters. Mages can just teleport to cities wherever they feel like it. Death knights ...
by CapnTthePirateG
Sun Dec 16, 2018 3:58 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
Replies: 202
Views: 87860

Honestly I feel wow-looking races would have been fine if the game was good. It's just kind of a criticism tacked onto the failures of mechanics.
by CapnTthePirateG
Sat Dec 15, 2018 3:20 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
Replies: 202
Views: 87860

Tieflings get bonus credit for being good as Cha locks but fluffed as Conlocks.

Meanwhile the fey eladrin are shit warlocks despite warlock being nominally tied to fey.

It's really amazing how hard they had to try to fuck this up.
by CapnTthePirateG
Fri Dec 14, 2018 6:48 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
Replies: 202
Views: 87860

I am fairly certain this edition was designed to be purchased en masse by people on the WotC CharOp boards - lots of buying splatbooks to find the One True Feat that will make you not worthless.
by CapnTthePirateG
Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:43 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
Replies: 202
Views: 87860

The weirdest part of all of this is that they could have avoided this problem entirely by letting you pick 2 stats. The promotional materials promised any race, any class, but this was of course complete bullshit undermined by the game mechanics. The racial powers are enough to differentiate the rac...
by CapnTthePirateG
Wed Dec 12, 2018 4:26 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
Replies: 149
Views: 38584

Crowd control is a hell of a lot more effective than healing, because you just don't take the damage.
by CapnTthePirateG
Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:14 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
Replies: 202
Views: 87860

tussock wrote: Next up, making characters, without the online character creator!
If Dante were still writing this would be a layer of hell.
by CapnTthePirateG
Tue Dec 11, 2018 3:01 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
Replies: 149
Views: 38584

White Raven ALSO let you fantasize about being a badass leader of men whose mastery of tactics empowered the team and let you play a master strategist. Sure, nobody cared about the flavor of White Raven but people did like the idea of 4e warlords.
by CapnTthePirateG
Mon Dec 10, 2018 4:41 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
Replies: 149
Views: 38584

Eh, looking at this more from a AD&D perspective, bit old fashioned me, when I think about a fighter but with magic stuff, my first thought would be the Paladin. Couldn't you just give the Paladin more abilities to make it competitive with wizardy types, keep the concept, just expand and improv...
by CapnTthePirateG
Sun Dec 09, 2018 8:04 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
Replies: 149
Views: 38584

They actually almost included fluff about the crusader looking for a holy land until they realized what an awful idea that was.
by CapnTthePirateG
Sun Dec 09, 2018 4:58 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
Replies: 149
Views: 38584

This oughta be good. As I remember you even had stuff like black people being at King Arthur's round table (Sir Pellinore off the top of my head, but maybe I'm missing somebody). I don't remember people making a big deal out of foreign fighting styles - I think those guys just got labeled "knig...
by CapnTthePirateG
Sat Dec 08, 2018 6:33 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder 2e
Replies: 666
Views: 164686

It's weird, I can touch things while holding a knife or sword in one hand, and I'm not even a trained adventurer!

I foresee a lot of arguments about skills as initiative.
by CapnTthePirateG
Sat Dec 08, 2018 6:19 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
Replies: 202
Views: 87860

https://projects.inklesspen.com/fatal-a ... al-review/

4e PHB review I wrote. I think it hits a lot of the "$e" meme stuff we've discussed.
by CapnTthePirateG
Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:02 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
Replies: 202
Views: 87860

The weirdest part to me about the entire 4e experiment isn't the incredibly wrongheaded decisions, it's the amazing levels of hubris with which those decisions were made. It would be one thing to just barrel ahead with hacked together monsters with guestimated numbers and powers pulled out of the a...
by CapnTthePirateG
Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:58 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Dang Bro, Paizo's at it again with a CRPG Kickstarter
Replies: 66
Views: 17750

I'm gonna disagree and say the game is actually bad, mostly due to poor balancing and garbage companion characters.
by CapnTthePirateG
Fri Oct 12, 2018 12:40 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Pathfinder 2e
Replies: 666
Views: 164686

Again.

What the fuck were were expecting? This is Paizo we're talking about, not a company known for insightful design and quality products.
by CapnTthePirateG
Thu Sep 27, 2018 5:57 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: When 5E D&D flops, will the designers go to the 3E D&D well?
Replies: 168
Views: 57699

Warrior nerfed all the 3.0 prestige classes that were any good. You got Karmic Strike, Shock Trooper, and Frenzied Berserker I guess?

Maybe bad examples, but we could use Serpent Kingdoms instead. Whatever.
by CapnTthePirateG
Thu Sep 27, 2018 3:03 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: When 5E D&D flops, will the designers go to the 3E D&D well?
Replies: 168
Views: 57699

RobbyPants wrote:
CapnTthePirateG wrote: Certainly there have been books that were a net bad for the edition, such as Complete Warrior, Complete Mage, or Complete Psionic.
It’s a side note, but what makes you put Complete Mage in the same category?
Did you not read the advice section?
by CapnTthePirateG
Mon Sep 24, 2018 12:10 am
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.
Replies: 2924
Views: 553316

The one thing that sucks about the Dragon Prince is that there aren't more episodes.

That's...really about it.
by CapnTthePirateG
Sun Sep 23, 2018 10:13 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: When 5E D&D flops, will the designers go to the 3E D&D well?
Replies: 168
Views: 57699

If you claim that it's in any way "good" that few books are coming out, you are equally claiming that the books that are coming out add negative value. That's the only way that position could make any sense. If the books written for an edition add negative value, that edition is bad. Like...
by CapnTthePirateG
Thu Sep 13, 2018 4:10 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: When 5E D&D flops, will the designers go to the 3E D&D well?
Replies: 168
Views: 57699

"goon squad" style invasion Interesting you mention that, because (and I've mentioned this before) the SA goon squad is still deep in the 4e kool-aid, and it's rather hilarious to watch them desperately slam 5e/PF2 with blatantly dumb shit. There's a guy in their 5e thread pointing out th...
by CapnTthePirateG
Mon Sep 03, 2018 9:54 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: [5e] Thorough explanation of why it's terrible?
Replies: 261
Views: 83306

The stated reason for the lack of 5e content is that the devs know they can't actually put out a lot of content and have it be quality. Look at the multiclassing system - you need to go through every class in the game and come up with special snowflake interactions to avoid heavy armor wizards, whic...