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Casters can't do "everything" in 5e. The concentration rules in particular mean they can usually only have one ongoing effect at a time. And anyone who can hit hard enough can end that effect.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 16:45 |
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Paizo didn't just tell you you could make a trans character - they made one themselves, and made her the iconic for her class. So yeah, I'd say that if you're looking for inclusiveness, Pathfinder is better than DnDNext.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 16:49 |
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Capfalcon posted:I'm actually imaging the "villain" is a divine toddler who is throwing a tantrum because "I'M NOT TIRED! I DON'T WANNA GO TO SLEEP! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME! I'LL SHOW YOU, I'LL PUT OUT THE SUN SO NO ONE CAN TELL ME GO TO BED EVER!" My first thought was Leon Belmont. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PrHEelh5oo
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 17:27 |
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I kinda want to use the divine toddler now, maybe in an ars magica game.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 17:33 |
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Gaming-Poet;19332539 posted:Could someone please cite for me the experience points formula for a cleric's turning of undead (or provide for me page number and column in the DMG -- or wherever it happens to be)? Digitalelf;19332964 posted:Table 34 in the DMG says that Priest's receive 100 XP for each successful use of a granted power. I personally give characters 1/2 XP (in addition to the 100 XP) for successfully turning/destroying undead... Gaming-Poet;19336765 posted:True, but it goes against the overall D&D philosophy if a cleric who kills off (i.e. "dispels") a 6000 XP undead with a particularly successful Turn Undead earns only 100 experience points but that same cleric who ignores the Turn Undead ability and insteads kills off that same 6000 XP undead with a particularly effective critical success mace bash now earns 6000 experience points. Digitalelf;19337563 posted:I don't think it does, because if the cleric enters melee with the undead, he is using his hard won skill at arms to defeat the creature, but, if he uses his turning ability, he is "simply" calling upon the might and holy righteousness of his deity to channel through him in order to drive the foe away (or destroy it if he is high enough level to do so). Gaming-Poet;19338596 posted:That's D&D 4th edition thinking, not AD&D. Digitalelf;19341637 posted:I never played 4th edition, so I wouldn't know. :smalltongue: And now things get Gaming-Poet;19340838 posted:That's my fear. Digitalelf;19342031 posted:Why all the hostility and snark?? Gaming-Poet;19342176 posted:I have a great deal of respect for other opinions, including those which differ from mine (so long as they are rational or are clearly owned by the person). Digitalelf;19342441 posted:Wow... Just wow... Gaming-Poet;19343029 posted:Oh? I will take your word on this and try to remember it in the future.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 17:36 |
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nelson posted:Casters can't do "everything" in 5e. The concentration rules in particular mean they can usually only have one ongoing effect at a time. And anyone who can hit hard enough can end that effect. That just shows they can't do everything at once. But they can still do everything. Think of any kind of task that you might do in D&D. Killing monsters, open doors, obtaining information, flying, resurrecting the dead, teleporting, summoning allies, compel people to do your bidding, hiding, disguising, tricking, repairing, and so forth. Casters can do all of these things. Martials can do only some of them, and typically not even as good as casters might. (Rogue stealth isn't as good as outright invisibility or transforming yourself into a mouse, for instance.)
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 17:37 |
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Littlefinger posted:It seems the two flagship names in the industry are 1) a lovely system, but the company made some good moves towards inclusivity in hiring, PR and recent fluff, and 2) a mediocre system with lovely people at its wheel. Wait, which one is the former? The latter has to be D&D since we're talking about Mearls, but what about the first one?
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 17:48 |
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Oh, I remember Gaming Poet. He was the guy who came to RPGnet to have a minor tanty about how evil Changeling: the Lost was for presenting its fake fairy tales as "the truth."
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 17:48 |
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(in 4th edition the party would get the full allotment of experience no matter how they disposed of the skeletons, so the guy who said that reducing it for killing them with an "easier" power is "4th edition thinking" is, shockingly, not aware of how 4e works.)
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 17:49 |
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paradoxGentleman posted:Wait, which one is the former? The latter has to be D&D since we're talking about Mearls, but what about the first one? Pathfinder. The system is bad, the people are good.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 17:56 |
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Lightning Lord posted:I dunno if this or the chat thread is the place for this (or even the Old School Thread™) but the ones with legitimate creepy retrograde opinions aside, the thing about grogs that make me so mad is that they just make the rest of us people who want to play BECMI or Chivalry & Sorcery look stupid. I just want to do goofy dungeon poo poo, I don't know these folks. quote:I'm really not interested in how a 2015 player would want to adjudicate AD&D 2nd edition, but thank you for playing. I only just got into the hobby two years ago, I love Basic D&D and would like to run AD&D someday, and boy does this make me mad. It's really common too for people in "the OSR" to want to try and draw distinct lines between themselves and the rest of the community, as if the strict enforcement of "the Thief can only attempt to unlock a door once per level" wasn't already a strict enforcement of fail-forward years before its time.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 17:59 |
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Rand Brittain posted:Oh, I remember Gaming Poet. He was the guy who came to RPGnet to have a minor tanty about how evil Changeling: the Lost was for presenting its fake fairy tales as "the truth." I missed that one. I was just in awe of how much he went off of the dude who seemed to be sincerely trying to help. Like saying he accused him of lying, taking 'if you care to look' as an accusation of laziness, etc. The whole thing is just gradenko_2000 posted:I only just got into the hobby two years ago, I love Basic D&D and would like to run AD&D someday, and boy does this make me mad. dwarf74 fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jun 19, 2015 |
# ? Jun 19, 2015 17:59 |
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dwarf74 posted:IME, most osr folks just love their old games and are really helpful if you stay on target. Y'know, I really do try to keep an open mind and it's not like I haven't seen some retroclones that are pretty cool (Dark Dungeons, Beyond the Wall, Scarlet Heroes/Exemplars & Eidolons, etc.) but pretty much any time I've seen a serious OSR dude going off about elfgames they've almost always been some stripe of insufferable. It doesn't even have to be creepy sex stuff or book burning, but I've yet to find the OSR community that's made me go "yeah I would totally love to sit down and game with these people, sure thing."
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 18:21 |
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OSR people like old stuff, or at least the illusion of old stuff. Therefore they tend to be older dudes, who came up at a time when things were different and like most people they just went with it. So they inherited a lot of gross views and lovely beliefs about groups of people who (as far as I can tell) people around here are more accepting towards. So there's a pretty big overlap between OSR dudes, grogs, and conservatives. There are exceptions, but that's just what I've noticed. I've seen it happen so often that I just conflate OSR and lovely views in my head now.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 19:10 |
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I've heard 4e unironically called socialism because all the classes are balanced. It's a game for "everybody gets a trophy millennials." Thanks, Obama.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 19:39 |
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dwarf74 posted:Do you also own every copy of every gaming magazine that was considered canonical or its equivalent at the time, including Dragon, Dungeon, Shadis, White Dwarf, Space Gamer, Fantasy Gamer, Alarums & Excursions, Different Worlds, and possibly Pyramid and InQuest? As someone who was playing during said years: ahahahahahahaha no. Unless it was Word of Gygax (substitute Word of Miller, Word of Stafford, etc., as appropriate for game system), magazine article stuff was not "coequal to the rules" in any group I was in. And this guy knows it, as suggested by his later waffling about "options, not mandates." And is this guy trying to suggest that the Internet really killed variants and homebrew? Shwoo.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 20:54 |
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Noted source of old school D&D rulings, InQuest.
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 23:35 |
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moths posted:I've heard 4e unironically called socialism because all the classes are balanced. It's a game for "everybody gets a trophy snake people." Thanks, Obama. I love this filter so goddamn much. Also I'm sure there are some cool OSR people but literally literally literally every one I;ve ever come into contact with has been just terrible to deal with. It's like the ENWorld forums game: find a thread at least three pages long, and see if you can go without ever once muttering "christ, gently caress off"
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# ? Jun 19, 2015 23:52 |
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ProfessorCirno posted:I love this filter so goddamn much. Really wish they had that for Firefox. And also the one that changes "SJW" into "skeleton."
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 00:05 |
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ProfessorCirno posted:I love this filter so goddamn much. I love the notion that balanced play is socialist. As if what you do before the game even begins could be equated to work or deeds. "gently caress, you didn't write 'wizard' on your charactersheet, you're a goddamned Marxist."
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 00:08 |
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Nihilarian posted:Paizo didn't just tell you you could make a trans character - they made one themselves, and made her the iconic for her class. So yeah, I'd say that if you're looking for inclusiveness, Pathfinder is better than DnDNext. That's a pile of undifferentiated rubble and fabric swatches with a frowny face on top
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 03:11 |
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I legitimately think Wayne Reynolds is an awful artist.
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 03:30 |
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Shadeoses posted:That's a pile of undifferentiated rubble and fabric swatches with a frowny face on top I assume that there's one picture of this character for every three hundred of that elf wearing the weird red chaps.
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 03:37 |
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Mendrian posted:I love the notion that balanced play is socialist. As if what you do before the game even begins could be equated to work or deeds. "gently caress, you didn't write 'wizard' on your charactersheet, you're a goddamned Marxist." I have seized the means of random outcome determination, comrade.
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 03:38 |
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ProfessorCirno posted:I legitimately think Wayne Reynolds is an awful artist. He's Paizo's John Kovalic.
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 03:42 |
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theironjef posted:I assume that there's one picture of this character for every three hundred of that elf wearing the weird red chaps. The Iconic Sorcerer?
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 03:43 |
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theironjef posted:that elf wearing the weird red chaps.
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 03:46 |
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ProfessorCirno posted:I legitimately think Wayne Reynolds is an awful artist. His coloring is good, but he has this whole thing where everyone has to always be mean-mugging and absolutely covered in random crap. Backpacks are super fragile in the world of Wayne Reynolds, and people are not happy about it. Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Jun 20, 2015 |
# ? Jun 20, 2015 04:00 |
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I think WAR is a pretty good artist, he's just way overexposed on Pathfinder covers and interior art and it's made me heartily sick of his work. Same thing happened to Alex Ross' work in comics last decade.
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 04:05 |
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Shadeoses posted:That's a pile of undifferentiated rubble and fabric swatches with a frowny face on top
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 04:10 |
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Alex Ross's art not being conducive to storytelling didn't help
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 04:50 |
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ProfessorCirno posted:I legitimately think Wayne Reynolds is an awful artist. You are correct to think this. The guy never met a fiddly detail he didn't want to repeat seventy times per picture.
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 08:16 |
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Shadeoses posted:The Iconic Sorcerer? Yeah, probably. Why, are there two?
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 08:21 |
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Mendrian posted:I love the notion that balanced play is socialist. As if what you do before the game even begins could be equated to work or deeds. "gently caress, you didn't write 'wizard' on your charactersheet, you're a goddamned Marxist." When I roll fighter, they call me a saint. When I ask why no-one wants to play fighter in the first place, they call me a socialist.
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 09:23 |
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Wayne Reynolds can be an okay artist. That dwarf however is maximum poo poo though. Half the poo poo she's carrying and wearing doesn't even look attached, it's just kinda hovering. I swear it looks like that dagger and pouch are both literally cut-and-pasted on top of the image.
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 15:24 |
Plague of Hats posted:Noted source of old school D&D rulings, InQuest. Wait, wasn't InQuest run by Wizard? Gareb Shamus's Wizard?
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 17:22 |
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I like WAR's historical art, he's in a few Osprey books and that stuff looks much better than his fantasy. He did their book on Carolingian cavalry and this sweet book on warrior monks. Naginata ahoy!
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FishFood posted:I like WAR's historical art, he's in a few Osprey books and that stuff looks much better than his fantasy. He did their book on Carolingian cavalry and this sweet book on warrior monks. Naginata ahoy! Apparently he does way better when he's not doing the weird dungeonpunk 'thousand fiddly bits' stuff, because the art here looks pretty good. Interesting to know.
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 17:52 |
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Night10194 posted:Apparently he does way better when he's not doing the weird dungeonpunk 'thousand fiddly bits' stuff, because the art here looks pretty good. Interesting to know. I am very shocked that the cavalry picture has actual boots and not the weird hooves he gives everyone. Also that no one is running around pretending to be an airplane
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# ? Jun 20, 2015 18:02 |
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Personally, I'm more than kind of sick of his idea of facial features, and I am not sure if he knows how to draw a woman without flashing some thigh, or cleavage, or midriff. Those historical illustrations are pretty good, though - why the hell can't the people at Paizo go, "This. This with more dragons," instead of letting the kermit faces and bucklepocalypses slide?
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