Evil Mastermind posted:

That's not to say that 5e might actually return to one or two old ideas; it's just not very likely since they clearly want to move the game forward, not backwards.

pawsplay posted:

Honestly? Probably a lot like 4e, but the core books would cover the heroic tier only, minions are adjusted to be less minion-y but still pure chewing satisfaction, and the million gp economy gets escorted to the nursing home. More design space is left for feats to cover stuff like being a landlord, playing the lute well, and so on, while not cluttering the core adventure game experience. Probably some loosening of the GSL, since otherwise, the grogn4rds will reverse engineer a lot of 4e using the OGL and WotC will find themselves competing with themselves again. But not too much loosening. More concrete guidance on skill challenges. Consolidation of some powers such that they can be re-used for a couple of different classes when it makes sense to do so. Codification of some story elements like curses of permanent polymorph or eternal sleep, probably linking them to the skill challenge mechanics in some way.

ProfessorCirno posted:

I'm actually seeing a lot of discontent over the two books on the Paizo forums - with a good number of people especially irate at how much wizard stuff is in UC.

Gau posted:

What the gently caress is this?

pawsplay posted:

Well, I was speaking more from a 21st century, pro-sex, pro-woman, anti-victim culture feminist stance, but I understand not everyone gets that background. I hope any female posters to the board do not feel I have demeaned them, definitely not my intention.

Ettin posted:

First, get rid of all major racial advantages and level adjustments. The fact that racial superiority makes a man progress more slowly than racially inferior races is illogical. Logic dictates that those who are racially superior such as mind flayers and demons would progress faster. Rational animals of whatever race should have basically the same abilities with minor variations.

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Seventh, and this is purely aesthetic, remove all racially ugly rational animals such as trolls, goblins etc. and some non-rational animals which are ugly by virtue of belonging to a particular species. The reason for this is because I don’t believe that God (to use a figure of speech, even though I don‘t believe in God), or Tao, or the Logos could create anything so ugly as trolls and goblins etc.

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Second, get rid of all inherently good or evil races. This is pure racism.

Ettin posted:

All of that is from hunter99's latest thread.

Somehow, I'm not surprised.

Ettin posted:

Wow. I translated that into English, and it still makes no sense.

Darwinism posted:

This is just so adorable because in one way he's almost right, like Kleenex or such, but in he really seems to be saying that D&D actually belongs to nerds because they've been playing it.

LincolnSmash posted:

I remember I had a choice between running 3.5 and Exalted 2e once.

I went with Exalted.

Benagain posted:

This thread devolved from being the grognards to being the scat enthusiasts startlingly fast.

Halloween Jack posted:

Did he mention that he's half-Japanese? Because he's half-Japanese and owns an ancestral katana or some poo poo. Presumably the other half is Irish and he has an ancestral chimney-tempered shillelagh.

Wearsyourgodnow posted:

gently caress divinations. Especially when the party is faced with any sort of direction choice and the first instinct of two of the players is to break out the hand of fate ritual and ask where to go next. It's a goddamn fork in the tunnel, we pick left or right and if it doesn't get us where we need to go, we backtrack. Where's the fun in having every path laid out for you?

Locus Cosecant posted:

Well Hand of Fate is just a hand that points at stuff. You can get infinite information out of it if you're smart, but in the sorts of cases envisioned by the stupid people who designed the spell, there isn't really much room for mystery or multiple interpretations.

Locus Cosecant posted:

The Fourth Edition Of Dungeons And Dragons Was Rushed To Print To Meet A Publishing Deadline With A Negligent Disregard For Quality.

Kerbtree posted:

Which the minority issues thread is already ripping a new one for having some bloody awful stuff in it.

Pharmaskittle posted:

rolling a lot of dice is absolutely more fun, though

Squizzle posted:

and superhero comic sales are falling without any sort of end in sight.

Maxwell Lord posted:

(Gygax hated Tolkien)

JohnnyCanuck posted:

Too bad it was severely outclassed by another space-station-based sci-fi show that was on around the same time...

Fuego Fish posted:

Spend five minutes on Reddit and you realise that a lot of people who think they're progressive liberals are actually bigoted in ways you didn't even conceive of, pioneering new ways to be a smug, privileged, white college student who freaks out when a black person makes eye contact.

Angry Diplomat posted:

having read through the entirety of that rambling diatribe, I wish to propose that we scrap all existing alignment systems and just use the following alignments: such a nice guy, nice guy, alright sort, jerk, huge jerk, and rogue trader.

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As far as 'adult' content goes it'll be PG/PG-13 rated for violence/swearing/depressing things like slavery but a hard 'R' for sexual content.

yaoi prophet posted:

I can't imagine what it must be like to be willing to full out ERP face to face.

Thuryl posted:

I liked this sentence better before I realised that "crit fish" meant "fish for critical hits" and not "score critical hits against fish". Mostly because it immediately brought to mind the concept of a 3.5 Ranger whose favoured enemy was fish.

lighttigersoul posted:

Okay, then what skill would you roll to fish?

Brother Entropy posted:

God, the amount of cognitive dissonance in this one sentence is so thick you can practically touch it.

Asimo posted:

That said, for all its flaws Exalted is a pretty good example of what a fantasy game really needs to do to stand out. A completely unique setting, rules that were quite a bit different from D&D, a theme that was quite a bit different from D&D, and so on. I mean it's still a wreck of a game in the end, but I just can't hate it due to that.

Asimo posted:

Granted the system was always a goddamn mess, because Storyteller is loving horrible for anything above street-level themes, but that's an unrelated topic.

The Aberrant posted:

How he thinks running a disgusting, poor written, and sexist setting like Gor is in any way appropriate for kids is beyond me, even if he isn't going to mention all the rape.

The Aberrant posted:

I want them to grow up the right way, by desensitizing them to even the most brtual acts of violence.

chrisoya posted:

4thcore!

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My “Calling Fate” rule was a direct result of that earlier GM destroying my supposedly unbreakable artifact. I was infuriated when I saw other referees break the rules and be punitive to players simply to “keep them down.” So I created a rule that I believed would ensure that the referee played fair. After running tens of thousands of games during my past thirty plus years of gaming, I have learned that oftentimes the rules need be bent to keep the scenario unbroken and enjoyable. And that’s the whole bloody point: fun. Not punishment and torment … FUN. I wonder if some people really get that, especially referees.

Drox posted:

Having communed with the spirits of both gygax and plato, I have determined the Ideal Form of Role Playing Games, described as follows:

Pharmaskittle posted:

I think it might be better that I don't understand German, that was hilarious. Especially dude's righteous laugh at the book-burning.

lighttigersoul posted:

So what is it with people invoking 'fantasy archetypes' as an argument against roles? I'm pretty sure fantasy archetypes are an argument for roles in a fantasy RPG.

Meepo posted:

Rasamune posted:

Who would you get to play Mistress Caster?