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the best fighter in the word, taking up his most magical sword, misses 5% of the time
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opaopa13 posted:But along the way he also discovers that he is very much interested in studying battle tactics, and so takes up with a warlord for a while to study battle strategies. Does he believe that you need to be of a specific character class in order to plan? If so, which class would that be? I'm not seeing how 3e would have solved this conundrum of his.
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Jul 17, 2009 04:47
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But you see, a character can't have been formerly a thing unless it currently affects his gameplay mechanics! Honestly, if I were going for "sorcerous past now a monk but also a warlord" I would be a Monk, get ST: Arcana, and multi into Warlord.
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Jul 17, 2009 04:57
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LightWarden posted:Does he believe that you need to be of a specific character class in order to plan? If so, which class would that be? Fighters plan for the immediate battle. Paladins do the overall campaign and wizards offer magical advice on this. Rangers would naturally take charge in mountains while druids for the woods. Rogues would be incharge of all city planning. Monks would be coaches of all dueling affairs, aswell as most social encounters.
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Jul 17, 2009 05:09
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The General posted:Fighters plan for the immediate battle. Paladins do the overall campaign and wizards offer magical advice on this. Bullshit! In social encounters, the monk's job is to sit back and look inscrutable.
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Jul 17, 2009 05:22
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PeterWeller posted:Bullshit! In social encounters, the monk's job is to sit back and look inscrutable. Also to confound and entertain others with zen musings.
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Jul 17, 2009 05:23
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Drox posted:Also to confound and entertain others with zen musings. He should also strive to spend an hour or two every day sitting on a rock or examining a pebble. Bonus RP XP for lotus position.
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Jul 17, 2009 05:26
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I love how grognards insisting on their right to play weird and often ridiculous character concepts still can't imagine a monk that's not Bruce Lee combined with the Dalai Lama.
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Jul 17, 2009 05:49
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Pieces of Peace posted:I love how grognards insisting on their right to play weird and often ridiculous character concepts still can't imagine a monk that's not Bruce Lee combined with the Dalai Lama. To be fair though D&D Monks pretty much always are in some way like that, I mean you can be different KINDS of Bruce Lee and all but all in all you're still the wise and ponderous guy who just kickflipped off a bar stool to plant his heel in the skull of someone.
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Jul 17, 2009 06:02
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All my monks are david carridine.
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Jul 17, 2009 06:22
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The General posted:All my monks are david carridine. 
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Jul 17, 2009 06:48
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opaopa13 posted:Enjoy! This review feels a lot like a summer movie blockbuster sequel to me. A whole lot more flash and even less substance than its predecessor. More than that, though, this doesn't move gaming journalism forward at all. There isn't anything quite in-depth, or new or daring. In fact, mister Wick himself has become... what's the right word? Oh, yeah. Bland. 
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Jul 17, 2009 09:51
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Relentless posted:Am I allowed to agree with the oatmeal rant if I think it's a good thing? You're allowed to agree with anything. The defining trait of grognards isn't that they don't like 4e, it isn't even always that their opinions are wrong, it's their hilariously overlong and histrionic screeds about the severe crimes committed against the purity of gaming by (new thing). Like, I'd agree that it's a flaw that you can't really "change careers" mechanically in 4e if your character decided he wanted to. That's something you might find yourself wanting to do; the best you can do is dabble in another class. IMO it's a flaw, but it really doesn't justify having an angry rhetorical debate with imagined counter-arguments.
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http://rpgdiehard.blogspot.com/ posted:Just a quick note: I attended the American Library Association annual conference in Chicago last weekend. The theme of the event (believe it or not) was gaming and how libraries can foster game clubs. As such, Wizards of the Coast had a large booth where they pimped their Magic: The Gathering and D&D novel tie-ins. I dropped by and struck up a conversation with one of the WOTC staffers, who is apparently is an art director and worked on 4e a little bit.
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Jul 17, 2009 16:31
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Pangalin posted:So he mumbled something like that and the guy looked a bit confused but smiled and nodded out of politeness, and then he shuffled away.
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Jul 17, 2009 17:09
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shotgunbadger posted:So he mumbled something like that and the guy looked a bit confused but smiled and nodded out of politeness, and then he shuffled away. WotC spending time and money on helping children's literacy? Well I'll show them!
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Jul 17, 2009 17:23
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quote:It's not often you get to speak truth to power, but when you do, it's simply sublime. you see it was just like that part in braveheart
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Jul 17, 2009 17:32
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Pangalin posted:I think the worst thing is he didn't even think to make a "4th edition? It'd fit perfectly for our reading program...to pre-schoolers" ice-burn.
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Jul 17, 2009 17:35
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He sure showed that dude who works in the gaming industry that there are other games out there people play besides the one he makes!
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Jul 17, 2009 17:45
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What gently caress? Truth to power? He's a sales rep and writer you loving mouthbreather not Gargamel or Hitler 
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Jul 17, 2009 19:38
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Pangalin posted:You just know this guy was smug as gently caress for at least an hour afterwards. "Have you played the new Dungeons and Dragons, sir?" "No...I only play good games. Good day, sir."Then he turned on his heel, put on his sunglasses, and strutted away, leaving the WotC guy devastated in his wake.
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Jul 17, 2009 19:50
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Pieces of Peace posted:I love how grognards insisting on their right to play weird and often ridiculous character concepts still can't imagine a monk that's not Bruce Lee combined with the Dalai Lama. I won't let someone play a monk in my FR campaign unless he comes from far off Kara Tur and is trying to avenge his clan/father/friend from summer camp.
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Jul 17, 2009 22:04
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I've played 2E back in the day. I've read into 3.5E and it's an evolved version. 4E?... a mutation. Just my opinion.
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Jul 17, 2009 22:11
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Seftir posted:I've played 2E back in the day. I've read into 3.5E and it's an evolved version. So, 4E = homo-superior?
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Jul 17, 2009 23:09
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Seftir posted:Felonius posted: Same here. My group spent literally a year trying to find a good tactical combat game, occasionally moving into RPGs because we felt they might work better but realizing we didn't want to roleplay. Finally it occured to us that we could just play D&D premade campaigns and skip the roleplaying. "There's a town in front of you guys." "We go inside." "Alright there's a lot of buildings and almost none of them are important." "Is there an inn?" "Yeah of course there's an inn, this is D&D." "We go into the inn!" "Alright cool there's a bunch of faceless NPCs and a few guys with golden question marks floating above their heads." "We click frantically to accept them and don't bother to read the quest text." "As you click you see that apparently there's some orcs or goblins or kobolds or something that are marauding. They're all hiding out by a waterfall, give me a minute to set up the map!" I sort of want to record one of our sessions and post it just to make grognards hate us 
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Jul 17, 2009 23:33
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ZorbaTHut posted:I sort of want to record one of our sessions and post it just to make grognards hate us i love you
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Jul 18, 2009 00:36
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ZorbaTHut posted:I sort of want to record one of our sessions and post it just to make grognards hate us YESSSS
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Jul 18, 2009 00:43
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ZorbaTHut posted:I sort of want to record one of our sessions and post it just to make grognards hate us I can't stand WOW. . . But that was awesome.
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ZorbaTHut posted:Same here. My group spent literally a year trying to find a good tactical combat game, occasionally moving into RPGs because we felt they might work better but realizing we didn't want to roleplay. Finally it occured to us that we could just play D&D premade campaigns and skip the roleplaying. So your group is filled with 12 year olds?
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Jul 18, 2009 05:56
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The General posted:So your group is filled with 12 year olds? whoa ho ho wacky
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The General posted:So your group is filled with 12 year olds?
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what the hell brennon
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Jul 18, 2009 06:59
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brennon posted:I didn't get it last time, and I don't get it this time. What's up with that?
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Jul 18, 2009 07:02
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well he is wearing a lot of diapers
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The General posted:So your group is filled with 12 year olds? We figured out what we wanted in a game, and found a game that - with a small amount of tinkering - provided it. If that makes us 12-year-olds, then I guess we're 12-year-olds 
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Jul 18, 2009 11:14
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Seftir posted:well he is wearing a lot of diapers and you would think he could not fart through that many layers of diapers
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ZorbaTHut posted:We figured out what we wanted in a game, and found a game that - with a small amount of tinkering - provided it. If that makes us 12-year-olds, then I guess we're 12-year-olds I have to agree, I'd definitely rather be with the twelve year olds than at the general's table.
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NinjaDebugger posted:I have to agree, I'd definitely rather be with the twelve year olds than at the general's table. My table is loving awesome. Sorry to hear you can't handle awesome.
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Jul 18, 2009 13:37
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Being able to fart through so many diapers is awesome, for certain values of "awesome". I guess.
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FMguru posted:Being able to fart through so many diapers is awesome, for certain values of "awesome". I guess. But not as awesome as a day of nice, uncomplicated asskicking.
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