Amechra posted:

If you smack someone with Balefire, and you then activate Avoidance Kata, what happens to the guy you erased?

Tasoth posted:

The idea behind Cyre goes further back than China Melville. The Vlad Taltos novels have the Sea of Chaos on the heart of the old Dragaeran Empire which was brought about when one of them was dicking around and punched a hole in space-time. And the Vlad Taltos novels are pulpy as all get out, too.

Mr. Maltose posted:

You reroll characters in Mage: The Ascension.

unseenlibrarian posted:

Mostly what I remember from the discussion on the rape-furry stuff is people telling me apparently completely straight faced that it wouldn't work on NPCs or PCs because obviously they'd go after the rape furries while wearing full NBC suits, blinded, and deafened with white noise generators. How'd they'd be expected to talk to each other, not shoot each other or civilians instead of the monsters, or even interact with the adventure at all...

...Wait, maybe that was the plan.

I vote Unveiled Threats highlight reel and then Ancient Enemies, just for it being the other major book of "What no, you can't do that, only our NPCs can."

Tasoth posted:

So, is the CTech view on military organizations based on their reflexive 'HIGH SCHOOL WAS BAD' world view they have? Because I thought the big thing about being in the military was that it turns into a tight knit, second family for individuals and that is a both a huge boon and a source of some of the problems that happen inside it.

Parkreiner posted:

The reality mash-up bits of Torg are kind of a pain in the rear end in play, but they lend the game a lot of its character. It was both aggravating and amazing when my Nippon Tech martial artist disconnected in the Living Land and was horrified to discover his nunchucks were too high-tech to function. Not that I had any idea how to visualize that.

wdarkk posted:

It's pretty cool to do things like spontaneously cast the entire evocation school and most of conjuration too as a wizard. The whole point is to come up with new ways to astound the DM.

neonchameleon posted:

It's even worse - the spells you're casting can be one level higher than the spells you can cast so you can use a 7th level slot to spontaneously cast any 8th level spell from the list.

Evil Mastermind posted:

The shipwreck is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. The plane the PCs are expected to steal does have deep-sea diving gear. It's Nile Empire deep-sea gear, so it has stuff like torpedo pistols and sun blades, so at least the PCs have some gear they can use.

And yes, it's 20 rounds from, and I quote, "the moment they set foot on the pirate ship".

Capfalcon posted:

2. Unforeseen Actions. Sometimes, the GM just says how things are going down. "The Goblins are too far away." "The water is too rough for your boat." Etc. One of the examples includes the GM saying one of the goblins was faking dead, and when you get far away he starts running. One of the players says, "Hey, I'm cautious, so I would have been keeping an eye on them. Can I get an awareness roll to see if I noticed him faking it?"

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

Return to the TOMB OF HORRORS Part 4: We Built This Skull City On Skulls and Bones


-A sarcophagus with a human male warrior on it. It's empty; but if you search for traps inside it, the door slams shut (unless you propped it open with something that resists 20th level magic effects). The person trapped inside saves vs. spell at -4 or is subject to the sink spell, causing them to sink into the floor and be trapped, at which point the sarcophagus reopens.

Midjack posted:

I don't think anyone in either thread has said "no, stop" and they aren't likely to say it to you, either.

AccidentalHipster posted:

Traveller posted:

The book does tell you Blood Swords are DOOMED - in a small sidebar you could easily miss, since the swords don't really have that many rules. To make things worse, there's another sidebar hidden in the Seasons chapter that mentions how regular swordmakers can make quality regular swords that also grant bonus dice. Which actually seems like a trap option, on second consideration: a blood sword can easily cut through a regular iron sword.

Cardiovorax posted:

I am suddenly a lot less optimistic about that new Torment game.

Cardiovorax posted:

I was not talking about the rules.

David J Prokopetz posted:

The ability to make the rest of the group die of boredom every time your turn comes up while you make seventeen attack rolls is also de rigeur.

Robindaybird posted:

Funny how Baldur's Gate of all things made the best argument against relying on magic in one throwaway line: "So the Wizard said, 'Even if I created a twenty foot high wall of iron, what prevents someone else from making it disappear?'" not enough settings seem to take in mind of the ephemeral nature of magic.

It should be treated as amazing, but unreliable.

Libertad! posted:

Chapter 3: Races

Here's where we get to the meatier parts of this book.

Tasoth posted:

Having spent time with my GM making races for a campaign that never got off the ground, it's pretty simple to make a race in 4e. A +2 in a primary, a +1 in one of two traits, a power for combat and then typically a feat that modifies how they play.

Syrg Sapphire posted:

I lock this/toss up thread #3.