Recent content by Dozen

ONE KIND. I said ONE KIND of magic is. What I gave you was an EXAMPLE. Why is saying so once not enough? How many times do I have to write one thing down to make it register for you? I said it twice in the same line! What else do you want from me? Tome of Magic is apparently not a thing...

It does! And thank you^^ Paying attention to what I say was always a big compliment for me. I can see that working with the kind of players it was tailored for. I don't like that kind very much - I expect and welcome an ultimately survivalist mentality. My rules are lenient to let them play...

Yes, you're quite right. That was the developers' reason, clearly. I'm simply prone to justify everything I come across from an in-game observer's standpoint. I prefer to think of it as a defense mechanism against optimizer bullsh*t. Well, assuming it is possible to enter another plane of...

I'm not trying to convince anyone of that! He says my rules for physics aren't actually rules for physics. That pisses me off. Well, not anymore. I find I'm comparably calm right now. Greenfield was a lot more respectful in his last post - it's only natural that I reciprocate his efforts...

That's it. I'm done being nice. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not buying that in this lifetime. Saying your argument is not X at the start of the argument doesn't magically void everything that would suggest it is X afterwards, you know. Moreover, saying 'you know' after stating a trivial fact based on the...

Yes! Thank you! I wish I was coherent enough to explain it so clearly myself.

You may pat yourself in the back for your quips all you want. In the end, apparently reality doesn't care what you have to say to prove my games don't work, as my games still work. Despite players who constantly try to break them, they work. That's not just speculation, it's stone cold fact...

I have my own explanations for each of those spells. I'll readily admit they are very forced, and some of them awfully convenient to support my theory there. More on this later. You're right, it isn't. It was more that I had do come up with something at one point, and this was the first idea I...

Man, I just explained why spell effects need to abide by the laws of physics in the first post of this page. Refute that first if you want me to believe you really read what I write. Energy types are arbitrarily defined labels for hazards in an abstract system. They never actually mention them...

I think I get it. Assume you're not underwater. Cold itself is the lack of heat. Heat needs the matter containing it interacting with other matter to travel - which in most cases is air. Why would we change the definition of the word? Under that interpretation the guy who caught on fire and...

Thank you? ...Which is why I pointed out the Leidenfrost effect(which protects you from freezing to death) applies to liquids only. In the same sentence you quoted. Magic has, thankfully, some quasi-defined set of semi-rules you can figure out if you're too nerdy for your own good and have...

Only if you're a construct, deathless, elemental or undead. Thanks partly to our thermoregulation, and partly to being made of matter that expands and contracts at a similar rate, as well as stretches easily, living organisms are resistant to extreme tempeture fluctuations - a resistance that...

What's so unrealistic about that? Hypothermia is a small-timer, in severe enough cold your body parts literally crumble off from the smallest impact, or freeze to an aesthetically pleasing ice cone, which would just simply kill you, not hibernate you, without proper measures taken(or being very...

How about a dip into an initiatior class? Swordsages are squishy, for certain, but can take plenty of defensive manouvers from Shadow Hand, Stone Dragon and Diamond Mind. Even better are Crusaders if you don't mind going religious, born tanks, and War- Well, Warblades are something your DM would...

I have no further objections then. You've made good points. Hope your player will like it.