Recent content by Imp

Eh, as long as we're dreaming, I'll wish for some heretofore-anonymous dude to code Pathfinder DDI type stuff in a slick little web app like, you know, it's not freaking 1998 anymore.

Maybe the would-be sneak-attacker should require a round or so of hiding & observation before pulling off the alley-shanking. It makes sense for a rogue to lurk in a dark alley and jump someone. It doesn't make a lot of sense for two rogues to bump into each other in a dark alley, roll...

3e introduced the chain shirt and the breastplate which are at least somewhat helpful for addressing this; conquistadors explored all sorts of wildernesses in breastplates (some of the time at least), so having adventurers wear that when tooling around is a little more plausible, while chain...

I think it's fine to have screw-you monsters, but they should be clearly marked – like, have their CR in red or something – and the circumstances in which they can bring the pain spelled out, as well as their vulnerabilities. 3e-style monster writeups are kind of opaque in this regard. It's one...

The cat should have a human for a familiar, obvs.

The case of the truly egregious PrC'd character can be solved by looking at the sheet and seeing whether or not it looks ridiculous. Some prestige classes – not very many, but definitely some – are broken and/or not party-friendly. Reading EN World has helped me to identify those. Prestige...

It's probably just easier to make jokes riffing on rules he's quite familiar with.

Well ok. As I see it: - the whole thing is an edge case - it's easy to houserule Tiamat as a size larger. If you're using minis, just increase the size of the base, right? - where the problem is: it's also easy to overlook & forget why Tiamat may be smaller than some of the other dragons that...

To be fair, I think the larger point about dice-rolling being a get-out-of-thinking free card stands, more or less*, though I don't run Sense Motive like that either. (Actually, how common are Sense Motive ranks among PCs anyway? IME it tends to get neglected somehow. Maybe because it's based on...

I completely agree with that – there shouldn't be anything really keeping you from porting cosmologies across editions. (Is there even any real reason you can't just bring over the Lawful-Chaotic-Good-Evil axis right over to 4e if you wanted? I've always thought alignments were one of the more...

My preferences are pretty complicated, but I much prefer the class system in 3e, and I generally prefer non-spellcasters. Mainly because, it is in this area that 3e multiclassing works quite well – to the point where, while there are some conceptual holes (the first-level multi-classed character...

1e: various weird, arbitrary restrictions, some of which were easier to chop out and ignore than others 2e: dunno, didn't play it, but I think the 1e problem still applies 3e: prep time. DM especially, but also extending to PC choices. Ow. :p 4e: theoretical dogmatism – the sense that it has...

I've been for splitting up the druid powers and the wizard powers into multiple classes since I heard 4th edition was coming out; it'd be pretty cool if they actually did it.

Since I complained about the Dracolich Mongomajig in the previous monster thread, I thought I'd pop into this one to say... These guys look pretty good. Thanks!

I actually narrate stuff like that in 3e fights and I did before I heard of 4e... now, usually, only in person v. person fights where they were just chopping down the first half of the other guy's hit points – a telling blow or a finishing blow would be with the business end of the weapon. Also...