Recent content by proto128

When I (am forced to) run a game in a published setting, I feel a lot of pressure to get the details right to the point that sometimes my games never happen or come to a screeching halt for trivial reasons. For 3e Forgotten Realms, my cataloging of the setting killed all interest of running a...

Glad to hear you enjoyed yourselves, and I hope you'll continue to have a good time with 4e. When my former group tried out 4e by playing KotS, the player who was most excited about the new edition played a wizard and was totally disappointed by how limiting it was. Having not played a wizard...

That's kind of what this whole thread has been about, yes.

It doesn't have any meaning. It's interesting.

The problem with linking Amazon's bestseller list is that it's updated hourly. Within a span of about 30 minutes, the conditions of the OP disappeared and could no longer be verified, hence some of the "What do you mean, such and such is actually ahead" comments. In the future, if someone were...

I find it interesting that the Oblivion strategy guide is at #7. I also find it interesting that, of the top 10, 7 are 4E books. 1 of the top 10 is a 3.5E book (the Player's Handbook), is not directly available from Amazon, and includes used and resales. Further, I find it interesting that...

So how long until we can complain that the system is too much like a video game? In all seriousness, this sounds like a cool tie-in.

Maybe take the worst of the two hybrids, plus the next best armor proficiency of the better hybrid?

Looking over the article, I'm pretty glad - mostly because what problems I have with the system as written can be fixed by addition, not subtraction. Several of the class abilities (combat challenge, divine challenge) can be fixed by having them work at full power. Others (rogue, ranger)...

I'm hoping this turns out to be gestalt rules that are usable in regular play. Gestalt in 3.x was fun times and eliminated a lot of the problems I had at the time with multiclassing, but it was balanced (if at all) around the assumption that everyone at the table was gestalting or not at all.

My roommate is playing Tales of Vesperia on the 360 and (very minor spoilers) he's currently making his way through a clock tower dungeon, having to activate giant gears to progress upward. It's an evocative set piece that's been around for quite some time, and I was wondering if there have...

I fail to see how this is necessarily a bad thing. Please explain, with less hyperbole if possible.

I voted Invoker and Shaman, the former because I haven't heard anything that interests me about the class and the latter because it seems like a lot of mechanical clunkiness for not much payoff. Time (and PH2) will tell.

Githyanki fighter/mages were called gish. WotC designers popularized it as shorthand for characters that swing swords and cast spells. That's what my Jargon check got me, anyway.

You could start with Sunless Citadel. Then again, my answer is always Sunless Citadel. Regardless, there's somewhere between Some and Alot of dragon flavor that can be used/adapted. If you use the later modules (Nightfang Spire and Bastion of Souls), you could have Ashardalon be Tiamat's...