Recent content by Thotas

Yeah, I remember seeing that. I live in fear that somebody who is kind of ... math challenged will take that feat in one of my games sometime. Same fear I have of dynamic arrays in Mutants & Masterminds. Few things more frustrating than a player who has bitten more arithmetic than they can...

Some of the material here may be of interest to you. Nothing that takes the game past 5th level, but classes and monsters get some expansion. https://edowarsblog.wordpress.com/downloads/

I'm loving the gaming material in these comics. I read the John Carter of Mars series 40 years ago (I'm old) and seeing official rules for a Thark -- man, I want to play one! Although my attempts to translate the Sword-Devil archetype (so perfect for a character I created back in 1st edition...

I'm the same way, in that I like both games and play both games. Because it is great to be able to create a character in 10 minutes, but I also enjoy the minutia of working out those feat trees and other picky details that the Pathfinder haters hate. Playing both gives me the best of both worlds.

I was another one not impressed by 4e. Didn't so much hate it as just didn't feel that "Oh, I gotta play this" burn that the 3rd edition gave me when I opened that book. I didn't jump on the Pathfinder bandwagon immediately, though. I looked at how much 3rd edition material I have, both .0...

'Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn!' ... hey, somebody had to say it.

"...he ruled that darkvision could see through the darkness created by a spell because the spell didn't specify that the darkness was magical." It shouldn't have to, because it's clear from the concept of "what words mean". If someone had used a dispel magic on the area, and the spell was...

My experience with actually getting to play any edition of M&M was minimal. Based on reading rules, 3e did make some improvements but also screwed up some things that were just fine in terms of 2e, to the point that I prefer the older edition. A best-of-both would've been a truly great game.

I find that there is far too much food in the world, and all those recipe options ... it's too much! I could never eat all of it, and some of it I don't even like at all!

At least one of the prices (probably the tiara) is obviously a typo. Maybe a 1.000 was put in as a placeholder on all of the wonders and/or baubles and this one got missed when putting the real prices in? Probably too late to fix it in the book if that's true, though.

It's because Pathfinder is seen as having options to the point of being out of hand,and the folks over at Hasbro want to make sure that doesn't happen with 5e. What's missed on that is, IMHO, source material should be out of hand, to be mined as the GM sees fit for making their own campaigns...

There are people out there, the late Harold Camping for example, who love to predict the end of the world. When it doesn't happen, they just revise their estimate. But it's always "soon". And if, by chance, the world ever does end, those people will be jumping up and down saying, "See! See...

Let me clarify that the Solomon Kane thing was my initial "vibe" from the class. Yes, everything can be played against type, and playing against type can make for a lot of fun, of course. But playing against type does mean that there's a "type" to begin with.

I first thought on seeing the Inquisitor was "Oh, Solomon Kane". So yeah, I see them as pretty grim, too ...

It sure does, but it really isn't too surprising that things turned out that way. In the attempt to appeal to fans of all editions of D&D, the best strategy for incorporating flavor of 3rd would be to do it in a way that would draw in those who liked the idea of 3e but have lower complexity...