Recent content by Abisashi

When I play with my family, the robber doesn't prevent the hex he is on from producing, which makes the game much more friendly.

3 Suggestions that really helped my girlfriend when she started playing: 1) Set aside the dice she doesn't need, and find her matching dice for her primary attack powers, so her d20s and [W] dice would all be one color/pattern, and her other dice would be noticeably different). Alternately...

I'll definitely keep those in mind. I think my "how to DM this game" section might end up being half the rules if I have the time to write it. I'd like to make so each character is fully described by their deck of cards, but I'm thinking I might need at least a small character sheet. After the...

Here's what I'm thinking: Übermachine (from Übermensch) Players play as sentient constructs seeking to improve themselves, either through exploring the wreckage of civilization/the frontier/etc to salvage parts to replace their own or exploring themselves and their place in the world as...

Don't feel sad Wik, I'll join to make up for it! Too bad I've been away from the boards and missed the start of this. Only half the time is left, but last year I did most of the work in the first and last week, so hopefully I can think of something and do it in a similar amount of time (with...

I think people are using the word cheating in this thread to include behaviors that they feel ought to be be illegal, or that would be made illegal once their existence came to the attention of the rule-makers (if possible; many people noted the difficulty in enforcing these rules). Edit...

I think we are talking past each other; I think we both agree it wouldn't literally be cheating, and I think we both understand what people would mean when they called it cheating.

I expect issues like these will eventually derail the Olympics, but maybe someone will come up with good answers and prove me wrong. If I can bend space with my mind, or being in my presence makes all others drop to their knees and worship me (and thus choose not to compete), or if I never...

Cadfan, I agree completely. Edit: Celebrim, I think the real problem is that the world of the incredibles would have rules governing the use of super-powers in athletic events (assumable making them illegal, whether or not that is enforceable for reasons you suggest), but the movie didn't want...

Is it cheating for a runner to be genetically engineered before their birth to be faster than any human ever has? Is it cheating for a runner to be a cheeta? A cyborg or an android? A space alien? I'm curious what people think. I think Dash is cheating because there is an unwritten rule that...

Looks like a typo to me. Your math is correct.

I'm glad the article didn't say gaming led to depression; too many news articles assume causality and run with it. There's not enough information to determine if the sample was generalizable in the article. Anyone have access to the study?

Unlike many other striker multiclass feat benefits, you can apply the damage to multiple targets if you have a close or area attack, so I think it's pretty reasonable as a choice to have around.

It's implied, but never stated that I could find. However, I think the designers explicitly said that was their intent (though I also can't confirm this). In general, its impractical for the rules to cover every eventuality, though personally I wish a little more complexity had gone into the...

The stat-block in the MM is only for combat; creatures may have non-combat abilities, at your discretion (I vote the Tarrasque pops the magic circle like a bubble and tramples everyone, because he is the ultimate destroyer). I do agree that rituals should scale differently than they do now, though.