Recent content by Burninator

You must be so brave, taking a stand against basic reasoning! If you wish to "inject some sanity", please admit that hits and misses are opposites of each other, and saying true = false is a contradiction. Please, for sanity's sake! Since you've appointed yourself as chief psychiatrist! Let's...

Show me the page # where the rules have talked about "complete whiffs" I'd love to pass that on to Jon Stewart so he can add it to his next segment about the Mayor of Toronto smoking crack, because that's about how relevant it is. A miss is no different from a near miss from a complete...

Yeah, those guys love "mother may I set this match on fire", especially when they're casting fireballs. Next's fireball doesn't need any such thing. It doesn't target creatures in a zone. It has an area of effect, and explicitly states that it sets flammable objects in it on fire. It's...

Of course you're correct that linear-by-level HP scaling is unrealistic, but it is certainly possible to toughen up one's body considerably through training. Don't tell me the huge bouncer isn't ten times tougher than poor old lil grandma with the weak bones. I mean, come on. There can be easily...

Prove it, then. Show the power from 4e, and copy+paste the spell description of Fireball from every edition. You'll see I'm right. 4e powers don't ever target objects or areas, they target creatures or enemies or allies in a zone. Objects are explicitly excluded / untouched by pretty much...

I'd be very surprised if the words : hit, miss, or damage are defined game terms. At most, for damage, you'd get a circular definition : damage is what happened to reduce your HP, and HP loss is what happens when you take damage. To-hit accuracy represents something we are all well aware of in...

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Why deny the truth? It's right there for everyone to see, it was created in 4e and dropped directly in 5e. The dinosaurs are part of history, too. Do you want them back, walking around Walmart? (there's a joke in there, somewhere. hehehe)

No point in rhetorical edition warring, the battle's already over (Pathfinder won). Vote with your gaming dollars. Personally, if they can't get a clue that Reaping Strike should remain in the dustbin of history, I'm not giving them my dollars again. I naturally avoided using such exploits, but...

Agh, my eyes!! haha, +1 Now at least we know where the Reaper feat came from, some silliness lifted directly from 4e, probably by the same guy who originally wrote it and is now pushing GWF on us.

Which is them just admitting that it's a game with zero pretense of plausibility. No event, done by imperfect beings, can always succeed at its goal. It's fine to handwave that you can never trip on a staircase or fall down, but people actually do that, in real life. And when you're on the spot...

It would have to be opposed rolls, since every attack is not equally well placed, and that's dependent on the attacker's skill / luck. Defenders rolling dex saves is a perfect way to implement DR. Any DR system rolled out should modify any and all subsystems to make HP = actual penetrating...

A guy doing a called shot to the head, then missing, then using some kind of reverse cleave contingency riposte (which makes sense from both a realism and a gameplay perspective, so why not). That second attack hits the leg, doing damage. Nothing about the miss itself allowing damage. You are...

So, we're all agreed that D&D uses the english language inconsistently. The question is : what do we do about it when advocating rules to be included in a new edition? When you find yourself in a ditch, do you reach for a shovel? Or do you try and climb out of the dirt. The definition of HP...

But that's redundant. Damage on a miss still occurs on a 1, only because 1 implies a miss no matter what. Adding an exception to damage on a miss for natural 1s, is just a roundabout way of saying they goofed up with this mechanic. Because hit points of damage should be dealt on a hit, and...