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CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash.i love the idea of alignment i think it has some good potential and really wish more was done with it, the principles of each axis IMO... -
CreamCloud0 reacted to Umbran's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with
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Villains by Necessity, by Eve Forward, is a solid referent for this. In the novel, Good won the apparently-not-quite-eternal conflict... -
CreamCloud0 replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.players just being able to decide if their character knows a thing is IMO more closer to 'information spontaneously appearing in your...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
I do this too, but the roll also builds in things like "did anything major go wrong with the ship itself, or did anything else happen to...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
First off, simulationism for some IS the game. Second off, if the adventure requires them to get to an island then one of the obvious...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
The key words there is "almost". Most of the time it's pointless and then just that key once, it isn't; which makes all the other times...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Come on, man, making the assumption that they're doing this blind without any information about the risk/reward factor is at best...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
For me, the simulation and setting logic of the circumstance is the good stuff.
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
This assumes they aren't making an informed decision. People in a game without the aforementioned broad-skill-pulpy approach who do...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to FrozenNorth's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
4e actually did do this, though mostly by power source. The martial power source was striker secondary, so all else being equal...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Staffan's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
The problem with that is getting a group of more than five players (including the GM) together to play on the regular. Five is hard...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Nah, it did a pretty darn good job. Every class got a primary role, though you could choose powers and feats to emphasize as secondary...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Sure. To me this is something of a feature rather than a bug, and people are always free to play differently-structured parties just...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
Which is almost ironic because I was thinking of 4E as well while you were talking about wanting to focus on in-encounter priorities...
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CreamCloud0 reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat? with Like.
@W'rkncacnter's post above made me look again at your earlier post. I don't really agree that just because there's a mountain to climb...