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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 3E/3.5 Thoughts about Arcane Spell Failure.I was...not a fan of ASF. It became a de facto yes/no, in that even a 1% chance to just lose your spells was Unacceptable, and it was... -
EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General Would You Take This Deal?.Absolutely. A major part of why such a benefit could work in a video game is that players almost always have FAR more HP than the hits...
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Right, so, you ask for a perception check using the mechanical way to do so without asking for a die roll. That's what a passive check...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D 4E Anyone playing 4e at the moment?.Ironically, they should have paid more attention to MMOs to counter this exact problem. MMO designers have long been aware that...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread The Origins of ‘Rule Zero’.A big gap remains. Your very phrasing shows it. With D&D, the mechanics are "in control." Sometimes via R0 or w/e, the DM overrides them...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread Worlds of Design: What Defines a RPG?.Likewise. Gatekeeping and tribalism have not done RPGs any favors.
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread The Origins of ‘Rule Zero’.Except that, as noted, it's often NOT in print. And where it is in print, different editions differ on what it actually is. That's...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread The Origins of ‘Rule Zero’.Nope. I, and he, have laid out a logical argument for why the term "Rule 0" should be used in the more restricted sense, to promote...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread The Origins of ‘Rule Zero’.Wait, so is rule 0 inside the system or not? If it's not inside the system, it's not a rule. That's literally what I said earlier that...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread The Origins of ‘Rule Zero’.Okay, but how does that square with running an adventure path that has a defined sequence of events? Paizo and our own ENWorld have made...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread The Origins of ‘Rule Zero’.Okay so...since it's a lot easier to respond to this than pick apart the full posts etc. from earlier... What's your justification for...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread The Origins of ‘Rule Zero’.Though I don't quite follow Aldarc's way of saying it, I have to agree with him that you seem to be looking at only the most superficial...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread D&D General why do we have halflings and gnomes?.The only (mostly) non-D&D game I know of that features halflings is FFXIV with its Lalafell. They're basically nothing like Tolkien's...
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EzekielRaiden replied to the thread The Origins of ‘Rule Zero’.I find the inherent power imbalance of the DM role* is much more responsible than Rule 0, and that DMs have MANY more tools than just...
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At the very least, Rule 0 is perfectly capable of empowering problems in terms of who has control over the rule-system part of the game...
