Recent content by Mecheon

It is a thread about power creep, though. Power level absolutely is part of the issue at hand. Niche protection doesn't do anything with the fact that the power levels of just the PHB alone are completely off base. The later books add power, sure, but its absolutely needed for most of the...

That's how 3.5e operates, though. If one player's a monk and another's a druid, the druid is outclassing the monk no matter what either of them do. 3.5e's classes were not built equal, and its a massive failing of the system that needs to be factored in when discussing power creep. A GM can do...

Not everyone is smart thoughtful players, though. A class should be viable on its own, you shouldn't have to be dependent on another character feeling merciful and not playing at their full potential. Rogues are a bit of an unfair one to bring up given they touch on the spell system so they can...

I like 3.5E and all, but the problem is really going to come to the fact that, the crazy uber combos like Pun-Pun? They're overdoing it. There's far simpler amazing power combos that are far more subtle than the silliness from cancer mage. 1: Make a wizard, cleric, or druid 2: There is no step...

Fair enough Geekify's got a long history with the Neopets community and a history of not caring about their end products. You can find plenty of upset reviews of their previous work, with fulfillment issues being a particular annoyance for most. Add that in with the number of former devs...

Technically the name should just be "Mi'raj". Al means 'the'. But, well, this is a long standing issue. Its the actual name of the mythical critter in question regardless, and miraj isn't exactly a tricky name.

Are we just forgetting that the playtest had the following statement on the first page: "John will steal anything you do with this project, and the people working on this have not been paid, had contracts forced on them, and John has not read nor understands these rules and demands more naughty word...

It'd be ineffective at what it does and would be wasting the idea. Whole reason a lot of other new martial classes are developed, 'just stick 'em in fighter and ignore 90% of the mechanics' doesn't lead to effective playstyles. If someone wants to play a ninja, they want to be effective at it...

Eh, Geekify have a. History with the Neopets fandom. To us in the TTRPG sphere its 'oh this company has messed up', but over in Neopets? "Geekify mess up merch" is basically how the company's been operating for years. This isn't even the first Neopets kickstarter that Geekify has messed up...

Genuinely I'm questioning the why of it as well Every D&D since 3.0, and even 2E itself once kits got involved, is far more of a character builder game than DCC or even older D&D editions. Genuinely, I think doing this entire process is taking away a bit of the fun of the modern game. Character...

A permanent loss for a temporary thing is a terrible tactical decision. Permanently crippling your character for, not even full HP in one situation is either useless, or only ever going to be used at the end of a campaign where there'll be no lasting effect.

If they wanted them to be unique stand-alone gods, they should have given them unique stand-alone designs and not gone "oh this character that looks 100% identical to Tiamat? yeah that's not-tiamat who's 110% different with no connections despite sharing her job description and personality" It...

Having played FF1, the FF1 Monk takes nothing at all from Fist of the North Star. Its just a flat out puncher. You can give it nunchucks but, they're useless once you hit level 8, and its a class with no magic or special abilities to do any Fist of the North Star esque techniques. Given the...

I reckon it ties into your point about D&D being awful for horror. Bluebeeard's Bride? You OOCly know the tale but you're buying into the idea of playing the bride specifically. Its leaning into the horror movie 'don't go in there!' type of vibe. D&D though? The way the game is doesn't support...

The giant praying mantids eating a guy doesn't reflect on people and its "well, that's a giant praying mantis". I don't see people having problems with that much in the same way no one really cares about lizardfolk doing the same. The small jungle-living half-sized people being described as...