Recent content by The-Magic-Sword

I tend to think of Story Now games (e.g. your PBTA and Apocalypse World and so forth) and games like 4e as the "Modern" era, but I also don't think the "Modern" era is current, I think of it as being in the past, or at least there being something newer than modern which is surely still chugging...

This might be acceptable to me, especially as a reflavor of the tortle statblock, and if you let me be cute about it.

Hmm, the character wouldn't look the way I wanted them to, and they wouldn't be cold blooded which means their people wouldn't have the same underlying relationship with the sun. I wouldn't be able to wear a shell painted with religious iconography since i wouldn't gave a shell.

Before we switched to Pathfinder I had a tortle light cleric i wanted to play, i had this idea about tortles meditating in open sky temples on the backs of massive dragon turtles, contemplating the sun as they bask in it, and what it means to them as cold blood creatures. The tortle would have...

I think what I'm wondering is, how strong do we understand a guard captain to be in the story? What kind of villain is he? How hard is he to deal woth, and for who? As you're presenting it, I'm wondering how the emphasis on story is involved-- how strong a character is, that is who they win...

Are we discussing whether story or mechanics are coming first? Or are we talking about our mutual understanding of what the story is in the first place?

Looking back at this thread, I think that one major thing is that this is, in some ways, an outgrowth over how the concept of an abstraction middle man between the world portrayed by the game rules and the world we imagine has played out. I'm seeing an underlying difference in how different...

I think there's a kind of inertia working against specific licensed games like this unless the property is stratospherically popular, like Star Wars, and even then there's probably some. I think RPG players are more interested in their own settings and DND-Trope-Land. I think that part of what's...

But just think with affirm or a similar payment plan service it could be a few dollars of impulse purchase instead ; ) (this is a joke, I find the advent of payment plans for such simple things horrifying, if probably sometimes useful for a host of reasons)

A lot of the AOE spells do pretty well against single bosses too, strictly speaking single target spells are better but you can't always get them at the perfect level and perfect scaling (since Paizo doesn't grid fill spells that way)-- the line spells are generally pretty close. Chain Lightning...

If anything I think it'll give each AP a more festival atmosphere, in terms of release hype, just because it won't be a continuous bleed, and people will have more time to digest each thing before the next thing comes out-- whether or not they make it through all three volumes in that time.

Hmm Primal isn't a huge debuffing list (as opposed to like damage-with-weaker-control-effects and healing) but 5th and 6th does include Grisly Growths, and Wall spells. if used well, the wall spells can, in general, be much stronger than slow (wasting multiple actions for the creature to bust...

I will say, I disagree, I know they're meta in other similar games, but I find that it's no great loss to skip out on some spells for those targets in favor of non-incap equivalents. Like, yeah, if you could get them on a boss it'd practically end the fight, but that was also the problem they...

Notably, as you progress along the learning curve, the element of luck they're discussing doesn't persist. Speaking from experience, my players handle the +4 solo bosses fairly consistently, they remain scary but can be finessed. REALLY bad streaks can still get you though. I should also...

You don't need a mystery or a gm designated investigation to pursue a lead. The strategic strike feature brings you up over a class that doesn't get a damage bonus the same way rogue sneak attack does. The strength of Devise is also that you can guesstimate whether you hit before you commit...