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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.As I said, that might work for some things. I flat out don't think its going to resolve whether someone can climb something or swim...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.I agree its mostly fans, but I think if you think at least Fantasy Hero does not hold it as an ethos that they can at least get close to...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E Do you think 1st or 2nd edition is more complicated?.I don't find the presence of online tools changes my opinion about the complexity of a system however, and PF1e still has the general...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.It isn't entirely true even in fantasy though; I've seen people do it before in a number of build systems as proof-of-concept things...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E Do you think 1st or 2nd edition is more complicated?.I said 1e, but I want to unpack it a little for fairness: 1. I am not directly very familiar with PF1e, but I was familiar with D&D 3...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.While, again, fan-based, I have to note this process is extremely common in superhero RPG fandom. To the point I've never seen a...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What kinds of games do you like, and why?.Unfortunately, since I'm not a big fan of realtime combat in general, I tend to notice, but not remember them.
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What kinds of games do you like, and why?.You can find them, but they tend to be overly-focused on realtime space combat around the other things that made Star Control 2 (and the...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Sorcerers Apprentice's post in the thread D&D General AI Art for D&D: Experiments with Like.
I had to explicitly prompt for "a female demon with the lower body of a snake, the upper body of a woman and 6 arms" Just asking for "a...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.As I mentioned before, climbing and swimming. Can be life or death in any number of situations. Far as that goes, in some...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.My experience says to the contrary about numerous actions you can have them take, or there wouldn't have been so many ad-hoc mechanics...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.That might be an argument for intellectual or social skills in the way OD&D handled them; it wasn't a good answer to other sorts of...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General When Was it Decided Fighters Should Suck at Everything but Combat?.Eh. Wasn't like the lack of something skill-like hadn't caused any number of problems over the years. It getting mostly walled-off...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.That was my reaction: "You could have at least made them look Greek."