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    Speculation -- next Friday's PH3 Playtest?

    Clearly it will be the Flumph done up for PC use. The multiverse shall fear my Flumph Swordmage! ...Actually joking aside that would be pretty awesome.
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    My one criticism of 4th ed: poor artistic style

    See, my first D&D edition was 3.5, and I *hate* the layout of 3.5 books. It's filled with a million annoying overwrought page borders and those annoying lines in the background that make it hard to read some pages and it makes reading any 3.5 book a chore. The 3.0 books with their table layouts...
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    Metric & Markets

    I'm with you on the measurements thing, but this one I can speak on. The number system I referenced in my last post is something you have to figure out in-game in order to solve a major puzzle, the method of which involves a gloriously disturbing teaching game in a schoolhouse. It's a sort of...
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    Metric & Markets

    I use what I use because: It's what's used in my country, and I do not have the means to travel to other ones where it isn't. I have no actual pressing reason to learn anything else, especially when from the point of view of my daily usage of it, there isn't anything actually wrong with it...
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    If it's not real then why call for "realism"?

    Indeed, some of us don't really find that sort of thing awesome in the context of something we're trying to take seriously. Now, one of my favourite movies is The Fifth Element, which has a ton of utterly ridiculous stuff in it, which in the context of the movie is awesome. But it's not a...
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    If it's not real then why call for "realism"?

    Nope, not even remotely. :p As I mentioned in the other thread, I can't watch volcano movies either for this very reason. Wouldn't have mattered if it had been a puzzle full of 'Yes, go ahead, you *can* do that, good eye spotting that'. The lava still would have bothered the hell out of me. (Nor...
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    DMs: what have you learned from PLAYING that has made you a better DM?

    What makes you think I expect it to work exactly the same? I expect it to work logically. The lava example is part of this. Under what conditions is magma/lava formed? Extreme heat and pressure. What happens to it when it gets outside a volcano and hits the air? It starts to cool. The heat is...
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    DMs: what have you learned from PLAYING that has made you a better DM?

    Sure. When it's plausible and sensible. Epic-level character with fire resistance out the arse? Hell, lower-level character with fire resistance? Adventuring on the Paraelemental Plane of Magma where you've prepared for, well, running around a bunch of sodding lava? Sure. Random mountain...
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    DMs: what have you learned from PLAYING that has made you a better DM?

    I'm DMing my first campaign, and I'm still getting a feel for it, but there's a lot of things I've learned from playing that I'm trying to keep in mind: The players are not the characters. This cannot be emphasised enough. Social skills, Knowledge checks, this stuff is in the game for a reason...
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    New PHB3 Class

    Man, I can't wait to use Slow, Dramatic Clapping in a game. This class is awesome!
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    Worst Dice Luck Ever

    Ouch. I feel your pain, I once in Shadowrun rolled a total of like 17 d6s on a test and at the end of it all still only had like two successes. The rest of the night wasn't much better. My group has banned the dice I used that night, rofl. I've also got a player in my campaign that has...
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    Dice bags - a few questions

    I don't use a bag, I use a small clear plastic box with a latching lid. I play Shadowrun and usually bring along 20 12mm d6, the box allows me to see if I've got them all by forming them into rows, and also doubles as a dice cup - When I need to make a roll I pull out the ones I'm not using...
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    PHB II: Am I The Only One Blown Away By The Art?

    I mostly don't like the Eladrin and Elf PP art because I didn't like either of those pictures the first time I saw them and still don't. :P And yeah, takes away from the shiny of 'yay new Eladrin art'.
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    PHB II: Am I The Only One Blown Away By The Art?

    I despise the Bard class picture. Other than that random harp, nothing at all about it says 'Bard'. I also can't decide what angle it's at, and thus whether it's just that her body is turned away and thus badly twisted, or if she really does only have one breast. Her faces also looks squashed. I...
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    "Exceptional Fluff" - the bane of RPGs (ranty)

    Well, let's not forget with Raise Dead that you're going to have some problems. It's not just a matter of having 5,000 GP plus the cleric's fee for casting the spell, it has to be 5,000 GP worth of diamonds. Most churches aren't going to have that laying around even if you show up with the...
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    Special dice

    The pair with the different numbering that has the same chance of rolling results as a standard pair is Sicherman dice. No luck on most of them, but I did find 0-9 twice d20s and 1-3 twice d6s: 20 Sided die with 0-9 twice (1) Random d6 with 1,2,3 I know I've seen Sicherman before but I can't...
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    D20 - Most Aesthetically Pleasing Die

    Indeed, I meant finding them for sale. I'm quite familiar with that page and the rest of your site, heh. It's my internet crack and got me back into my dice obsession after I lost my previous dice collection in a move years ago. ;) Which reminds me that I should get around to counting how many...
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    D20 - Most Aesthetically Pleasing Die

    *high-five* That is, in fact, the d24 shape used for the D-total - http://www.iankunx.net/dtotal.jpg Nice to see I'm not alone in liking it.
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    D20 - Most Aesthetically Pleasing Die

    This. I would so love to have a rhombic dodecahedron d12. Or a numbered elongated tetrahedron d4. I have a few from one of the Dragon Dice sets, one of which does have 4 different symbols and could be used as a d4, but it's also huge and I'd prefer something a bit smaller and with numbers...
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    Demogorgon: Lame or Awesome?

    Now see, the pictures of the thing in this thread are actually cool and 'oh crap that thing is going to eat me'-inspiring. The thing actually comes across as a credible threat instead of something they came up with to shove in MM5 to fill space. I got a lot of flak in the rpgnet thread for my...
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