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  1. Coik

    Submitted for Your Consideration: Changes to ORIGINS Awards

    This I vehemently disagree with. First of all, number of sales is by no means a measure of quality. (Example: Pop music. It outsells just about every other genre and yet is almost universally horrible) And really, weighting it by sales just weights it more towards the big names in the...
  2. Coik

    Have you been 3.5ed?

    Well, why didn't I get any copies? I've done lots for WotC like...ummm...errr....firk. Oh, I know! My criticizing them at every turn for years helped them make the revsion better! Yeah, that's it... I gots one. Is there anything on thri-kreen in the books? We have a thri-kreen monk in...
  3. Coik

    Worst 3.5 Change

    Actually, that one you might be able to blame on Bruce Cordell. It's been a while since I've read The Illithid (and goddess only knows where my copy is, so I can't really check), but I think I read something to the effect in there. That's another thing...what the firk is wrong with "illithid?"...
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    Piratecat at GenCon: EN World pickup games, sign up now!

    Okay, just to make sure I do this all offical-like...don't want to be disqualified for not following The Rules(tm)... Slot 7, Friday 5pm: PARANOIA 1. Ashy 2. Malin Genie 3. Brannon Hall (maybe) 4. Coik 5. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here 6. Seven clones for seven messy deaths
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    Worst 3.5 Change

    I have to go with the changes to DR. I can understand wanting to make it more flavorful, but I really think they went too far in the other direction. Especially with alignment-based DR. Oh, and the word "aasimars," as seen in the Planetouched scan. There are exactly as many "aasimars" as...
  6. Coik

    Why is Animate Dead [Evil]?

    Well, 'course not. Companies would probably prefer to "employ" non-sentient undead like zombies and skeletons, just like nowadays they prefer to use machines for line work. In fact, undead have many of the same advantages as machines...they work for no pay, don't need vacation or sick leave...
  7. Coik

    3.5 interior pictures!

    Her hair needs to be darker...midnight black, for preference. Insert a Twin Peaks-esque "darker than the sky on a moonless night, starless as well, no city lights reflection either" reference here. And none of that tying it up bull hocky. Let it hang free and loose.
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    Piratecat at GenCon: EN World pickup games, sign up now!

    I'd like to get in one of the Paranoia slots, if I can. Doesn't matter which...my schedule's open. Edit: Or, if it'd be more helpful, put me down for slot 7.
  9. Coik

    Anticipation for 3.5

    I greatly anticpiate 3.5, but more as a spectator than anything else. Witness any thread with the word "Ranger" in the title. Pure entertainment!
  10. Coik

    [GenCon] EN World Gathering, coming? post if you say Yea!

    Badge? Pffph. I never got a badge last year. But, then, I didn't offically come, either. :) I'll be easy to spot this year, though. Just look for some guy smacking people upside the head with a copy of the Principia Discordia.
  11. Coik

    Why is Animate Dead [Evil]?

    Cool. coik@yahoo.com Aye, that I can agree to. D&D attempts to posit an absolute moralistic universe, but stops short of any real definition or explanation. The result is, as you mention, vague defintions of good and evil that can be applied to just about anyone equally. Again, nothing I...
  12. Coik

    Piratecat at GenCon: EN World pickup games, sign up now!

    How 'bout we play that game of Paranoia you promised us a few years back? :)
  13. Coik

    Why is Animate Dead [Evil]?

    Ehh...I disagree, if for no other reason than the game does make the distinction between "animals" and "beasts." Though I hear that's going bye-bye come next month. I should clarify...I'm not saying that I *am* a nilihist, just that I get called one quite a bit...mostly, it seems, because a...
  14. Coik

    Point-buy or rolling? Your preference and why?

    If it is, than something is incredibly wrong, since by definition there's supposed to be a ton more of the chaotic types. For me, it's rollin' the stats. 4d6, drop lowest, arrange to taste. There are several reasons for this... 1. Some PCs might get lucky and roll three 18's...and some...
  15. Coik

    [GenCon] "(more) Road Construction News!" (Scouting and Info Within)

    :eek: Ye gawdess, that place must be twice as big as the MEC exhibit hall! ...................... Must ignore....must ignore...must stay bitter about Milwaukee...
  16. Coik

    Why is Animate Dead [Evil]?

    Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I personally don't mind if Vaxalon implies that about me. He wouldn't be the first to call me (or imply that I am) an amoral deviant, and probably won't be the last, either. :) Yes. Yes, you did. :) You have a point there. I think someone else...
  17. Coik

    Your next v3.5 ranger - 2weapons or bow?

    If my group converts, I'd defintely go for the archery munchkin path. I think I have like two feats right now that *aren't* bow-releated. Yep, exactly two...Improved Init and Favored Enemy Strike. It'd be a touch decision for me, to be honest, let alone the entire group. If we convert, I...
  18. Coik

    penalty for cheating

    Dern right. One of my friends got a cheater's die once, but I've never used 'em meself. (Though I suppose I could be considered an accessory, since I was with him when he bought it. :) ) ............... Riiiiigggghhhhhhtttttt.... Call me a Doubting Thomas if you must, but to say you've...
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    Why is Animate Dead [Evil]?

    Well, at the very least, if violates the nature of causality. Except that gunpowder *is* a refined substance, and even if it wasn't it probably wouldn't naturally congregate in barrels... :) Celestial conjunctions, comets, pissed off people re-inhabiting their bodies through force of...
  20. Coik

    penalty for cheating

    Assuming this is first offense, I'd be all for giving the player a second chance. Honestly, how many here can honestly say they've never cheated? Goddess knows I have. Ya'know how it is...you report a number to the DM that's a wee bit higher than what you actually rolled, or you purposefully...
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