Search results

I prefer a hammer. All the gratification without the pesky 'aaagh the building is on fire!' It is very important that the other dice see what happens. Otherwise they dont get the point. :D

Molten Sulfur. At least that is what Io breathes in real life :D

Considering that the primary driver for the development of SAGA was 4e, it isnt really suprising that the game is a little rough around the edges. Look at the attacks from non-soldier/jedi compared to the defences of opponents. +3/4 per level for the character, +1 per level for the defence...

Seems to me that having your finger cut off may sting a little. Especially is they use pliers and a spoon to do it. It may not be a permanent punishment, but it would definitely not be any fun.

Ok, I'll ask the obvious: What game, what adventure? Mostly just curious. Play, have fun, be ready with the fire extinguishers when things start to burn. Best thing you could prolly do is act as a go-between for the party and DM. Make a character that allows you to push the plot occasionally...

So, because I dont participate often I dont know the rules? Try again. The rule of thumb should be "find out if the people talking are making a good point. Post count means nothing"

You do know that there are other fantasy game systems other than D&D, dont you? Quite a few of them dont have the scaling that D&D has always had. To put it bluntly, No, essentials is not the answer to E6 for 4e. Buying a different game system is. E6 is the equvalent to trying to turn a car...

It says affected by satire of bravery (save ends) somewhere in the description.

You do know that when the players are being clueless, and their characters wouldnt be clueless, you can simply inform them in no uncertain terms that they are doing something dumb? On the other hand, if the players were using meta-assumptions to drive the in-game decisions, they probably...

You are being too drastic. You will have overwhelmed, bored or annoyed players. You might actually achieve your goals tho. If you have to hold hands to the point of doing most of the work during character creation, you probably arent going to get them to learn the rules all that well. Mind...

Yup, it is a step up. Just like Vista was.

I thought that the 10-foot pole feats were quite good also.

I dont really think that kids today are really any different from 10,20, 30 years ago in desire to system master or power game. The trick is to teach them that the important thing is not having bigger numbers on your character sheet, but how you use that character in the game.

Power Gaming and system mastery are not the same thing. You can have a power gamer who copies all his ideas off the optimization boards and never really understands how the builds work. You can also have a system master who uses that mastery to make really odd characters. The most common...

Totally ripped off from Howard Taylor but: Resident Mad Scientist

Play (well, run as much as play) is still technically 4e but WOTC has just about convinced me to play L5R and SAGA instead.

Errata to fix broken stuff I dont mind. That or I just fix it. Creep is alot more difficult to adapt to. Technically, I also include breaking original design principles in power creep, so I would pretty much consider the entire psionic power source to be creep even if it wasnt any numerically...

Have you printed the whole thing out and checked? 115 pages of single sided heavy printer paper is very nearly the same physical size as 288 pages of glossy bound pages. Considering also, that it isnt the core rules changing that bother me, but all the power and monster and item changes that...

Actually, Zaran's DM is tired of the errata being used to fix fundamental problems in the game, and to tweak the rules of the game. He has decided that having to have a printout of the errata that is bigger than the PHB is not worth the effort, and will do any fixes by house rule instead of...

If you’re already playing a Dungeons & Dragons game, there’s one very important thing to remember—the Fourth edition products matter only as much as you want them to. We very carefully designed the new classes and added more options to the races in such a way that existing characters remain...