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I'd argue that his bit about 'no patience for useless laws' is exactly a disrespect for the law; agreeing with the law when it happens to say things you agree with isn't respect, it's simply not having a mindless kneejerk against laws. Not following the laws when you don't agree with them, even...

They aren't human? Eh, I'm dodging the point... fair enough. I should say 'A CG person doesn't have to be capricious at all, and can in fact be fairly 'honorable' -- at least if you understand his motives.' I think one confounding factor is motivation. A LN character with a goal of 'save the...

I'd argue: A LG person honestly and truly believes that civilization, authority, law, and honor are genuinely good and valuable things in life. Any time there is uncertainty, the LG person will err on the side of 'well, the King IS King.' Even if a law seems harsh or the servants of the king...

Well... there's the Blood Sea book. Which is technically not Ghelspad... ;)

You know, I've bought a lot of splatbooks, and UA was above and beyond my favorite. Sure, I don't use much of it, but it was so inspiring in suggesting how you could further change and mutate the system into what you want that it effectively functions far better than more utilitarian books...

It makes more sense to you, Eamon, that the spell distinguishes people entering the spell area from 'grab anything in the area'? Me, the latter makes much more sense; tentacles grasp for anything they can. If you enter the area, there you go. If you leave, no further worries. The other...

This is actually something I also dislike about the magic item system. If you have a magic battleaxe... you're going to want to use that magic battleaxe, and aren't going to waste the money on also having a magic glaive. I'd much rather have most warriors go for variety. After all, flexibility...

And most beings can change. Here's something... a child has a LE parent. The child is an innocent, good person. Which is worse, slaying the parent, or keeping an eye on them? Which is causing more harm to the innocent? Personally, I LIKE the fact that morality is still messy and difficult even...

I like roleplaying my character. But there are things out of my character's choice or control; am I weakened due to poison? That feeds my roleplay and limits my actions in mechanical ways. Am I terrified? Ditto. I mean, how often in life have we faced situations where unreasoning fears or...

The article in question (well, the reference it links to) points out that bodkin arrows were apparently made of relatively soft metal (iron rather than hardened steel), which performs poorly at penetration. This suggests they weren't built to penetrate.

Well, if you don't want to track it, don't use it. And according to wikipedia, apparently they were better at range. So there you go, it does that, instead.

In RL, bodkin arrows penetrate armor but do less damage. There's balance for you. Say, bodkin arrows gave you +1 to hit so long as the target is wearing armor, but only 1d6 damage. Or +2/1d4...

Clearly, the right thing to do is capture the women and children and make them slaves so they can learn proper civilization and buy their freedom.

How I would like it is this: PCs are trying to rack up A successes. NPCs are trying to rack up B successes. Certain twists and clever ideas are worth automatic successes. For example, the PCs and a rival are trying to impress the court and get regal favor, an automatic success might be...

Anyone try a duelist and like it? Been perusing books and considering stuff I haven't tried before, and looked over Duelist again. From the point of view of a standard melee-type, it looks like utter crud; no armor, no offhand weapon, no shield, uses Int bonus to AC? Man, what? Looks like...

GM in tabletop game ran it as repeatedly trying to grapple each round. The spell was cast in a 40' diameter stone room at which point the doors in locked. Yeah. Hard to escape at that point, eh?

We thought the newbie sorcerer was an idiot for picking this spell until she used it on our barbarian stuck in a forcecage. We also thought she was stupid for picking featherfall (sorcerers get too few spells!) until she saved a bunch of us from slamming into the spikes at the bottom of a pit...

I also hope darkness spells just make it dark, rather than magically dark. But maybe have some other 'magical dark' spell. It just annoys me that I can't just shut out the lights in D&D without making darkvision and low-light vision shut off. Nngh.

I was running numbers recently and found, much to my annoyance, that 3.5e weapons aren't as balanced as I thought. Basically, regular damage is king. Crits add very very little to overall damage. For example, looking at a falchion and greatsword, I found that falchions do equal damage to...

Consider 'cool and extensive unarmed combat rules' to be seconded/thirded/etc. I'd LOVE to have a character with leg sweeps, blocks, holds, submission, pain holds, and so forth. I'd love to see a martial artist character at all like someone who does Kung Fu: perfectly capable of using swords...