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Guys, some grist for your thought mills. Holding Monopoly up as anything other than excerable game design is a bad idea. Monopoly utterly fails as a fun game. It is entirely random and utterly devoid of strategy. /threadjack --G

If the rogue preview is any guide, I will wager that Warlock pact powers get bonuses depending on which pact you have. For example, Positioning Strike (see below) gives a bonus to "Artful Dodger" build rogues, while Torturous Strike gives a bonus to "Brutal Scoundrel" type rogues. Based on...

Are we beginning to see the birth of a Con to Action Movie Hero conversion scale here? Con = 8 = John McClane Con = 18 = Conan Con = 25 = Chuck Norris --G (I'm sorry for the Chuck Norris thing, but c'mon, with a setup like that? how could I resist)

Except that like Windows, Pathfinder will be maintaining unnecessary legacy support for old and busted mechanics, while 4e will be ditching legacy support for a smoother, more streamlined, and more intuitive user experience. Also, don't Mac users tout the "user-friendliness" of their product...

I really do love Paizo's products. They are unfailingly high quality and routinely bring "teh win." But. I have issues with paying to beta test a product. I really do. Maybe it's because I used to be paid to test other people's games. But I cannot fathom paying money for the privilege of...

Snarky much? That's what happens when I try to read too many threads at once. Here. I'll correct it for you. --G

I'd bet the fighter's power is also useful for pushing foes out of AoO range so that the ranged strikers can do damage without triggering AoOs. --G

Except I think the warlock's curse can only target the nearest enemy. In one game I played, I cursed an enemy adjacent to me, but ended up blasting one much further away (as the combat played out, I never actually got to attack the guy I cursed :(). So it does help somewhat to have a marker...

Certainly not dark blade. Somehow, I doubt you'd want to pick any old powers. From the powers we've seen so far, they all seem to be based on one of your attributes. Hmmm. Maybe a better way to look at it (rather than martial, divine, arcane) would be to consider what classes have similar...

That's where I first heard the term. --G

Tell Dan hi from Thomas. --G

And it tanked largely because the design goal was to create a theme park. Ralph Koster wanted to create a world in which moisture farming was a valid player character pursuit. For some types of MMOGs, that might be a good idea. But it's very important to reference your source material. In...

I love my Volkswagen Jetta TDI. It's solid and reliable. Diesel engine technology has been around for nearly a century. But these days, I really prefer driving my Prius. It gets the same fuel economy but it doesn't stink up the area quite as much. Some people say I'm crazy, because the...

The only way I ever felt like DMing 3.5 edition was with e-Tools. None of the monsters in my mind fit precisely into the stat blocks in the MM, so I'd have to stat them up individually. Now sure, I used the dodge of (generic orc raider x10), but even so, it got tedious. It was most...

My 3.5e Warforged Psywar has a theme song: Iron Man! --G

Hey Lizard-- Where'd you get a copy of the DMG? I'd really like to get one myself. --G

I think that's a consequence of the 3.xe's math working best from 3rd level to 14th level (the sweet spot). There's also the issue of increasing the base power of the races to open up the racial design space so as to help eliminate the +LA races. Sadly, they cannot work the sweet spot...

But Klaus, you didn't make Hendrix or Amadeus. Right there, you've made Johnny (from Devil Went Down to Georgia). So is a golden fiddle considered masterwork? --G

One aspect of that which I've encountered is with the Warlock. I find myself moving three squares every round just so I can keep myself concealed with Shadow Walk. At the same time, I'm always trying to keep myself close to the enemies to maintain the Prime Shot bonus. --G

You say po-tay-to, I say po-tah-to. Let's call the whole thing off. Core assumptions influence how we approach the rules. The core assumption of 3.xe is that everything follows the same rules. Ever being needs hit dice, skill ranks, feats, and all of the associated traits that characters...