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I've always wondered why more DM's don't have things like Street Lamps and permanantly Breezed porches.

most likely because no one wants to live with Well there are fantasy books where the elves do rule. But honestly I imagine a truly long lived society like that wouldn't want to mess with humans unless they simply had no choice. Compared to the Tolkenesque elven society Humans at pretty...

I don't know that it's icky but there does seem to be a very cognitive dissonance for most fantasy fans that seems to make scifi stuff unfun, I don't seem to see that as much in reverse from Scifi fans when thier scifi get's a little fantasy. But that may be because star trek and star wars are...

Hmm philosophers have been debating alignment vs action since religion existed. nope. in fact most religions are very lear that intent is the only thing that matters in your actions. Good actions from bad intent in most religions is judged just as harshly as bad actions with bad intent...

Well if spells of that level are reliable and in good supply then you just get the scif show altered Carbon. via magic instead ot tech though at that level they become almost the same.

CN could do the same thing because they feel sorry for the downtrodden and want to piss off he bullies and screw with them. If the authority figures are misusing the Law the LG could be justified. I could go on with all the good, N, and LE oe NE. internal reasoning and moral code is the...

N awful lot of generic actions that could be justified by multipe alignments being used to justify them. Remember in Alignment the justification for the action by someones moral code and in thier own thoughts is what defines whether its good or not. The viking mage sinking an entire fleet...

A lawful good person would consider an unjust law, unjust and therefor immoral and something that could be ignored. even Laws have to be moral and just for this Alignment. its why the government hates his Judgemental and righteous view of them.

Nope he LG not so bright

Especially since screwing up can burn out your ability to wish. eAND90 hit ponts of damage from the screw up would kill a lot of non physical non athletic academics. I predict the billionaires and politicians of the world would kill o rburn out most of your 9th level capable academics. and...

1 minute worth of people for a veeeery expensive spell. might be good for diplomats and special force and the oddbillionaire , thas about it.

wishes are iffy at best so wishing things to existance isn't going to work reliably. Assuming a bell curve for whatever it is that required to be able to cast 9th level spells, int, raw talent etc. Your going to get way less than 1 percent of the population able to even cast 7th level spells...

it is true DND is almost anime in style for combat and magic. I do think a lot of people who want it fixed could be happier playing something like gurps.

yeah w'eve done a dozen ways to make combat more complicated since 1e. Not one of them was ever popular.

honestly it's one of those things that is exacerbated by the fact that there are no real restrictions on the magic system as a whole. If you had to invoke the gods of darkness and open yourself up to them to use a darkness based spell, this argument would mostly go away. The entire magic...

com'on a dragon hitting you once solidly is going to break many bones, cause internal bleeding and all but gaurantee your death in minutes.

Though I think it's fair to just say that flight in combat turns it from a simple thing to a pain in the ass with or without dark vision. I just dont' think people think well in 3 dimensions and the DM is trying to keep up with 6 other people and adding an x and y axis to everything can really...

well if the stuff they need is below the monster then the flyers and rope swingers are going in the wrong direction. NOt all monsters work in all scenarios. I could give you the same argument about dragons and parties in small cavern systems.

Only a different in level of sensitivity and granularity of understanding by the reciever. cats hunt by hearing and sight. Bats hunt only by hearing. Take bloodhound or desert fly smell and crank it up to bat level with the appropriate brain circuits to process and just by smell the animal...

neither does tremorsense smell or any other type of perception. any creature on earth will fight with the senses it has. Do we think there are no fights in the deep ocean where most fish are blind? That's a little silly to claim a dog wouldn't fight by it's sense of smell if it was all it...