Search results

It goes without saying that, in order to tumble, the stars must be aligned, the tea leaves arranged just so, and the circumstances foretold by the auger's bones. Afterword, you're so tired, so exhausted, so weak, that all you can do is swing your sword for the rest of the combat - or perform...

If we're talking about 3e here, then yes, the PHB is very specific about line of sight, line of effect, and targetting. Any spell that automatically hits the target is unaffected by any level of cover except total cover. Any spell that requires a roll to hit the target (pretty much always a...

All fine and well, but you cannot arch over your friends head to hit someone 20' away. For meaningful archery, you need significant distance for gravity to influence the projectile. So, if you are the ranger with your bow in hand, standing behind your cleric who is behind your fighter, all in...

Dangit, John, I always like arguing with you, but this time I can't... Speaking as a writer, I have to totally agree with what you've said. Fiction abounds with characters who must face their own weaknesses and prevail despite those weaknesses. Without weaknesses, a fictional hero becomes...

That saddens me. In ages past, D&D appealed to pretty much all players. Even to players who had some other system, say GURPS or Whitewolf flavors for example, that they liked more than D&D. Even then most of those players, IME, also liked D&D to some extent. I could walk into a game store in a...

As for me, I got a little used to the Tome of Battle classes. These guys can all recover their really cool stuff right in the middle of the same fight. Multiple times if the fight is long enough. In fact, they can go: 1. use best ability 2. recycle that ability 3. use best ability 4. recycle...

Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly. So, I'm inferring from your post that you don't think 4e can stand on its own merit. We can't simply allow our players to get their own books and read them. We can't simply set up a game, gather our friends, roll up characters and play the game...

So, how do we distinguish between the people who try the game and don't like it because they are stubborn and filled with madness, and the people who try it and don't like it because they simply don't like the game? Maybe they don't like the game because their complete blindness to logical...

OK, but reversing all the math doesn't change the core mechanic. Whether you calculate 0 + x < y (0 is no damage, x is damage taken, y is damage threshold) or y - x > 0 (y is HP with no damage, x is damage taken, 0 is damage threshold), the end result is still the same mechanic with the signs...

Then please explain the subtlety, because I don't get it. If you're going to propose alternate rules, or house rules, why not propose rules that create viable results? No, I get it, you're not deliberately trying to make comboclassing a non-viable option. But on the other hand, by not trying...

If it is up to the player to pick and choose which abilities he keeps from two classes, and which he doesn't keep, munchkin players will be able, after gaining "system mastery" of the rules, to choose the strongest abilities of the two classes and discard the weakest. Assuming every class has...

That has got to be the most wrong thing I've read on these boards all month (although, admittedly, today is the first day of May...) I'm sorry, but reading that line, I paraphrase: "We are talking about trying to make comboclassers into non-viable party members". So, your whole thread is about...

That's fine for what it is, but it doesn't fix the problem with multiclassing. Basically, Celebrim pointed out that you give up a feat AND a power, to gain just a power (from another class, but powers are supposedly well-balanced), your net effectiveness is reduced by the loss of a feat that...

Pretty close. Rules as Written. Though your definition, in practical application (playing the game) means essentially the same thing.

Nope, don't like it. I do like the idea of fixing it so that a 50/50 blend won't be crippled, but I don't like fixing it by getting rid of it. I also don't like the fact that if you stick to your class, you gain a feat and a power. But if you want to muticlass, you spend a feat to gain a power...

LOL, it took 30 posts to get to a red shirt comment ;) Really, though, there should be NOTHING that tells the players who is and who is not a minion. There may be clues, and the players might make some accurate guesses, but I like to think of it as if the monsters/bad guys were real in a real...

I voted 2. I was initially excited, and the very first announcements looked very promising. I told all my D&D-playing friends about how wonderful 4e looked. Then we started getting details. Slowly they trickled in. And now 4e has become an over-simplified, unrealistic morass of nonsense rules...

It's impossible to deceive a tentacle with a feint (just like it is impossible to deceive a fist with a feint, or deceive a sword with a feint) - you can only deceive the mind controlling the tentacle, fist, or sword. Are we assuming the mountain is sentient, intelligent, able to view the...

One point of clarification: I'm fairly sure that the suggestion to NOT use this ssytem when it can result in player death lies in the random nature of dice. You tell a player, or a group of players, that 4 bad rolls means he/they die, then let them roll them, they might make good rolls, or...

What does that mean, "If the DM is worth his salt, this shouldnt be an issue"? Are you saying that a DM "worth his salt" should intervene and tell the player to increase his CON score if he used it as a dump stat? Should a DM "worth his salt" suggest, or even demand, characters are generated...