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AD&D has both unintentionally and intentionally perpetuated screwed up thinking on alignments for a long time. Part of the problem is that for a DM it's a good way to make a functional NPC for the world. I need an enemy of the king, fine I have a LE Noble who believes he would be a better...

no....you are pulling yourself back into the black hole of populist alignment thought. flexible thought can be anyone....Chaotic alignments believe people should be free to do thier own thing. Lawful Alignments believe law should be instituted to keep order and power in the right places...

Well first of all you have to understand Alignment isn't personality. It also isn't Intelligence. A CE can be smart enough to avoid consequences, they can like to hang out with people they can want attention. They can even have weird normal mortal problems like not being able to stand the...

yeah in some ways 3rd /pf 1e is like the MMO version of D&D. Prep time is higher, some players tend to spend hours and hours going through all the rules online looking for a surprise or to find minmax perfection. Which just makes DM prep time even worse. As I get older and have more things...

So you are doing the same thing in reverse. It works the same way. If the players can do it the npc's and monsters should be able to do it. Doesn't matter which way you run it as long as that rule is in place. You can call it bad DM'ing but some tables like the High level Hijinx...

I find where it breaks the hardest is the modern players that think the DM using PC style tactics against them is "uncool" or "unfair" or just "bad DM'ing". Just kill those players till they leave your table if your running high level games. If they can do it. It should be fair game for the...

see I don't think you need immersion for something like Fallout. Its more like a dark fairy tale nothing about it feels or seems real or even possible it's just junk food for the brain.

I don't think fiction is required to match real world science to tell an entertaining story. I don't really think it's about people believing the world, its more about making sure the story is entertaining and the "fake stuff" is consistent within the rules presented.

It's a scifi show based on a game maybe it's just not your cup of tea. The target audience is people that played the video game. Video games don't use real world science or logic.

Ok to make a point. I'd be really careful about this shoot and scoot stuff as an ongoing tactic. The players should be able to come up with some way to deal with this kind of attacks going forward. Not necessarily easily or cheaply. Otherwise your just putting them in a horror movie...

well the problem is the martial attack is based on attacking a high AC. If you add the INT/WIS/CHR of the mage to their armor that might be enough to make a fair attack with a reasonable chance of success and failure. Not sure I'd have to play around with it. It might work well. edit. I...

well using legolas is what I call the outlier. What they did in the movie with him was just F'ing stupid. In the books he was a bad ass ranged attacker and a decent melee warrior and even with the amount of people he killed at range before Gimli hit the front line gimli killed just as many as...

The only thing with the above is figuring out the math the martial is going to use to disrupt the spell. It has to be something with a reasonable chance of success and failure if they are the same level.

well spit balling from those comments. Reaction to study the spell and identify it's level. Then mage burns spell of the appropriate level or higher to counterspell as an attack. If he rolls bad on the reaction to study the spell the mage has no idea as it's being cast what level the spell...

I meant what the company thinks they want vs what the customers want never seems to match up with D&D beyond.

but what they think they want and what they need to make the base happy never seems to be the same. If they haven't resolved that the best built site on earth won't help at all.

oh absolutely fixing a poorly designed system or application is like trying to build a house on a bad foundation. It'll never work the way you need it too.

I've never seen a version of counter spelling that I thought worked in a way that improved the game. I think a counterspell needs a few things. 1. a way to identify what you are counter spelling. (note this could work for martials as well) 2. a reasonable mechanic for counter spelling. No...

you've got to consider fallout tech is like they were just about 100 years away from launching the enterprise but then blew up the world. The whole 50's vibe makes it easy to forget we are talking about a world that is more like the Fantastic Fours world with all that super futuristic tech...