A Review of 6E

[Bront]

Have they updated the SRD to reflect the changes in d20 Modern 4.5? And did they finally fix unarmed combat from that rediculious system where you hire homeless lawyers to fight to death in the garage? I realize that the Lawyer Population Control Act allows them to be used as random outcome generators, but all of the papers left around are tough to clean up?

5.0 is coming out soon to finaly update it to D100. Been almost a year and a half in the making though, and 4.5 was realy just a makeshift solution they released till they finished the full conversion. I hear it has more realistic mutant rules now, though those are contrivertial and some are calling them racist.

 

[slaunt]

I'm STILL waiting for my Pre-Order of Army of Darkness from Stev-Eden Studiogames. If i'm lucky it will be out before 7th edition is released.

Oh,
Anyword on Monte Cooks Virtual Adventures alternate players handbook v8?


Slaunt

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

How many people who regularly post here become rich and famous?

Do RangerWickett or I ever publish popular novels?

Am I ever restored to full mental health?

Does the SCA still use the Open Live Action Rules (SCAOLAR) for combat and can *theire interns still be contracted to enact the battles the PC experience?

*Note approved 2019 spelling of the word

(1. I still say we're gonna rue this thread when more than half these predictions come true in one form or another, 2. I thought about making the meth. joke in my post but changed my mind, 3. It's surprisingly hard not to make a political joke about the future)

 

[sniffles]

Not since the Tree Liberation Act was passed back in 2011, making it illegal to raise a tree into a life of virtual slavery, putting an end to "inhumane" tree farms. Still can't figure out how they got that one through Congress. We've been importing paper ever since, but that's really expensive.

Hence the move to using soy-based synthsheet for everyday hardcopies, but hardcopy is so 20th century. I mean, I'm a bit of a traditionalist, so when I bought the hardcopy of 5.75 in synthsheet is was already over $300, the Collectors Edition with imported actual wood-pulp paper was $600, and I couldn't bring myself to buy it (not to mention the Collectors Edition didn't even incorporate the Errata!).

Soylent White is people!! People!!!!

 

[drothgery]

How many people who regularly post here become rich and famous?

42.

Do RangerWickett or I ever publish popular novels?

Or? Nope. The series you collaborated on did pretty well, though. It didn't make you enough to retire on, but nobody asks "who are those guys" when you show up at author forums at cyber-conventions anymore.

Am I ever restored to full mental health?

Hard to say.

Does the SCA still use the Open Live Action Rules (SCAOLAR) for combat and can *theire interns still be contracted to enact the battles the PC experience?

Yes, but most people prefer full-imersion VR for historical re-enactment these days. You can use realistic swords and not get hurt.

 

[LordVyreth]

Any word on letting the terminology be used for parody still? It sounds like there's plenty of material to satire, so if the Dead Gentlemen get to use it again, I think The Gamers 12 will win even more Oscars than the last one.

 

[Zappo]

Enough talk about D&D. I've heard that the plot for "D&D VII: The Outsider [Evil] Could" is about Damodar who, guess what, finds a magic thingy that controls dragons and must be stopped by a party of seemingly randomly-selected adventurers.

Yeah, I know that he got killed "for good" in the fifth movie, but it seems that his soul was sent to the Abyss and is now, for some reason, a Succubus.

 

[Remathilis]

Knock that off, we weren't supposed to talk about the D&D movies since D&D VI: Voyage to Middle Earth came out...

 

[Dr_Games]

I'll stick with 1st Ed. ;-)

 

[Ariel23]

Paladins are reclassified as a Prestigious Base Class.

Did they finally stop calling it the "Smite Not-so-Good-as-Other-People" ability?

Ever since 5.5e when President Travolta was in office and that whole politically correct expunging of all references to "evil" and replacing them with terms like "morally ambiguous", I've just been waiting for 6.66e to come out and an update to The Sacred Place of a Religion Besides Our Own Which Adheres To A Different System Of Moral Beliefs and make something more like the old, "The Descendants Who Return to the Fall of the Ruins of the Temple of Elemental Evil." I mean, just eliminating the alignment block of all the NPC's and monsters will cut that modulink down 1.8 Gigabytes, so I can finally get it on my thumbnail cell-phone/PC/GPS and free up some space on my 1.21 Jigabyte cortex drive (the old USB 13 model).
Don't even get me started on how long it takes to mind-scroll through the memorized spells of all the clerics in that mod.

P.S. Anyone interested in an old D&D Online account? I stupidly went with the 120 months for just $10.99/month, thinking that was a big savings.
I think they might finally add in Druids in the upcoming Indoor Plumbing of Xendrik expansion.