D&Disms That Make You Go "Huh?"

[AnonymousOne]

It means "I like to increase my post count."

I, sir, resent that! if it was JUST "QFT" then maybe. but note that I also added something to my post ... so bugger off.

 

[Doug McCrae]

It means "I like to increase my post count."

QFT

 

[Fifth Element]

It means "I like to increase my post count."

QFT

QFT.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Timeless body : "...and the druid/monk still dies of old age when her time is up."

HUH?

When what time is up? A random age picked with the penalties by age and race chart? The maximum you could get on that chart? A body which is suffering no damage from age still dies at an arbitrary date? And that date comes a couple of hundred years sooner for an unaging human than an unaging elf? What if they were originally a half orc but were reincarnated as an elf before reaching the right level? Which clock is running? Can you feel "your time" coming up?

I will put this up any day against "Muscular action closes the hole" for the most inane sentance in the SRD.

 

[Victim]

Sigh.

Perhaps I shouldn't have said "Daily Life", but non-combat spells that are fantastic and more Wizard-like than artillery.

How about a spell that builds a house? A permanent house. Just "I point at the materials, and they animate and build itself." So if you have mud you get a mud hut and if you have bricks you get a little brick house, etc.

Fabricate to 'instantly' effect the craft check for building the house? http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/fabricate.htm

 

[Slife]

Sigh.

Perhaps I shouldn't have said "Daily Life", but non-combat spells that are fantastic and more Wizard-like than artillery.

How about a spell that builds a house? A permanent house. Just "I point at the materials, and they animate and build itself." So if you have mud you get a mud hut and if you have bricks you get a little brick house, etc.

There is already a spell that does that.

EDIT: Ack, beaten to the punch.

 

[Rechan]

Fabricate to 'instantly' effect the craft check for building the house? http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/fabricate.htm

I read that spell description and it just doesn't make any sense to me.

 

[Reynard]

To address the first part, That would be mostly due to the disconnect between fantasy literature and D&D. Fiction authors are free to do whatever helps the story along. Dungeon Masters need to have some sort of game balance, at least among the heroes. In a gaming context, letting a player have artilery works. Letting a player have strategic nukes tends to cause problems.

Only if the players have a problem with constant stat measuring contests. The key to making "Phenomenal Cosmic Power" "balanced" is to make sure there's an "itty-bitty living space" aspect to it. In 1E, high level wizards were far and away more powerful on any scale than the high level fighter -- and yet people still continued to play both types, in the same groups. power level differences between PCs (and players) only matter if the players (and maybe PCs) care. if everyone is there to have a good time, then it is irrelevent.

Also, strategic nukes aren't a lot of help when dealing with the immediate vicinity. you need the guy who can go toe to toe with the giant or dragon if your only other option is to nuke everyone -- including you and your allies.

The issue of PC to PC balance is probably the one that gets my goat the most, and drives me insane about he "evolution" of D&D. If the DM is doinga good job, relative power level between the characters is irrelevent; relative fun among the players is still "balanced".

 

[Herremann the Wise]

I, sir, resent that! if it was JUST "QFT" then maybe. but note that I also added something to my post ... so bugger off.

To your "QFT" you added 8 words and attempted an expletive. That sir, is an increasing of your post count by one with a little grumbling on the end. I believe you should just accept that you were QFTing with no greater purpose than watching your post count ascend...[go's to check own post count...hey I'm up one more...]

Best Regards
Herremann the Wise

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Dwarf females with beards - where'd that come from? Where's the art of it? I find it intriguing.

I believe that is a very old fantasy fandom convention, dating back to the forties or so, the reasoning works like this - In Norse mythology there are no female dwarfs --> If dwarfs are a separate species, not diminutive humans there have to be baby dwarfs --> If there are baby dwarfs then there have to be mommy dwarfs --> Then why don't the Norse recognize any female dwarfs? --> 'CAUSE THEY GOT BEARDS!!!

Fandom is a silly place.

The Auld Grump - Picture Poul Anderson windmilling his arms and shouting 'CAUSE THEY GOT BEARDS!!! and it falls into place....