Dewl barsturd swordz yo!

[Kzach]

Kzach, would you feel better if they're magic bastard swords?

Yes.

If there was some magical explanation, I'd be fine with it.

The point I was trying to make that none, including Mr. Genius over there, seem to get is that this isn't a rational or reasonable response to the rule.

I know I'm being irrational and unreasonable with this rule. It's just that the rule itself bugs me on a level even I don't quite understand. There is just some part of me that is screaming, "NO!"

And it's a very loud, very aggressive part that is not listening to my rational and reasonable arguments for it. Therefore, it wins.

 

[aurance]

So what was the point of this post? To showcase your "irrational and unreasonable" reaction to a rule? That doesn't seem very constructive. What's the basis for discussion?

 

[Kzach]

What's the basis for discussion?

Cheese.

 

[silentounce]

Cheese.

No, that discussion is over here: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=229900

 

[Geoff Watson]

First of all, tone down your vehemence. "Everyone smart agrees with me" is a poor argument in the first place, and the majority of people aren't disagreeing with you that two bastard swords strains credulity.

He's actually saying that dumb people agree with him; smart people would have triple digit IQs (100 is average).

Geoff.

 

[mattdm]

Kzach, would you feel better if they're magic bastard swords?

Yes.

If there was some magical explanation, I'd be fine with it.

Okay, now we're getting somewhere useful.

Consider many of the mid- and high-level martial powers. It's not called magic, but so many what D&D fighters can do is well beyond what one could imagine someone doing in the real world. Their extraordinary abilities are like magic.

 

[CleverNickName]

Like I said. Don't care if it's balanced. Don't care if the rules are fair. Don't care if a monkey backflips over thirty virgins with spiked chastity belts.

IT'S STUPID.

I just read this whole thread, and I must say, I haven't laughed this much in a long time. And my intelligence quotient is but a paltry 145.

I personally don't have a problem with dual-wielding bastard swords. In my opinion, nothing could be worse than that ridiculious circus act known as the Spiked Chain.

The ruining of my disbelief was in the way healing works in 4E. Characters spontaneously healing themselves by the power of their own awesomeness? Getting killed by a cure disease spell? I'd sooner believe in the Loch Ness Monster. But that's a different thread.

Rock on, Kzach. \m/

 

[Boarstorm]

Anyone remember that old 3.0 splat book, Sword and Fist?

Mercurial Bastard Swords, yo!

 

[Old Gumphrey]

The ruining of my disbelief was in the way healing works in 4E. Characters spontaneously healing themselves by the power of their own awesomeness? Getting killed by a cure disease spell? I'd sooner believe in the Loch Ness Monster. But that's a different thread.

See, I don't really get this. It's not magical healing. HP =/= "Life". You aren't even "bloodied" until half your HP is gone. Seems to me that until 50%, you are thus "not bloodied" and therefore, not physically damaged.

Second Wind heals you for less than the value to get you to being bloody in the first place, meaning that your "spontaneous healing by the power of awesomeness" is actually a lot closer to adrenaline, willpower, or sheer luck. Using them out of combat is called "resting".

 

[CleverNickName]

See, I don't really get this. It's not magical healing. HP =/= "Life". You aren't even "bloodied" until half your HP is gone. Seems to me that until 50%, you are thus "not bloodied" and therefore, not physically damaged.

Second Wind heals you for less than the value to get you to being bloody in the first place, meaning that your "spontaneous healing by the power of awesomeness" is actually a lot closer to adrenaline, willpower, or sheer luck. Using them out of combat is called "resting".

To avoid derailing this thread, I started a new one over here.

Cheers!