D&D 4E In terms of theme, tone, and spirit, I hope 4e . . .

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

On the other, other, hand, evil apparently makes Mialee hotter:

My years in single bars proved to me that evil always makes girls hotter.

 

[theredrobedwizard]

That's amusing, considering that 300 is based on the very real Battle of Thermopylae. Certainly, many things were exaggerated, but the movie is surprisingly accurate.

Just find it funny that your idea of over the top, larger than life heroes... really existed.

It was more to the exaggerated stylings that I was referring. I've seen "historically accurate" versions of the battle and they bored me to tears (The 300 Spartans, et al).

That's pretty much my view on most historically accurate art, though.

-TRRW

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I, on the other hand, want my D&D to be like the film 300. We're big damned heroes who only get beaten when we're outnumbered 300,000 to 1. Muscles everywhere and mookishly silly bad guys getting cut into ribbons by the truckload. I want to play Legends of an Age, not Legends of the Hamlet of Thorp.

Do you use special rules for mooks, like Unseen Armies has? Because the RAW don't support that style of play super-well.

 

[HeinorNY]

Do you use special rules for mooks, like Unseen Armies has? Because the RAW don't support that style of play super-well.

Do you know a game called Dungeons & Dragons? It's really cool, it's about super heroic almost demi-god characters. I once had a 18th level warrior (level is a measure of character's power, it goes up to 20) that killed a whole town's guard, almost 1000 men, after some days of slaughter. I believe 299 more warriors like him could face 1,000,000 men army , considering some tactical advantage.

 

[theredrobedwizard]

Do you use special rules for mooks, like Unseen Armies has? Because the RAW don't support that style of play super-well.

5th level PCs vs 1st level Warriors? Yeah, it's pretty much mooks at that point.

-TRRW

 

[Asmor]

My years in single bars proved to me that evil always makes girls hotter.

My years in Buffy proved that evil always makes girls hotter.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Exactly!

And while I love WAR's stuff, I can't resist posting my favorite piece of D&D artwork EVER (and I've been staring at this stuff since 1979), Marc Sasso's Blackguard:

Yes, this picture rules worlds. I think more people have been turned to evil by this picture than the most perverted succubus out there.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Do you know a game called Dungeons & Dragons? It's really cool, it's about super heroic almost demi-god characters. I once had a 18th level warrior (level is a measure of character's power, it goes up to 20) that killed a whole town's guard, almost 1000 men, after some days of slaughter. I believe 299 more warriors like him could face 1,000,000 men army , considering some tactical advantage.

300? Those wusses. Cohan's Silver Horde took out almost a million enemies, and they were just 8 or so seniors helped by a failed wizzard (who can't even spell it correctly)


You're right, though: 300 20th-level fighters (or 30th-level, who says those guys weren't epic?) wouldn't have too many problems holding off a low-level-warriors army of any size if they can hole up in a tight spot.

 

[Nifft]

Cohan's Silver Horde

Cohen, wasn't it?

Mazel tov, -- N

 

[Fifth Element]

That's amusing, considering that 300 is based on the very real Battle of Thermopylae. Certainly, many things were exaggerated, but the movie is surprisingly accurate.

Personally, I enjoyed the historically-accurate Persian mutants and the 8' tall Xerxes.

Yes, the events are generally accurate, but clearly the comment was referring to the style and presentation of the film, which was not what anyone could call "accurate".