Life is Broken!

[Angcuru]

Spoilsport.

 

[Dagger75]

The thing with life its hard to find gear and equipment. The DM is pretty stingy with the weapons and none of the shopkeepers like to haggle.

Also Intelligence seems to be the dump stat in this game. Everybody wants a high charisma.

 

[jgbrowning]

As I'm still alive, it seems pretty balanced to me.

joe b.

 

[drothgery]

The thing with life its hard to find gear and equipment. The DM is pretty stingy with the weapons and none of the shopkeepers like to haggle.

Also Intelligence seems to be the dump stat in this game. Everybody wants a high charisma.

Eh. For some reason people keep trying to play high-int characters in the Scientist class, or some class that really got the shaft, like Teacher or Librarian.

You want to advance as an Engineer or a Computer Geek; you need fewer levels of Student to qualify (and unless you've the Extremely Wealthy, Extremely Poor, or Right Ethnic Group background, you have to cough up treasure for every level you take in that class), and you get more treasure if you're going by standard wealth rules.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

The race mechanics are really odd. You can be half this and half that in pretty much any combination, and I can't figure out of Jewish is a race or a religion.

It's a template. I went for the Half-Jewish template at character creation, and frankly, I can't believe my DM let me get away with it! I get double starting gold for being able to celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah, a free Circumcised feat, and free ranks in Speak: Yiddish and Knowledge: Jesus-y Stuff. And because I went for Half-Jewish, I got to avoid having to take the Jewish Mother flaw!

 

[CronoDekar]

Dude, I can't even figure out how to level up! I'm trying to take a level in sorcerer or cleric so I can cast some sweet spells, but this whole process is mind-boggling. Where do I go? Do I just come up with a char sheet and write it down? Do I have to roleplay it out first? I've tried finding a school, but nobody can seem to turn brimstone and bat guano into fiery death. If I just wave my arms around and make bizarre chants will that count?

ARG, this system is just TOO rules light!

 

[Dagger75]

I also walked into a bar and just rolled some dice to see if the attractive buxom waitress would well you know. Nope got some strange looks.

At least there aren't any nasty monsters on the wandering monster charts. I probably could have taken the squirl that was dropping things from the treee on my car.

 

[fusangite]

I was doing fine until I made a really terrible multi-classing decision a few years ago. I had about 6 levels of Politician (I can tell because my hit points, Fortitude and Will saves did keep going up every few years, not to mention my Bluff and Diplomacy) and had just taken one in the Sell-Out PR Flak PrC and then, for some stupid reason, I decided to start taking levels in Scholar. Except for a couple of Charisma-based skills, these classes don't stack together at all well; furthermore nobody told me Scholar has no good saves.

I'm also suspecting I'm not human because I seem to be taking some kind of experience point penalty and this hideous negative modifier (-20) whenever I try to use my Charisma-based skills on human females.

Now, what's this nonsense about having trouble leveling? I'm pretty sure everybody here can remember leveling at one point or another. You're just complaining because your classes have D2 hit dice and no BAB progression (like the 3.0 Halfling Outrider).

 

[Zappo]

It's got cool graphics, though.

 

[drothgery]

At least there aren't any nasty monsters on the wandering monster charts. I probably could have taken the squirl that was dropping things from the treee on my car.

Don't get too cocky. The DM prefers to use NPCs for high-CR encounters, and will spring them on you with minimal warning after years of relative tranquility.