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One of the group is buying the Book of Nine Swords. What should I expect?
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<blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 3095539" data-attributes="member: 957"><p>First may I point out that anyone who understands the meaning of the word "hyperbole" will immediately notice that your post WAS hyperbole and mine was not. Stating the actual result of a test play event is not hyberbole. Declaring "Must be one terrible druid", without the slightest evidence is a fair example and replacing the terms "significantly better" and "as potent" with "overpowered, member invalidating" may not actually be hyperbole in the strictest sense, but it is certainly an asinine misrepresentation.</p><p></p><p>Exactly what type of concrete evidence are you looking for on a message board? Do you want me to record an mpg of the game session and post it?</p><p></p><p>Detailed analyses have been presented in other threads and I'd recommend you look them up if you want to challenge them.</p><p></p><p>The druid was very solid and it showed very effectively in the game.</p><p>The nerfed warblade held its own right alongside.</p><p>The maneuvers were left exactly as presented in the book. </p><p>The HD was D10, and all the other special abilities other than stances and manuevers and bonus feats were removed. </p><p></p><p>At high level a druid is certainly very powerful. The nerfed warblade was <strong>as potent</strong>. Easily. The nerfed warbalde was certainly more potent than the monkey grip spiked chain kensai.</p><p></p><p>I'm very interested about the concept presented in the book. But I'm also very disappointed that it was so miserably implemented.</p><p></p><p>If you actually have a reasoned argument to present to dispute this assessment, then by all means I'd love to hear it. But misrepresenting statements and blindly declaring the results of an actual test as hyperbole is just foolish and seems to only show a lack of vocabulary and basic reading comprehension. </p><p>If you don't have a better founded response, then that should speak for itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BryonD, post: 3095539, member: 957"] First may I point out that anyone who understands the meaning of the word "hyperbole" will immediately notice that your post WAS hyperbole and mine was not. Stating the actual result of a test play event is not hyberbole. Declaring "Must be one terrible druid", without the slightest evidence is a fair example and replacing the terms "significantly better" and "as potent" with "overpowered, member invalidating" may not actually be hyperbole in the strictest sense, but it is certainly an asinine misrepresentation. Exactly what type of concrete evidence are you looking for on a message board? Do you want me to record an mpg of the game session and post it? Detailed analyses have been presented in other threads and I'd recommend you look them up if you want to challenge them. The druid was very solid and it showed very effectively in the game. The nerfed warblade held its own right alongside. The maneuvers were left exactly as presented in the book. The HD was D10, and all the other special abilities other than stances and manuevers and bonus feats were removed. At high level a druid is certainly very powerful. The nerfed warblade was [b]as potent[/b]. Easily. The nerfed warbalde was certainly more potent than the monkey grip spiked chain kensai. I'm very interested about the concept presented in the book. But I'm also very disappointed that it was so miserably implemented. If you actually have a reasoned argument to present to dispute this assessment, then by all means I'd love to hear it. But misrepresenting statements and blindly declaring the results of an actual test as hyperbole is just foolish and seems to only show a lack of vocabulary and basic reading comprehension. If you don't have a better founded response, then that should speak for itself. [/QUOTE]
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