Testing the rules...

[Crothian]

So, crothian, you don`t have your own flail, right? It was the one of your ex-roommate. And he didn`t like it when you took it away from him?

No, I actually own a flail. It was hard to find. I kept seeing double flails, where they had two chains at the end and I just wanted the single ball and chain. It's packed away somewhere in the garage. Never found it after the move last summer.

I'm just saying when you do a trip attack with a flail, it should do normal damage as well.

 

[orbitalfreak]

I had to go to the hospital last Saturday for rabies shots...

It was embarrassing trying to explain that I was bitten by a bat. Especially when I had to tell my mom that I was trying to collect its guano.

How much is a gold piece worth in $US?? I really want to make sure this diamond is expensive enough. I really miss my hampster...





[yes, the obligatory for the clueless]

 

[BMF]

When I was in high school, back in the days of 1e, one of my fellow gamers was on the school track team. In fact he was about the fastest guy they had. He wasn't breaking records or anything but he won a lot of races and he was a hell of a lot faster than I was. Anyway, we did some timed sprints on the track to test out the movement rules. We found that even he, at 17 years old, in top physical condition and wearing only his gym clothes couldn't run nearly as fast as a typical character could with 50 pounds of gear on his back.


Also, Spider mentioned the noise people make when walking through tunnels. To that I would add mention of the absolute racket that people make when they walk through the woods. If they are just walking it isn't too bad, but if they start talking you can hear them a long, long way off. And noises like the chopping of wood can be heard even further than that.

Much of our modern lifestyle causes us to forget just how quite the wilderness is.

 

[kreynolds]

I just want to know where you got the elephant........

Well, it wasn't difficult gettin' a hold of him, but there was that whole legal battle thing....being arrested for animal cruelty...oh wait...no, the animal cruelty thing was something else, a sheep, I think...

 

[CRGreathouse]

Re: Re: Testing the rules...

Just use different rules, then. You're trying to make a called shot, and D&D doesn't allow those. What you're actually looking doing is aiming at a tiny target (the dart board), with an AC of 10-5+2+1natural (explains why those darts keep bouncing off), for a total AC of 8. You're not proficient in darts, probably, and you're probably using crummy darts that inflict a -1 or greater penalty to hit.

The bullseye, of course, is a confirmed critical hit .

Of course, the trouble with that is you wouldn't really hit much more if I removed the bullseye from the dartboard and had you throw at it alone.

That, and the fact that you can't crit objects.

 

[Gromm]

Re: Right

With the nonproficiency, compare to proficient guys (like me), with higher dex (like me) and Point Blank Shot (not like me) and you'll see they hit the bull's eye quite often

Yeah no offense man, I suck at darts too, but my buddies can hit a bulls eye about 1 time in 3 or so. Sometimes 3 times in a row with no problem (randomness of the dice?).
If I throw 20 darts I probably wont get a bullseye, but then again I might. Hell I might get a couple. Depends how "the dice roll" as they say.

 

[Pielorinho]

Last night we were gaming, and Jac (the DM) asked Spider if he could have a cookie.

Spider performed a search for the cookies (DC 5), but flubbed his roll: even with a good INT modifier, he wasn't able to find them. He performed another search, and amazingly flubbed the roll a second time.

I decided to aid him, taking 10 on my search check. "There," I said, pointing. "Under your chair."

With my aiding his search check, he successfully found the cookies, and passed them to the DM.

Daniel

 

[Pielorinho]

Re: Re: Re: Testing the rules...

Of course, the trouble with that is you wouldn't really hit much more if I removed the bullseye from the dartboard and had you throw at it alone.

That, and the fact that you can't crit objects.

Details, details....

I'm thinking that nonproficiency is a large part of the puzzle; the other big part of the problem is that Spider is probably playing with the crappy darts provided by a pub, little lightweight plastic doohickeys. I'm not aware that D20 has rules for substandard weapons. I'd be tempted to halve their range and impose a -1 penalty to attack and damage rolls.

Daniel

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Another thing:
Suicide, what would it be ruleswise? A coup de crace?

I ask, because in Shadowrun, it seems nearly impossible to kill yourself, at least with a gun. Base DC 4, +4 for called shot (head), +8 for blind fire (you can`t see your own head, can you?), for a total of 16. Now role with your poor 12 d6 (I assume a skill of 6, which is really good, and the rest 6 dice are from the combat pool) against the DC (and remember, you have to compare each die with the target number, not add the values. 6 are rerolled and results added). Even if you hit, you only deal Serious Damage. More will need more success...

On the other hand, just jumping of a building will work well - (but that will make it in D&D, too)... Chances that you won`t survive it are high..

 

[Magic Rub]

Movement (among other things) has always bugged me a little in D&D. Creatures on both sides of the "average", being medium size creatures, all moving a 5ft. step???? So a Dragon can only move 5ft. per step???? and a Pixie or some other really, really, small type creature can move a 5ft. step????? even a Kobold having a 5ft. step is odd.

I can understand the mechanics behind it, don't get me worng, even though the reality is that 5ft. is a big step, but it should be modified for larger & smaller creatures.