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Covok posted:Are the classes going to have no flavor? That seems off for D&D. They usually at least have some implied setting snuck into the PHB. Also, I think they "bumped it up" to 10 or 11 classes a while back. haha, are they really going to have no flavor? thats some poo poo, "roleplay a barbarian" "what kind of barbarian" "just do it human being, heres your char sheet" one of my favorite things about the 4th ed char builder is just checking out the section dedicated to fluff background information, picking out like 5 and making a character concept out of them, best addition ever
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I've never felt the need for the roleplaying system to tell me what my character is I mean, I can do a bad french accent, a bad spanish accent, a bad australian accent, the theater of the mind is flush with possibilities
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Neurolimal posted:haha, are they really going to have no flavor? thats some poo poo, "roleplay a barbarian" "what kind of barbarian" "just do it human being, heres your char sheet"
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Apr 8, 2014 08:24
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I messed up that figure, I was thinking of the playtest which didn't have all the classes, but it did have all the staple classes. Time will tell if it will he a possible sell to your Paizofriends I suppose.
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Covok posted:To clarify, I have no idea if they are going to have flavor or not. Considering past editions, I think they are definitely are going to have flavor. I was just asking because LSTB said it like it was a fact which means he might know something that I don't. It's not like I've been keeping up to date with this game. In one packet if you played a Dragon Power Source Sorcerer you became more and more dragon-ey as you cast spells, slowly transforming into a fire-belching scaley dude over the course of the day. They got rid of it because it was new and interesting. No really that was their actual given reasoning. Splicer fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Apr 8, 2014 |
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Apr 8, 2014 12:27
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:I have two loving totes full of those loving books that I never really want to open again, and yet I'll be damned if I sell them.
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So I checked out the player's guide for Zeitgeist since I seen good talk about it, and the Polyhistor paragon path looks like what I'd expect from a martial-dice based Fighter, plus it's really strong mechanically. Could the Next Fighter be fixed by basically pulling all the stuff off the polyhistor and making those sorts of abilities the basic chassis you could staple more stuff onto?
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Apr 8, 2014 17:29
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this game appeals to no one don't play it
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Generic Octopus posted:So I checked out the player's guide for Zeitgeist since I seen good talk about it, and the Polyhistor paragon path looks like what I'd expect from a martial-dice based Fighter, plus it's really strong mechanically. The Polyhistor is better already by not being called a "fighter". That's like calling an Only War character a shooter.
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LSTB posted:The Polyhistor is better already by not being called a "fighter". That's like calling an Only War character a shooter. What the hell is a Polyhistor though
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Gort posted:What the hell is a Polyhistor though The definition of Polyhistor is Polymath. Apparently, Polymath means "a person of encyclopedic learning." So, transitive property...
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Covok posted:The definition of Polyhistor is Polymath. Apparently, Polymath means "a person of encyclopedic learning."
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Apr 9, 2014 02:49
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think about how there is an entire generation of young people for whom d&d next will be a novel tabletop RPG experience and then kill yourself
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Apr 9, 2014 12:01
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if you haven't done it before, driving a rusty nail through your dick is a novel experience.
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What if the nail's not rusty? Does it still feel like a nail?
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Ratoslov posted:if you haven't done it before, driving a rusty nail through your dick is a novel experience. sounds like something a fighter would do
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Doc Hawkins posted:sounds like something a fighter would do
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Ratoslov posted:if you haven't done it before, driving a rusty nail through your dick is a novel experience. but enough about a newbie playing a fighter in d&d next
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Splicer posted:I'm pretty sure there's a BoVD feat with that as a prerequisite. In return for +1 to saves against dazzling and the ticket cost of getting into Thrall of Googilyface
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quote:@vikke064 Just read the L&L about the Battlemaster. Seems promising, but I still lack an option for a "fighter's cure wounds". DMG maybe?
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i like not tailoring build options to the thing that happens 5% of the time, but nothing makes me less excited about next than the idea of "the downtime system"
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it's like jazz. it's the adventures you aren't having
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Apr 10, 2014 02:42
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healing-like option
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Chernobyl Peace Prize posted:i like not tailoring build options to the thing that happens 5% of the time, but nothing makes me less excited about next than the idea of "the downtime system" Torchbearer has a fun and engaging "Town Phase" that allows you to roll dice and have fun (or unfun) stuff happen to you as you try to offload your loot and get better stuff. But then again, Torchbearer is designed by a guy who actually wants to make a game and not just a frankenstein's monster of mechanics from the different editions of the same game.
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Gau posted:But then again, Torchbearer is designed by a guy who actually wants to make a game Something you know all about, right?
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01011001 posted:healing-like option
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I prefer "master of battle". I prefer it my way.
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Apr 10, 2014 03:28
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Gau posted:Torchbearer has a fun and engaging "Town Phase" that allows you to roll dice and have fun (or unfun) stuff happen to you as you try to offload your loot and get better stuff. But then again, Torchbearer is designed by a guy who actually wants to make a game and not just a frankenstein's monster of mechanics from the different editions of the same game. Is this game like Diablo at all? Whenever i hear "town phase" that's the first game that pops into mind.
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See and this is why "I roll the highest result possible and AUTOMATICALLY hit" is a retardedly lovely premise for critical hits. If you roll a 20 you goddamn well better hit the loving thing, otherwise your game math is completely hosed sideways. A critical on a d20 should be a roll that normally wouldn't hit; that would make it easier to have crits do interesting maneuvers or effects and allow for crit-opping. Right..?
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Chernobyl Peace Prize posted:i like not tailoring build options to the thing that happens 5% of the time, but nothing makes me less excited about next than the idea of "the downtime system" DOWNTIME IS WIN
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Apr 10, 2014 08:09
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downtime abbey, the game system about spellcasters and their servants
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Torchbearer has a lot of really bad ideas that are too fundamental to the system to remove, like Nature
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LSTB posted:Torchbearer has a lot of really bad ideas that are too fundamental to the system to remove, like Nature haha, nature does like 1/4 of what it does in a game like Mouse Guard. You could pretty much ditch it, even though it's awesome and really flavorful.
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Gau posted:haha, nature does like 1/4 of what it does in a game like Mouse Guard. You could pretty much ditch it, even though it's awesome and really flavorful. i am not sure dwarves getting +7 on all checks to whine about elves is really flavorful or awesome
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Cease to Hope posted:i am not sure dwarves getting +7 on all checks to whine about elves is really flavorful or awesome think of all the tension and drama when you fail that roll but
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LSTB posted:Torchbearer has a lot of really bad ideas that are too fundamental to the system to remove luke_crane.txt
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they call it burning wheel because playing it is like being broken in a medieval torture-dungeon
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Apr 10, 2014 14:16
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I successfully rolled a FATAL character but I've never completed the "character burner"
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guys i just had an idea. eye of argon.... the tabletop rpg?
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use it as the resolution mechanic. The Difficulty Number is how many sentences you have to read without laughing.
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