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Ferrinus posted:what i'm talking about is skill challenges that clearly and directly differentiate between skills, such that they mostly aren't interchangeable 'the solution to noncombat encounters sucking: add combat'
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PleasingFungus posted:'the solution to noncombat encounters sucking: add combat' If you're playing a game 90% about combat like D&D then yeah you should add as much of that poo poo in wherever you can.
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Knitted Art posted:also can rpgs be sold on islamic countries as long as they don't depict people?!?!? Elves aren't people
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SunAndSpring posted:support are troops with +2 magic weapons. D&D seems to be huge as a thing to do during down periods at military bases. I know several people who picked it up in the army/navy--all the veterans I know besides my dad and uncle, in fact (who served before D&D was a thing).
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:D&D seems to be huge as a thing to do during down periods at military bases. I know several people who picked it up in the army/navy--all the veterans I know besides my dad and uncle, in fact (who served before D&D was a thing). Marines fuckin love D&D. And porn.
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PleasingFungus posted:'the solution to noncombat encounters sucking: add combat' the key here is that the situation is clearly described enough that it's functional whether or not you add combat, and can even take place parallel to combat. it's like how you definitely know that athletics can enable you to jump X squares given a running start whether or not you're acting in initiative order
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Mystic Mongol posted:Elves aren't people tell that to my Imam!
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Error 404 posted:Marines fuckin love D&D. And Xbox! Really, the military in general likes whatever can get it's mind away from real life during downtime.
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maybe if they express their desires to commit warcrimes in pretend they won't do those crimes in real life
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stoutfish posted:maybe if they express their desires to commit warcrimes in pretend they won't do those crimes in real life Some peeps just react badly to neckbeards
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stoutfish posted:maybe if they express their desires to commit warcrimes in pretend they won't do those crimes in real life just gonna get the ol' warcrime itch out in this here roleplaying game those goblins have families you say? and theyre just beyondhere? good. good
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01011001 posted:just gonna get the ol' warcrime itch out in this here roleplaying game SCENE: A dragon flies over a village caught in a border skirmish. A harmonium soldier is operating a large repeating crossbow, firing bolts tipped with ampules of alchemist's fire indiscriminately into the land below. A reporter is interviewing him for a feature in the Sigil Times about the Blood War's effects on bordering planes. Hardhead: Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone who runs, is Chaotic Evil. Anyone who stands still, is Lawful Evil! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime! Reporter: Why should we do a story just about you? Hardhead: 'Cuz I'm so fuckin' good! I done got me 157 dead devils killed. Plus 50 owlbears, too! Them's all confirmed! Reporter: Any women or children? Hardhead: Sometimes! Reporter: How can you shoot women or children? Hardhead: Easy! Ya just don't lead 'em so much! Ain't war hell? Wales Grey fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Apr 22, 2014 |
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Wales Grey posted:SCENE: A dragon flies over a village caught in a border skirmish. A harmonium soldier is operating a large repeating crossbow, firing bolts tipped with ampules of alchemist's fire indiscriminately into the land below. A reporter is interviewing him for a feature in the Sigil Times about the Blood War's effects on bordering planes.
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Wales Grey posted:SCENE: A dragon flies over a village caught in a border skirmish. A harmonium soldier is operating a large repeating crossbow, firing bolts tipped with ampules of alchemist's fire indiscriminately into the land below. A reporter is interviewing him for a feature in the Sigil Times about the Blood War's effects on bordering planes.
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New L&L is up; "Making the DM's Job Easy". MM talks about encounter, NPC and monster design: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ll/20140421
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lol that whole section on spellcasting npcs. his answer to npc spell lists being too long and unnecessarily cumbersome is literally "well don't write them all down silly"
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Wales Grey posted:SCENE: A dragon flies over a village caught in a border skirmish. A harmonium soldier is operating a large repeating crossbow, firing bolts tipped with ampules of alchemist's fire indiscriminately into the land below. A reporter is interviewing him for a feature in the Sigil Times about the Blood War's effects on bordering planes.
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WINNERSH TRIANGLE posted:The LORD grants the Good, Heaven, Law, Knowledge, Protection, and Strength domains, but you actually worship him so you can enter the Judge prestige class (which looks specifically like a Paladin who can summon free angels at will, I think I remember Joshua doing that),
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Halloween Jack posted:Which sourcebook gives the BMX Bandit prestige class? 
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Wales Grey posted:SCENE: A dragon flies over a village caught in a border skirmish. A harmonium soldier is operating a large repeating crossbow, firing bolts tipped with ampules of alchemist's fire indiscriminately into the land below. A reporter is interviewing him for a feature in the Sigil Times about the Blood War's effects on bordering planes. Wait, wtf did he kill 50 of in the actual movie? I'm totally drawing a blank. Wildebeests? Water buffaloes?
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prestige class, not base class so the dmg instead of the phb
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P.d0t posted:Water buffalo
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Halloween Jack posted:Which sourcebook gives the BMX Bandit prestige class? Book of Xalted Games
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knux911 posted:New L&L is up; "Making the DM's Job Easy". seriously it blows my mind that his version of simple but robust is "well it's needlessly complex but you can ignore parts of it if you want"
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quote:The system also supports a method of monster creation similar to that used in 3rd Edition. You can start by choosing a monster's ability scores, hit dice, and so forth, designing it without reference to challenge rating. Once you're done, you can then calculate its challenge rating based on the values you assigned to it.
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Fungah! posted:seriously it blows my mind that his version of simple but robust is "well it's needlessly complex but you can ignore parts of it if you want"
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Hi, i'm from 1992, I'd like my terrible enemy design process back thanks for all the  about 4e being literally a video game, the gamey aspects of its monster design is actually a GOOD THING, no matter how much you hate world of warcraft / diablo / whatever 'computer-game' is popular with kids these days
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quote:For those creative elements—the parts of the game driven by writing and creativity rather than rules—D&D Next provides copious tables and step-by-step instructions to help you create material quickly and easily.
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I'm getting more and more confident that my homebrew is gonna suck less than D&DNext. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Halloween Jack posted:Mike Mearls grew up playing AD&D1e. Mind unblown. When you get down to it, Next is the same as 3.x AND Pathfinder: making a bad system on accident while desperately wishing you were working on AD&D instead.
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Every edition of D&D should begin with an apology: Sorry it's not AD&D again, but look we're trying. 4e doesn't because it's Not Real D&D.
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Importance of required showering before D&D sessions: preeminent.
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@RunAGame Will caster monsters have full (or abbreviated) rules for all their spells included in the Monster Manual entry? #dndnext @mikemearls Probably not for all, but ideally for key ones. Comes down to space. Hey, guys, I hope you liked having to stop to look up spells in mid-game. That approach might be okay for low-level casters, but what happens when you get up to the levels when enemies have dozens of spells and/or spell-like powers at their fingertips? (Seriously, I'm looking over the Way of the Wicked adventure path for 13th Age conversion, and while it's good stuff overall, the boss fights are almost all "here's a guy in a room, here's his statblock with a solid page full of spell names. Have at it.")
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gently caress that. That's exactly the opposite of how I want to design enemies. Though I guess since you can backsolve for level, it stands to reason that you could start with CR and derive the attributes instead. Spell lists can still get hosed though.
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Somewhere, those Pathfinder guys are sweat'n. They're sweat'n because they know Next is the new hotness, like a nerd with her glasses off, and she is gonna make a clean sweep of all those neckbeards. She's gonna hoover them up and drag them away with her superior product. And then, these Pathfinder guys, they'll look up at the sky clutching a copy of Roleplaying Sales Quarterly, and cry "They stole our game", but nobody can hear irony at a frequency that high. Only dogs can hear it.
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