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A spellcaster (either a player with level 3 spells or a hired outsider) casts Water Breathing.
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The reason that land creatures can't breath water and fishmen can (and vice versa) is because, centuries ago, the primal spirit of the land cheated on mother ocean with her twin, the sky and so she cursed all creatures of those realms. Maybe your players can make a supplication to the spirit, or strike a bargain with her, in order to be able to survive in her realm once again.goatface posted:Holding their breath for a REALLY long time. The ONE TIME your party doesn't have a blitzball player and this happens.
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Feb 11, 2015 18:16
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Make all your players roll Warforged. There, all the pesky issues like breathing, eating, and sleeping are resolved.
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Feb 11, 2015 18:40
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Mecha Gojira posted:Make all your players roll Warforged. There, all the pesky issues like breathing, eating, and sleeping are resolved. Or skelingtons
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Feb 11, 2015 18:48
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Moved to Chicago and really wanting to get into D&D. I've played 4e a little bit previously but never for more than a few sessions. I'm having a hard time finding a group accepting players online. Any suggestions on websites for group finding or how you've found a group? I don't know many people in town and none that really play tabletop games but I'm badly wanting to get into some kind of campaign.
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Feb 11, 2015 18:54
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Procrastination writing follows: Ages past, when legends roamed the earth there lived seven siblings, who were renown throughout the world as the greatest of wrestlers. They were joyous and the fighting was grand, until one day the great God of sporting wagers set them a challenge. "Go from here, and wrestle the biggest creature of the lands," he said, "and I shall award you and your nation a great boon." The siblings accepted, and split up to travel in search of the biggest creatures they could find, and pin them to the floor in magnificent style. Across nations lost to the ages they went, fighting mighty beasts, ancient spirits of the mountains, and the towering godlings that back then still roamed amongst men. After three years of fighting they returned to their homeland and called forth the God. "Oh great Lord, we have travelled the world, thrown to the floor the biggest creatures we could find. Things of rumour have we hip-tossed, limbless legends we have nevertheless arm-locked, demons of the dark places wear spikes on their armour in vain attempt to defy us. Will you not grant us your boon?" The God laughed with joy, and said, "Young ones! The battles you have triumphed in will be sung of for ages to come. You have thrown down the greatest beasts of the Earth. Your people have been freed from the tyranny of a great many foes by your actions, and your homelands shall prosper. As for your own boon, I grant these." At his words the siblings were bedecked with grand masks that thrummed with power, "The beasts of the Earth hold you no more challenge, but no longer will you be limited to the few beasts of the land. You will breathe water as if it were air, speak freely with the citizens of the depths, your very being will not reject the oceans harsh water. Go forth, young ones, and wrestle the great beasts of the depths."
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Feb 11, 2015 19:02
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Popete posted:Moved to Chicago and really wanting to get into D&D. I've played 4e a little bit previously but never for more than a few sessions. I'm having a hard time finding a group accepting players online. Any suggestions on websites for group finding or how you've found a group? I don't know many people in town and none that really play tabletop games but I'm badly wanting to get into some kind of campaign. I've recruited for almost all my games through reddit's /lfg/ subforum. Yes, reddit delenda est and all that, but I've so far not run into any That Guys or anyone I'd want to put up on grogs.txt. VVVVV actually yeah being a DM probably helps - it's the TTRPG equivalent of a WoW tank looking for a group. gradenko_2000 fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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Feb 11, 2015 19:22
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Popete posted:Moved to Chicago and really wanting to get into D&D. I've played 4e a little bit previously but never for more than a few sessions. I'm having a hard time finding a group accepting players online. Any suggestions on websites for group finding or how you've found a group? I don't know many people in town and none that really play tabletop games but I'm badly wanting to get into some kind of campaign. Your luck will increase if you are willing to DM. I recruited one group from here, even.
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Feb 11, 2015 19:28
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Who, if anyone, owns the rights to the Attribute system used in D&D and ranges of values within that system that result in characters receiving modifiers? Is that so ubiquitous at this point that anyone can use it in a game or is it something I'd have to utilize the OGL to use in my own ruleset?
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Feb 12, 2015 16:00
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ENWorld is reporting that someone is developing a licensed 5th Edition game, notably one that has a person in a "Dungeon Master" role.
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Feb 12, 2015 17:49
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It's like watching your little brother get everything you ever wanted.
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Feb 12, 2015 18:14
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gradenko_2000 posted:ENWorld is reporting that someone is developing a licensed 5th Edition game, notably one that has a person in a "Dungeon Master" role. Looks like it is pretty far along. It would be nice to get a new NWN-style game.
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Feb 12, 2015 18:16
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Digital Extremes are known for multiplayer FPS work, so it should at least have good netcode I guess. n-Space seem to be handheld specialists.
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Feb 12, 2015 18:16
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Insert joke here about how the only way a 5th Edition video game was going to work would be if they included a DM that things could be up to.
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Feb 12, 2015 18:18
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"IM your DM."
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Feb 12, 2015 18:28
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It'll be just like Dragon Age, except you can have sex with anything.
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Feb 12, 2015 18:29
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How do you get the exact wrong companies to make your game like this?!
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Feb 12, 2015 18:32
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Gaming consultants: PewDiePie and Phil Fish
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Feb 12, 2015 18:37
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Umm, that trailer clearly shows a cleric casting 'Prayer of Healing' with a 2 second cast time, what is this videogamey garbage? 
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Feb 12, 2015 18:42
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gradenko_2000 posted:ENWorld is reporting that someone is developing a licensed 5th Edition game, notably one that has a person in a "Dungeon Master" role. I'm pessimistic about that realtime DM mode they talk about. A videogame has the advantage of polish and playtesting, providing an experience that is limited but of high quality. Photorealism, unique music, choreographed cutscenes that show more than a thousand words, and so on. A human DM has the advantage of not being constrained by art assets and polygons, the ability to create truly anything at any time. With this you get... neither. You get the rough experience of a flawed, solitary human being who is constrained by what the programmers put in (in terms of monsters, buildings, items, etc.) and any "on the fly" adjustments will come with slowly sifting through menus and toggles. There's upsides as well of course, it's not all gloom and doom here, but it sounds filled to the brim with potential for disappointment.
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Feb 12, 2015 18:43
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Sage Genesis posted:I'm pessimistic about that realtime DM mode they talk about. That's basically Neverwinter Nights, though. I mean, I suppose I don't entirely disagree with your post, but for a certain scope of game there is a good and justifiable reason to make "a digital D&D so that the computer handles all the rules, while at the same time creating an interface so that a human DM can still create the adventure 5 minutes ahead of what the players discover, as long as the adventure can't be about or handle literally anything/everything"
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Feb 12, 2015 19:20
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I do think it's possible that preparing the game beforehand can result in some decent if basic experiences. It's really the "real time" aspect of it that they mention that fills me with doubt.
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Feb 12, 2015 20:02
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Sage Genesis posted:I'm pessimistic about that realtime DM mode they talk about. NWN had DM controls but the main strength of the game was the module making tools. If a DM came in, it was usually in a server admin role, or more rarely to do some sort of server event.
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Feb 12, 2015 20:06
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Generic Octopus posted:A spellcaster (either a player with level 3 spells or a hired outsider) casts Water Breathing. Man, spellcasters ruin everything.
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Feb 12, 2015 21:05
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gradenko_2000 posted:That's basically Neverwinter Nights, though. Yeah, Neverwinter Nights hasn't exactly aged poorly outside of the graphics department. Though the game mechanics deviated from 3e's rules on a number of vectors, there are people making story modules and content for Neverwinter Nights to this day, even if the community is smaller than it was almost 13 years ago. I think the tools were easier to use than they were for Neverwinter Nights 2. This one is probably going to have even more deviation from the core rules than Neverwinter or the Infinity Engine games did, since most of the non-combat rules (and even some of the combat effects) are vague and rely on the DM to sort it out.
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Feb 12, 2015 21:37
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Quickbar only has a few slots, I wonder how reduced a spell book will be.
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Here's the official Site for anyone who wants to check it out. https://swordcoast.com/ Anyway this has a great deal of potential.
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Feb 12, 2015 22:48
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It probably won't even be cancelled! Because you can't cancel something you never announced.
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Feb 12, 2015 23:14
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The collectors edition is only $239.99.
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Feb 12, 2015 23:39
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ritorix posted:The collectors edition is only $239.99. Guessing that is one expensive statue. In an interesting little thing. You can buy campaign packs. Which contains 5 copies of the game to gift to players for cheaper then buying them all individuality which is rather cool. (Though only one game gets all the DM stuff. Which makes sense.) MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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Feb 12, 2015 23:44
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By comparison, my Bones2 order was about $200 and I got a gigantic box of poo poo today. 
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Feb 12, 2015 23:47
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This is pretty cool. 3.5-style D&D has always been good for videogames because: a) Its problems aren't really a big deal (Playing a fighter is harder? Okay, it's good for videogames to have a hard mode) b) the frustrating obtuse complexity is mostly dealt with on the back end c) the outdated binary pass/fail skill system works well in a videogame where literally every option can be predetermined I might play it, which is more than I can say for the tabletop version.
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Feb 12, 2015 23:47
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The way things like "Beholder (DM use)" and "Lost Mines tileset (DM use)" are listed as bonuses in the more expensive versions implies that you won't be able to use certain monsters and resources if you didn't buy the more expensive version. Which seems phenomenally dumb.
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AlphaDog posted:The way things like "Beholder (DM use)" and "Lost Mines tileset (DM use)" are listed as bonuses in the more expensive versions implies that you won't be able to use certain monsters and resources if you didn't buy the more expensive version. I assume its going to be some kind of collectors edition skin/visual set that will be sold separately at some point.
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EDIT: Double Post?
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Any D&D game's fun, creativity, and general quality will directly relate to how far it moves away from the goddamn Sword Coast. Just look at Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights.
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Feb 12, 2015 23:58
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Really Pants posted:Any D&D game's fun, creativity, and general quality will directly relate to how far it moves away from the goddamn Sword Coast. Just look at Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights. So It's going to be super fun?
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Feb 13, 2015 00:15
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I'm optimistic about this. If anything, 5e should be simpler to code than the 3.5-era games since it's less fiddly. While I haven't loved games like NWN2 I haven't been particularly disappointed by them either.
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Feb 13, 2015 00:36
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The gameplay/images they have make it look like it plays absolutely nothing like 5e so I'll probably pay some attention to it.
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MonsterEnvy posted:So It's going to be super fun? see if you really wanted to go for some kind of epic burn you should have said "or how far they are from your poopy butt face  "good effort though
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