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That Old Tree posted:Hmmm. First, to complain a little more about my former beloved Rolemaster, since Potential Stats are generated on a progressive scale, the statistical likelihood of getting a really lovely Potential is virtually zero, and that minuscule possibility only exists for stats that you super dump on at character creation. As you go up the scale for temp stats at character creation, you're rolling fewer dice so you are statistically more likely to get a lovely roll, but also the floor for your potential stat rises. Oh, probably. From what I remember of how it works, the average Potential is halfway up the scale from where you are, so even a starting 20 will get you to 60 on an average roll, and 90% of the time it'll be higher than 50. It's less the specific implementation and more the concept I find interesting.
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Antifreeze Head posted:My biggest concern is that people already vastly overplay a mild negative modifier, so I shudder to think how someone will believe to be appropriate for an intelligence of two.
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Kai Tave posted:There's a substantial difference in personal investment when all the guys are essentially acting as one big character for you to play as, versus an actual single character which is your sole focal point. I miss playing the Warlord and vicariously being all the guys.
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Antifreeze Head posted:I'm going to try that for the next one-shot I run. https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/230312/monstrous-races I bought this years ago, seemed neat enough for $3.
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Antifreeze Head posted:I'm going to try that for the next one-shot I run. it did inspire my home group to theorycraft the "1 int, 20 cha Wizard" who covered up not being able to actually cast spells by abusing Use Magic Device skill checks still better than a 3.5 fighter 
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Lambo Trillrissian posted:it did inspire my home group to theorycraft the "1 int, 20 cha Wizard" who covered up not being able to actually cast spells by abusing Use Magic Device skill checks No, that's demonstrably worse than a 3.5 fighter. They can do the same thing, but have d10 HD and full BAB. EDIT: And more bonus feats.
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Zurai posted:No, that's demonstrably worse than a 3.5 fighter. They can do the same thing, but have d10 HD and full BAB. EDIT: And more bonus feats. Not quite! You can cast a spell through a wand without a UMD check if it's on your spell list, even if you can't personally cast it. So the wizard fraud still has an edge at using wands of wizard spells, i.e. most of them.
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Did WOTC step in the AI poop again? https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1642-updated-statement-on-ai
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Zurai posted:No, that's demonstrably worse than a 3.5 fighter. They can do the same thing, but have d10 HD and full BAB. EDIT: And more bonus feats. If I recall correctly the idea hinged around doing dumb stuff to optimize clumsy jank like Craft Construct that was gatekept behind caster level prereqs but technically didn't require actually knowing the spells. But this was a long time ago and we were still basically children so, who knows. I have not thought this much about D&D in a decade so I'm not too worried about being very wrong
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Lambo Trillrissian posted:it did inspire my home group to theorycraft the "1 int, 20 cha Wizard" who covered up not being able to actually cast spells by abusing Use Magic Device skill checks https://youtu.be/a6tQ6P0jCvg?si=yrwr_vPH-maXLfBT
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Halloween Jack posted:If you've got people in your group who are like "My character has INT 3 so a hurr durr durr durr" there's no substitute for telling them to knock that poo poo off.
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Congrats, you've made D&D Rincewind.
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Splicer posted:IIRC RAW a character with int 3 is non-sapient. "hurr durr durr durr" would be too advanced. You're off by one. It's less than 3 that's non-sapient.
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Chevy Slyme posted:Did WOTC step in the AI poop again? There's the art stuff posted on the previous page and a MtG job posting for someone who knows how to photoshop things that both looked AI-adjacent at a glance but when you look at them deeper they're standard generic D&D fantasy art/standard Photoshop job offers that aren't necessarily AI-related in the first place. Which is probably why this response is just a Beyond post and not even a blog post about how they're cutting ties with an artist that used AI. EDIT: They made a separate blog post about the second thing I mentioned. In both cases, it definitely looks like they saw people freaking out about AI for no reason and made a basic post to make people relax. Also, the relevant discussion is more pages back than I thought, but this is the most relevant part. Lurks With Wolves fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Dec 19, 2023 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:Congrats, you've made D&D Rincewind. Rincewind is smart enough to run away from dangerous things. In fact he's the Disk's leading expert on Cruel and Unusual Geography.
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Kinda the joke with Rincewind is that he's pretty competent at most aspects of wizardry that don't involve casting spells.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Rincewind is smart enough to run away from dangerous things. In fact he's the Disk's leading expert on Cruel and Unusual Geography. He's the Professor of it, even!
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Kinda the joke with Rincewind is that he's pretty competent at most aspects of wizardry that don't involve casting spells. Which makes him a pretty drat good Discworld wizard because all the really good wizards from there understand how much of a pain magic is and go out of their way not to use it whenever possible. It's not that they can't turn you into a newt, it's actually surprisingly simple, it's that a good wizard knows they shouldn't because hauling off and doing that is just asking for trouble.
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Make a low-INT Sorcerer that thinks he’s a wizard and lets CHA do all the heavy lifting. Carry a “spellbook” that’s just terrible poetry and pornographic doodles
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I did play a int 11 wizard once, in 3.5E. He was forced to become a wizard by a family curse.
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senrath posted:You're off by one. It's less than 3 that's non-sapient. There is a 3.0 splat book where the author suggests if you roll a 3 for a stat that you play a half orc and put the 3 into Int so the racial penalty is nonexistent.
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It's because they can't have a stat below 3, so the splat assumed the 3 would remain a 3.
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senrath posted:You're off by one. It's less than 3 that's non-sapient.
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Terrible Opinions posted:It's because they can't have a stat below 3, so the splat assumed the 3 would remain a 3. In general you can, but you can't have INT below 3, since that is not-sapient.
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This hobby is such gibberish sometimes
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Gatto Grigio posted:Make a low-INT Sorcerer that thinks he’s a wizard and lets CHA do all the heavy lifting. This is the character of Hamid from Rusty Quill Gaming. Halfling sorcerer who thinks he's a halfling wizard, just got expelled from magic school because he can't make magic work the way it's supposed to in the books, but inexplicably a handful of spells work perfectly for him. And he woke up this morning after a big fight yesterday... suddenly able to do scorching ray, a spell he never learned.
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Splicer posted:This hobby is such gibberish sometimes The thread tends to dissplve into the orange goo from Evangelion in between dogpiling someone for misspeaking or someone in the industry making GBS threads the bed
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Omnicrom posted:Which makes him a pretty drat good Discworld wizard because all the really good wizards from there understand how much of a pain magic is and go out of their way not to use it whenever possible. It's not that they can't turn you into a newt, it's actually surprisingly simple, it's that a good wizard knows they shouldn't because hauling off and doing that is just asking for trouble. quote:Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You had to be clever to refrain from doing it when you knew how easy it was. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn’t been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again.
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Terry Pratchett was a fundamentally optimistic storyteller, so a lot of the wizard stuff was like "you know all those worlds where wizards caused an apocalypse because they didn't know when to stop? What if they just... did."
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admanb posted:Terry Pratchett was a fundamentally optimistic storyteller, so a lot of the wizard stuff was like "you know all those worlds where wizards caused an apocalypse because they didn't know when to stop? What if they just... did." It comes close a couple of times, in The Light Fantastic and Sourcery.
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Is there some (unusual) drama surrounding the Candela Obscura RPG and politics? Seeing some vague tweets.
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CitizenKeen posted:Is there some (unusual) drama surrounding the Candela Obscura RPG and politics? Seeing some vague tweets. The only thing I could find is that a YouTube channel with under 2k subscribers that interviewed Macris a month ago posted a review that currently has 680 comments.
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admanb posted:The only thing I could find is that a YouTube channel with under 2k subscribers that interviewed Macris a month ago posted a review that currently has 680 comments. What I heard was, It's just Blades in the Dark with the serial numbers scratched off, but they scratched too deep.
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Looks like the new DTRPG site design actually includes your account and settings now.
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It's extremely funny they have a setting based on Victorian London but that is also the victim of an unjustified invasion.
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WaywardWoodwose posted:What I heard was, It's just Blades in the Dark with the serial numbers scratched off, but they scratched too deep. We knew that already though, and it wouldn’t generate any drama. The system is designed by Stras though, so…
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Pvt.Scott posted:No you're not wrong, I am. lol It makes sense for online games or drop in games where your group isn't necessarily long term friends and people may be bringing premade characters. You have provably fair stats rather than everybody giving side eye to the guy who claims he rolled 18, 18, 17, 18, 15, 12.
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Facebook Aunt posted:It makes sense for online games or drop in games where your group isn't necessarily long term friends and people may be bringing premade characters. You have provably fair stats rather than everybody giving side eye to the guy who claims he rolled 18, 18, 17, 18, 15, 12. Also array is required for adventurers league. Also rolling for stats in 3.x+ is stupid. So Pvt. Scott is probably playing with a mix of ex-4e players, people who started in AL, and/or intelligent correct opinion havers. Splicer fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Dec 21, 2023 |
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Pathfinder 2e has good character creation. You just choose where your bonuses go, and your class tells you what stats the class needs and also gives you an extra boost to one of them. Rolling is cool for something very short term or with very disposable characters, but I can't imagine doing it for like a real campaign.
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CitizenKeen posted:Is there some (unusual) drama surrounding the Candela Obscura RPG and politics? Seeing some vague tweets. I see a lot of negative reviews of it on YouTube by people who are mad that there aren't PVP mechanics and that the mechanics aren't heavier and more neutral. One guy was saying that it wasn't a real game because the antagonists don't get it turn they only respond to the PC turns
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