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Captain_Indigo posted:I know it has been touched upon in this thread, but can anyone explain the idea about Druids having to kill off another druid at a certain level in 2E? I might be misremembering the details, but once you got to a certain point, or if you wanted to use a certain spell or something, weren't druids forced to undertake a druid fight club and kill one of their superiors off in order to make room for them in Fantasy Elf Forest Circle, or something? Does anyone know what the origins of this were in fiction, or if it was a purely D&D thing? I don't know about the origins but yeah, at certain levels there were a set number of druids total at that level. So in order to level up the guy above had to either die or level up himself. There are 9 druids per 'region' at 12, 3 at 13th, 1 at 14th, one in the ENTIRE WORLD at 15th. Then at 16th is gets weird. Also yes, it specifically mentions that one way to advance in these levels is to take out the other dude, fight club style. Kwyndig fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Mar 18, 2013 |
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Well, you become a Hierophant and have to start earning XP from scratch, oh also you don't get more spells, ever which means you're tapped at one 7th level spell (despite for some reason having the ability to cast 6 spells a level or something odd like that the previous level).
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Mar 18, 2013 20:23
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Penguingo posted:What about high-velocity bullets? I'm curious as to where the definition of "object" starts. If they're shot out of a gun they use the normal firearms combat rules. If they're not....
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Apr 8, 2013 22:50
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By a particularly Murphyized version of RAW, yes.
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Apr 8, 2013 23:08
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Well if wearing a helmet blocked psionic attack them I know of characters who would have never taken their helmets off, ever. So I'm guessing it was supposed to be some kind of misguided balance thing? Still goofy though.
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Apr 22, 2013 14:17
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Nihnoz posted:Rangers are better off with a two-handed weapon tho. It's Pathfinder, Rangers are better off rerolling Cleric, or Druid if they still want the nature stuff.
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Jun 1, 2013 01:14
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It takes a standard action to breathe manually in D&D 3.x? Also, a fun tidbit about breathing, it's not actually possible for a human being to release all of their air in their lungs through the breathing action (and to do so would cause some serious damage to lung tissue) so apparently in 3.x humanoids have no reserve volume in their lungs.
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Jun 26, 2013 05:08
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unseenlibrarian posted:None at all- Throwing is assumed to be a single action in a combat round. So, uh, not only can he throw it improbably far, it flies at around 360 miles per hour! Another thing to remember is that since Batarangs are throwing weapons, they get to add your Strength score to damage in M&M3e, since Batman has a Strength of 4, and boomerangs have a Damage of 1 (although in DC Adventures Batman uses custom batarangs that do Damage 2 instead), that means he throws a boomerang with a Damage of 5. You know what else has a Damage of 5 in M&M 3e? A sniper rifle. No wonder Batman doesn't use guns, they do just as much damage as his batarangs, and you have to buy ammo for them!
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Jun 29, 2013 00:49
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So what you're telling me is that you can basically constantly be taking a long rest, as long s you never make any activity longer than 59 minutes.
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Jul 1, 2013 03:13
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Bieeardo posted:This reminds me of the DM who decided to arm NPC thieves with 'potion injector' daggers that would force rolls on the old Potion Miscibility table when they managed to nick you. That wouldn't kill you instantly. Quickly, yes, but not instantly, your blood's mostly water anyway, instead you would suffocate to death, which brings back the horrible drowning rules... Also wasn't one of the Potion table results 'potion effects permanent'? I always wondered how the hell that was supposed to work for something like a potion of healing.
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Nov 9, 2013 05:58
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I've always wanted to write a story or run a game where all the characters know the rules of the 'game' but don't otherwise break the fourth wall. Also what MJ12 left off is that if we really wanted to we could get that power for half of that if we were willing to become a mutated monstrosity.
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Nov 16, 2013 00:18
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The real issue is that yes, finding a gun that fits in your pocket, is not made of iron, and costs less than 100 U.S. dollars (which assumes US gun pricing) is basically impossible unless we're talking about one shot wonders like zip guns.
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Jan 14, 2015 04:35
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Daeren posted:Again, you either cheat (because cheating with loopholes is very Changeling), you lash a chunk of iron ore to a shovel handle, or you pray for meteoric iron like you're in a fantasy novel. Well, I think I know why Planetary Resources is pushing so hard for asteroid mining then 
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Jan 16, 2015 08:23
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Paper Kaiju posted:I am now reminded of the one game of C:tL I was in, that ended when we took a chunk of cold iron, attached it to the front bumper of a car, and drove it right into a Fae antagonist. Just another day in the Dresden Files RPG though.
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Jan 16, 2015 14:25
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Bacon In A Wok posted:On the subject of economics chat, spellcasting with x value of gemstones has nothing on Dragonlance swordsmithing. See, the original Dragonlance adventure modules emphasized their post-apocalyptic status by declaring that all gold coin was now worthless and people used coins made from steel instead. Something that cost 100 gold coins in Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms cost 100 steel coins in Dragonlance, and if you ever found a mountain of gold in some lair or old ruin it probably wasn't worth trying to haul it home. Yeah at least Dark Sun got around that by having common weapons not made of money.
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Jan 18, 2015 20:30
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Yeah the problem with Prestige Classes has always been they varied in power from 'poo poo you shouldn't take' to 'break the game' and as usual with 3.X/PF design philosophy, there are trap options, of which Mystic Theurge is one. Looks cool on paper, doesn't work out well in play.
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Feb 7, 2015 17:51
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Moriatti posted:I once had a guy tell me that a two handed war hammer was stupid and shouldn't be usable because "try swinging a sledge hammer around and see how fast it is." He's never seen a hammer throw competition then either. or a Caber toss. Alternatively he could watch some sledge hammer workout videos, I could see people using those in combat.
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Jun 6, 2015 23:31
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Mors Rattus posted:Games Workshop has declared their hatred of competitive wargaming and their desire that their games should be used for the joy of creating story a few times in the past. Which makes no sense as their own storylines go nowhere in the interest of continuing a stable competitive play environment.
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Jul 6, 2015 02:51
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Then the real question is, does it explode here, or where it came from 
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Jul 8, 2015 19:53
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aerion111 posted:That doesn't look like someone wrote it confusingly, it looks like they straight out made a grammatical mistake that changes the meaning. Yeah that's why editors are important kiddos.
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Sep 30, 2015 20:41
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gradenko_2000 posted:Isn't there a limit to how many skeletons you can control via Animate Dead, though? Yes which is why skeleton computers would be the property of computational necromancer guilds.
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Oct 5, 2015 00:57
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It's not combat, the skeletons could Take 10, reducing your failure rate to zero. Now, if some rear end in a top hat adventurers come by and start knocking skelbits out of your array you'd start seeing failure cascades.
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Oct 5, 2015 14:48
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Well now I'm just picturing a bunch of hyperintelligent babies riding an army of awakened cats into battle and my brain is just going 
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Nov 26, 2015 13:20
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Mostly people miss Alternity for the settings.
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Dec 1, 2015 11:12
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OSHAPunk seems like it would need to use a system where you can roll up new characters quickly. Minor violations are survivable, but the situation you just described is potential permanent blinding of the poor bastard who failed his save 
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Feb 9, 2016 16:21
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Ace Attorney isn't mundane, at least the one I played was all murder trials.
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Feb 16, 2016 14:51
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There's probably a charm that lets you do that, but honestly anything short of a giant warstrider robot should be a single action to put on for an Exalt.
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Apr 28, 2016 00:26
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Splicer posted:Let me tell you about BitCoins. I think you mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPMwqtDHw0
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May 12, 2016 16:18
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Dareon posted:I worry what happens to a campaign world when the adventurers find out they're not getting paid. If it's anything like the players I've dealt with in the past, they'll proceed to grind the jeweled thrones of the world to dust beneath their +5 boots.
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May 14, 2016 04:20
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The whole Brute thing reminds me of the time I let one of my players take the Frenzied Berserker PrC. The difference is that unless your party had a decent wizard, those could actually get a very respectable PC kill count before you put them down. At one point, the FB actually chased another PC out a window, failed a climb check, fell six stories, and then cut our unsuspecting cleric in half. That was not a good day at the table.
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May 15, 2016 07:40
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Man, the walking farm is a great idea, it's too bad most setting writers don't include cool fantastical details like that.
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May 16, 2016 17:45
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unseenlibrarian posted:I seem to remember another 'effectively infinite chickens' application comes from the 3.x rules on city design and wealth limits, where every large city has a arbitrarily large amount of chickens available for sale, presumably all supplied by that one commoner. On average, for free range chickens, you want no more than 500 per acre, or about 300,000 acres in this instance. This is a little more than half the final size of the American Prairie Reserve... clearly these chickens are not being kept outdoors.
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Jun 23, 2016 18:23
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gradenko_2000 posted:What happens when you take a Spell Component Pouch, open it, turn it upside down, and start shaking vigorously? Nothing, you have to open it with the intent of grabbing the spell components you need.. Unless you're trying to get a brazier, then I guess one falls out.
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Jun 23, 2016 19:11
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Nyaa posted:I would pay my starting gold to instantly get my fighter to lv 8 by becoming a chicken slaughter factory. Well, this raises a question, how many levels can you get slaughtering each different kind of livestock?
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Jun 23, 2016 19:16
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Nyaa posted:Or is there a way to train/level up these chicken so we can get to a higher level? I'm sure if you dug into enough third party supplements somebody put in a feat that lets you train domesticated animals in class levels.
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Jun 23, 2016 19:28
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NachtSieger posted:a) Temp HP explosions only happen on the Positive Energy Plane. Actually since it's undead wouldn't the exposure to that much Positive Energy cause it to die like being turned anyway.
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Jun 24, 2016 03:27
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Dareon posted:They probably have a crossbow that's been on their character sheet from level 1. Well now I'm just imagining how to work a Chekov's crossbow into a game.
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Jul 16, 2016 16:52
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Elfface posted:I remember in 3.0 forgotten realms, a sanctified wizard duel was just something wizards could do. Like, Mystra was sick of wizards blowing each other up to prove who was stronger, so she just said 'Rit, just call each other out like this, and your spells will do subdual damage... And do half damage, because let's face it with d4 hit dice this fight is going to go to whoever wins initiative and casts lightning bolt first." In the Realms? I can believe it. For the final point, that was the whole problem with Third Edition.
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Aug 1, 2016 02:47
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I'm sure it's more for the wizards who are low-level enough that a single lightning bolt can actually kill them that old Mystie is concerned about.
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homeless poster posted:that is something that you don't get now-a-days, rules that someone at the table heard from a friend of a friend of a friend's brother who read a book that no one presently owned but everyone just accepted that's how the game worked. every gaming group had their own weird little ecosystem of house rules grown from an urban legend-style amalgamation of things that were only half remembered like some kind of fever dream. At least that's better than the actual rules when differences came up like that (usually females get penalties and no bonuses).
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