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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Traditional Games > Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition: Looks like we're the grognards, now.
 
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MadScientistWorking
Jun 23, 2010

"I was going through a time period where I was looking up weird stories involving necrophilia..."

bathroom sounds posted:

I get the whole Faustian angle but Faust falls apart when removed from its Judeo-Christian basis in a magic-less Real World and then blown up to the macro scale of a fantasy class.
You haven't read Faust have you. It has your bog standard stereotypical representation magic in it and its one of the most pivotal parts of the play.

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In a world of ubiquitous magic, and one in which demons are real and their motivations well-known, why would anyone but a batshit insane Chaotic Evil idiot pledge their soul to a demon for fleeting magical power in life?
But in the context of Faust this is exactly what happens.

MadScientistWorking fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Jan 30, 2014

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MadScientistWorking
Jun 23, 2010

"I was going through a time period where I was looking up weird stories involving necrophilia..."

OneThousandMonkeys posted:

(All Encounters are 4E... Even Baldur's Gate-onward. BG and the like include rules for 3E, 4E, and 5E setups in web pdfs).

I wouldn't use Baldur's Gate and onward encounter design as to paraphrase the chat thread when I mentioned one of the encounter design the general feeling was,"What rear end in a top hat of a DM runs your games?"

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MadScientistWorking
Jun 23, 2010

"I was going through a time period where I was looking up weird stories involving necrophilia..."

OneThousandMonkeys posted:

I'm a little confused by how you parsed this.
Basically I had mentioned one of the encounters from the Icewind Dale sessions and the immediate reaction was one of my DM being crappy. Effectively the Icewind Dale sessions are designed in a way to completely and utterly render certain classes and builds completely useless.

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