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Helical Nightmares posted:A Red & Pleasant Land Is a quite original setting. It deserves the awards it got.
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Hearing Zak S complain about harrasment has got to be the peak of irony.
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Kwyndig posted:Adam Jury is good people from my vague recollections of the few times we hung out in the late 90's, and Posthuman Studios tries very hard to be inclusive while keeping the Zac S and Pundit types out. Who were the original Eclipse Phase writers. Was Adam Jury one?
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paradoxGentleman posted:Hearing Zak S complain about harrasment has got to be the peak of irony. It's true. As much as I like his art and RPG's, he's still a lovely person. Sadly true of a lot of artists.
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True of a lot of people really.
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I'm watching the Anime Overlord and reading its novel an I have a question: what's the best system to play as a high leveled super Lich with powerful Monster minions?
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:I'm watching the Anime Overlord and reading its novel an I have a question: what's the best system to play as a high leveled super Lich with powerful Monster minions? D&D 3.5 w/ Book of Vile Darkness
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Aug 5, 2015 15:25
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:I'm watching the Anime Overlord and reading its novel an I have a question: what's the best system to play as a high leveled super Lich with powerful Monster minions? Exalted: Abyssals?
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Captain Foo posted:D&D 3.5 w/ Book of Vile Darkness That's a legitimate answer since Ainz Ooal Gown the Lich has that heart crushing spell from BoVD on his 600+ spell list. 
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Aug 5, 2015 16:02
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The new season of Once Upon a Time looks baller.
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Captain Foo posted:D&D 3.5 w/ Book of Vile Darkness
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Captain Foo posted:D&D 3.5 w/ Book of Vile Darkness Leadership feat
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Yawgmoth posted:Why would you inflict this upon anyone plutonis
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paradoxGentleman posted:Hearing Zak S complain about harrasment has got to be the peak of irony. The best part is that he's petty enough to keep count of the days! Captain Foo posted:plutonis I'm ok with this.
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Yawgmoth posted:Why would you inflict this upon anyone Its a legit book with fun stuff.
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Aug 5, 2015 18:08
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Iirc the mortal hunter prestige class was hilariously broken.
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Aug 5, 2015 18:14
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Hey I'm running torchbearer and looking for generic tips, is there a torchbearer thread or should I go chase up the burning wheel thread?
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Helical Nightmares posted:Iirc the mortal hunter prestige class was hilariously broken. eta: BoVD is one of the few D&D books where I actually like the fluff writing better than the mechanics. There's a lot of cool ideas in there, but the mechanics are more often than not just really bad. Yawgmoth fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Aug 5, 2015 |
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Yawgmoth posted:Most of prestige classes on BoVD are hot garbage, except for soul eater (all your natural attacks do a negative level on hit, and you get a ton of 24 hour boosts after causing a negative level) and disciple of dispater (triples your crit threat range and expressly stacks with the imp crit feat). Ever wanted to crit on a 9? DoD is for you!
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NGDBSS posted:I recall that, with some work, you could use Disciple of Dispater as part of an attack sequence that would be unbounded with probability greater than 90%.
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Aug 5, 2015 19:13
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You may be thinking of something slightly different?  The setup here was to get an unbounded number of attatcks rather than to pull off reliable spike damage with huge multipliers. (Though both are basically break-the-game comedy.) After some diving around I found the original thread and the eventual solution.
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You're probably thinking of the Lightning Mace build. ...it's a little depressing how much D&D trivia I have memorized when it's been four+ years since I've done more than glance at a book. Yawgmoth posted:Most of prestige classes on BoVD are hot garbage, except for soul eater (all your natural attacks do a negative level on hit, and you get a ton of 24 hour boosts after causing a negative level) and disciple of dispater (triples your crit threat range and expressly stacks with the imp crit feat). Ever wanted to crit on a 9? DoD is for you! Don't forget the Cancer Mage, which A) is a rogue PrC with no spellcasting and B) can quite easily give you arbitrarily high Strength and AC (stacking +x per day to both).
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Splicer posted:Hey I'm running torchbearer and looking for generic tips, is there a torchbearer thread or should I go chase up the burning wheel thread? I'm pretty sure the Burning Wheel thread is buried in the archives by now. I think someone (not me, I'm lazy) should make a Burning Wheel/Mouse Guard/Torchbearer thread, because I've been on a huge Burning Wheel kick recently. The system still hasn't quite clicked for me, but I still want to give it a shot at some point.
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Yawgmoth posted:Most of prestige classes on BoVD are hot garbage, except for soul eater (all your natural attacks do a negative level on hit, and you get a ton of 24 hour boosts after causing a negative level) and disciple of dispater (triples your crit threat range and expressly stacks with the imp crit feat). Ever wanted to crit on a 9? DoD is for you! Hahaha. I never did the breakdown for how broken the classes were. So good  Yeah the writing for BoVD had some gems and it feels like it was just reaching for being a fantastic supplement, but it was bogged down with weird unneccesary poo poo like...really long torture rules, the dullest rational for evil halflings I've seen in a while, and D&D standard half assed essays on how to run an (evil) campaign. But it did have the best PC trap. Some absurdly powerful evil mage with four children chained to his life sucking armor.
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But like most things it wasn't really that much of a problem to someone who could cast spells. It only split damage, not save-or-lose control effects like paralysis or unconsciousness, which would allow you to unchain things and then kill him. Or cast knock on the general area and uncuff everyone, then kill him. Or target his gear and break the chains. Or cast antimagic field and laugh because he chained himself to four targets he can't get more than 5 feet away from, limiting his ability to flee in a round. Or just yell "the ends justify the means" and sword him to death while not giving a gently caress because he's using children as ablative armor and there's maybe 10 HP worth of damage absorption between the four of them. He's level 20, so any level-appropriate foe who attacked him once without knowing what was going on would blow through his meat shields and thus render it kind of a moot point. Like many things in the BoVD, it's a lot more flash than substance.
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It was badass that human is a fundamental evil race made by a fundamentally evil god because if anything it's close to home.
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Tulul posted:Don't forget the Cancer Mage, which A) is a rogue PrC with no spellcasting and B) can quite easily give you arbitrarily high Strength and AC (stacking +x per day to both).
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Surprised nobody brought up the Ur-Priest, what with 9th level spells at 14th class level, without even getting into the game-breaking builds it would enable later on. But Monte Cook is bad at rules. He has clever ideas, but the rules are bad.
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Splicer posted:Hey I'm running torchbearer and looking for generic tips, is there a torchbearer thread or should I go chase up the burning wheel thread? There should be a torchbearer thread but it'll just fall into archives anyway. The #1 piece of advice I can give you is to remember that PCs can't necessarily do things without triggering parts of the rules. It's a little like PbtA in that regard; for example, the PCs cannot arbitrarily return to town without doing a journey (which may expend turns) and following the Entering Town rules. Also, find or make an outline about which parts of the rules feed into which other parts. The mechanics don't hold up very well if you forget to have your players mark checks after making tests, for instance.
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Other Torchbearer advice: It's a genuinely ruthless game and if you call for a test whenever there's an opportunity for one, the Grind will destroy characters before they've even had time to earn any checks, so you should only call for a Test when it matters. To quote the book: quote:“We’ll sneak through the forest along the lake and Earning and spending checks is the 'engine' of the game. It's the only means players have to recover during camp phase. Players should know this and know how they can earn checks. Usual Burning Wheel advice applies. Bring in the more complex systems like the full Conflict rules after you're comfortable with the basics.
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inklesspen posted:There should be a torchbearer thread but it'll just fall into archives anyway.
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I have played one game of torchbearer (online) and I really enjoyed it. I'm not sure I 100% understood how exactly it's supposed to work and I'd love to read more about the game from someone who knows it well.
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Anyone know of an electronic card/hand tracking utility for online board games?
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 Actually I will make a thread if people promise to give me links to useful/cool stuff to put in it. Edit: I took my own advice inklesspen fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Aug 6, 2015 |
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I had this conversation with some friends on irc the other day Friend 1: "You know what's a cool thing? On the way back from shopping earlier, i saw 3 badgers and a fox that is cool imo" Friend 2: "they were forming a party" Me: "They're totally powergamers. Badgers are so OP that with a fox to disarm traps, you can make it through most farms and get a ton of food. Farmcats are a non-issue, and even a dog isn't that big of a deal." And since then I've been wondering how a game based on everyone being a different wild animal joining forces to steal food from Farmer Brown like adventurers raiding the Tomb of Horrors would work. Also here is a solid contribution to the thread. 
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I've heard of peach fuzz but that's ridiculous.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:And since then I've been wondering how a game based on everyone being a different wild animal joining forces to steal food from Farmer Brown like adventurers raiding the Tomb of Horrors would work. This reminded me of Redwall, which is probably the series with the best description of foodstuff in the history of fantasy. The closest RPG I can think of is Bunnies and Burrows, but that one is all about rabbits and I feel like your idea loses something without the various animals joining forces to get those delicious turnips.
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paradoxGentleman posted:This reminded me of Redwall, which is probably the series with the best description of foodstuff in the history of fantasy. There's also The Warren, which is also about rabbits and isn't out yet.
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paradoxGentleman posted:This reminded me of Redwall, which is probably the series with the best description of foodstuff in the history of fantasy. Someone dig up the front page article about the author of Redwall being a food-obsessed fascist. And that game idea strikes me as being very Fantastic Mr Fox.
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