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Guess it Depends which Shanara books you are talking about ...Walker Boh is not a mundane... they all had a Legacy of power which sets them apart from commoner folk..and Legolas may be supporting but he and Robin Hood are two of the most common archetypes for the heroic archer... I myself might add Hiawatha and William Tell to the list but not most people. My point stands...Heroic types are what MOST wanna play, I've played a carpenter and had fun, but no more fun than I did with my Ranger or Cleric or whatever. You may wish to play Ted the farmer or Joanne the Midwife or whomever but in my 28 years of gaming experience most of my players enjoy a character that is beyond the mundane because they exist in the world of the mundane every day. IMHO its far easier to down grade a character if you wish to play Farmer Ted but its nearly impossible for a player to have the epic hero with a 15 or 20 point buy but I argue that Ted the Farmer can have good stats as well and still be Ted Triumphant if you roll your stats instead
Just another batch of reasons why we ROLL(4d6 Drop One Die Roll Seven Stats and Drop One Arrange as wanted)in our games and I've yet to build a PFS character even though I've got the card... With Rolled you might get the stats you need for your character concept. I have no objection to point build based games...I love GURPS...I consider it the best overall system but its also very intensive. It helps for everyone to be pretty familiar with the creation system. We, meaning my group, has 8 Players spread over 2 evenings with two campaigns and several overlapping players, we stick with Point Buy character for Point Based games and roll stats for games that aren't based on a point system. Original D&D didn't have a point buy system that I recall. It offered several rolling options but like the OP we've never had much issue with game balance or much in the way of dice envy beyond the passing comment. I've found its easy to compensate for a tougher party with very little if any change in balance. Good stats seem to make happier players honestly, playing that farmer can be fun but somehow Alanon, Conan, Legolas, Aragorn, Fiddler, and One-Eye seem to be more popular as heroic archetypes than Ted the farmer. Now I'm not disparaging Ted nor am I saying Ted can't be one heck of a hero, but they don't make that many epic stories about Ted the farmer and his mighty Hoe of Weeding.
+1 The 3.5 MIC is the 2nd most used book in our game library... So used we have 2 copies of it and the most used book... the Spell Compendium. I heartily agree that a comprehensive series of Tables for the generation of equipment and loot would be an invaluable asset to our group and to virtually any group. We certainly would love to see additional mundane gear and vehicles as well and perhaps a good system for designing mundane equipment/weapons and vehicles. Good rules for vehicles in combat would be a plus. Wouldn't object to strong hold rules as well and perhaps detailed list of hirelings and henchmen to populate said stronghold, maybe include some expanded cohorts list to ice the cake so to speak... Though this last topic may be easy to handle in a smaller form instead of adding it to a book about equipment...
Ooh... I forgot to mention this because I had to rush to write the blog post, but I'd like to give the awesome folks at Chaosium a HUGE thank you for letting us play in their eldritch pond! Lovecraft's writings are, of course, in the public domain, but Chaosium and their Call of Cthulhu game have done an INCREDIBLE amount of work keeping his writing popular and accessible, particularly among us gamers, and if it weren't for the incredible work they've been doing over the past 3 decades plus, this volume of Pathfinder would likely have been a completely different thing altogether. So... Huzzah for Chaosium!!!!! +1000
The Mask of Command by Sir John Keegan... Keegan is one of the worlds formost Military Historians and has a chair at Sandhurst, the British Military Academy. The Book itself is an in depth analysis of commanders and their style of leadershipfrom Alexander the Great to the Modern Post Nuclear Commander. Its a fantastic book filled with gems and wisdom from some of the greatest military minds of the ages.
Still rolling stats with our groups, We don't beleive in misguided concepts of equality. All people might be equal under the law but some are smarter, quicker, faster, smoother etc... People may not like to hear that but it happens to be more realistic and despite it being fantasy we tend towards grittier stuff.
Well I say buy a PDF reader from a company smart enough to include A pdf READER WITHOUT A DOWNLOAD...i love my Kindle DX, as a matter of fact I'm using it now...And I had an IPAD but it fell quickly into disuse bc it doesn't do half what I wanted it for without a hassle. The IPAD is good for some things but as a GM carrying all my stuff in one place, My DX gives me the ultimate in convenience without playing the Steve Jobs shuffle... lol... When he said flash was dead, I almost spit out my drink, Adobe is 90% of the Web. Wishful thinking or pure stupidity. The only IPAD has going for it it the plentiful Aps...which is starting to happen with the Kindle now as well. Also the instant USB compatibility is awesome. In 10 minutes I had my entire PFRPG library on my Kindle.
Apply the appropriate protection spell if the Summoner is good/evil. The Eidolon should be unable to attack those protected by the appropos Pro Vs Alignment Spell. We houseruled that the Eidolon shares the summoners alignment.... Protection Vs good/evil has a caveat that should help that I don't beleive was prohibited under the Summoner rules. Read the spell... the 3rd use of the Spell prevents summoned creatures from attacking characters so warded. This last for the duration or until said warded creature/character attacks teh summoned beastie. Of course this is trumped by a Nuetral Summoner summoning the opposed alignments or nuetral creatures. Also, a bad guy with levitate or fly trumps it anyway... just to name a couple of possibilities.
The Long Ships - with Richard Widmark and Sydney Poitier Throne of Blood - Akira Kurosawa'a Macbeth Quo Vadis El Cid - Chuck Heston as Spains liberator during the Moorish period Pathfinder- Not the best movie around but has some true fantasy moments The Conqueror - Chuck Heston movie where he is a Norman Knight The Name of the Rose Deathstalker Movies... B movies but a cpl of them aren't too bad, particularly the one with David Carradine 300 Spartans the original Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Sword of the Valiant... the tale of sir Gawain and the Green Knight... Sean Connery is the Green Knight
I learned that a history degree is less important than a re-enactors opinion because despite the the years of schooling, the traveling to sites and the questioning of experts, a weekend warrior who can spell sensei knows more than all the rest of us combined because he can use the word Nihonto...never mind that the conversation was addressed to laymen
Since all people are not creattd equally I assume the same for PC's WE never use point buy it is far more unrealistic (lol) than the reality of life, some people ARE stronger, faster and smarter than others. The point buy system seems to be the neo-socialist answer to equality in gaming. I think the idea of the game is to play HEROIC characters, and though the occasional heroic character in literature has a physical flaw far and away the majority have personality flaws, and even those are absent in some of the more popular stories from which the genre was born. I fully support the Rolling method over the point buy because it has a chance to create the epic hero of story and legend while leaving room for the normal to rise above his ability and become the hero as well. The point buy leaves you with pigeon holed characters in traditional rolls. Almost every fighter has an 8 CHA, almost every Wiz/Sorc has an 8 STR, etc... One word for this...BORING... I quite enjoy my absurd 6'6" Wiz with the 17 Str, and I know one of my players loves his Ftr with the 16 INT and 14 CHA... imagine that... a FTR that can lead troops...who'd have thought of that.. honestly the drive for character balance is silly, people are not equal except in the eyes of the law and the opportunities available... and those are subjectto debate as well.
When 5 people get the same impression from a post I think it's pretty clear you didn't communicate what you meant in an effective way. As for being a jerk... you seem to have that under control.No, I think you rolled the 1 on your Reading Comprehension check. Nice job being a jerk about it, though.You rolled a 1 on your check to communicate effectively and wound up arguing with a bunch of people who don't disagree with you. Nice job.i think there is a flawed argument here. You could also argue that if you or your Allies are Dead they cant deal damage. And theres Lots of level appropriate monsters capable of disembowling PCs if they dont get healed. +1
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The reality these days with both parties seems to be which parts of the bill of rights they wanna ignore, the left (extremists) hates free speech and gun rights and the right (extremists) seem to hate our rights to privacy and to some extent freedom of religion... The far fringe of both groups have lost touch with the constitution... You know its bad when Congressman say thing like I don't care what the constitution says, this is the right thing to do... Now correct mer if I'm wrong but that statement is a violation of their oath of office, ANYONE, on either side with that attitude must be impeached. As long as we ignore the blatant and criminal misbehavior of some of our government officials things will never work the way the founding fathers planned it. Of course the original concept of our government and its checks and balances we're supposed to curtail this it seems to have hiccuped of late. The idealogues and politicians have forgotten the key thing in all this, They are supposed to represent the people, not their philosophies, parties or special interests. The first and primary responsibility of our government is to uphold the constitution and for the last 30 years both sides have peeled away some of our basic liberties. We need a better way to vet the people who serve us and harsher and more drastic punishments for those that ignore the oath they took to the constitution and their fiduciary responsibility as elected officials. Also perhaps we need more stringent restrictions on who can vote in this country, perhaps requiring a HS diploma or GED, perhaps an IQ test, perhaps some form of Civil/Military or Community service... I don't have all the answers but I can clearly see some of the problems. I'm sure I'm gonna get flamed for this but its time we realize that its the Constitution that most perfect of imperfect documants that is the canvas with which our country has been drawn.
Somewhere in the SRD, it says that the rogue's sneak attack with a ranged weapon is limited to 30'. How can a rogue get a sneak attack when not adjacent to the target? Anytime the target is denied his dex, for instance being flat-footed, they are subject to sneak attacks. I'm not sure why they chose 30' as the arbitrary distance but thats the SRD, I'm a little more open minded since I've seen a sniper in action but when someone is unaware of an attack they are very vulnerable.
7. Surgical Theatre- A 60' Rotunda style room with semi-circular tiered seating for 30, surrounding a dark stained raised platform equipped with adamantine manacles. A mounted silver tray of wickedly sharp and sinister instruements awaits dark hands. One entrance at floor level is barred by an iron door and a distinct rotting stench lingers in its vicinity. A small stone stair splits the tiers from the floor to a fine crafted wooden double door at the top.
As a GM I have a cpl of players who sometimes find themselves daunted by the volume of others (I'm the loud obnoxious one myself) I have instituted the old grade school tradition of handraising, and to squelch the arguments I have the handraisers take center stage and shush the others to give them an opportunity to talk. The first couple of times resulted in a moment of embarrasment but after that it has mostly gone smoothly. I would attempt to bring this option to the attention of your GM.... also another option is to gain an ally of one of the louder players and get their attention directed toward your idea and use their volume to advocate your ideas.
Yes, there is adult content but not on the scale of Rome or Deadwood, except of course the violence level...can't wait to see the Red Wedding, sex is not as prevelant as it was in either of those shows but an incestual relatiionship is one of the keystones to one of the main story arcs.
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We still roll our stats for one reason and one reason only...equality is a MYTH, in the real world some people are smarter, faster and stronger, and some people are all of the above, thus it only stands to reason that in a simulation these things hold true. None of my players cry for the equality of point buys, as a matter of fact when we had a GM attempt to institute it for his game the whole group balked at the idea, we aren't about equality of stats we're about roleplaying and the dice rolls randomly determine what our characters will be like and thus no one is forced to play the dumb ugly fighter. Look at the iconic characters of the fantasy genre, How many 7's did aragorn and gandalf have? Was Allanon a weakling, is Whiskeyjack a buffoon, was Conan a clutz, we are striving to build HERO's for the most part and heroes are exemplars in most fantasy novels. Yes they have flaws but most often they are character quirks as opposed to handicaps. Now if a player wishes to emphasize a certain handicap we have no issue with them reducing a stat to facilitate this but we are not gonna to shoehorn a player into a build style just in the spirit of equality bc equality is a MYTH at least as far as the characteristics one is born with. Ah but I never said I forced them to roll 3d6 and keep that order did I, we allow 4d6 drop the low and arrange to please, we also allow a drop stat so 7 rolls, so no we've never ended up with a character with that kind of stats
We still roll our stats for one reason and one reason only...equality is a MYTH, in the real world some people are smarter, faster and stronger, and some people are all of the above, thus it only stands to reason that in a simulation these things hold true. None of my players cry for the equality of point buys, as a matter of fact when we had a GM attempt to institute it for his game the whole group balked at the idea, we aren't about equality of stats we're about roleplaying and the dice rolls randomly determine what our characters will be like and thus no one is forced to play the dumb ugly fighter. Look at the iconic characters of the fantasy genre, How many 7's did aragorn and gandalf have? Was Allanon a weakling, is Whiskeyjack a buffoon, was Conan a clutz, we are striving to build HERO's for the most part and heroes are exemplars in most fantasy novels. Yes they have flaws but most often they are character quirks as opposed to handicaps. Now if a player wishes to emphasize a certain handicap we have no issue with them reducing a stat to facilitate this but we are not gonna to shoehorn a player into a build style just in the spirit of equality bc equality is a MYTH at least as far as the characteristics one is born with.
Galactic Civilizations should take the sting out of MoO2 not being compatible.Galactic Civilizations 3 should be out sometime this year, well at least the beta. GalCiv is the inheritor of the MOO series for sure, GalCiv2 is fantastic I've never really stopped playing it, I take it up again every few weeks for a new game, if you are a fan of the Master of Orion series you will LOVE the GalCiv series
Would love to see this stuff soon, before we start our Kingmaker AP, I want my Swordlord to actually have lots of fluff in his background
Yes, I would say not only is it worth it, its absolutely necessary, and its a fine one for a ray slinging wiz/sorc as well, and if you are bringing in 3.5 spells like the various Orbs of (________) its an absolute no brainer, as are precise shot, range touch wpn focus and range touch spec... rapid shot not so much but it never hurts to stock up on holy water and alchemist fire when you don't wanna burn the spells....
If this happens the next thing will be a Ru Paul playing Wonder Woman...sorry but this has gone too far, the PC movement seemd so intelectually honest at first but in recent years it has become a joke and often a weapon to beat us evil racist white people into the ground... btw I am half native american but I look white and work in a predominantly black community, so I see real bigotry daily, often directed at me lol. WE should ALL be able to be proud of our heritage regardless but the fact that bigotry and racism are confused for each other has drawn so many lines in this country that until we can stop worrying about this stuff, its the baiters on both sides that keep the debate alive and this subject is no different, Spider Man is a white kid, Black Falcon is a Black Hero, as is Powerman, the 2nd Green Lantern, Cyborg, the Panther etc... lets stick to the way things are and not dredge up a racial debate over a comic character. Not to mention if we really want a debate... Very few Native American heroes in the genre but the NA's were here first and as far as oppression goes, well they got it worse than most, a ghetto is nice compared to the Hopi/Navajo Res in Gallup New Mexico
Gimped unplayable characters are not fun...sorry. We still roll our stats, and I find it fairly easy to compensate even for "super" character parties, its not that hard really, My Base Adjustment is give the standard Bad Guys a +2 Con (+1 Hp per HD and +1 Fort Saves), and with The BBG I tend to also give them a +2 Dex (+1 Init, +1 AC maybe, + 1 Ref, +1 Dx base Skills, +1 Range Att) or their Primary, whichever gives the most benefit overall... Its pretty simple to run those numbers and see that they can really level things out for dealing with a powerful group. I still get the occasional character death and thrilling encounters, it simply requires a bit of number crunching. Also the occasional one use Item...like a Potion to Buff the BBG can go a long way to Help, Say... Shield of Faith or a Stat Buff... also without giving the party too much loot if they pull off a quick kill, don't wanna go all Monty Haul on them.
My biggest problem with Typos are Grammer are Spelling and Grammer Nazi's geez... some of us are not anal retentive and are content to let the jist of the text overshadowing something simple like grammer or spelling, as long as I can tell what it means I don't sweat it, or bash anyone for it...so that said... if you are a stickler for these things...TEACH ENGLISH... don't flame people on message boards or in chatrooms...
Always great to see the discussion of a valid geo-poitical issue still brings out the anti-american members of the board... I wonder how many of them would be speaking another language now if it hadn't been for the good old US of A... That said (Flame On) The situation in Korea is a nasty, Firstly before we consider throwing them to the dogs consider the Treaty obligations... and how all the other people we have treaties with would feel if we do this. Second, We don't have the $$$ or the leadership to wage a war in Korea. Our current administration has barely commented on the situation all things considered. Third and maybe most important is China and the US are so in bed together that a conflict in Korea that puts us on opposite sides would destroy China's economy. They are absolutely 100% invested in keeping the situation static, Kim Jong Il is much more of a problem for them that he is for us simply because he can be the first domino in a cascade that would demolish the whole asian economy. fourth and often overlooked is Japan, who now is for the first time in 60 years begun to rebuild their military. They are most likely a prime target for Kim Jong Il probably just as likely a target as Seoul because if the tin pot dictator decides to shoot, he will want it to be the biggest, meanest, ugliest war it can possibly be. Sadly, perhaps the best thing for us to do is put pressure on China and force them deal with the lunatic.
Same way ALL piercing weapons work - find the gap. Agreed, the fulcrum force of a Pick or Lucern Hammer was great for punching plate, that Rapier was best aimed at the throat, joints or eyes where the armoring had to be lighter and more flexible for mobility, essentially it would require more skill and precision (or luck) for the rapier armed fellow to take down the plated knight. The fellow with the spike just need to land a solid blow and lots PSI do the heavy lifting
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