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I simply believe that I'm a waste of space. A waste of resources and I have nothing to offer anyone. I feel the same way myself sometimes, but not enough to actually attempt suicide. I've realized, however, if it comes to the point where I lose all faith in my future.... I decided NOT to commit suicide. I'll give up... but rather sacrifice myself by devoting my life to charity. I mean, my life sucks, but I'm HERE still. And while I'm here, I might as well make myself useful to someone. I kinda came to a similar point earlier in my life. I may not be able to do much to improve my emotional state, but I can at least work out and improve my body. It's SOMETHING, at least. I don't know if my logic makes sense to you or not, but I hope it helps give another option.
Hi! I'm planning on running Curse of the Crimson Throne pretty soon. I'd like to give my players a brief rundown of Korvosa, but I can't seem to find a map of Korvosa online (like the one in Guide to Korvosa, with reference points, so I can refer to H5 as this and that). Is there one? I'm only asking because I know Sandpoint's map is available for viewing for free. Thanks!
On Pg. 62 under the disguise skill, it says you get just a +10 bonus to a disguise check when affected by a spell that alters your form (i.e. alter self, disguise self, polymorph, or shapechange). Later on Pg. 159, under the transmutation heading, it states that you get a +20 bonus on disguise skill checks when under the effect of a spell of the polymorph subschool.
It's a minor thing, but this one has always bothered me. You kept the "Prepare to throw splash weapon" in the list of full-round actions on Table 9-2 on page 135. I'm fairly certain this was a mistake in the original table in the 3.5 Player's Handbook/SRD. The only place a full-round action is ever again mentioned in any text regarding splash weapons is in explaining how to prepare a fuse to an oil flask to use it as a makeshift vial of alchemist's fire. Surely we can just throw things like bottles of holy water or vials of acid as normal attack actions without "preparing" them, right? Not sure if it helps, but I think a similar table in the Rules Compendium finally clarified this. I'll check when I get home. Again, minor thing but... grr. :D
Never tried it. I'm sure combat could be a lot more lethal this way, but the DM can then take everyone's composite actions to paint a larger picture of what happens in that round, instead of it happening piecemeal. This idea also lends a bit of verisimultude to the fact that everyone's acting within the same six seconds. So, if the monster goes first and uses all six seconds to take a move action to move up to someone and then take a standard to attacks that person, the cleric won't use his first three-ish seconds to cure the damage that hasn't really happened yet (but that problem can also be ignored since combat is abstract enough to say they're not exactly all the same six seconds anyway). As for the simulation of chaos, it definitely puts a "fog of war" spin on combat, but certainly there should be cases where a person lower in initiative would change his action in reaction to new information. The PCs aren't programmed to mindlessly carry out a full six seconds without regard to what's happening around them... though some PCs may actually be this stubborn. :D I'd almost want to say break it down to 3-second rounds to increase reaction time, granted one action per round... but that has a whole slew of problems itself, (i.e., keeping in mind that a standard and swifts action could only be done within a set of two 3-second rounds, breaking up full-attack actions and adjudicating charges, possibly stipulating that a standard action casting won't go off until the beginning of the next "round", ala 6-second round casting time spells, etc.). Definitely an interesting idea, though. Might want to try it out for a one-shot adventure. But most important to me is whether or not it makes combat more fun.
"Look at Henry Ford! He dedicated himself to building a cheaper, more standardized automobile to maximize production! It's like he was doing the Toyota design philosophy before Toyota was a glimmer in anyone's eye!" QFT! This post FTW! Other letters! I don't know if its worth taking offense over this... but at the same time there's already a bonfire of dispute against 4E. It's possible that by throwing kudos to Paizo, that they were trying to appear magnanimous... but with the wording they chose, it's like they're trying to put out that fire with gasoline. So it is important that we make fun of them for it. :D
I don't think he was trying to be romantic. Judging by the history of abuse, it sounds like he was already careening down a slippery slope before the estrangement. Must have had a "bad day" and just lost it. I think insanity's like a force of nature... a human mind gone feral, wildly trying to gain control. You can't reason with a hurricane or a rabid wolf; it doesn't care how good or bad it has it over a starving kid in a third world country. 'Course, unlike a hurricane, these things can be prevented. Shame our society doesn't have empathy for mental illness the same way it seems to for cancer patients and physical genetic disease. I honestly think it would help if it did. But the phrase "GET HELP" is more often shouted as an invective instead of spoken as a sign of sympathy. Madness is today's leprosy.
So why in the heck is a 6th level encounter one of the earlier encounters that PCs playing Keep On The Shadowfell will run up against? Was this an intentional TPK or just a mistake? That wouldn't happen to be the second fight, would it? Just got TPKed on that on Saturday! XD Well, we did have only three characters...
Why does God get all the credit? My thoughts? She thought she was doomed (or something less dramatic) without those things "crucial" we usually put in wallets. Turns out, she wasn't doomed. So the good fortune brings a swelling, euphoric feeling. This euphoria is a very strong emotion, it sometimes brings the idea that everything's in it's right place. Some people associate this as cosmic... correctness. God. Good luck. Destiny. Karma. Things like that. That someone's looking out for them. It's my belief that all of the above are varying little interpretations of the same thing... that our lives aren't as bad as we sometimes think they are. That we shouldn't be empty. To put it briefly: Validation. Course, I think in this case that it's short-sighted... but it's a good feeling to have. She was happy for an instant. Why deny her that? ;) "Life was bad, but now it's good, forever!"
I don't really know if it was because of the window being open or just the recent lack of A/C whatsoever... I'm sure that it's one or the other with the "other" not helping much. I know the pages were good and straight before, though. There are books I haven't even opened and read yet that have the same effect.
Ack! A window was left open and I guess it must have been really humid because now the pages of all my entire D&D library are wavy instead of the nice flat straight they were before. I had an entire Planescape collection (at least the boxed sets should be fine), too. It even affected the room of my apartment where the window wasn't open. Stupid physics! What? Yeah, they're still readable. No, they shouldn't stain or get moss b... but you know how we guys get! Does anyone know how to fix this? I'm thinking weighting the books down. I tried googling it and another suggestion was putting some already flat pieces of somewhat thick paper throughout would help make the book pages conform to it. Not sure if that's work, but I might try it. But I'm at work now and can do nothing! So in the meantime... has anyone else had this problem? What methods have worked? I'm thinking about even ebaying a book press... Urgh! I'm so angry!
To everyone else: I apologize for the general tone of my reply. As much as trolls are bad, I always thought picking apart each and every line of a flippant post was one of those ridiculous messageboard tropes as well. Just imagine the OP as an little guy running around with a swizzle bowtie making jokes about marmalade and woman drivers (honking on a bicycle horn for good measure). Then comes along a 2-ton, 12' tall Brian Posehn-esque neanderthal, raging beat-red and stomping on the guy in fury until there's nothing left but paste. It's THAT ridiculous to me. I'll write a book about it. There will be a handful of people who pick it up. I'll make a modest sum but the publisher will net a loss.
Did they come on their own or were they bound to the room by a summoner? If the latter, they're probably going insane from boredom, like a bird in a cage allowed to see only one room! Free the elementals! Ban binding! It's planar cruelty! <pickets> Okay, even though that was not-so-serious, it does have a serious point. Elementals confined in a room for ages should either be mostly dormant to pass the time, engaging in day to day leisure, or doing *something* assuming they have free will to busy themselves over the years. Or go insane. At any rate, even the weakest of the basic elementals have Int 4, so I figure they have some sort of cognizance that would have them seek out something to pass the time. Oh, and if the former, that KC's got some good answers above.
It almost looks like bite is getting half the Str damage bonus and half the Power attack damage bonus. I know some bites don't use full Str, but rather half Str. These are usually when bites are "secondary" or something. I don't think Power Attack works like that, though. I'll have to see if monsters have a special use for Power Attack when using secondaries. Edit:
Damage for that advanced knight's bite should be 1d4+16.
This just makes sense! I like it! ...but it may not be as simple as comparing the planetouched with the humans and taking the difference, though, which was my first idea. There might be some balance problems if one type of planetouched gives a bonus to a race that's already good at whatever that bonus is. Definitely worth looking into though!
The "fighting" is metaphorical. This "fight" was defensive. People spoke up. People resisted. And in the end, the "fight" paid off. At least... for now. I don't believe anyone here is claiming that "attacking" 4E (through trolling or threadcrapping or otherwise being a meanie) made a difference. At least... not yet. ;)
For being an omniscient Deity, he/she/it sure screws up a lot. Hmm... this reminds me of that episode of Venture Bros... Dr. Venture: Why. You. Son of a b%%%~!! Do you know what you just put me through?! What the f~$# were you thinking?! What kind of f+#*ed up planet are you from where you think showing up as my dead f*+*ing father is supposed to make me feel any better?!
Off camera; Jonas Sr. Alien pulls off his face off to reveal his true visage. Nobody looks pleased. Jonas Sr. Alien: There! That would have been better?! If I showed up looking like that out of nowhere?! Look at you! You practically crapped your pants! Except him; he crapped his pants!
Do we have the full explanation for all of these new sins? Or just what the article says? I don't consider a small article to be an in-depth analysis or explanation of the full extent of what counts under these new sins. I wouldn't make hasty generalizations on what this all really means. I need more information.
I don't know about that. Those first level feats are important to some characters, and a lot of good ones need at least a BAB +1. Everyone taking rogue as 1st level would just mean no one has an attack bonus above their Str (or Dex if Weapon Finesse is chosen). At least that was my experience when creating a 1st level swashbuckler/rogue. I wanted those skills, but I really, really wanted to fight better. And that max HP at 1st level was a consideration as well. I wound up chosing Swashbuckler. I'm playing in a game right now that house-ruled out the XP penalty. I haven't seen any problems, but then again, none of us are the kind of players that WOULD seek to break the game... so I don't know enough if it would fit for your group.
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