Baron Iveagh's page

More of it, since the reason I dropped my subscription to everything was the move to 2e.

Please don't say "WE". I and some finite number of others want streamlined, and I suggest it is a goodly number, and as Vic(?) said upstream, streamlined does not equate to minimal choices.

And then you go on to how you're restricting player choices because they're giving you a head ache.

Let me be really blunt: I've playtested many games, both TT and VG. You'll find my name in Games Workshop's Battlefleet Gothic FAQ 2010 and my party was the one that showed how Dark Heresy 2.0' s initial combat system was utterly and inherently broken. (Unarmed guardsman: 'You're already Dead, Abaddon!' Single punch, Abaddon's terminator armored head promptly explodes with the actual damage and force of a hand grenade).

I'm going to give this a chance, but frankly, no, I'm not hopeful on this. In all the things I've tested, when people said 'streamlined' they really meant 'reduced options or increased number of books for the same options'.

After rereading the blog and FAQ as well as the 719 (as of this reading) posts I can say I am not sad or angry about this decision. More .. resigned.

Sort of like when you hear that Marvel is making Captain America a Nazi or comic book companies are rebooting every other month or there is yet another remake of a movie or series and so on.

The sort of feeling where you go ".. huh. Well. It *could* be good, I guess." I'm definitely in the wait and see camp. Several of the ideas I hear being put forward I am not interested in, and others sound at least a little interesting.

My major concern is that thus far, every RPG I have enjoyed, when they announced a new edition, died horribly shortly thereafter (looking at you, Dark Heresy).

This makes me very nervous. I prefer Pathfinder 1e to anything Hazcash and Wizards of the Spliff have produced and disliked Starfinder, even though I did buy the first book.

Interestingly, one could always run out the timer on resurrection. The farthest back a character can normally reach is 200 years (CL 20 true resurrection). If the judging process takes longer than that (material time), problems only occur when somebody's trying to break the system. What if the time changes in the Boneyard are so that both the fastest and slowest judgings take slightly over 200 years, material plane time?

Using the Mask of the Forgotten Pharaoh, a mummy (a sentient Undead and therefore possessed of a soul) is created in the Empty Graves portion of Mummy's Mask. While the Mask is artifact grade power, we're seeing a 400 odd year (IIRC) old sorceress (IIRC) brought back.

Given how the rules treat undead, (which I grant are there to keep you from simply rezzing the Vampire) it would 'seem' that the counter starts over again once they become 're-dead' for purposes of resurrection, as their time as undead is specifically stated to effect their final judgment (IIRC).

Party Necromancer sends in the skeletons.
Bard: THIS.... IS..... SPINAL TAP!

Paladin: before we let you join our team, tell me about your hobbies?
Necromancer: Scrimshaw, chess, Practical combat clothing that also shows off my very, very ample and very pale décolletage...
Rogue and Arcanist simultaneously: We'll take her.

Necromancer: Skeletons are a very efficient use for all these swords and pieces of armor we keep just finding on dead people!

Any movement on this? I'm rather curious about this one myself.

The stats have it using daggers, and it's Poison (SU) ability says it has hands.