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Can I order those videos on 3,5" floppies or Compact Discs from Paizo store? Sorry, don't have any of those newfangled DVD drives yet.
Seriously, all you need is some actual roleplaying here. Have one of the party members get hired in the castle as a toilet cleaner. Throw a baby shower party and invite the Erinyes. Use some smart disguise eg. have the dwarf walk around in a barrel. Create a distraction by summoning a host of solars to keep the defenders busy. Sure, you'll need a high level spell scroll, but in 1978 we'd just ask Gary and he would have a sagely Wizard sell us one in exchange for some blackjack and hookers down the road. Seriously, why has everything to be "balanced" and all about numbers and rules these days? Challenge Rating? A real roleplayer doesn't need them. The book says greater teleport works? Well today it doesn't because the stars ain't right! Simple! It's them video games being wrong for your brain, Sir!
Well all you need is a level headed GM who tells the player that this character is bull and he can't have that because duh, the GM is always right! Whatever strange combination of silly rules she or he has come up with, well that's going down the drain. Seriously, that's how Gary did it 1978, that's how we're doing it and no newfangled 90s anime and computers kids will ruin that on my watch. I'm actually shocked that nobody has mention this ELEMENTARY SOLUTION to EVERY PROBLEM before. Sheesh!
The LG alignment is the core of Paladin class! This is tradition! This is how Gary did things! This is how you underscore the fact that LG is the "goodest" alignment! That's how us, true roleplayers prefer! Of course, all those gamist anime robots with lazors fanboys of Monte Cook think otherwise...
I'd like a proper roleplaying game back like we had in the Gygax days, not this anime math nonsense!
I just love how people go harangueing about the 4E Forgotten Realms, when I said about five times that I too would hate to see something like that happen to Golarion. Evolution, not revolution. Now imagine what happens if Paizo announces an advance in the timeline. You'd have hundreds of people going "OMG THIS IS FR 4E" and before you would be able to explain each of them that it's not, subscriptions would be cancelled, vitriolic posts would be written, and half the Internet would be informed that Paizo is WotC all over again.
Of course, this is the way the game is meant to be experienced. Not played, mind you, that's for those video game brats that seem to populate the planet lately. *sips tea*
"True spirit of a classic dungeon crawl?" but but but I thought this is a deep, storytelling experience where we get to act out our inner fears and hopes vis a vis a changing landscape of vivid emotions *faints*
Wrought, so much wrought, all those numbers, they stain my landscape of dashing, dazzling roleplaying!
TOZ please halt your wrought *faints*
All this optimizing wrought, nonsense I say! My newest character shall dart across the bushes with a golden spoon while reciting Shakespeare and acting out 56 pages of backstory I wrote! Dashing, dazzling roleplaying is where the game is at, not some crude math!
Is it some kind of a new trend to have your first post on the forum as a flamebait for a running war where everyone has said everything already and the only thing achieved is that we have a third "Monks suck/No they don't/yes they do/no they don't/your mother wore combat boots/yeah, and my goat says <Insert Paizo Designer Name> is a bad lover" thread?
The point buy, the spawn of video games, so much wrought! *faints*
That's something only those sissy roleplayers do! We, True Optimizers, shall stop at nothing to reach our goal! *waves his handkerchief, faints*
You can't ask to prepare a spell you don't know about. Unless your deity runs down the list for you, it's metagaming.Yeah, but you have to roll to see if you know shield of faith is a cleric spell and that your deity grants it. Otherwise you can't prepare it.Clerics and druids don't work the same way as Wizards. Wrought, so much wrought! *faints*
Filthy armchair mathematicians...
Just as planned. Like moths to hellfire. Come my pretties, burn in the flame of your own spite. ;-)
Who cares about your subjective "fun" when somewhere out there a GodWizard is making some glorified Commoner look silly! Just as planned.
It is not often that I feel out-Rules-Lawyered. Just as planned.
It's all in the story and character background! Those "rules" some speak of are merely guidelines, adjusted as seems fit to tell a compelling tale of passion and heroism. |