| Nekkid Vidmaster7 |
Vidmaster7 wrote:You know, one year for Christmas our parents gave my brother and I each a Log (AKA some firewood). Great presents. Had a lot of fun with those Logs. Until we burned them.Powdered Toast Man wrote:Did it? I didn't notice.
Now, cling tenaciously to my buttocks.
Eh go shove a log in it.
(man how did that show ever make it past the censors?)
Even the animation style looked MA-rated.
well you know they do roll down stairs
alone or in pairs,they can even roll over your neighbor's dog? (yelp that was the original line)
I hear they are great for a snack,
And fit on your back?
| DSXMachina |
If you ever wonder why we LOVE rural Scotland, just try setting up reservations at some of the B&Bs there. They are so utterly charming!
"Oh, you're a Yank, coming all the way here to see our games? Well, that's right kindly of you! Of course we can fit you in! You're clever to book early, because our games are so popular!"I'm sure there will be well over 100 people at their "games", but I am also sure they will be extremely charming.
EDIT: And being from an area where a single decent hotel room for two can easily surpass $250/night, being able to get a suite for 5 in a frigging castle with three meals included for under $500 is just ridiculous. Yes, traveling as a Californian is obscene, because even the obscene prices look perfectly normal to us.
Although that does remind me of a story from one of my American friends, one of her pals arranged to stay in Glencoe.... which went well until they asked for a name; Ms. Campbell, to which the proprietor replied "We'll have none of your sort here!" and slammed the phone down.
Oh there are many nice heritage trust buildings around for reasonable prices.
| Cover Turtle |
I wouldn't do that, robbery is a crime! But if I am, I don't exactly feel it at the moment, I don't have defined muscles when I look at myself in the mirror, you know. Though I'll admit to peeking at more girls in the changing room, just to see what kind of abs I'm aiming to achieve.
It was a half-hearted attempt at a Schwarzenegger movie reference...didn't feel it really landed though ^^'
As for the rest...
Your individual muscles might not be super defined, but your overall shape is pretty lean and tight...so yea you look pretty toned to me.
(Now sure, I haven't gone over you with a magnifying glass...it's just how you appear to me in the pictures you've shared. Hope I don't come across as...errr...offensive or nosy.)
Well, we've got the plane tickets for the Europe trip, so at least we know we're going.
It's sad; you see all these ads for "$399 to Europe round trip!", but that's if you want to travel in February and end up somewhere random. GothBard's Portugal tickets were $1000 round trip. We had to buy one-way tickets this time (in to London, out of Copenhagen) so we ended up at $1500 round trip. Pretty steep, but it's always a relief knowing you can get there.
Once you're there, youth hostels and trains are so plentiful you can always find stuff to do...
I'm not really a Copenhagen native (in fact I live in almost the exact opposite end of the country).
But I kinda wanna meet up...so I'm exploring the possibilities of me being in the city when you pass through...Might also be able to help guide you around a bit if you feel like you might need it.…
But again feel free to hit me up if you think I can help with your trip in any way.
For the Horde!
But alliance gets all the pretty boys and girls...
Meh…
The Hordes still got some pretty ladies.(I will give you that most aren't Draenei levels of pretty ^^')
| DSXMachina |
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DSXMachina wrote:I'm pretty pleased, I've got a ticket for a concert associated with the York Viking festival & the line up looks pretty amazing.Who's on?
Sellsword - who are getting better & better. Power metal with truly bombastic vocals.
Old Corpse Road - folk mixed with black metal in a Yorkshire manner.
A Forest of Stars - weird, accordion driven Victorian dark metal.
Ravenage - A fun band, with some famous members of other bands.
And most amazingly Wyrdstaef! Who were excellent in their first performance ever at Warhorns festival, with some amazing atmospheric dark folk metal.
Some other good folk/viking metal bands that I've probably seen before like, Feorgh, Yylva, & Solfyr.
Just a Mort
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It was a half-hearted attempt at a Schwarzenegger movie reference...didn't feel it really landed though ^^'
Sorry, I don't watch Schwarzenegger movies.
As for the rest...
Your individual muscles might not be super defined, but your overall shape is pretty lean and tight...so yea you look pretty toned to me.
(Now sure, I haven't gone over you with a magnifying glass...it's just how you appear to me in the pictures you've shared. Hope I don't come across as...errr...offensive or nosy.)
Thanks, I've been working on it. It is hard for ladies to get muscles but I've seen some really toned ladies in the high intensity interval training classes. I may not exactly look like much, but I also know that I have more stamina for doing stuff then most of the class(making yourself do two gym classes in a row does that to you). So people would be out of breath and panting but I might be breathing heavily but still able to keep going. And I recover stamina pretty fast.
I know that there were some pretty slim ladies doing the rock climbing with me, sure, they climb better then I do because they're lighter, but when it came to leg work warm up of squats, high knee run, butt kicks, lunges, shuttle run, I easily outdo them. (5km of running every weekend does that to you, besides I do those exercises when I do I-run as well)
Because even in school phsycial education sessions they won't push you that hard. Unless you're in the school track and field team then I'm not making any promises.
Anyway it's a government run activity so they try to cater to people with different fitness level, whereas the body combat instructor in my gym is hard core. No water breaks or breaks of any kind, 1h straight. (Billy Blanks Tae Bo workouts are pretty much the same way too)
So when I see people taking water breaks I'm scratching my head, going urm, what's that for?
Just a Mort
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The pretty ones are the blood elves. The male bloodelves can look rather Bishonen while the female bloodelves are just hot. Panda's are cute, I guess, but I kept complaining as one about my dress looking too plump on me.
| NobodysHome |
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NobodysHome wrote:Well, we've got the plane tickets for the Europe trip, so at least we know we're going.I'm not really a Copenhagen native (in fact I live in almost the exact opposite end of the country).
But I kinda wanna meet up...so I'm exploring the possibilities of me being in the city when you pass through...Might also be able to help guide you around a bit if you feel like you might need it.
…
But again feel free to hit me up if you think I can help with your trip in any way.
We'll be there July 23, 24, and 25, hanging out with one of GothBard's co-workers who recently emigrated from the U.S. because <politics redacted>.
It would be awesome to get together with a "native" for a day (or even just lunch or dinner or whatnot), so as we firm up our plans I'll let you know.
| NobodysHome |
Speaking of the trip, we had our first, "OMG! Do we really want to do that?!?!" moment, as Copenhagen is the home of the "best restaurant in the world", Noma, and so of course we had to eat there. And of course, being the best restaurant in the world, it's equivalent to 3 Rivolis, one Alexander's Steakhouse, or 80% of a French Laundry (the best restaurant in the West, unless some L.A. feeb argues that there's something better down there, thought I doubt it).
I figure I'm willing to skip Rivoli for a while to give it a shot. GothBard's a little more leery, but considering that the French Laundry remains one of the most memorable dining experiences of my life, I see no reason not to cut back a bit now and see what Noma is like...
| Vanykrye |
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Speaking of the trip, we had our first, "OMG! Do we really want to do that?!?!" moment, as Copenhagen is the home of the "best restaurant in the world", Noma, and so of course we had to eat there. And of course, being the best restaurant in the world, it's equivalent to 3 Rivolis, one Alexander's Steakhouse, or 80% of a French Laundry (the best restaurant in the West, unless some L.A. feeb argues that there's something better down there, thought I doubt it).
I figure I'm willing to skip Rivoli for a while to give it a shot. GothBard's a little more leery, but considering that the French Laundry remains one of the most memorable dining experiences of my life, I see no reason not to cut back a bit now and see what Noma is like...
How often are you realistically going to be in Copenhagen? The answer is a very, very low number of times, correct? You can get Rivoli any time. It's worth cutting back just for the experience - even if it does turn out to suck (or at least not be worth the price - I highly doubt it will outright suck).
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Cover Turtle wrote:NobodysHome wrote:Well, we've got the plane tickets for the Europe trip, so at least we know we're going.I'm not really a Copenhagen native (in fact I live in almost the exact opposite end of the country).
But I kinda wanna meet up...so I'm exploring the possibilities of me being in the city when you pass through...Might also be able to help guide you around a bit if you feel like you might need it.
…
But again feel free to hit me up if you think I can help with your trip in any way.We'll be there July 23, 24, and 25, hanging out with one of GothBard's co-workers who recently emigrated from the U.S. because <politics redacted>.
It would be awesome to get together with a "native" for a day (or even just lunch or dinner or whatnot), so as we firm up our plans I'll let you know.
DO EET
TAKE PICS
| NobodysHome |
NobodysHome wrote:Cover Turtle wrote:NobodysHome wrote:Well, we've got the plane tickets for the Europe trip, so at least we know we're going.I'm not really a Copenhagen native (in fact I live in almost the exact opposite end of the country).
But I kinda wanna meet up...so I'm exploring the possibilities of me being in the city when you pass through...Might also be able to help guide you around a bit if you feel like you might need it.
…
But again feel free to hit me up if you think I can help with your trip in any way.We'll be there July 23, 24, and 25, hanging out with one of GothBard's co-workers who recently emigrated from the U.S. because <politics redacted>.
It would be awesome to get together with a "native" for a day (or even just lunch or dinner or whatnot), so as we firm up our plans I'll let you know.
DO EET
TAKE PICS
LOL. When we had dinner at the French Laundry for our 25th anniversary, GothBard sat there with her iPhone taking pictures of every single dish as it came out (and I think it was a 9-course meal and we ordered different meals, so 18 courses), and everyone else in the restaurant was doing the same thing!
So the French Laundry was $500 per person, we did it once in our lifetime (as Vanykrye pointed out), and I still have fond memories of it, though I'll almost certainly never do it again. Noma's cheaper and supposedly better. I think it's worth a try.
| Cover Turtle |
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Speaking of the trip, we had our first, "OMG! Do we really want to do that?!?!" moment, as Copenhagen is the home of the "best restaurant in the world", Noma, and so of course we had to eat there. And of course, being the best restaurant in the world, it's equivalent to 3 Rivolis, one Alexander's Steakhouse, or 80% of a French Laundry (the best restaurant in the West, unless some L.A. feeb argues that there's something better down there, thought I doubt it).
I figure I'm willing to skip Rivoli for a while to give it a shot. GothBard's a little more leery, but considering that the French Laundry remains one of the most memorable dining experiences of my life, I see no reason not to cut back a bit now and see what Noma is like...
First off let me preface this by saying that I'm not (as of yet) paid to rag on Noma...this is just from a cursory review of the places web page.
But I'll give a couple of clarification about the place.
First off, it's a concept restaurant.
Generally, the place rotates between 3 culinary themes a year, that forms the basis of the "menu" your buying.
This year, its Seafood Season (January – June), Vegetable Season -> Offers both a "vegetarian menu and a vegan menu" (June – September) and Game & Forest Season (October – December).
The whole usage of the term "menu" has me a bit confused…I can't really find how many courses a "menu" consists of or how many different "menus" are offered...can't really figure out if drink are included or not, so I'll guess that it isn't??
Reservation is required (at least 1 day ahead of time...I think?), for between 2 to 8 people, and the meals pre-paid together with the reservation...though again the system is a bit arcane and obtuse.
Every "menu" is priced the same 2500 Dkk (or around 380 $) per person. With a "drinks menu" running from 950 Dkk (around 143 $) - a "juice pairing?!" - to 1350 Dkk (around 204 $) - "wine pairing" - per person.
(CT's personal opinion: So...a minimum of 3450 Dkk (around 522 $) for a "multiple course vegan/vegetarian inspired meal" with juice?!
*Heads towards the nearest hot dog stand*).
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Amusingly enough, the two "most memorable meals" I can think of for me were:
- The French Laundry, where I had the vegetarian meal because I don't care for shellfish and the "meat" menu was almost half shellfish
- Greens, an entirely vegan restaurant.
So I am not particularly concerned about the meal being vegetarian. And yeah, the drink pairings are where they hammer you; we rarely go for them. You don't have to; you can order drinks a la carte rather than spending $143 on juice. They just don't mention that you can.
I'll likely get one $20 of sparkling water and it'll last me through the meal...
| Vanykrye |
Good shedding of light on the place. Personally, if I had the means, I'd still do it once. Although I'd probably prefer the October-June offerings more than the June-September, but I'd still give it a shot.
For me, it's worth having the life experience, provided I had the financial means.
This may fall squarely into my version of a possible mid-life crisis though as well, so you know, your kilometerage may vary.
| John Napier 698 |
Hi, everyone.
For those that were confused about my leaving early yesterday *sideways glance at Vid* I'll explain.
Last month, one of my fellow guards quit. We got a new guard, but she could only work evenings. It was decided that she would work Monday and Wednesday evenings. I would work Monday mornings, 5 A.M. to 2:30 P.M. and be off on Wednesdays. The guard was pulled away to another site, but my schedule wasn't put back the way it was. I go to bed a bit early Monday evenings, to catch up on the sleep I'm deprived of.
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My grandfather-in-law's ship has been found.
(He made it home OK, getting off the ship before it sunk and coming home on a different ship.)
| NobodysHome |
So I focused on the "disruption build" that worked so well as a GMNPC in CotCT: Spider Climb, Mobility, and Dispelling Strike (or whatever the rogue version is) to get through the combat, get at the caster, and take them out. Plus lots and lots of throwables for other types of combat.
Unfortunately, Shiro's AP is undead-themed (we knew this from the start), so there just aren't a lot of casters. Instead, in this book we're facing barbarians, golems, and ghosts (no sneak attack damage at all on them), plus dragons (can't hit 'em as a non-full BAB), ranged combatants (no sneak attack damage beyond 30'), etc.
In short, the last few combats she's basically stood around being utterly ineffective on offense (expected), but then trying to disrupt on defense by eating up AoOs, and the other side takes one swing, says, "Well, she's not doing anything and she's impossible to hit, so save her for last," and gives up on her.
So she stands there. Combat after combat.
The last combat was the worst, when some guys in cages used ropes to tie their cages shut instead of locks, so she had to cut the ropes, and her damage was low enough this took more than one round!
GM willing, I'm going to retire her once we get back to the city, probably at level 14.
But yeah, once you hit higher levels of play, the number of ways they came up with to ensure rogues were a useless class is... mind-boggling.
I'd love to know what event prompted such over-the-top rogue hatred. It had to be intentional...
| Vanykrye |
** spoiler omitted **
I know this doesn't fit within the spirit of Shiro's campaign (publishing aspirations, etc), but I think one house rule that helps rogues (well, a combination of them, really) quite a bit is an accuracy booster.
Their BAB isn't any worse than magi, clerics, druids, etc, but all of them have ways to boost their accuracy. Rogues don't. I've been thinking that maybe adding a +1 bonus to hit per die of sneak attack damage might be a nice situational boost - still doesn't help against ghosts and elementals and such, but would help against dragons and other nasties.
EDIT: submitted before finishing thoughts, more coming
EDIT 2: and my browser crashed, losing my edits. I'll just post more on this later. But none of it helps NH's issues - different situations with different house rules and to some degree different expectations.
| NobodysHome |
3/4 BAB is just plain brutal.
At 13th level, that means we're already -4 to hit. Even the inquisitor with her +3 judgement and her +2 bane is losing to a run-of-the-mill fighter (+3 favored weapon. With no time limit). So we already had a serious shortage of healing (inquisitor, paladin, rogue, sorcerer), which could be made up for by massive DPS (the paladin-barbarian-bard-sorcerer combo of RotRL simply killed everything too fast for it to do damage), but we have neither healing nor DPS, which is... painful.
| Freehold DM |
** spoiler omitted **
I have been working hard in Freehold! to make combat more final, with better options for everyone beyond attacking with their primary weapon/spell over and over again. It is very crit-leading-to-brief-condition focused, and rogues add conditions to sneak attacks sometimes, with rules for defeating an opponent(with what opponents do once defeated) vs. killing outright.
It should be noted that I am working off 3.x, not pathfinder.
| Vanykrye |
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Ok...my thoughts on rogues and their shortcomings and how to fix/mitigate it.
The original rogue is a touch under-powered. I think a lot of it was fixed with the unchained rogue. Rogue's Edge handled a lot of their shortcomings with skills, but they're still in a dogfight with bards and investigators for the "best skill-monkey" title.
For in-combat issues, really I think the biggest one is that they don't have an accuracy boost ability. Magus, cleric, druid, etc...all use the same BAB as rogues but all of them have built in ways to boost accuracy or completely go around the need to use BAB at all with spells. Rogues just really don't have any of that.
So I have 3 house rules...
1) Flanked as a condition. If you have flanking set up between a fighter and a barbarian as per the normal rules of flanking, I now count the target in the middle as having the "flanked" condition, meaning that *any* additional person walking up to that target can beat on it with a +2 bonus to hit, sneak attack applies on all attacks made within 30' (not counting other abilities that may come into play), feats that operate off of flanking work for anyone that's in the correct range regardless of positioning, etc, etc, etc. It means that third-wheel rogue doesn't have to try to shove the clueless fighter out of the way to get flanking bonuses. It means the ranged rogue can actually get their sneak attack in more often than just at the beginning of the combat or from invisibility.
2) Sneak Attack grants an additional +1 bonus to hit per die of sneak attack damage. Maybe a touch much on a slayer, but there's the accuracy boost for rogues/ninjas. Still sucks if you're fighting elementals or incorporeal creatures, but that sucks regardless.
3) This is just a general house rule that makes martials into death machines, which is what I prefer to do rather than nerf everything else. I don't penalize iterative attacks from high BAB. If you have a +11 BAB, then you have +11/+11/+11 coming instead of +11/+6/+1. Make that squishy person think really long and hard before standing next to an enemy with a lot of attacks. Fighters are supposed to be deadly adversaries. Let's make them deadly. Let's let that two-weapon fighting rogue get in 3-4 sneak attacks with an actual chance to hit.
Again, none of it helps NH's situation, but it's just a couple things that I've done that work in my groups.
| NobodysHome |
Well, my plan was to replace her with a vanilla fighter, but GothBard doesn't want her inquisitor relegated to second-string, so has voiced objections. (Though in truth, she's doing so well with it that she's out-DPSing the paladin, so *he* would be second-string.)
So she wants me to go bard or cleric. I don't see bard solving any of the underlying issues (yeah, our fighters now do +5 damage per hit for another 20-30 points per round, but at 13th level that's not even 1/4 of a mook's hit points), so it's cleric.
I started trying to work out a cleric of Desna, because Luck and Travel is a brutal tactical combination for a cleric, but I couldn't fit it into the storyline.
Then I started looking at Calistria, and in spite of all my attempts to switch genders every time (thus a male cleric), a female elven cleric of Calistria with Luck and Trickery is just too too delicious to pass up playing...
| Cover Turtle |
I ultimately feel that the fundamental problem with the Rogue, in 3.x(and kind of earlier)/Pathfinder, was and is one of trying to fit a design space that's from the onset is/was all too crowded.
The Rogue already from the core-book was squeezed on "his turf" by the Bard, who did some of the Rogue's tricks-y deceptive face-time stuff better cause well magic…
While the Ranger kind of got the skirmisher, lightly armoured combatant or ambusher thing down kind of better too…(again with magic!)
In Pathfinder that trend simply continued with each new iteration on the "design tree" compounding the loss of "turf" for the Rogue with each new class basically taking a "different spin" at outdoing the Rogue when doing "Rogue-like things".
…
And the list is long Alchemists(Investigators), Bards (Mesmerists, Skalds), Inquisitors, Mediums, Ninjas, Rangers(Hunters), Slayers and Vigilantes…
So my suggestions?
Well, the easiest is just to let the corpse lie and rot, since that's all its good for now. Bury the Rogue, embrace the options, and don't look back.
What I would like to see however is kind of the opposite…
Actually some of all those classes getting the axe instead and have their tricks, bells and whistles folded into a (somewhat) modular Rogue class and a series of "archetypes" that you apply to your character, as you level up, to add further specializations and abilities to your character.
Yes.
I'm arguing for killing off the likes of the Bards, Ninjas, Rangers, Slayers and whatnot (and as far as possible shoving aspects of them them back into their "parent classes"), while making those a bit more modular and letting players pick up "archetypes" to further define particular skillsets, specializations and maybe even whole playstyles of those "parent classes".
(Basically I would love an expanded (and a bit more complex) character system in the vein of Shadow of the Demonlord ^^')
Talking about Rogues…
I've got a character planed out for a level 4-15ish campaign, one of my player will be running soon…
So I'm planning a (insert small sized race - Halfling, Ratfolk or what-not) Vexing Dodger 1/Mouser 1/?
It's the ? that bugging me…
I would prefer something "fighty", with little to no magic, but it should preferably still net my character 4-5d6 worth of Sneak Attack dice…
Anyone have any suggestions? or do you want me to explain what I'm trying to build first?
| Cover Turtle |
Hi, Kjel!
*Waves to John*
How are you holding up? Scheduling/new guard back to normal?
Me? I'm do so'n'so...or...somewhat sucky actually. Too much stress, still somewhat sickly and my colleagues are being ass-hats.
Hope your doing better then me.
*Gives back pat*
...
*Yawns*
I'll probably be turning in soon
Nighty night!
| Freehold DM |
Ok...my thoughts on rogues and their shortcomings and how to fix/mitigate it.
The original rogue is a touch under-powered. I think a lot of it was fixed with the unchained rogue. Rogue's Edge handled a lot of their shortcomings with skills, but they're still in a dogfight with bards and investigators for the "best skill-monkey" title.
For in-combat issues, really I think the biggest one is that they don't have an accuracy boost ability. Magus, cleric, druid, etc...all use the same BAB as rogues but all of them have built in ways to boost accuracy or completely go around the need to use BAB at all with spells. Rogues just really don't have any of that.
So I have 3 house rules...
1) Flanked as a condition. If you have flanking set up between a fighter and a barbarian as per the normal rules of flanking, I now count the target in the middle as having the "flanked" condition, meaning that *any* additional person walking up to that target can beat on it with a +2 bonus to hit, sneak attack applies on all attacks made within 30' (not counting other abilities that may come into play), feats that operate off of flanking work for anyone that's in the correct range regardless of positioning, etc, etc, etc. It means that third-wheel rogue doesn't have to try to shove the clueless fighter out of the way to get flanking bonuses. It means the ranged rogue can actually get their sneak attack in more often than just at the beginning of the combat or from invisibility.
2) Sneak Attack grants an additional +1 bonus to hit per die of sneak attack damage. Maybe a touch much on a slayer, but there's the accuracy boost for rogues/ninjas. Still sucks if you're fighting elementals or incorporeal creatures, but that sucks regardless.
3) This is just a general house rule that makes martials into death machines, which is what I prefer to do rather than nerf everything else. I don't penalize iterative attacks from high BAB. If you have a +11 BAB, then you have +11/+11/+11 coming instead of +11/+6/+1. Make...
I like 1.
| NobodysHome |
Vanykrye wrote:...Ok...my thoughts on rogues and their shortcomings and how to fix/mitigate it.
The original rogue is a touch under-powered. I think a lot of it was fixed with the unchained rogue. Rogue's Edge handled a lot of their shortcomings with skills, but they're still in a dogfight with bards and investigators for the "best skill-monkey" title.
For in-combat issues, really I think the biggest one is that they don't have an accuracy boost ability. Magus, cleric, druid, etc...all use the same BAB as rogues but all of them have built in ways to boost accuracy or completely go around the need to use BAB at all with spells. Rogues just really don't have any of that.
So I have 3 house rules...
1) Flanked as a condition. If you have flanking set up between a fighter and a barbarian as per the normal rules of flanking, I now count the target in the middle as having the "flanked" condition, meaning that *any* additional person walking up to that target can beat on it with a +2 bonus to hit, sneak attack applies on all attacks made within 30' (not counting other abilities that may come into play), feats that operate off of flanking work for anyone that's in the correct range regardless of positioning, etc, etc, etc. It means that third-wheel rogue doesn't have to try to shove the clueless fighter out of the way to get flanking bonuses. It means the ranged rogue can actually get their sneak attack in more often than just at the beginning of the combat or from invisibility.
2) Sneak Attack grants an additional +1 bonus to hit per die of sneak attack damage. Maybe a touch much on a slayer, but there's the accuracy boost for rogues/ninjas. Still sucks if you're fighting elementals or incorporeal creatures, but that sucks regardless.
3) This is just a general house rule that makes martials into death machines, which is what I prefer to do rather than nerf everything else. I don't penalize iterative attacks from high BAB. If you have a +11 BAB, then you have +11/+11/+11 coming
The APG already provided this as a feat.
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So is it just me, or are the Archives of Nethys really fairly useless as a reference document?
With the PRD, it was, "Expand the book, expand the chapter, read the rule."
With AoN, first you have to accept that the load time per page will be roughly 60-120 seconds, so you'd better have the pages loaded before you get started. Then good luck finding something you've never heard of.
I was trying to look up a monster that had psychic magic. I've never worked with psychic magic. There's no "Occult Adventures" book section of AoN. So I had to do a search. And got too many results so I had to filter, but of course filtering was another LOOOOOONG wait.
I'm really hoping he upgrades to a different host soon as he says he will; the performance right now is so bad that all the stuff I used to do live with the PRD (keep monsters, spells, and rules up in separate tabs as I run) just isn't feasible because at a 1-2 minute load time to page, it would take me an hour just to load all the stuff...
EDIT: I mean, AoN is the "official" PRD site, but d20PFSRD is SO much faster and easier to navigate it's scary.
| NobodysHome |
And my favorite Windows 10 "feature":
(1) Start with a completely shut down Windows 10 laptop.
(2) Plug in an HDMI monitor, but don't turn it on. For example, you're just checking your e-mail real quick so you don't need the external monitor.
(3) Boot up.
Windows 10 will enter an infinite loop resetting your mouse once a second, preventing you from being able to do anything. You quite literally have to unplug the monitor or turn it on to proceed.
Because Windows 10 don't do turned-off monitors.
| John Napier 698 |
And my favorite Windows 10 "feature":
(1) Start with a completely shut down Windows 10 laptop.
(2) Plug in an HDMI monitor, but don't turn it on. For example, you're just checking your e-mail real quick so you don't need the external monitor.
(3) Boot up.Windows 10 will enter an infinite loop resetting your mouse once a second, preventing you from being able to do anything. You quite literally have to unplug the monitor or turn it on to proceed.
Because Windows 10 don't do turned-off monitors.
Well, that's stupid. A turned off peripheral shouldn't affect the computer like that.
| lisamarlene |
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I just got done working 18.5 hours, in addition to the 8 hours the night before and will probably go out for another 10-15 hours tomorrow, on account of the foot of snow we got from Seattle.
As I told my boss "this is because I spent all weekend making fun of Seattle, isn't it!".
I was talking to my best friend from grade school, who still lives up there. (Not actually in our home town, she moved halfway to Minnesota, somewhere outside of Eau Claire.) She said that, after they were snowed in for a week, the plow came and cleared their road.
So she jumped in her truck to try to drive into town.There was a cop at the end of her road with his lights on, just sitting there. He sent her back home.
Apparently they only cleared the roads so emergency vehicles could get through if they needed to, but no one was supposed to drive yet.
They didn't let her out for a couple more days.
| Orthos |
Then I started looking at Calistria, and in spite of all my attempts to switch genders every time (thus a male cleric), a female elven cleric of Calistria with Luck and Trickery is just too too delicious to pass up playing...
Maybe you can explain it to me then.
What the hell is the appeal of Calistra? Ever since day one of the Golarion setting, she's the one deity I can't wrap my head around why people love her so much. She's easily my least favorite god in the setting.