I figured we need a thread to fill with answers and/or links to obscure references given on the boards. Often I see people questioning the same things over and over again.
My contribution (since it's referenced often and always questioned when it is): The Stormwind Fallacy was a post put up on the Wizards 3.5 CharOp boards by user Tempest Stormwind that can be neatly summarized as "Roleplaying and optimization are not mutually exclusive. Being good at one does not necessitate being bad at the other. There is no such thing as 'roleplaying vs roleplaying'".
My first request - what is up with the "drinking my milk" line?
I drink your milkshake! NOT safe for work.
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Was I guilty of being a bad guest? - aka "the milk thread"
Set aside a few hours and your sanity before you delve into that dungeon.
Was I guilty of being a bad guest? - aka "the milk thread"
Set aside a few hours and your sanity before you delve into that dungeon.
Wow.
That was either the best trolling, or the biggest idiot, I have ever seen.
Nobody could possibly be that obtuse. Had to be a troll.
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They obviously weren't listening to enough Quiet f+&*ing Riot!!! F~*& ya!!
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I started the Braveheart-esque shouting of one word in CAPS with s~~&loads of exclamation points, with my whole GALT!!!!! Thing on every page of what adventure path do you want threads :-)
The best part is
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Was I guilty of being a bad guest? - aka "the milk thread"
Set aside a few hours and your sanity before you delve into that dungeon.
Wow.
That was either the best trolling, or the biggest idiot, I have ever seen.
Nobody could possibly be that obtuse. Had to be a troll.
You greatly underestimate humanity's potential for stupidity.
When did "gish" come to mean "any arcane caster / warrior blend"?
(I do know that the Gish were originally a specific military caste of Githyanki fighter/magic-users from AD&D 1e. My question is when the term started to be used as a broad generic?)
Was I guilty of being a bad guest? - aka "the milk thread"
Set aside a few hours and your sanity before you delve into that dungeon.
Wow.
That was either the best trolling, or the biggest idiot, I have ever seen.
Nobody could possibly be that obtuse. Had to be a troll.
I'll let you read the other posts by that individual, and let you make your own conclusions.
When did "gish" come to mean "any arcane caster / warrior blend"?
(I do know that the Gish were originally a specific military caste of Githyanki fighter/magic-users from AD&D 1e. My question is when the term started to be used as a broad generic?)
That I believe was carried over from the WOTC boards and other pre-Paizo forums. It was used there simply as a reference to wanting to build characters who followed the same mechanical themes of combat-capable arcane caster as the Githyanki caste. From there the legacy of the name has simply come to be diluted down into a general reference to an Eldritch Knight, Magus, or similarly-capable character that blends martial (usually melee) combat with arcane spellcasting.