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2012-11-11, 09:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
Ohh! Me! Me!
Ok, that's not me. The Light aura gods call themselves Good and most mortals are smart enough to not call them on it.
In my games you can totally have a Pelor the Burning Hate paladin selling goblin jerky (it's not cannibalism if it's outside your species) at a road-side stand. You'll just have to put up with an entire goblin clan named Inigo Montoya. I feel it's just more fun to play this way than to bog down in contradictory alignment quotes and pre/post-modern morality shifts.Last edited by Telok; 2012-11-11 at 09:10 AM.
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2012-11-11, 10:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
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2012-11-11, 10:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-11, 11:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-11, 12:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
Heh. How 'bout dem monks?
I know, we covered it. that's my subtle way of telling you guys to knock off the alignment stuff in this thread. Take it to PMs or a new thread.
Moving on, something from Pathfinder. (That's ok, right?)
The Bard archetype Sound Striker has the following ability:
Wordstrike (Su): At 3rd level, the sound striker bard can spend 1 round of bardic performance as a standard action to direct a burst of sonically charged words at a creature or object. This performance deals 1d4 points of damage plus the bard’s level to an object, or half this damage to a living creature.
So, get a giant choir of these guys, and kill people half a world away.Guess who's good at avatars? Thormag. That's who.
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2012-11-11, 12:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
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2012-11-11, 12:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-11, 01:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-11, 01:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
π = 4
Consider a 5' radius blast: this affects 4 squares which have a circumference of 40' — Actually it's worse than that.
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2012-11-11, 01:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-11, 02:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
High-intensity sub-sonic sound, then. How much energy is lost per (unit of length) for subsonic sounds traveling through air? Is it on par with sounds in the normal audible range? How many decibels must be produced to damage someone over a distance, and wouldn't it damage everyone who hears it, i.e. everyone in a certain radius?
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2012-11-11, 02:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm working on a vague understanding from about a week in Physics I, but I think it's possible to focus sound. There's a kind of speaker someone told me about that's only audible if you're directly in its path, rather than the regular sort that allows sound to diffuse and diffract. Sort of a like a sound "laser", a focused beam of sound.
Anyway, that's not the point of this at all; the point is, there's no range on the ability, and that's dysfunctional. Sonic effects are largely magic, and that's good enough for me.Jude P.
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2012-11-11, 04:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
π = 4
Consider a 5' radius blast: this affects 4 squares which have a circumference of 40' — Actually it's worse than that.
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2012-11-11, 04:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
I prefer to assume that it conjures tiny sound fairies that scream in your face until your eyes and ears start bleeding.
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2012-11-11, 05:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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The spell Sending didn't change in Pathfinder, combo it and kill people on other planes of existence. Granted that Sending isn't on the bard spell list, but it shouldn't be too hard to work around that with a magic item or a feat.
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2012-11-11, 09:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
Curmudgeon is good at turning up places where the RAW is 110% silly, and this one just caught my eye:
You would be able to reach some of the creature's squares inside the Antimagic Field, while being outside the AMF yourself. With a melee attack the position of the attacker is where the attack is adjudicated, so you would receive the magical benefits of your weapon. It would be another story with missile attacks, because those are adjudicated in the defender's position.
Conversely, you can also stab someone with a magic longspear from 10 feet away without the AMF interfering, but standing 5 feet away for a Point Blank Shot means the AMF applies.Last edited by willpell; 2012-11-11 at 09:30 PM.
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2012-11-11, 09:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
Ah yes, "combo it" the most legitimate of options when spell-casting. Every DM appreciates Players mixing and matching spell effects with class features on the fly, especially when it allows them to attack people with an obscure energy type from across the multiverse.
But yeah, that's not really a move that's going to work.Last edited by Water_Bear; 2012-11-11 at 09:47 PM. Reason: Moving a comma.
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2012-11-11, 09:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-12, 02:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Drunken master isn't proficient with improvised weapons. Dunno how that one went unmentioned for 37 pages.
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2012-11-12, 04:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
I know, but the whole shtick of Drunken Master is to fool around with improvised weapons, no?
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I found an interesting one.
Monk 17: Tongue of the Sun and Moon
A monk can speak with any living creature. It does not say that the monk can understand the speech any living creature.
Even if you follow the RAI then while a monk who does not have Undercommon as a learned language can understand a living creature using Undercommon, he cannot understand an undead creature using the same language. Even if the living and undead speakers of Undercommon are standing right next to each other and saying the same thing.
Are there things other than undead and constructs that don't count as living?
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2012-11-12, 06:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
I'm now imagining a rap battle where the winner is easily determined because the other guy is bleeding out.
It is. That's why one of the drunken master's class features reduces the penalty he takes when wielding an improvised weapon and adds his unarmed strike damage to the damage roll for the same. (assuming we're talking about the PrC in CW rather than the PF archetype.)I am not seaweed. That's a B.
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2012-11-12, 06:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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That doesn't mean it should be easy. Having to eat that -4 penalty could be worth it just to be able to say that you were halway competent at beating the Captain of the Guard up with a flowerpot.
Makes perfect sense to me. The class feature doesn't let the monk know the language, it lets him communicate via "the communion of souls united through the eternal Akasha" or some such Phlebotinum. It's like all living beings are broadcasting on an FM radio frequency, undead are on AM and you don't have an AM receiver.
Deathless, technically. I might rule Elementals aren't precisely alive, not sure of the RAW implications of that.
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2012-11-12, 07:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
For a second there I thought that you were going to point out that Tongue of Sun and Moon never explicitly says that monk can understand or make himself understood to any creature.
Because it doesn't; it just says that he can speak to any creature.
Of course, that's less "dysfunctional rules" and more "excessive rules literalism but it does give me the amusing mental image of a monk spekaing slowly and loudly at an incomprehending animal (like a tourist who never learned any phrases of the local language) while the rest of the party looks on in awe.
Monk: HELLO! SHEEP!
Sheep: Baaaa.
Monk: IS! THIS! THE! WAY! TO! THE! BLACKSMITH?!
Sheep: BAAAA!
Fighter: Amazing! How does he do it?If a tree falls in the forest and the PCs aren't around to hear it... what do I roll to see how loud it is?
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2012-11-12, 08:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-12, 12:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
So Mark Wahlberg is a level 17 Monk?
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2012-11-16, 07:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Curmudgeon is really good at finding these (from Simple RAW):
From this it follows that you cannot EVER identify a lycanthrope in its hybrid or animal form, as anything, because it isn't in a Humanoid aspect and it doesn't actually have the Animal type. It can look exactly like a wolf (eg), but no amount of Knowledge: Nature will tell you that it is a wolf, or for that matter that it isn't. You just don't even get to roll because there's no skill that applies to identifying it.
I really want to know how, let alone why, anyone EVER plays "100% RAW, no exceptions", as Curmudgeon at least has stated he does.
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Actually I believe he does use some house rules, monks being proficient with unarmed strikes among them. Found them.
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2012-11-16, 10:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
Maybe I missed something, but that post doesn't say "these are my houserules", it just says "Common houserules are", as in "a lot of people rule as follows". Not disputing what you say or anything, you probably know him better than I do. I was just going by this post in the previous edition of Simple Question, where he says he "never" disregards RAW. (Maybe he's drawing a distinction between "disregard" and "modify slightly" or something.)
Incidentally, that thread is closed, is there a new edition? My game has a slew of houserules and I'm tempted to boast of them.