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2012-09-18, 09:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hillariously Stupid Non-Monster Things from D&D
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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2012-09-18, 09:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-19, 05:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Actually most of the Vow feats have the clause "If you break your vow as a result of magical compulsion, you lose the benefit of this feat until you perform a suitable penance and receive an atonement spell." Well screw you if someone forces you to drink a beer! It's your fault, sinner!
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2012-09-19, 05:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-21, 02:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Tasha's Hideous Laughter.
I mean really. We always joke that the verbal components for the spell aren't a joke, but just staring at the target with a straight face and going "Tasha's Hideous Laughter."Please take everything I say with a grain of salt. Unless we're arguing about alignment. In which case, you're wrong.
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2012-09-21, 02:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-21, 03:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Heh, nice one! :D
Does Eberron suffer from a scarcity of raw materials, since the easily accessed mines etc have been exhausted by previous civilizations? I don't think it does, but I've never actually played in it.
It reminds me of Feist's Midkemia/Tsurani books, where the latter invade the former because the Tsurani world's resources had mostly run out.
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2012-09-21, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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IIRC Dragonshards normal ones at the least are treated very similar to Oil in modern world (perhaps a little earlier in our history) in the sense they are in a great but finite supply, though unless that is the plot of the campaign you can assume they won't run out in the near-future. Khyber and Syberis shards are another matter since they are extremely rare. And one must also take into account that some shards are MASSIVE (60 ft tall or something like that) and can be processed into smaller ones or uses to power similarly sized machines.
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2012-09-21, 04:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-21, 05:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-22, 02:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Imagine if all real-world conversations were like internet D&D conversations...
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2012-09-22, 04:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Deities of mining and resource gathering adding more?
Sort of like, "Uh oh the orcs are running out of gold. Pot of gold. There all fixed."Last edited by Poil; 2012-09-22 at 04:11 AM.
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2012-09-22, 08:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, I for one have never seen a mine in D&D that wasn't a good mile or so under the surface and filled with zombies, so I'd hazard a guess all the good veins of ore have already been tapped out.
Dwarves Kobolds and the other undergound races do most of the mining anyway, and they are always "delving too greedily and too deep" so it's a good fit fluff-wise. Add in all the generic Evil Empire Forcing Prisoners to Work as Slaves in the Plot Mines set-pieces and mining is probably almost as dangerous as dungeon-crawling, assuming your mine isn't already transforming into an "Abandoned Mine" dungeon.
Also remember that resources are only limited on a local level; Wish Economies and the ability to mine on infinite planes like the Elemental Plane of Earth means there is always going to be iron (and gold, and admanantine...) out there to buy if you can't find it yourself.
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2012-09-23, 06:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Could you clue us non-SJ, non-4E fans in what a Regiar is? Wikipedia and Google are not finding it.
Unless 1E was very different from 3E in this respect, though, you get a LOT more 1st-level spells than 6ths. Especially since, if you have a 1st that's as good as a 6th, you can cast all your 2nds, 3rd, 4ths, 5ths and 6ths as that one 1st.
What bugs me about Unbodied is that they have no body, yet they can appear as anything, with no stated limits on that. So they can pretend to be a dragon sitting on the roof of your house, but they can't pass for human in a crowd because as soon as someone bumps into them they'll notice that this person isn't actually physically present. Also we have no life-cycle information about them; the fluff seems to imply that they're a race of ancients who've been lingering around forever, and I don't see how they could breed, but there's nothing indicating that they have a former human life (contrasting sharply with the Elans, who do have a former human life despite starting out as level 1 characters). Just a mess.
What's really confusing about that spell is that the name seems to imply that it's forcing the target to laugh, but according to the Gray Jester in Heroes of Horror, the target is actually amused. It doesn't mechanically force you to laugh the way Otto's forces you to dance, but rather causes you to feel such overwhelming humor that you break out laughing in the middle of a fight - humor which the Jester can then eat after you've wasted your action. Weird.
I mean really. We always joke that the verbal components for the spell aren't a joke, but just staring at the target with a straight face and going "Tasha's Hideous Laughter."Last edited by willpell; 2012-09-23 at 07:12 AM.
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2012-09-23, 12:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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So basically, Tasha's Hideous Laughter is the world's funniest joke.
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2012-09-23, 01:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-23, 10:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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The world was one they escaped to via magic after the Valheru invaded the place they previously were. The world they escaped to had presumably had other races previously who had used up all the metal. Which makes no sense really, unless they launched it into space the metal should still be there somewhere.
It was more complicated than that anyway, certain political parties wanted the war in order to keep their power.
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2012-09-24, 01:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hillariously Stupid Non-Monster Things from D&D
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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2012-09-24, 10:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by willpell; 2012-09-24 at 10:26 PM.
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2012-09-26, 01:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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That's not begging the question, which would be asserting something and then using it as proof of itself. It may pose or suggest that question, but saying it 'begs the question' is inaccurate.
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2012-09-26, 04:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Boats are like nuts, the outside is hard but the inside is usually good to eat.
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2012-09-26, 08:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Apparently the Theory of Spontaneous Generation is alive and well in both MMOs and tabletop RPGs.
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2012-09-26, 09:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-26, 09:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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I found it a bit pedantic myself, but just rolled my eyes and moved on. Mnemosyne is a cool dude/ette/oid/whatever, I can overlook the occasional English-Teacher's-Pet self-indulgence.
PS: OMG Reigar....that is amaaazing. An entire race of Mary Sues who out-elf the elves. I badly want to know who was consuming what flavor of six-month old yoghurt just before they hallucinated that concept.Last edited by willpell; 2012-09-26 at 09:36 AM.
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2012-09-26, 10:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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It's a little late, but I felt the need to post this in response to this.
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2012-09-26, 10:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well I discounted it as noise, but whatever.
But at least they are artistic.
If I were ever to use these then I can think of several players who would like nothing better than to introduce them to the finer points of rapiers; others however would love to talk with them, before moving on. It is not a surprise that these players play in different groups.
They are only Mary-Sues if you use them as such. These seem more of a high level distraction or trading opportunity.
BTW the flavour of yoghurt would be Madagascan Vanilla with a hint of Armagnac.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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2012-09-26, 02:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-09-28, 02:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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I've heard good arguments that given:
1) "begging the question" is a very bad translation of the original Latin term for the fallacy
2) Going by the normal English meaning of words, the colloquial interpretation of the prase ("demanding/requiring the question be asked") makes more sense than the "real" meaning
3) Almost everyone uses it that way
Therefore the colloquial meaning should now be treated as as correct.
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2012-10-01, 03:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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My group also encountered a swan-shifting charm. It was a once-a-day effect, and ironically the violent guy took it and always wants to use it to kill things, but the DM vetoes it because it would never work.
On-topic: Bag of Tricks. That is all.Thanks to flumphy for the avatar
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2012-10-01, 06:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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