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2012-07-07, 11:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-07, 11:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
That seems like a bigger stretch, since it would mean actually Good-aligned clerics who tried to worship him would get a driver conflict. He's stated to be the most widely-worshipped deity in human lands, so presumably lots of clerics worship him; someone would notice if they were all evil.
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2012-07-08, 02:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
I forget how it really goes,
but basically Pelor is an evil god, has tricked the other gods into thinking he is good, and grants spells to good aligned clerics as a way to hide. Should some cleric figure out that he is evil, it wouldn't be too hard to see him being granted a separate list of spells to further Pelor's evil agendas, without the good clerics knowing about it.
EDIT:Seems that is about the only true statement of my post.Last edited by The Random NPC; 2012-07-08 at 05:09 AM.
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2012-07-08, 02:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
If you want an evil (or at least nongood) sun god, you can find a better candidate than Pelor. I'm rather fond of Taiia from Deities and Demigods, who's neutral and has both a Creator aspect and a Destroyer side. She's presented as an example of monotheism, but it wouldn't be hard to power her down a little and just slot her into Pelor's place. By a strict interpretation she wouldn't be allowed to have LG or CG clerics anymore, but the same would be true of an evil god, and you could always opt to waive that rule in the case of ultra-powerful and amoral deities (Boccob for instance doesn't seem like he ought to be that picky).
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2012-07-08, 02:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
It is just a silly thread that was started to try to rationalise some minor inconsistencies in Pelor's portrayal in some sourcebooks (including the Jozan casting of symbol of pain). I linked it a few pages back if you want to read it ( I would link again; but I am posting from my phone and linking like this is a bitch).
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2012-07-08, 07:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-08, 09:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
Back on topic, fire elementals can burn to death in the desert.
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2012-07-08, 09:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-08, 03:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
I've got a new fantasy TTRPG about running your own fencing school in a 3 musketeers pastiche setting. Book coming soon.
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2012-07-08, 08:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-08, 09:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
Silence is a Bard Spell.
Bards cannot use Silent Spell, and whilst they are all about sonic spells Silence is the opposite of that.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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2012-07-08, 09:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-08, 10:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
There's an old Russian army joke to that effect:
Sergeant: Private, turn off* that engine!
Private: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
*Zaglushi can be taken to mean both "turn off" or "drown out". This is the joke.
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2012-07-08, 10:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Pelor, the burning hate.
It's mostly a joke, but some of the stuff is pretty fishy.
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2012-07-15, 10:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Cover rules on PhB, Page 133, table 8-9.
Total cover does not give you a bonus to AC or Reflex saves.
The SRD does not have the table, btw.
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2012-07-15, 10:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-15, 10:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Personally, I like how your Swim check is apparently not hindered in the slightest by having your hands full, as long as the things you're holding don't weigh enough to encumber you and inflict an ACP. Even in 3.0 where you used every single pound of gear to calculate a penalty, you could still swim just as well with a magically weightless polearm in one hand and a magically weightless kite shield in the other as you could with your hands free. (I can imagine using a wooden shield as a floatation device, but the fact that a masterwork metal shield has 0 ACP means that it has no effect on your Swim check in 3.5, and your weapon never does unless it weighs enough to encumber you.)
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2012-07-17, 07:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
A mathematical reading of cold snaps in pathfinder shows that they increase temperature by ten degrees.
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2012-07-24, 11:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-25, 05:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-25, 06:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-25, 08:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
Actually, "a -X penalty" isn't necessarily wrong, simply because of the nature of the word "penalty" compared to "reduced". The latter implies a particular direction; the former merely implies a detriment of some sort. You take a -X and that's the penalty. But reducing it by -X means increasing it. The semantics are different.
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2012-07-25, 03:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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It is because subtracting a negative creates a positive
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2012-07-25, 05:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
You don't take a "+X penalty" in any wording of anything ever, though. This is a penalty, and its value is -X. It is a -X penalty. They explain that this is how they word things. The wording on cold snaps must be more vague.
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2012-07-25, 05:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
It says cold snaps (weather effect, not the spell) reduce the temperature by -10 degrees.
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2012-07-25, 05:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-27, 07:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
Do you think it's intentional that orcs do not have the ability to treat Orcish Double Axes as martial weapons, the way dwarves and gnomes can for their races' double weapons?
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2012-07-27, 08:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-11, 06:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Under the Disarm option:
Note: A defender wearing spiked gauntlets (page 118) can’t be
disarmed. A defender using a weapon attached to a locked gauntlet
(page 124) gets a +10 bonus to resist being disarmed.
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2012-08-11, 11:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: "Wait, that didn't work right" - the Dysfunctional Rules Collection
That rule is clearly intended to mean that the spiked gauntlet itself cannot be removed from the character by a disarm. But yes, you're right about what the actual wording exactly as written means. Of course, by that same reading you could have a spiked gauntlet on one hand and it would grant disarm immunity to the weapon you're holding in your other hand.
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Arcane Swordsage: Making it actually work (homebrew)