Recent content by Chaosmancer

Yeah, I think the moment that forever cemented Zoro (before Thriller Bark) was Arlong ripping off his bandages, seeing the wound from Mihawk, and going "You should be dead!" after he had just finished kicking the crap out of most of his crew.

This is a problem ONLY because of Anti-magic. Nothing else cares or interacts with these things in an unclear manner. For Example, whether or not you consider psionics magical, a creature using psionics to cast detect thoughts can be counter-spelled or the spell dispelled, because it is still a...

Not quite. The problem is that magical is used to refer to three different things, but the game only cares about two of them. All spells are treated consistently, no confusion there. All magical items are treated consistently, no confusion. But then it uses the word "magic" to refer to other...

Your friend gave you a bad explanation. One Piece is a story about dreams and freedom in the face of a totalitarian government. Doesn't take itself seriously? Nami - An orphan who watched her adoptive mother shot and killed in front of her, because she refused to deny that she was her...

And, again, if we end up with something like a skill focus, where a character can chose "Investigation: Focus - Once per short rest, you can view the past of a scene and know what happened in the area with precise detail" and you want to explain that as soul magic, or a mystical technique for...

But here is the rub. How much do we need to call out? I'm going to go back to One Piece. There is a weird thing that people have noticed about the series. Some people, inexplicably, are BIG. There... is no real explanation for this. No real pattern. Sure, there are giants in the series...

Actually, the confusion comes because the Designers were making a single, slim design decision, based in sacred cows of older editions, and meant it only to apply in that narrow field. See, because that confusion on Paladin Divine Health vs Paladin aura does not matter for Dispel Magic. Dispel...

Micah at least has repeatedly stated that such training needs to be called out as supernatural, because human training can not reach those limits. Or it needs to be stated that humans (and only humans) are supernatural beings that are not like earth humans. Of course, he also wants this...

Fine. Ship me your Player's Handbook and I'll take a permanent marker to write it in for you.

Be kind of silly of me to ask for rules for rolls that are already in the rules, wouldn't it? I bet you if I looked over all of the rules for every single version of DnD and all of its clones... a lot of the things I'm asking for already exist. So, if I'm asking for rules, and I'm not in the...

I mean 5e doesn't make a distinction between things that are not possible for earth humans IRL (or earth animals IRL) and things that are possible. Was talking about 5e Sure, innate magic seems pretty similar. But, like you pointed out and like was pointed out by the designers, 5e doesn't...

Yes, but that is immaterial. IF you want to call that level of strength supernatural, I would agree with you. Just like psychic powers and shadow powers and magic. Where the struggle seems to come in is, people seem to want to make it require something beyond training. I am fine with it just...

Call what out? If we say that Fighters and Rogues have an extraordinary power source, like Ki.... you just tell us that it doesn't say that, and challenge us if it were true, why doesn't it say that. So even when we try and add it, you demand to know why it wasn't already inherent in the class.

I said that I could not think of any time the game called it out. The game being Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition. The one we are talking about. Sure 3rd edition called it out. It had the term "extraordinary" and allowed for people who were trained and skilled enough to do things like walk on...