Recent content by nevin

see I don't think you need immersion for something like Fallout. Its more like a dark fairy tale nothing about it feels or seems real or even possible it's just junk food for the brain.

I don't think fiction is required to match real world science to tell an entertaining story. I don't really think it's about people believing the world, its more about making sure the story is entertaining and the "fake stuff" is consistent within the rules presented.

It's a scifi show based on a game maybe it's just not your cup of tea. The target audience is people that played the video game. Video games don't use real world science or logic.

Ok to make a point. I'd be really careful about this shoot and scoot stuff as an ongoing tactic. The players should be able to come up with some way to deal with this kind of attacks going forward. Not necessarily easily or cheaply. Otherwise your just putting them in a horror movie...

well the problem is the martial attack is based on attacking a high AC. If you add the INT/WIS/CHR of the mage to their armor that might be enough to make a fair attack with a reasonable chance of success and failure. Not sure I'd have to play around with it. It might work well. edit. I...

well using legolas is what I call the outlier. What they did in the movie with him was just F'ing stupid. In the books he was a bad ass ranged attacker and a decent melee warrior and even with the amount of people he killed at range before Gimli hit the front line gimli killed just as many as...

The only thing with the above is figuring out the math the martial is going to use to disrupt the spell. It has to be something with a reasonable chance of success and failure if they are the same level.

well spit balling from those comments. Reaction to study the spell and identify it's level. Then mage burns spell of the appropriate level or higher to counterspell as an attack. If he rolls bad on the reaction to study the spell the mage has no idea as it's being cast what level the spell...

I meant what the company thinks they want vs what the customers want never seems to match up with D&D beyond.

but what they think they want and what they need to make the base happy never seems to be the same. If they haven't resolved that the best built site on earth won't help at all.

oh absolutely fixing a poorly designed system or application is like trying to build a house on a bad foundation. It'll never work the way you need it too.

I've never seen a version of counter spelling that I thought worked in a way that improved the game. I think a counterspell needs a few things. 1. a way to identify what you are counter spelling. (note this could work for martials as well) 2. a reasonable mechanic for counter spelling. No...

you've got to consider fallout tech is like they were just about 100 years away from launching the enterprise but then blew up the world. The whole 50's vibe makes it easy to forget we are talking about a world that is more like the Fantastic Fours world with all that super futuristic tech...

depends on how they implement the digital version of the book on the website. Ideally each rule and option would just be implemented as a single thing in the database. Then they could allow the control to be as granular as they want it to be. With them moving towards a VTT push that would...