Recent content by Faolyn

In all seriousness, since there's no way to adequately represent real-life damage in a game (simply because there are so many different bits here), yes, they would. In real life, a well-placed shot would automatically kill any of those. So unless real-life people are critting all the time, yes...

I just grabbed the Mortasheen book (in pdf). I'd been waiting forever for it to be released, although I've been wanting it as a setting guide/monster book for reading rather than as a game. As a setting guide, it's great. Fun concept, fun monsters, fun world. As a game, it seems simple enough...

OK, I've seen that huge collection of house rules your table uses. It's practically a brand new game that's only vaguely based on AD&D. Do you honestly think that might not be a turn off to people who thought they were getting into a regular AD&D game?

I just say 5.24 and 5.14.

Because people like consistency. They don't want to necessarily learn a bunch of rules that are only applicable at certain tables. Especially if they play at multiple tables. "Oh, wait, I've been rolling critical damage all wrong. It's Bob's table that maxes one die, not Steve's table." Because...

...in a cameo in Captain Marvel #14, in 2013, by, among others, Sana Amanat, an editor at Marvel and a woman of Pakastani descent. Her first solo comic, Ms. Marvel (2014) was written by a woman who converted to Islam. So no. You're wrong. She wasn't created to be a "positive token." She was...

Perhaps not, but it explains why people may be less willing to resort to lots of house rules anymore.

There are people who get offended if they see a character in a D&D book who looks like they could have a name like "Luis Carlos." That is, if they see someone they don't think is white enough. So, how do you propose one should seem ideologically neutral in a situation like this? Do you do this...

The problem--which may or may not be a problem from an individual point of view--is that it can get to the point where it becomes difficult, if not impossible, for people to move to a different table.

Is material depicting same-sex couples only allowed to exist during a single month of the year? If there's a reason, it's almost certainly "if this is the type of game you want to play, you can play it using D&D." Kind of like how all those pictures that TSR produced of men hacking apart...

I'm sure thousands of games are started every day as well. And those thousands of games that die... chances are the table continues to play, just with a different system. It's not like D&D is the only game out there. Also, why should we punish munchkins? At most, they're hurting their own...

I really don't know how you get that that interpretation. My question is, what is needed for a psion class? Is having the bulk of their powers be the same spells as other casters ok?

OK, so my first psionicist was, of course, 2e's, which was very different from any other class. And not just mechanically--the powers were very different as well. Many of them were kinda dumb, but they were different. This version has cool and unique class/archetype abilities; the fact that it...

While I'm not poo-poohing the idea of the psion here, all you really need is a rule for that. "These classes/archetypes cause defiling which does X, Y, Z. Those classes/archetypes don't cause defiling." I mean, I know the psionics class in 2e was important, but there were really far fewer...

Sadly, there are very few psionic abilities left that haven't been turned into a spell. Or that weren't a spell originally but they decided to make a psionic version of it. There were probably more back in 2e, but a lot of those powers were... weirdly limited. Like determining a target's level...