You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I admit, as much as I like to fantasize about monarchy I'm not sure where I actually stand on it in real life
can't you just pick a race that favours the classes you want?
A) Races have a bunch of other abilities that are relevant to a given class. B) It messes with roleplay. C) A lot of classes have only a couple of races that support them as favoured. D) Casters don't have this problem at all. E) Most melee characters multiclass more than once.
For example, Paladins need to multiclass to stay viable. A Paladin 20 sucks. The only "core" races that have Paladin as a favoured class are Half-Elf (worse than elves and humans), and Humans. Both of these races only have it by virtue of having everything as a favoured class.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know, that makes sense.
My princess fantasy tends to be pretty divorced from reality anyway, given that it's largely built around magic and such.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
A Tabletop RPG session where we all play composers, but in the DnD universe.
Bach would be the cleric, Mozart would be the sorcerer, Wagner would probably be the rogue, and Beethoven would be the barbarian. Don't know about the others yet.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
A Tabletop RPG session where we all play composers, but in the DnD universe.
Bach would be the cleric, Mozart would be the sorcerer, Wagner would probably be the rogue, and Beethoven would be the barbarian. Don't know about the others yet.
So Bach and Mozart slaughter their enemies whilst Wagner and Beethoven complain they have nothing to do? :P
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Normal checkers rules, but one player starts with twice as many pieces on the board
Better people than us have tried to balance casters. It didn't work then either. In the end, it's best to ban them, or roll with it and see how many cities explode.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I'm kind of nap-soon-ish maybe, but I set am alarm for three hours
Say hi to Anonus for me if he shows up while I'm asleep
At high levels, casters get tiny benefits such as being able to create entire planes of existence on a whim. Small stuff like that.
More seriously (not that the planes of existence thing was a joke), casters have access to literally hundreds upon hundreds of spells, for every conceivable situation.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Next weekend it will be the 1990s again for a limited time
...tbh i think i have Skyrim on the brain here, since i was thinking, 'what's stopping just anyone from learning spells?'
i suppose a cap on how many spells a spellcaster can learn per level might work?
It's... a little more complicated than that. I'll try and explain magic a little. DnD runs on a Vancian system. There are 10 levels of spells: 1-9, and cantrips. As a character levels up, they get to cast more spells from each level, depending on their class.
Now, there are two types of spellcaster in DnD: Prepared, and spontaneous. Prepared casters know all spells that a character of their level can know, but must choose which of those spells they are allowed to cast on a given day. This applies to classes such as the Wizard, Cleric and Druid. Spontaneous casters can cast all the spells they know, but only learn a few spells per level. Classes that fall under this include Sorcerers and Bard. Prepared casters are stronger than spontaneous casters, but spontaneous casters are still incredibly powerful. Except bards, but that's more because of a smaller spell list. There's a couple of spontaneous casters that know all their spells, but that's because they have incredibly specialised spell lists, such as the Dread Necromancer.
Anyway, psions are Tier 2 on the 3.5 tier system (the system goes from 1 [Prepared casters] to 6 [Complete Warrior Samurai and the NPC classes], not including Truenamers, who are so terrible they don't even have a tier. Although with a little jiggery pokery with PrCs the system can get to Tier -1, which is essentially "I am become Death".) Also they make incredibly deadly sandwiches. As in, the Psion is the sandwich. Not a sandwich made by psions.
hm... so if you wanted to allow magic, but didn't want spellcasters to be overpowered, could you maybe ban wizards, clerics and druids and downpower sorcerors?
Downpowering sorcerors would still be hard, since they have access to every spell a Wizard does, but just knows less of them at a time. And you can't really go around banning individual spells because you'd be there all century.
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B) It messes with roleplay.
C) A lot of classes have only a couple of races that support them as favoured.
D) Casters don't have this problem at all.
E) Most melee characters multiclass more than once.
For example, Paladins need to multiclass to stay viable. A Paladin 20 sucks. The only "core" races that have Paladin as a favoured class are Half-Elf (worse than elves and humans), and Humans. Both of these races only have it by virtue of having everything as a favoured class.
@ CA: i don't think it matters that much, fantasies are just fantasies.
i mean like i think it'd be cool to be able to read minds, but IRL i think people should be entitled to privacy.
is good
i have no idea what i'm doing / hoping to achieve
other times not
relatedly i bought A Game of Thrones the other day, haven't read it yet
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Say hi to Anonus for me if he shows up while I'm asleep
plz explain for the dnd noob
More seriously (not that the planes of existence thing was a joke), casters have access to literally hundreds upon hundreds of spells, for every conceivable situation.
simple, right?
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i suppose a cap on how many spells a spellcaster can learn per level might work?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Now, there are two types of spellcaster in DnD: Prepared, and spontaneous. Prepared casters know all spells that a character of their level can know, but must choose which of those spells they are allowed to cast on a given day. This applies to classes such as the Wizard, Cleric and Druid. Spontaneous casters can cast all the spells they know, but only learn a few spells per level. Classes that fall under this include Sorcerers and Bard. Prepared casters are stronger than spontaneous casters, but spontaneous casters are still incredibly powerful. Except bards, but that's more because of a smaller spell list. There's a couple of spontaneous casters that know all their spells, but that's because they have incredibly specialised spell lists, such as the Dread Necromancer. Depends on what you wanna know.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Anyway, psions are Tier 2 on the 3.5 tier system (the system goes from 1 [Prepared casters] to 6 [Complete Warrior Samurai and the NPC classes], not including Truenamers, who are so terrible they don't even have a tier. Although with a little jiggery pokery with PrCs the system can get to Tier -1, which is essentially "I am become Death".) Also they make incredibly deadly sandwiches. As in, the Psion is the sandwich. Not a sandwich made by psions.