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Come on niggers, I need your opinions

>>15502861

I've heard it has stronk feminists and negroes

>>15502861

>Another Baldur's Gate clone

Just play Baldur's Gate or one of it's expansions/sequels. Or any Infinity engine game really.

Surely somebody has the forum screencap where they shill for basic bitch social justice shit while telling everyone "we totally aren't going to fuck it up and do these very specific things nobody brought up yet haha what are you a shitlord?" in a very roundabout manner.

>>15502861

>>15502889

Just pirate the damn game.

This is the closest thing I could find.

>>15500243

>>15502943

>Just pirate the damn game.

Doing it right now.

>>15502861

Probably not, there's fags and niggers all over.

I should probably reiterate that I meant the developers of Pathfinder itself, not this game. Pathfinder was essentially patient zero for the faggot infestation in /tg/ stuff.

>>15502959

/tg/ was always faggots. There's literally no reason to play tabletop "games" past the year 1995. Computer games are superior in every way.

>that art style

For whatever reason that brought up memories of that one scam that sold itself on diversity, anyone remember that old Kickstarter fantasy game that had the art style of avatar but all the devs talked about was diversity and the characters sexualities?

>>15502967

But art is actually good.

>>15502943

>that forum ban

What is subtlety?

>>15502959

From what I've seen of the development this is unfortunately pozzed too. It's a shame because these guys are former Nival devs and I loved Nival.

I usually don't play RPGs on release date and wait for the patches.

>>15503027

>So which version am I supposed to buy here?

None apparently

>>15502914

Need moar

>>15503026

And watch this comment be deleted by the end of the day.

You know what, I'm having a craving for mages. If a full mage party is viable, I'm gonna try it. Anyone know if that's possible?

>>15503067

>Anyone know if that's possible?

Yes, they showd it in trailer. YOU CAN BE ANYTHING DO ANYTHING PLS BUY OUR GAME

Wow after cheaply copying DnD paizo goes and cheaply copy games based on DnD

How thrilling

I have basically zero interest in the actual game, but as far as SJW shit goes, the adventure path it's based on was made before Paizo dove head first into social justice.

>>15503056

can't be, it's a review.

>>15503181

>make the game more MMOlike, for lack of a better term, in a desperate bid to court vidyafags and tvtropers/tumblrians who pretend to like them

>don't even bother to make any games that would actually get their attention

They either have to be the dumbest guys in the business or someone is paying them off to keep them from being potential competition.

>>15503208

I was more thinking about radio silence since business against Paizo picked back up with 5e, but

>4e

Is a worthless abomination as an RPG system, but a goofy online skirmish combat game using the 4e ruleset would actually be pretty cool.

>>15502943

play stupid games, win stupid prizes

>>15502966

>want to play something not covered in an RPG

>homebrew something in a week

>improve it or drop it

<want to play something without it's own vidya

<spend years praying that somebody will do it

<spend all your money on kickstarter (when indie) or on microtransactions and suffer from buyer's remorse for the rest of your life

see, I can bullshit too.

>>15502861

I'll repeat myself.

There's an official Pathfinder adventure where there's a character that kills EVERYONE because he sold a FUCKING ANCIENT HOLY RELIC to a bunch of DEMON WORSHIPERS to PAY FOR HIS GENDER REASIGNMENT SURGERY and you're supposed to be rooting for him.

>kingmaker

>cunts

>nog

wot

>>15503215

>4e is bad meme

Have you played 5e?

>>15503215

DDO is 4e based MMO. It's actually not bad.

>>15503227

5e is a mediocre RPG, 4e simply isn't an RPG at all, due to its ludicrous player-PC disassociation.

>>15503231

I was thinking of something using its actual TB ruleset. Realtime 4e would just feel like any generic MMO or Dragon Age.

>>15503220

>in a game that's had magic sex-change belt as a joke item since the 70s

Better yet, wasn't it written by the same ogress responsible for the tranny NPC in SoD?

>>15503240

>Realtime 4e would just feel like any generic MMO or Dragon Age.

No that would be Neverwinter. It's based on the Star Trek Online engine. So it's basically that but D&D skins. It even has all the same bugs/exploits etc.

>>15503272

>Crystal Frasier

Some tranny-porn name there

>>15503299

to try to trick young boys into being faggots

>>15503299

Games are getting popular, society in general creeps into games, therefore you get to see kike infestation of society. There's no escape.

>>15503272

>Shaman is the tranny

I mean, that's somewhat accurate though. South American shamanism is rife with trannies and supposedly has been for centuries.

It's almost like making the token black guy the thief.

>>15503318

RTwP is the best approach for larger fights, and also eliminates the need for separate combat/noncombat timekeeping systems required by most types of TB.

>>15503282

>But was that the Kingmaker module though?

Nah, Kingmaker is pretty open so there's no real poz in that unless the players themselves force it.

>>15503365

No, fuck you, RTwP is gay. Though the only turn-based 3.5 simulator that I've found so far is D&D Tactics on PSP, of all things and it's so slow that it's practically unplayable.

>>15503366

I mean, yeah, you have your one or two characters that are tranny bait but since the region you're in is mostly if not entirety built by the players as they play there is nothing really invasive. And if there's something your particular group doesn't like they can always call an inquisition or something.

>>15503365

Yeah I sure love it when the speed of a fight is entirely decided on how slow the developers felt like timing out the animations. At least some turn based games let you skip that.

>>15503366

Right, that's what figured.

Chris Avellone was the narrative lead, but as far as I know, he doesn't have any SJW-reputation.

>>15503396

Burn degenerate, burn!

>>15503395

You didn't like ToEE?

>>15503410

There's absolutely no reason you couldn't put a speed slider in an RTwP game. That's how most sim games from SimCity to Dwarf Fortress do it, not to mention Paradox's 4X stuff.

>>15503318

RTwP is really good for X-COM style games, but it doesn't have a place when you know all the variables.

>>15503420

>There's absolutely no reason you couldn't put a speed slider in an RTwP game.

Funny how you cuckolds never give that same benefit of the doubt when it comes to turn based games. Of course you'd be sucking it's dick regardless if that was the choice for developers because you just flew in here from tumblr.

>>15503422

This. And note it's not restricted to "leftists", given paper thin fetish shit like Gorn or Sword of Truth. Same is true for SF especially since the advent of "transhumanist fiction" around the 90s.

>>15503433

Cranking the speed up for RTwP sweeps unimportant events under the rug, but cranking the speed up for TB sweeps EVERYTHING under the rug. Fights in big town maps in Fallout 1/2 are basically unplayable no matter the speed setting.

>>15503420

The interface is far too clunky. If you could make D&D Tactics run faster and stop lagging to death every time there's more than 15 characters on the screen, it'd be GOTYAY because.of how great the interface is. Unfortunately, it remains a piece of shit.

>>15503263

Yes. Amber something or other. She was fired from Paizo for her garbage modules that nobody liked but it doesn't change the fact that they let her make them in the first place.

>>15503422

Except for that little window where the redheaded camelfaced bitch was plastered as the face of "women in tabletop gaming" but before trannies became as common as they are now we didn't have nearly as much of a problem with this. This is subversive infiltration, plain and simple.

>>15503448

Hmm… Dare you try Incursion, the D20 roguelike? It's unfinished, but I found the depth of the rules adaptation pretty impressive.

>>15503455

Fun fact: both Sawyer and Avellone are goons and used to post on SA frequently when the Pillars kickstarter was running. Threads would turn into circlejerks whenever they showed up.

>>15503460

not that i would be surprised but i still have to archive where?

>>15503460

The difference is Avellone can keep it in his pants, but Sawyer has no self-control whatsoever, which is why he went full-Mr.-Shitface when the other BIS alumni left him in control of Obsidian.

Every pronoun in character and ability descriptions are feminine.

>>15503474

Wait, Discord actually has global rules for private chat rooms that merely use their software!?

>>15503484

The content is hosted on their servers, I don't see any reason why this is wrong.

>>15503458

Thanks for a recommendation, anon, gonna go try it.

>>15503475

>>15503484

It does indeed: https://discordapp.com/guidelines

>>15503487

Right. CP is illegal pretty much everywhere in the West and Loli skirts that line in quite a bit of countries.

My legal knowledge is limited, but I believe that server owners are partially culpable if they allow illegal activity, such as the sharing of CP.

>>15503455

They basically amount to "don't be an asshole", is acting like a decent person really such a tall order?

>>15502966

t. retard

It's literally impossible to poz something like GURPS. When zero games don't have mandatory feminist indoctrination sections straight from tel aviv you'll still be able to break out GURPS High-tech and basic and play a game as the SA during street fights with the communists in Bavaria.

>>15503509

You can still be a discriminating harassing racist posting loli and be a decent person while you're doing it.

>>15503514

How does that work out for you in real life?

>>15503509

there's nothing wrong with being an asshole towards trash people

>>15503365

This

I don't understand retards who don't like RTwP

>>15503509

>>15503522

goonbgone

Question: Why the fuck would anyone ever use a module?

>>15503537

Preparing a TRPG game takes a lot of work. If you are not an autist, your best option would be to buy it and adjust it to like liking or use it as a base for ideas. Nobody runs a module exactly how they are written, at least the grognards did not. For pozzfinder crowds though, I cannot say exactly.

>>15503573

Besides, many modules have extra content like extra rules, monster stats, maps and maybe even extra rules for character creation, also to help you with some lore and stuff.

>>15503487

>The content is hosted on their servers

WHY!? Datamining for adbux, of course. It's amazing to think that, as little as a few years ago, even Skype was just a P2P metaserver, meaning they had zero responsibility or obligation regarding anything said via their service.

>>15503514 >>15503523 >>15503532

>getting baited by pasta this stale

>>15503580

Yeah, they're best thought of as source material, rather than something you plug in and play, sort of like reusing other modders' assetpacks in your own mods. Some entire systems (looking at you GURPS) are infamous for their splatbooks being better suited to stripmining to run campaigns in other systems, than they are for actually being played in their own system.

>>15503662

>WHY!? Datamining for adbux, of course. It's amazing to think that, as little as a few years ago, even Skype was just a P2P metaserver, meaning they had zero responsibility or obligation regarding anything said via their service.

Discord has a lot more scale than Skype. Skype was supposed to be used with like 10 people max in a group chat, Discord can have over a 1000.

Skype used to be a P2P service because it was a small start up Estonian company, they couldn't afford servers from the get go. Also explains why the old client was so good – it wasn't made by pajeets in microshit.

>>15503435

>Rule 1: Have no fun

>Rule 2: Have fun!! XD :^)

>>15503688

I'm sure there has to be some way to leverage distributed P2P tech for a massive group chat without too much lag, given that I've seen multiple live video streaming systems based on BitTorrent over the years.

>>15503847

How many unnecessary commas can one person inject into a sentence?

>>15503847

You can just picture the smug scrawny rainbowhead writing that while rabidly chugging Soylent like the contents came out of a niggers dick.

>>15503969

>>15504050

Devs are russian.

>>15503026

I saw the game on a torrenting site and was considering pirating it, but after I saw this, no thank you, I will not willingly consume propaganda

>>15502889

how about you make a good thread instead you cuckchan faggot

>>15504205

>t. written by a "girl"

>>15503231

>DDO is 4e based MMO.

DDO is 3.5e, not 4e. It's a 3rd edition game by-and-far. It came out years before 4e. I don't know where you get 4e from.

>>15503847

>Amiri – the iconic barbarian woman who was exiled from her tribe for being a warrior rather than a housewife

She wasn't exiled. They tried to get her to solo a frost giant and die but she looted a dead giant instead and brought his sword back as proof. She then killed all of her tribesmen who were because she sperged out when they made fun of her, and then never returned. But I guess you can't spout SJW talking points as cleanly without tweaking the source material to make someone more of a victim.

>>15503282

>But was that the Kingmaker module though?

No. Kingmaker was one of Paizo's earlier adventures. Honestly, the earliest Pathfinder stuff wasn't really pozzed. They clearly had a bad wave of new hires or something. I mean, that SJW Guild Wars 2 employee that was all the buzz a few months ago worked at Paizo before that.

Hell, some of the core iconics were kind of cool until they started writing more stuff about them a few years ago that brought them up to SJW code. The fighter just wants to fuck bitches and make money, the wizard is a neet who lost his support when he was elderly and decided to stake out as a wizard, and the rogue is a loli by elven standards. Hell, even the black woman paladin is funny, because she became a paladin to attone for the fact that she niggered a paladin's helmet the night before a battle and he got his brains bashed out. You can see the pozz building up when the fighter becomes the dumb white male who deserves what he gets and the arabian cleric who has the opposite values of the rogue starts a lesbian relationship with her.

>>15503067

It's Pathfinder, so wizards, clerics, druids and sorcerers are going to be your most powerful party members. Prestige classes will let you hybridize your casters if you want, so you can turn a rogue into an arcane trickster, or a fighter/paladin/barbarian into an eldritch knight, or you can play the mystic theruge that gives you all the spells from both divine and arcane spellbooks so you can cast every spell in the game but slightly weaker.

I don't know what source books they've put into the base game, but casters are generally more useful in Pathfinder, depending entirely on what source materials are available.

>>15504222

TRIPS NIGGER

>>15503510

It's literally impossible to "poz"why the fuck do you niggers use this word? MS-DOS games.

>>15502861

>it's shit

>>15504257

Other poster was probably mixing DDO up with Neverwinter (not to be confused with either generation of NWN).

>>15504270

>newfagging this hard

>>15504257

>Amiri – the iconic barbarian woman who was exiled from her tribe for being a warrior rather than a housewife

>She wasn't exiled. They tried to get her to solo a frost giant and die but she looted a dead giant instead and brought his sword back as proof. She then killed all of her tribesmen who were because she sperged out when they made fun of her, and then never returned. But I guess you can't spout SJW talking points as cleanly without tweaking the source material to make someone more of a victim.

Who are you even quoting here? Is this a bot?

>>15504304

He's quoting the pic I posted you complete fuckwit.

>>15504313

When is EU going to get permabanned from the rest of the world, when does that take effect?

>>15504222

No, you cuckchan faggot

>>15504494

The game fails because it doesn't let you use the pimp hand to put the bitch in her place. If it was made in Japan you'd get to fuck dick her and turn her into a pregnant housewife.

>>15504102

There's faggots in Russia too anon, it's a big old place.

>>15504159

He says he 'highly suspects it' doesn't know for sure, Might as well pirate it to see for yourself, I think most people here are immune to poz by now, if it gets crammed in my face I'll delete it but I'd rather see first hand and perhaps highlight it for others so they have accurate info.

>>15504505

>If it was made in Japan you'd get to fuck dick her and turn her into a pregnant housewife.

there are only a FEW games that let you do that.

>>15504494

I don't remember the game looking so brown in the previews.

>>15504494

Can she be ignored/bypassed?

>>15504552

Did you ever think nobody is complaining about Forgotten Realms because this thread isn't about Forgotten Realms?

>>15504205

>>15504494

in fairness, this IS in keeping with her character's backstory. She always tried to one-up the men of her tribe

Can I have a CaC and make them an Eldritch Knight?

>>15504559

>Did you ever think nobody is complaining about Forgotten Realms because this thread isn't about Forgotten Realms?

No, I thought no one complains about the poz in Forgotten Realms because no one ever fucking complains about the poz in Forgotten Realms. As in ever.

People complain about plenty of other things in Forgotten Realms but jewish tricks are never among them.

>>15504552

This. Greenwood was open about his degeneracy in the same gleefully depraved oldschool in-game way as the weeb games we love, SJWs on the other hand care more about spewing propaganda, even if it conflicts with prior parts of their own worldbuilding, than making any kind of coherent game.

>>15504580

>because no one ever fucking complains about the poz in Forgotten Realms. As in ever.

Then you haven't been around here very long.

>>15504589

here we go with the newfag accusations, which I naturally reply to with how I've been on imageboards for decades starting with halfchan right around 2006 or so to which you reply with a smug anime loli over my obvious butthurt

Been on /v/, /tg/, /co/ since forever. Seen plenty of complaints about Forgotten Realms–too many magic items fucking everywhere, became the de facto setting because it's superficially more interesting than Greyhawk and Krynn, etc.

Never once seen someone complain about its perversions. Meanwhile if you go to any NWN thread, the most recommended modules almost always include A Dance With Rogues

>>15504626

>starting with halfchan right around 2006

You aren't fooling anyone. Go back.

>>15504621

I cite the 1d4chan article on the matter, which in turn cites in sources

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Forgotten_Realms#Forgotten_Realms_And_Sex

>>15504653

yep, you caught me in a hyperbole. Woe is me

I wish they would go full pozz. Everything is good when pushed to the extreme.

>>15504677

A faggot character on the level of the guy from DQ11 would be pretty funny at the very least. Can't imagine no fun allowed CY+3 WRPG writers pulling that though.

>>15502861

>pozzed

It's no more or less pozzed than D&D. Some of the tabletop designers are cuntier than their WotC counterparts though.

>>15502959

>patient zero

Going to need a citation on that one. Not saying PF is an unlikely candidate but the original stated reason it exists at all is that autists that played D&D wanted a slightly different version of D&D.

Having said all that, as a CRPG this game certainly seems more promising than the latest Obsidian shit.

>>15504687

As an oldfag crpg fan, I have come to realize outside of the old major titles, crpgs are shit. Play tabletop games instead.

>>15504720

If you can't make your own party to bypass the writer's pet peanut gallery then it's shit, regardless of the country or platform of origin.

>>15503196

/TRANNYPOL/ REAR

>>>/leftypol/

>>>/tv/

>>15504687

If I were to point to a patient-zero for poz, it would be White Wolf in the 90s, especially V:TM, ESPECIALLY their Mind's Eye Theater LARP. Paizo was poz-free (arguably a bit moreso than late-3e WotC) until the late 2000s, loooong after far worse things, like FATE-style rules-lite, and the Forge's narrativist bullshit games.

>>15504779

It could be argued the abusability of the Mr Studd and Midnight Lady implants in Cyberpunk 2013 (1988) would be the origin of codified poz, but White Wolf definitely pushed the themes

>>15504720

I do. I play P&P games every Sunday. Our wiki is gigantic. We've played for 8 years. But there are good ones, so it stands to reason there can be more good ones.

>>15504851

in that case, White Wolf was definitely the origin

>>15504779

That also sounds like a very likely candidate to me. One of my tablemates is an experienced White Wolf fan and said the worst part about playing Vampire was "the amount of fags I had to play with." He said he lost count of the number of times he saw someone's character background and it's essentially Batman.

>master of martial arts

>very intelligent

>parents died

>get thrown in prison

>but it's okay because they're also rich

>>15504873

>Richfag roleplay

Is such bullshit, it's just an excuse to pull anything you like from your endless bag of super tricks so you can deus ex machina your way through every scenario presented. Very little narrative fun to be had with that sort, they almost need a DM writing for/against them to get anywhere and then it's an awful lot like stroking their ego.

>>15504873

It gets worse in LARP's, or more to the point, in larger networks of LARP's.

>everyone worth knowing is strong, fast, and supernaturally durable.

>if you haven't been playing the game for years with the same character, said characters will splatter you without breaking a sweat.

>by its very nature, people form cliques with others they know/hang out with in game.

>these cliques can span whole regions as politics is a given because… Vampire.

>these politics bleed into real life.

>Congratulations, you're now playing High School, The Second Coming, but with super powers and politics with a global reach.

>>15504950

>entire table

Release the woodworm and run.

>>15505091

>those ridiculous oversized weapons and overstuffed costumes

I can see the oft-mocked Liefeld/Nomura-esque obsession with pouches and belts, but I didn't realize Paizo art had shifted into Blizzard's realm. At least they haven't gone full pauldrons & eyebrows yet, right?

>>15505195

>if we point out dog whistling then surely people will use it less often

Not to mention he was most likely just doing that "excessive quotation marks for the sake of ridicule" thing but with brackets considering that's what the other guy used. There's no reason to believe he was actually doing the echos unless they are paranoid about it.

>>15502906

>>15502954

This game isn't just "has feminists and negroes".

This game is full on liberal fantasy experience. It has feminism, nergoes and fags as a very core of its creation. The villains are the conservatives/nazis/drumpfs.

Just like the rest of Pathfinder.

>>15505262

>Wouldn't you agree?

That phrase is forever tainted because of this image. Every time I hear it I instinctively think that the person who said it is an asshat, regardless of what is happening.

Anyone else believe this is all the fault of the cucks they keep hiring to create content don't study the classics? It appears their only perception of reality is liberal inner city life and it doesn't occur to them for a second that all their beliefs are the consequence of a modern wealthy existence. Hell, even just studying anthropology and realizing how inconsequential faggots and trannies are to the human experience ought to be enough. To say nothing of injecting tranny shit into a setting when there's motherfucking magic. Just cast a polymorph spell, for fucksake.

>>15505262

GG was anti-idpol, fuck off back to /r/T_D.

>>15502861

The PnP game it's based on was made for the retards who actually liked DnD 3.5e and were butthurt about 4e being actually good. They wanted retarded badly designed convoluted casted edition garbage (3.5e) and Pathfinder was made to deliver exactly that.

>>15502966

You can have just about any PnP game you want with minimal effort, either using a generic system or making your own, plus some worldbuilding (or use an existing setting), and then all you need is a good GM. Vidya? Costs millions of dollars and will get shit on to cater to NPCs, or maybe just not get made at all.

can i be a female with a penis and fuck male orcs in the ass in this game

>>15505328

Hang on now, I won't have you going around stating that 4e was any better than 3.5e. If you want the tactical combat experience, play AD&D like a real man and calculate the transforming volume of a fireball in a hallway.

>>15505338

Only if the orcs enthusiastically consent or are males, but not both.

>>15505343

Wait, do you actually think AD&D is complex at all?

>>15505343

Obviously AD&D and (IMO) 2e were much better than 4e but 4e was leagues better than the steaming pile of dogshit that was 3.5e.

>>15505328

>The PnP game it's based on was made for the retards who actually liked DnD 3.5e and were butthurt about 4e being actually good. They wanted retarded badly designed convoluted casted edition garbage (3.5e) and Pathfinder was made to deliver exactly that.

4e is a skirmish wargame more than an RPG and Pathfinder makes melee far more viable (though it is still subject to high level caster supremacy)

>>15505358

And 3.5e is more an idiotic exercise in designing a deliberately imbalanced and overly convoluted system designed to offer players tons of "trap" bad choices so that just sorting through all the trash to figure out viable builds is a major part of the "game", than it is an actual RPG.

>>15505372

>complaining about "trap" bad choices

>while apologizing for the game whose players coined the term "feat tax"

>>15505356

Uh, do you not? Have you actually read the spell rules?

http://archive.is/UhH4a

If you scroll down on that page you will find the spell descriptions for lightning bolt in AD&D 1 and 2. These are wargame rules.

>>15503315

>Another twitter tranny who whines about Drumpf and nahtzees while begging for donations.

What did I honestly expect?

>>15505356

Let me consult the bait tables before I answer…

hmm..

yes…

forgot about that one..

Yup, the Bait DC is 2.

Women - Fine they're gonna be in the mix in games like this, pretty standard but a reasonable penalty to warrior class should be expected, naturally as compensation they could have a plus to rouge skills for having slits and tits.

Niggers - Fringe characters ogre like from 'far off lands' only plz

Trannies - GTFO

Every other person the game could be a faggot as long as they don't fill a screen and a half telling us why they suck dick and call themselves Shirley now. They could, like anyone sane, keep that shit to themselves,

>>15505309

I would imagine the vast majority of their fanbase only heard about old games from tvtropes or somethingawful let's plays. It would explain a lot.

>>15505391

Where have I apologized for 4e? Saying it's better than 3.5e/PF isn't praise, it's just saying it's nowhere near the level of shit that they are.

>>15505453

3/3.5 was broken, but it was so large and full of fun bullshit in its myriad splatbooks, and it was still basically D&D. 4e was a random meme skirmish game, with a garbage rules-lite "RPG" stapled on, and "D&D" painted onto it, along with a horrendous retcon lore rape of the Faerun setting. Also, while I feel the choice to do it in the first place for D20 was a bad idea from a business standpoint, the OGC was a source of much great material and goodwill, and clumsily obliterating it with the switch to 4e was an even worse blunder on both a fandom and business level.

4e was the Windows Vista of D&D. Fuck 4e forever.

>>15503474

just posted loli on discord

try to stop me

>>15505453

>3.5/PF are shit meme

hello fa/tg/uy

4th ed was indisputably the worst edition. 5th is also pretty bad.

>muh balance

No one cares. That's not what these games are about and it never has been. In fact, trying to balance shit is what makes a TTRPG into boring hot garbage.

The point is to have fun with your gaming group and that's it. The excessive pandering to outsiders and noobs is what made 4th edition and 5th edition less palatable and enjoyable for grognards and neckbeards who actually spent time and money on RPGs.

now fuck off back to /tg/

>>15505392

So it does [level]d6 damage, has a few shapes, has range of 4+[level], if the room is too small to fit a shape it reflects back to the caster.

Do area spells automatically hit in AD&D? I can't recall.

Here's a similar spell in GURPS (well, DFRPG which is supposed to be slightly simplified GURPS for a D&D type game)

Explosive Lightning

Missile

Creates a lightning bolt that explodes on impact. This has

Acc 3, 1/2D 50, Max 100. Roll against Innate Attack (Projectile)

to hit. Can be thrown at a wall, floor, etc. (+4 to hit) to catch

foes in the blast – see Attacking an Area (Exploits, p. 45). Damage

treats metal armor as DR 1, and injury stuns as explained

for Lightning (below).

Also an Air spell.

Cost: Any amount up to twice your level o f spellcasting

talent per second, for three seconds. For every two energy

points in the spell, the bolt does 1d-1 burning explosive damage.

See Explosions (Exploits, p. 46) for rules for rules for

explosive damage.

Time to cast: 1 to 3 seconds.

Prerequisites: Wizardly: Lightning.

So you have a variable cost and cast time, a set bonus if you aim (which you can improve further by aiming longer), a distance at which damage is halved and a maximum distance, a specific skill (based upon an attribute) to hit, the option to throw it where something is instead of at the thing for an easier shot, behavior vs armor, and a stunning effect.

GURPS is FAR from the most complex system, and I would only call it kind of complex. AD&D isn't shit, it just tends to have tables instead of calculations making it impossible to memorize.

>>15505420

Was that actively designed to make you seem like a gigantic faggot?

>>15505519

Balance and fun aren't mutually exclusive.

>>15505524

>Plays GURPS

>Calls other people faggots

Oh. I thought it was bait, but you're actually just retarded.

>>15505526

You're right, they aren't, but D&D isn't supposed to be a competitive game. It's a lot harder to make a game that is internally balanced and also fun without stripping out anything interesting about it.

>>15505524

>Do area spells automatically hit in AD&D? I can't recall.

Save for half damage.

>throwing a thingy that explodes is just as complicated

Did you just deliberately ignore the part where you can change the shape of the bolt to a number of forms which depend on your level? And that you have to figure out how the bolt rebounds?

>oh well you just have to consult the rulebook constantly

Well no shit, the net effect is the same. You're spending time referencing shit to crunch the rules instead of progressing the game. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm a programmer so I enjoy arithmetic. But to say that AD&D isn't towards the "complex" end of the spectrum is just silly. That article I linked even explicitly goes over how the fireball and lightning bolt rules were basically lifted wholesale from Chainmail rules. Wargame rules are definitely not the median when it comes to rules complexity when you're talking about RPGs.

>>15504659

Dont worry, I forgive you.

>>15504550

Yes you can kick her from your party right then and there. She's actually stuck up for you multiple times before this so the dialog is pure cringe writer insert.

>>15503263

Didn't vanilla Baldur's Gate 2 have a F2M or M2F or something? I was too young to understand that I was supposed to kill it with fire.

>>15506072

It's a gag item dating back to the original 1970s D&D:

https://en.wikialpha.org/wiki/Girdle_of_femininity/masculinity

>>15502980

Hell yeah.

>>15503220

See >>15503157

>>15506116

>remember that Xan wanted to wear the girdle because he was a fag

>look around the internet

>that wasn't part of the game

I guess I just hated Xan

>>15506611

You're probably thinking of Edwin. In his personal quest he got cursed in BG2 and became a woman. You have to help him reverse it.

>>15505519

>4th ed was indisputably the worst edition

Only among people who suffer from serious braindamage.

>>15503395

>>15503405

Your tastes are not only super-gay, but completely unsubstantiated.

Turn-based and RTwP both have their pros and cons. Only a UTTER COMPLETE, SELF-ABSORBED RETARD would claim total superiority of one.

>>15505328

>the edition practically designed to be converted into a tactical rpg video game… that never fucking got a tactical rpg video game.

Yeah, fuck off, 4e was trashed in less than four years and replaced with a "we're sorry, we put everything back in, so please come back" edition for a reason. The solution to caster edition was never "turn everyone into a fighter that has only two attack options and needs a wish list of magic items to function".

>>15506622

Oh and

>Game assigns me a party of three women, two of which are generic strong independent etc, the other seems to be an elf priestess which doesn't seem nearly as forced

>>15505191

The middel one is OK. The last one could use a smaller scythe, but otherwise OK

>>15504304

>>she killed all of her tribesmen

By poisoning the well?

>>15506646

I'm pretty sure the Konosuba author is female.

>KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World! (Japanese: この素晴らしい世界に祝福を！ Hepburn: Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!, literally "A blessing to this wonderful world!") is a Japanese light novel series written by Natsume Akatsuki.

>>15506858

yes she self inserts as megumin

>>15506861

>she self-inserts as some autist who loves a trashy and scummy asshole

Somehow I doubt that. It's more like she recognizes Megumin as the most popular of the three and she wants to give the audience what they want.

>>15506869

>as the most popular

she self inserts faggot

megumin hasn't done anything to make her stand out more than the others.

she ruined it by self inserting and caving into loud minority of retards.

>>15506907

>>15506861

>she self inserts

do you have a picture of her for comparison or are you just talking out of your ass?

>>15506907

>megumin hasn't done anything to make her stand out more than the others.

That's wrong though, Megumin isn't retarded like Aqua and she isn't a freak like Darkness. She's good because her only fault is her autism.

>>15506922

>you need to look like your self insert to self insert

FUCK OFF RETARD

>>15506919

ok whatever you say fucking idiot, megumin is the most boring one in the group, her autism is not a +

All she does all the time is blow shit up and act cringy wow so much depth!

The only reason she works is because of the supporting cast

>>15506946

>It's one of the requirements needed for self-insertion yes

No you don't you fucking moron! go fucking kill yourself and learn what self insert even means before you rope youserlf!

>>15506937

because the author is a retard who wrote a shitty lite novel and it was saved by the anime.

>>15503272

>wanted to be little girl as long as I can remember

>videogames let me be little girl

>heaven

>"tranny" filth decides I'm not allowed a fantasy life and must be as ugly and twisted as they are

When the fuck did being a transsexual mean you become a transsexual and not the closest approximation you can get to the desired sex? The whole fucking point of transitioning in the first?

If we had the medical technology to completely switch someone's gender they'd find some reason to ignore it and still turn themselves into these attention seeking freaks. God it pisses me off.

>>15506979

I would be completely turned off from the oposite sex altogether if all of a sudden men could make themselves into women.

would rather nuke this planet and find some alien to have sex with or be with a robot waifu.

>>15506938

When's the next season of this, man? Why are japs so mean?

>>15507004

the production company isn't doing it anymore and another company is taking over, all the funny shit was created by the production company and voice actors who improvised most of the dialogue and had nothing to do with the lite novel or manga.

>>15507007

Out of curiosity, what scenes did you find funny from the anime?

>>15504205

<I won't cook hides and watch meat!

Sweetie, the bard and cleric can just cast Hero's Feast, and the mage can cast Mage's Magnificent Mansion. I don't think anyone will need your incompetent ass burning their food.

<Abloo bloo I'm barbarian hear me roar

Oh, cute, a martial class character, and a bad one to boot, is being uppity. How about I Dominate Person you so I can easily rape you, Polymorph Any Object my familiar so It can tentacle rape you, or 'Geas/Quest'' you to "search for the being with the biggest dick in all the Material Plane and anally service it"?

>>15505191

The barbarian has actually been around forever. She is one of the "main characters" used to promote the franchise and you can find her in promo art going all the way back to the initial core rulebook. Having said that, PF has a niche for the person who likes oversized weapons – it's in the game rules. Her weapon is actually a "Large" Bastard Sword, meaning it's a weapon for a Large creature like a troll.

Alright I've played this game for a bit. Here's my impression.

<good

>mechanics are fleshed out and accurate to the system

>prologue takes very little time, even less than NWN1

>has a wealth of build options, not every class is there but the amount that is there is satisfactory

>also a wealth of assets and inventory items that are all accurate to the rules

>UI is serviceable and not unresponsive

>the party AI seems decent so far and you can turn it off

>voice acting isn't terrible

>alignment matters for party members and dialogue tests it regularly

<bad

>some of the alignment tests are weird. my guy is apparently more evil now because he made a cynical statement about how rulers tend to treat their subjects

>animations look like shit

>obvious missing icons in the rules

<ugly

>there is NO FUCKING SOUND ASIDE FROM VOICE ACTING AND AMBIENCE

Overall I'm enjoying it, it seems like the rare Kickstarter project where the money was funneled more or less responsibly. I just really want some goddamn sound effects.

>>15506622

That tripped me up as well.

>>15504550

Oh yeah, that's another pro I should have mentioned: you have full control over your party, but I haven't seen anything that lets you create your own companions. But if you find someone annoying it's easy to kick them.

I'll give the game a try if I can play as a fairy or have one as a familiar/companion.

>>15503412

Chris Avellone wasn't a narrative lead on this game. AFAIK he wrote only one companion character, maybe 1% of all the writing in the game.

>>15505091

All you had to do was add some bigger tits on the first barbarian gal and it would be top tier waif material outside the likely shit writing

At least the asian one is cute

>>15507007

Damn shame

>>15503969

>commas killed my family and raped my hamster

The most petty and inane critique I have seen this month. Commas exist and are used to better structure sentences when you need to post anything longer than a post on a chinese cartoon imageboard. I don't like the content either but there is nothing wrong with the form.

>>15503220

this post gave me HIV

>>15507450

I got tricked by a feminine name, I'll admit it.

>>15503220

Wrath of the Righteous right? That one's particularly bad even by Paizo standards. I mean it's not possible to even fight the big bad; you avoid that fight all together or you lose. This is while you're level 20 (effectively level 30 with the 'mythic' mechanic) and 'the chosen ones' of the Athena ripoff.

>>15506627

Didn't the divinity team become cucked or something?

>>15502861

If it is based on pozzed shit, it is shit.

>>15506933

>I am incredibly butthurt about my shit taste

Megumin's autism isn't a plus, it's the least negative.

Darkness dreams of being raped by monsters

Aqua is Aqua

Who do you think the protagonist should go for then if you're so intelligent.

>>15506666

>>15506622

I must say this is by FAR the best nu-RPG. It seems miles better than Pillars of Equality, Wasteland 2, Tranny, or Tormutt

Someone should dig a little on the developers. They're ostensibly Russians, but I bet you anything they're nearly all Jews. I can't imagine any other reason why this vile shitpile of a game got made.

And to think a few years back I had high hopes about the cRPG revival, when in truth most of them have been complete and utter dogshit.

>>15508680

>lumping WL2 in with those

>not mentioning Age of Decadence or Underrail

Pleb

>>15508771

WL2 was garbage. Fallout Tactics is the better game anyway.

>>15503522

>>15503509

>Implying you can't just ignore someone that's shittalking you (or shittalk them bad) because being a decent person means jackshit because you're an adult and more important shit needs to be done than worrying about feelings

Go back to

>>>/somethingawful/

>>>reddit/

you useless lummox

>>15508771

AoD is a choose your own adventure novel.

I can't get into Underrail because I get nothing out of it narratively and the gameplay seems worse than Fallout

>>15508798

This. Online, people have all the tools they need to block people who are bothering them. So, moderation and rules - which can and WILL be abused dependant on the whims of the mods - wouldn't even be needed, yet there they are. Whereas in real life, blocking people can be downright impossible and the moderators are 45 minutes away. It's all fucking backwards.

>>15502906

One of its iconics is a tranny dwarf who is struggling mightily with how they aren't the right sex in a setting with belts of gender change in it. Paizo isn't just pozzed, they're stupid.

>>15508907

>Paizo isn't just pozzed, they're stupid.

You have to be an oxygen starved retard to be a leftist.

>>15508892

>>>/cuckchan/

>>15508941

She still looks like complete and utter shit. Subhuman Western developers can't even do barbarian musclegirl right.

>>15508968

It looks sloppy and amateurish. I'm trying to find good portrait but they all seem to suck and aren't in HD.

>>15508907

Two of my favorite examples of this were Eclipse Phase:

>the game takes place post-scarcity post-singularity, nearly all characters are just pieces of software riding around in manufactured bodies that can be essentially any shape or size

<so idpol isn't an issue anym…

>NOPE, we have all these important stories about sexism and racism and…

<Oh, okay, I see there's a faction of strawman "bioconservatives", I guess you could use them fo…

>NOPE, our focus is on the brain uploads.

And Numenera:

>The future is brown, due to racial mixing, there are no white people

<Your setting takes place a billion years in the future, that's hundreds of times longer than the entire evolutionary history of humans from monkeys. Also, why are there black people?

>Er, um, er… "Humans" in our setting might not be evolutionarily descended from modern humans at all, but may instead be the result of some unknown future event, created entirely from scratch.

<Oh, so that means there's white people?

>NO! Racemixed away!!!

The icing on the cake is, both systems and their settings were written brand new by these people. They just can't help fucking up.

>>15508983

>>15509009

These all look good except the fantasy/hollywood trope of warriors using shields with plate harness triggers my autism.

>>15509009

>5th

I don't know for a fact that's a mage, but I really hate how a mage armored like that would suck horribly in D&D and its clones (like pathfinder) due to flat spell failure chances. I love how natural the penalties for armor in GURPS are; you don't invest much in strength as it gives you no bonuses in combat as a mage. Weight in general causes you to tire faster, and your fatigue is what you use for spells so if you tire yourself too much with spells you could physically damage yourself with your weight-based exhaustion.

>>15509065

I'm more triggered by the fact the shields are apparently made of metal.

>>15509069

One thing I never could figure out in settings such as D&D is why everyone wasn't running around in enchanted bathrobes.

>>15509123

Magic items are supposed to be rare and expensive. Supposed to be is the key word here.

>>15508910

It's one thing to not allow the depth of a tabletop game in vidya but it seems like time and time again they go out of their way to axe anything even remotely interesting from any rulebook or setting for the sake of the blandest shit possible. You can probably still count the number of RPGS, modern or otherwise, that let you play as a monster on a single hand for example.

>>15509123

>One thing I never could figure out in settings such as D&D is why everyone wasn't running around in enchanted bathrobes.

>>15509173

>Magic items are supposed to be rare and expensive. Supposed to be is the key word here.

Honestly for adventurers, nobility, and PCs? No real excuse. Way out of the paycheck for peasants though. IIRC Eberron is the setting closest to that being possible.

>>15503067

I'd be really surprised if it weren't possible. They included a bunch of the PF specific hybrid classes as well such as Magus and Inquisitor.

I really wish it had Flight, the spell. More CRPGs need Flight since it's a landmark spell in the P&P game. One of my favorite magus concepts was a bastard sword user that cast flight and haste on himself, got a feat that gave him bonuses to charge and was basically a divebomber.

>>15509179

I don't much care to play as ugly races, but what I would like to see is a better take on choices that doesn't always boil down to shitty binary choices of good and evil. I'd rather be given two (or more) choices that are both appealing to me instead of having to play some pathological altruist and some Coldsteel tier retard that thinks bullying puppies is the height of villainy.

>>15509196

>Way out of the paycheck for peasants though

Yeah, I'm fine with that, but they really should figure out a good reason why all those knights, nobles and adventurers aren't running around in them.>>15509196

>Way out of the paycheck for peasants though

>>15509218

>Yeah, I'm fine with that, but they really should figure out a good reason why all those knights, nobles and adventurers aren't running around in them.

Most adventurers are losers. This is something not addressed adequately in most games, with the noted exception of AD&D and its retroclones. And indeed most knights and nobles do have magic items, hard not to when you can just commission one from a wizard. What setting are you even talking about? Faerun/FR has magic items pouring out of your ass.

>>15509218

Why specifically enchanted bathrobes? An enhancement bonus to armour helps plate armour just as much as said bathrobes.

>>15509225

>Christianity and Judaism couldn't adapt to new ideas

<But fucking Islam did

This is the most insane nonsense I have ever read. Has a single leftist ever come into contact with a Mudslime and lived? Why do they fetishize this backwards desert religion that hates everything they stand for?

>>15509273

Because daddy yelled at them to get ready for church when they were 12 and they've been asshurt ever since.

>>15509291

But Islam is daddy raping you before forcing you to get into your garbage bag before killing your gay little friends. How the fuck can they not like Christianity but also like Islam?

>>15509310

Because Islam is practiced by non-whites.

>>15509317

But so is Christianity that's why the church is constantly trying to bring more and more niggers and mexicans to white countries.

>>15509179

Such as vtmb where you can play as a vampire so monstrous, humans just seeing you violates the masquerade?

Also, the homogenization in my opinion is due to them wanting to "balance" the game and oft-times having a bunch of interesting spells allows you to abuse the game mechanics in unintended and interesting ways. Frankly, i'd rather just let them have fun and find ways to break things down and make themselves incredibly powerful, rather than remove all innovation from the game myself.

>>15509321

Tartuccio is also fucking annoying, this is a gr8 start.

>>15509321

She died defending the trading post for me

Any early additional companions? Currently it's just me (a rogue) and the death inquisitor. The lawful neutral or whatever fighter got captured by slavers which I assume I need more people to capture with.

Also, holy fuck there's only one male potential starting companion out of what, six?

Dwarf is a man

Barbarian cunt, death inquisitor, gnome or whatever bard, mercedes from DD but less shit at fighting

Holy fuck

>>15508907

Shardra Geltl's writer was fired for being a lefty bitch on the forums, so at least there's justice

And the real problem with that character isn't that it's a tranny dwarf struggling with a sexual identity crisis in a setting where it costs 2500 gp to get a genetic fix.

The real problem is that the backstory involves doing some very undwarvish things. Bitch cannae call 'erself a proud dwarven lass, not when she goes against 'er family like that

>>15509196

Because, back in the days, magical items could kill you if you were the wrong alignment for it.

Take the Robe of the Arcimagi, basically the best bathrobe in existence.

You're the wrong alignment?

Take a shitload of damage.

Magical items are supposed to be rare, incredibly expensive (a noble would have to spend their ENTIRE fortune just to get a chance to create it, let alone have it) and if you're not the creator possibly dangerous and/or cursed.

As opposed to Pathfinder's "lol I craft boot of licking dicks I get +5 to diplomacy".

>>15509123

At least under 3.5e/PF:

>Creating magic armor has a special prerequisite: The creator’s caster level must be at least three times the enhancement bonus of the armor. If an item has both an enhancement bonus and a special ability, the higher of the two caster level requirements must be met.

Contrariwise:

>In addition, not every town or village has a spellcaster of sufficient level to cast any spell. In general, you must travel to a small town (or larger settlement) to be reasonably assured of finding a spellcaster capable of casting 1st-level spells, a large town for 2nd-level spells, a small city for 3rd- or 4th-level spells, a large city for 5th- or 6th-level spells, and a metropolis for 7th- or 8th-level spells. Even a metropolis isn’t guaranteed to have a local spellcaster able to cast 9th-level spells.

So spellcasters capable of making armor with a magical AC bonus higher than +2 may be rare or nonexistant in the entirety of a campaign setting. Whereas mundane full plate goes up to +8, and tower shields +4 or full cover.

>>15509179

Most tabletop RPGs allow you to play as monsters. For instance, D&D lets you play as practically anything intelligent enough to be conscious of its own choices, though with a level-adjustment penalty depending on how powerful the creature is.

>>15509254

Armor penalty to dex, duh.

>>15509403

>penalty to dex

Armour doesn't penalize dex, it puts a cap on effective dex.

If you build a str/con fighter with no dex, there's literally no penalty for him to slap on enchanted armour.

>>15509434

You do suffer the penalty to skill checks for swimming and the like though

>>15509328

Being dense for the sake of it doesn't make for good conversation anon.

>>15509350

I meant more in terms of really anything nonanthropomorphic but yeah even vampires and werewolves are somewhat rare.

>>15509310

>>15509361

>annoying

Nigger those VAs are hilarious, I laughed my ass off when Amiri yelled "BLOOD FOR GORUM!" It's like I'm playing NWN1 again. This game has weak points but it's definitely not the VAs.

>>15509273

It's especially dumb because it just gives up on what could be interesting worldbuilding about how these religions changed. They could have had Mormons becoming the most visible branch of Christianity because they believe technology will make them into gods (I didn't even have to make this up, it's a minority belief among Mormons but it's real: https://transfigurism.org/ ). Judaism could have come up with all sorts of restrictions on how they can use new technology that look weird to outsiders but don't actually hamper their ability to participate in society, just like they do now.

>>15509516

You'll never be the Kwisatz Haderach with that attitude.

>>15509568

>They could have had Mormons becoming the most visible branch of Christianity because they believe technology will make them into gods (I didn't even have to make this up, it's a minority belief among Mormons but it's real: https://transfigurism.org/ ).

Battlestar Galactica kinda beat you to that by 40 years.

>>15509568

Even regarding Hinduism, there's the DBZ-tier lazor fights between UFOs and transdimensional giants.

Fucking archers can shoot arrows through walls for fucks sake this is heading to the bin at this rate.

>>15509516

>Dune is bad

Oh your a nigger, opinion discarded.

>>15509644

balance is all over the fucking place

rng everywhere

enemies rarely miss

you can be fighting a kobold and take 2 steps and get steamrolled by some wolf things a second later

the fucking game is a mess atm

This game is too fucking difficult. Some of the early encounters are way overtuned even on Normal mode, especially if you are playing as a caster.

>>15509691

It's pathfinder. What did you expect?

>>15509749

I have, but our party members that we're given at the start are very suboptimal, especially the fighter.

>>15509695

I've had zero problems playing with "core" rules as they were in NWN, meaning as in tabletop. Then again I have played D&D and PF for a cumulative total of way too fucking much. Playing as a caster is hard mode at level 1, that's just how the game is supposed to work.

>>15509784

Is there an (official) option to go full Icewind Dale and fab an entire party from scratch?

>>15509791

Doesn't look like it, seems like you're stuck with the cunts it throws you.

>>15509791

>>15509804

I'd be a little surprised if there wasn't an NPC you could talk to to generate companions–seems like a really easy opportunity. It might have to wait until you get your kingdom or something.

>>15509809

More games need to do what Ultima 7 part 2 did and let you kill your companions and put their souls in robots.

>>15509791

Yes but you need to buy the extra party members, and it is extremely expensive and not a real option in the beginning.

>>15509830

Is that what the person in the inn does who you can ask for more "experienced fighters?"

>>15509804

I thought it was hilarious in KoTOR, when you'd recruit somebody well above their intended character level, instead of having prescripted builds for each level, the game just gives them a ton of XP, and you can just fill in all their level choices at once yourself.

>>15509839

Yeah I'm almost 100% certain, I haven't managed to save up 2000g yet.

>>15509849

That was quite handy, made for easy specialisations on the fly.

>>15509830

Ah good.

Is there a respec system in the game? I just booted it up and have no idea what I'm doing. I'll probably fuck something up during play if I haven't done so already. I'm trying to make a wizard. Any tips?

>>15509929

>is there respec

No

>charop in d&d

Kek, you're in for a ride. Either enjoy the fumbling of a newb the natural way, or start here:

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?233029-PF-Optimization-Guides-Compendium

>>15509804

Well annoying Bard girl and crap dwarf fucked off with the Purple dick, so that's good but Amiri has a RAGING hard clit for me it seems, ffs.

>>15509225

>Christianity spreads across the world by applying christian philosophy to peoples lives and by absorbing everyone's pagan holidays and flexing to fit peoples needs so much that there are 30,000 branches of christianity

>Try to write it away by saying it wasn't flexible while saying the people who are exploding themselves were the true champions of flexibility

>>15508941

I'm pretty sure she's also popular because she's incredibly easy to cosplay, requiring a common hair color and having flexibility in the body type due to the way the armor is shaped. About half of the women I personally know could probably pull it off.

>>15508907

>Paizo isn't just pozzed, they're stupid.

This goes deeper than most people think. They're absolutely incapable of handling gameplay mechanics anymore. The Pathfinder ACG is a clusterfuck of cards with inconsistent rules. Starfinder is a giant booked filled with "ask your DM" that was missing basic rules on launch and still is. Pathfinder 2.0 is such a disaster that, on top of the incredible failures of the system, they're dumb enough to put it out there right before the first CRPG based on the original Pathfinder releases. Their stupidity has gone beyond bad writing.

They're so helpless nowadays that I expect them to all die to a gas leak.

>>15510192

>Color Spray

He's playing a wizard not a faggot, anon.

>>15510226

If there was a gay rights movement in this game's setting, they wouldn't use the rainbow flag due to how much murder has been committed with the help of Color Spray. The WEAKEST FUCKING EFFECT you can get on Color Spray is "stunned for 1 round." On a 1st level, area of effect spell.

>>15510155

Also Judaism:

>no afterlife

>not evangelistic

>originated decentralized, centralization at the temple happened later, and decentralized sects persist to this day

>talmudic tradition means religious scripture is a living document open to constant reanalysis and scrutiny

>intermittent history of messianic cults such as christianity regularly shakes up religion

>kabbalaic mystery cults already broach the idea of material universe being a degraded prison made by an idiotic demiurge that can be broken through by the enlightened

>>15510264

Pride Spray

>>15509273

No idea. Even in my most liberal days I never fell for the peaceful Muslims meme. To me they were just fundies who lived in the Middle East.

>game based on a D&D knockoff

>it's not turn based

I hate every game that claims to be based on pen and paper systems, but then pulls this shit.

>>15510456

Literally all they'd have to do is rewrite the initiative rules to allow for multiple and successive terms based on stat modifiers, equipment, downtime on moves used and whatnot and they could make a game where you can play full turn based or RTWP with absolutely zero differences but that's too much work and can't be done with simple scripts.

>>15510509

They did that in AD&D era, it was called "speed factor" or some bullshit. Most people thought it was too complicated so it only achieved meme status and nobody actually used it. Also it severely asspained cheeto-encrusted caster players because spells took a long time to cast and they could get stabbed by a greasy lowlife like two or three times in the interim.

>>15505328

>Dungeons of World of Warcraft was good at all

It's people like you who make this world a worse place, every time you draw breath.

>>15510523

> Most people thought it was too complicated

In a paper setting it honestly is but with vidya there's practically no excuse. It's essentially what the ATB was in Final Fantasy just without the clunky going through each character slowly shit to pick who you wanted to actually act.

>>15510509

RTwP adaptations of D&D from Infinity to NWN handled timekeeping perfectly. The objection most people have to RTwP is that some amount of AI is required to interpolate between queued player orders, especially for positioning.

I personally find the advantages of RTwP relative to IGOUGO TB generally outweigh the maluses, but I'll admit that an occasional TB adaptation does have its own unique flavor that's refreshing to play occasionally.

>>15510523

Speed factor had to do with RoF on ranged weapons, you're probably thinking of "segments" in 2e.

>>15509254

>Armor

>Heavy

>Penalty to skill checks

>Cap on DEX AC bonus

>Arcane spell failure chance

>Slows you down

don't get me wrong, I do like playing armored mages, but it's a lot of extra work when a magical bathrobe and some spells can keep you pretty well protected.

So once you find the nature cleric can he heal you like he says he can? There's no option to do so, only buy scrolls I can't use.

>>15510509

>>15510523

D&D has Standard, Minor, and Move actions. Attacking is a Standard action. Some classes/builds can perform multiple attacks in one turn if they don't move. Most spells can be performed in one Standard action. There's no reason why it can't be a straight turn based translation from the pen and paper rules.

>>15510570

>Speed factor had to do with RoF on ranged weapons, you're probably thinking of "segments" in 2e.

I don't know the name at all. It assigned a speed value to each weapon on a table, if I recall rightly, and I think one of the Gold Box video games actually used it.

>>15509254

The thing about armor is that only classes with martial proficiencies can use it, and the only real benefit you get from the armor is its inherent AC bonus. On the other hand, if you have a robe of blur or concealment that gives you 50% chance for all attacks to miss, then it's not like you really give a shit about 8 AC. The benefit of enchanting armor is very limited both in scope and in who can benefit from it.

>>15510598

Yes but I'm talking about specifically fixing their own self made problem, not bypassing it entirely like a normal person.

>>15509225

>Christians explore and conquer the entire world

>But they won't be able to do it in space because REASONS

>Muslims

>700 years of darkness and regressions

>BUT NOW THEY WILL FINALLY SHINE BECAUSE REASONS

Fucking retards don't know the first thing about religions.

>>15510662

>in space

Not just that, humanity was rendered basically extinct, pretty much everyone is just a piece of software uploaded into manufactured bodies. Essentially, everyone are soulless golems.

Granted, Christianity wouldn't really be any worse off than most other religions I can think of insofar as bullshitting up a theological excuse.

>>15510699

Christianity has demonstrated it's mental agility to justify it's existence in pretty much any context, even in direct contradiction to it's own texts. Muslims can't even eat pork without going to muzzie hell.

So I'm trying to rest before a battle, but after resting I'm exhausted. I keep getting a dream event, is that related?

>>15510192

Thanks, anon. I thought they made this thing computer friendly by dumping the vancian magic system. If I had known earlier I'd have rolled for a martial class instead.

>>15510747

>Christian finds contradiction between scripture and reality

<"your interpretation of the scripture is wrong"

>Muslim finds contradiction between scripture and reality

<"your interpretation of reality is wrong"

>blows up

I highly doubt your average Christian or person with an IQ above 90 wouldn't have problems with transhumansm, anyhow.

>>15510770

You have to go to this crossing south of the Oleg's inn area and there's an event there that advances the dream plot.

>>15510820

>problems with transhumansm

This wasn't willing, the backstory was that generations of people were backing up their minds online for centuries, just in case, then the earth was destroyed. The backups are basically all that's left.

>>15510820

There would be some weird hold-outs.

>muh mark of the beast

But the vast majority of the faith (who arguably are heretics anyways) would be fine with it. Especially if it was introduced gradually.

>>15510620

There are some "fake realtime" games, like Summoner and The Dark Eye, that are actually just WEGO "simultaneous resolution" TB, but that removes the benefit of higher time granularity from RTwP.

>>15510845

>game written in unity

>has crossplatform problems

I think that's the point in your career as a programmer when you're supposed to livestream you and your entire family's suicide out of shame for failing so hard at life

>>15510857

Someone in the Steam thread linked to another stackoverflow knock-off thread about some Unity code to save multiple files at once not working. He was getting the exact same exception that Pathfinder: Kingmaker is throwing at me. Turns out the dipshit forgot to serialize his data and close the file handle. I sincerely hope it's not that ridiculously stupid.

>another UNITY engine game overheats 1080Ti to 80-90C

WHAT A SHOCK

WASTELAND2,BATTLETECH,POE2 NOW THIS

why cant i kill the spider swams in the stupid berry cave

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>15510917

>not having a solid carbon dioxide heat sink

>>15510931

Are you using area attacks?

>>15510934

i dont have any

im only level 2 my party is me, angry woman with big sword, angry woman about being pretty and little dirty orphan girl writing her fan fiction about me

>>15510931

>>15510944

Welcome to tabletop. There is literally no way to attack a swarm without AOEs, I suggest if you cannot cast magic (what the fuck are you doing?) you buy a fuckload of alchemist fires

>>15510974

so a group of all barbarians isnt viable

>>15510192

I'm kinda mad they fucked magus. Like they have both graces but they don't have darvish dancer, fucking dropped.

>>15510980

In Pathfinder (both the tabletop and the videogame) a magic caster outclasses a martial class in every aspect.

>Tankiness

Druid/Cleric

>Range damage

Wizard

>Melee damage

Magus

>>15510974

>>15510980

You're supposed to use torches. The game starts you with at least one. But yes, swarms are immune to weapon damage. This is why any dungeoneering Fighter or Barbarian worth their salt carries oil flasks. "Alchemist's fire" is just a bunch of bullshit they came up with to make it seem less mundane in later editions.

>>15510980

something something water balloon fighters

>>15510998

I mean, I don't suppose you can do the low money molotov meme in the videogame. But yes, ideally if you don't have a magic caster you gotta have some rags, a torch, some flour, 50ft of rope, some copper pieces and a 10 foot pole in every dungeon you're going in.

>>15511010

>I mean, I don't suppose you can do the low money molotov meme in the videogame.

That's what alchemist's fire/acid flasks are for. They're very common in the game and not expensive. I just don't get why they felt the need to make them seem "more magical" by changing the name from "oil flask."

>some rags, a torch, some flour, 50ft of rope, some copper pieces and a 10 foot pole in every dungeon you're going in.

>no mirror

>no silver mirror because you picked a race with infravision so you can look around corners with infravision

casual

>>15511021

Damn I forgot the mirror.

>>15509713

a good game

>>15509749

but is the gameplay good? no. If i wanted 1 to pnp I'd be playing pnp. Even still its just not good.

>>15511049

There's a methodology to playing the game and enjoying yourself, it just requires some stumbling until you gain knowledge of the class mechanics. As a long-time veteran of 3rd edition schlock and its derivatives, it's objectively not very good all-around but there's a ton of content for it and it just doesn't want to fucking go away. 3rd edition was actually designed for you to be very likely to fail before you can learn the game mechanics and succeed. This was due to their ivory tower game design philosophy, basically WotC saying "let's copy Magic the Gathering" after buying D&D from TSR.

If you want enemies to miss less, understand how the average to-hit roll works and what kind of armor class your party members have. 10 is the "baseline" AC with no armor and no penalties or special stat bonuses. You will probably get hit unless they roll poorly. 20 AC is what you can expect out of a guy with full plate armor and a shield and no special stat bonuses. 28 AC is what you might expect out of a buffed cleric/warrior with magic items.

>>15510828

Yeah, that was obvious enough, but I didn't realize the nightmare was causing my exhaustion until I'd wasted 3 days.

>>15510617

Concealment? You mean that thing that gets removed by a single cast of faerie fire? The level 1 spell?

>>15511701

I thought armor enchants were permanent.

>>15510984

I was pissed when I noticed quarter staffs don't seem to work with weapon finesse in game, so my plan of making a bad ass wis/dex pumping staff using cleric/monk won't work.

>>15511701

>gets removed by a single cast of faerie fire?

depends does the game the same bullshit AI as the old BG game had where the npcs always know exactly what spell to cast to fuck you over, even when they technically shouldn't even know you're there?

>>15507288

>the party AI seems decent so far and you can turn it off

I've heard a lot about party AI being terrible and unresponsive tbh.

>>15508826

>AoD is a choose your own adventure novel.

…

This is too true. Still, it's one of the few RPGs I find myself replaying over and over. It's a flawed gem, but still worth playing, especially compared to the shit being shoveled out by AAA RPG developers.