Zachiel

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D&D 3.5 and 4e DM, D&D Next playtester DM.

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Nov 22	answered	A fantasy game with a good Noble class?
Nov 19	revised	Is there a fantasy RPG system which does not try to be old-school? added a link to the free to play version
Nov 19	comment	How do I handle a group that does not understand the 'assumption rule'? The real problem is that rule 0 allows you to override the working rules too.
Nov 18	answered	Is there a fantasy RPG system which does not try to be old-school?
Nov 18	comment	What is this player planning? @JonathanHobbs "in possession" doesn't actually means "in his hands." It means "no-one else has had the weapon with himself for 24 hours". It's meant to avoid someone from grasping the weapon and impeding your recall since now it's "his" weapon.
Nov 18	comment	What is this player planning? It looks to me that anchoring only works with a melee attack.
Nov 18	answered	How do I handle a group that does not understand the 'assumption rule'?
Nov 16	comment	How can I play dumb? @Lohoris "HEY! I HADN'T FINISHED YET", if said with a menacing look and coming from an half-ogre sure looks menacing and might convince someone to let him think for a while.
Nov 16	comment	What role-playing games should I pick for an absolute beginner group? Sure! DW features a mix between moves that have long term consequences, like the AW ones, that are used to make the events snowball and to make the story ...and short-term moves with no long-term consequences except for the strictly mechanical "you deal/take some damage". These moves don't seem aimed at creating an interesting fiction, they seem to be there "just because it has to look like D&D".
Nov 10	comment	What role-playing games should I pick for an absolute beginner group? Be careful. DW is good but certain powers still pull the game in different directions. If you're not looking for fantasy, Monsterhearts, the Regiment or Apocalypse World (being all different hacks of AW, DW included) have better focused rules on what you want to obtain from the gaming experience.
Nov 10	comment	Single player games suitable for session preparation Keep in mind that if the players know everything they could have their PCs make the right decisions to unfold the story. Bad if they're playing to win, good if theey're playing to tell a story.
Nov 4	comment	How do I role-play as a dragon? I think you missed one point. Dragons in D&D are opportunists. They hatch with non-dragons for the sole purpose of having lesser beings guarding their treasure and that's true even for good dragons. Other than that, I think hoarding treasure is a status symbol amongst dragons. They don't actually use it except for sleeping over it, but they can boast its value to other dragons, provided they have a bigger hoard.
Nov 4	awarded	Citizen Patrol
Nov 1	comment	Is casting the spell Blood Transcription an evil act? @mxyzplk in 3.5 the rules also say a paladin cannot be in the same party with an evil creature. One of the two players is bound to change his PC if they want to continue adventuring. Has this been changed in PF? If not, I guess we have our problem riiiight here.
Nov 1	answered	How to keep my mount alive/relevant as a fighter
Nov 1	comment	How to keep my mount alive/relevant as a fighter The spell is called Awaken but I seriously doubt any sane DM will let your animal take class levels and still adventure at your side (unless you take him as a cohort).
Oct 29	comment	Repercussions to DM-mandated limit on books allowable for characters? +1 for "communicate limitations before they spend energies on character creation"
Oct 29	comment	Repercussions to DM-mandated limit on books allowable for characters? Oh I've seen the "new mechanichs change the whole system" thing. Once you get your hands on a Shadow Cloak (teleports you away before you get hit 3/day) and some way to kill your opponent in one turn, everybody's looking for ways to improve initiative or silence you so you can't use the cloak. The shift in tone is dramatic. from bold warriors fighting dragons to agile assassins backstabbing people.
Oct 28	answered	Repercussions to DM-mandated limit on books allowable for characters?
Oct 17	comment	Does a creature take damage from Wall of Fire if it is moved before its turn? @ErikBurigo Sorry, I misunderstood your comment. I thought your wizard was delaying to push/pull/slid an ally out of the spell's effect, instead of hitting villains.