Because Torment: Tides of Numenera has reached it’s two and a half million dollar point on Kickstarter already, Colin McComb is going to apologize for his past mistakes. This particular video is for The Complete Book of Elves, which I guess we don’t like? I don’t really enjoy anything that D&D 2nd edition gave us, so I guess that’s true for me. But really, I don’t know what’s going on here. I don’t have strong feelings about elf books in any way. The fact that apparently enough people do to make it reward is entertaining, though. Just D&D how you want! Don’t get so hung up on the rules.
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This Guy’s Gonna Apologize for Elves Now
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Neverwinter Trailer – Fey Step Is An Encounter Power!
You can’t just be using the fey step constantly, all “Poof, poof, poof!” like Nightcrawler. That’s an encounter power. You can only use it once per fight. Totally unbelievable.
So, here’s yet another CG trailer for an MMO, and I guess we’re all supposed to pretend for a moment that the game’s actually going to look like this. When in actuality it’s going to look s lot like every other MMO ever, except with Tieflings and Dragonborn.
And it’s free to play, so every few moments will be followed by a pop up box that says something like “That was a good hit, but you could be hitting even better with a pair of Gloves of Blessed Strength, available for six hundred Astral Diamonds (Click Here to Purchase Astral Diamonds)”. That’s always fun.
It’s Time to Drop Racial Attributes in RPGs
So, here’s the thing. You’re rolling up a new character for your D&D game. You decide you’re going to be a thief. So what race do you choose? Probably halfling, right? Maybe gnome or elf? And why? Because they get the bonuses to the stats you need. You’re probably not going to be a half-orc. You’re not going to be a halfling paladin or goliath wizard. Or if you are, you’re going to do it knowing that that character is going to be less effective than your team mates. You’ve made the decision to be less good at the game you’re playing for the sake of role playing. You’re gonna be a half-orc thief, because that’s the character you want to play.
But that’s lame. Why should half-orcs be less impressive than elves at thieving? Why should the entire race be uniform? Why can’t we have a half-orc that’s strong and a half-orc that’s dexterous? Why can’t there be the occasional intelligent goliath? I mean, sure, you could use points to buy the stats you want, or roll and roll and roll until you have the stats you need. But that inherent bonus is always going to help. Reggie the Goliath Barbarian always going to be a bit stronger than an Elf Barbarian. Basically punishing you for attempting to make a unique character.
So why isn’t the bonus attached to the class? It makes sense, you probably wouldn’t choose to be a thief if you attend naturally dexterous, or choose to spend years studying spells if you weren’t intelligent. You could be the halfling that was always lifting weights. So instead of applying the bonus to the races, we have all the races start with the same basic stats, and then build from there, based on what their character is like, instead of what their race is supposed to be. Seems like that would offer the freedom to role play the way you want, instead of locking you into a character you don’t particularly enjoy. And isn’t that the whole point?
Old Dungeons and Dragons Books Available Online Again
Lots of loud discord happened when Wizards of the Coast yanked all of their old books offline so that you couldn’t use them. “You must use the latest editions,” they said. Well a little side project has made them digitally yours once again. All Dungeons & Dragons books are downloadable at Dungeons & Dragons Classics. If you act now, you can download first edition player’s handbook for free. Just in case you want to play something they’ve tinkered with for decades. You probably prefer phonographs, too.
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Friendly Fire – Episode Forty-Nine: Mountain Pass
The guns run into a checkpoint in the mountains. Things go poorly. It’s just a ton of fighting. If you’re not into listening to a really long winded fight, this might be one to skip. Fights happen, things are killed, we’ll try to be more exciting in the future.
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Friendly Fire – Episode Forty-Eight: We’re Doing What Now?
Listen, I don’t even know anymore. All kinds of things happened, everything’s messed up, everyone’s in the wrong places. It’s a whirlwind of confusion. Time’s probably going to explode, or something.
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Friendly Fire – Episode Forty-Seven: Spelljammer
Okay, things are a mess. Three quarters of the party are in jail, and The Avenger The Human Avenger is trying to get in charge of a Spelljammer. And even if they can get a hold of one, how will they get back in time? And will the party stop trying to kill themselves? Who knows?
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Friendly Fire – Episode Forty-Six: The Leader of the Resistance
Things are getting a little better, but we still have to find that Spelljammer to get going. And the guy who has one isn’t super excited about handing it over. Meanwhile, some interpersonal conflicts arise. Also, a lot of talk about the birds and the bees. I don’t know quite why that happened.
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Friendly Fire – Episode Forty-Five: Inside the Ship
We’re up in the ship now, and it might be on the verge of exploding, but we need that core thing for the thing that no one really remembers what it is. So “Smells like Cinnamon” is going down. And hopefully we can escape from the ship before everything blows up. That would be optimal.
Oh, and Here’s the rules to Mafia/Werewolf. We didn’t really explain it well. But these rules are different than the version we played.
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Friendly Fire – Episode Forty-Four: Catching Fire (But Not the Catching Fire You Know… Another One)
Things are still a mess. The Avenger The Human Avenger is out of the line of fire, but now the other three are in all sorts of trouble. Battles are fought, rooms are escaped from, Avenger’s escaped slaves are not super excited about backing him up. And that elf gets a name!
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