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They are playing that aspect up for the video game & acting crowd that might jump in.
I'm not sure I believe this will happen.
Just read the PHB, and I have a totally silly quibble: "Warlock" is a gendered term. Whereas I don't have a cognitive problem with a female rogue or a male rogue, a female fighter or a male fighter, saying female warlock makes me go o.O
Oddly, "female warlord" doesn't bother me.
Oh, and I disagree with ditching LE as an alignment. What were the Nazis if not LE? But I like Unaligned.
The MM is pretty cool, and it has Pete art!
but when you're doing 2d8+3 at 12th level and whittling down 230 HPs
But it's OK! Because if you have to stop playing when you still have 60 HPs to go, you can take a photo of the battlemat with your digital camera.
I guarantee you that my players are going to start doing that mid-battle, then if it goes poorly, ask to restart from their last save point and show me the photo.
::knocks and is sorry to interrupt::
if billytea is around, I'm trying to fix a video chat issue w/ my sister in Auckland ... we don't know if the problem is all oogle, no cash, or just us being boneheads.
eeee. it was just boneheads! I get to vid w/ my sister!!! eee.
and now I return you to the gaming thread.
if billytea is around, I'm trying to fix a video chat issue w/ my sister in Auckland ... we don't know if the problem is all oogle, no cash, or just us being boneheads.
Hang on, I'll just pop round and ask her. :-)
We've been able to hook up a video chat link to Wallybee's parents in China, though their connection wasn't the greatest. It should be achievable, just being in another country shouldn't stop it, but it may make matters more complicated.
Hang on, I'll just pop round and ask her. :-)
shush, you. It's absolutely a factor of putting Iris and her aunt face to face before Iris melts down that is driving all of this flapping about.
Just read the PHB, and I have a totally silly quibble: "Warlock" is a gendered term. Whereas I don't have a cognitive problem with a female rogue or a male rogue, a female fighter or a male fighter, saying female warlock makes me go o.O
Honestly, i think this is a problem that first started at WotC with Magic and just kind of bled into D&D. I tend to just shrug & filter out those issues, as they are crazy-making.
The DMG has about 6 pages in it that are worth owning, and that really pisses me off
Hee - the DH is storming around upstairs raging about just this thing right now.
I tend to just shrug & filter out those issues, as they are crazy-making.
Yeah, I was more laughing at my own reaction than anything. Although, since they are making up race names (Eladrin), they could just make up a word for that type of spellcaster.
And they should make it rhyme with "orange."
ION, we gold-starred "Gimme Shelter" today. Ph34r our l33t Rock Band skillz!
We, umm, flipped through the 4e MM looking at the art credits!
Other than that, I have serious amounts of nothing to add to the debate.
We, umm, flipped through the 4e MM looking at the art credits!
The art is generally being praised. They got some damned good artists to fill the job.
Although to that extent, while I much prefer good art to bad art in gaming books (the old D&D interior art was... varied, to say the least), it's kind of like having Janusz Kaminski as your DP. Of course your movie is going to look fantastic.
The art is generally being praised. They got some damned good artists to fill the job.
I do like the artwork. But for the minor quibble that the dragonborn come out looking rather goofy (and, for that matter, with a snout that does kind of resemble Goofy's), at least from the artist who does them most often in the PHB.
