23456th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 11)

General
#20406

Lesson in mashes is to hero shoot town read players.

#20407

Why not just make an Atheist game? There’s no need to worry about those pesky evils, oh wait that’s the host/s.

#20408

simply succeed the saving throw

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#20409

casters being better at the actually important saving throws in most systems baffles me

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#20410

consequence of a mental stat being tied to a saving throw (I’m pretty sure that in pathfinder specifically the only ones with a real advantage here are wisdom casters which makes more sense)

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#20411

will in 3.5/pf1 is universally a ‘good’ progression saving throw for casters

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#20412

I am aware of this

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#20413

they are aware of this

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#20414

the actual answer is just they designed “who is good at what saving throw” with flavor in mind and don’t care to change it

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#20415

me when i design mechanics based on flavor and suddenly there’s problems

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#20416

i will fix it by adding a fortitude saving throw at 2nd rank that instantly paralyzes you if you fail it

thatll show them casters

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#20417

I like playing the game

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#20418

You get this session once a week and combat, while it can be engaging, can be a non-starter sometimes due to hard CC / being the RNG gods sacrifice
I can see why people prefer minimal combat tables in 5e because holy shit that’s frustrating

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#20419

i mean minimal combat tables are just based regardless

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#20420

was talking about this in spec chat for anni today :joy_wolf:

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#20421

they are!
my college table is just this and it’s great
speaking of that we’re truman show’ing one of the players next session

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#20422

I mean yeah but even in minimal combat, if you do get deleted from the fight how do you rp something like getting instantly paralyzed meaningfully

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#20423

“specific character focused sessions” have a relatively mixed view in the greater ttrpg community but I think they are a good time if people are good at rp

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#20424

you don’t

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#20425

I get why people rp in combat but I don’t do it personally
half the reason I optimize is so I can mechanically justify my character’s narrative of being good at combat
in combat? maybe I’ll drop a line or two but that’s it

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