Disallow spellcasting classes for PCs, implement a more robust social-skill subsystem, and have them run around doing legwork to solve magical murders.
The question about interrupting an area effect attack: I found out that you're supposed to apply damage (and make the damage roll) after the first target is hit, not after you make all the damage rolls.
The power will deal damage to anyone hit before you are hit!
I think it is helpful to clarify order-of-execution in scenarios like this.
Declare target(s)
Make Attack Roll(s)
Make Damage Roll
My original thought was that you do all the declaring, then roll all the attacks, then, after all hi...
The problem is that the rules compendium specifically lays out an order of execution (declare power, targets, roll attack, check for hit, apply damage/effects) and then says repeat for each target of a multi-target attack, so you have to run the last 3 steps, in sequence, for each extra target.
I agree it's very ambiguous, I scoured the original PHB and later RC for hints but... /shrug
And I hate my answer because I much prefer rolling all attacks before moving on to damage and effects.
But it does have very significant effects on interrupts: whether you can wait and see all the attacks before negating the whole attack, or if you can do nothing to save anyone hit before your attack roll.
While lurking in other online communities, I've occasionally come across questions that would be a great fit for RPG.SE, but haven't been asked here yet. Should these sorts of questions be "ported over" to RPG.SE, should we assume that users will search elsewhere and find their answer, or is ther...
It's a little better and a little worse than you doubt.
First of all, if you cast a spell without casting defensively, you get one attack of opportunity from each single enemy that has you in its threat range, unless they've already done an AoO in that round.
This means several different things...
My answer mostly stems from 3.x knowledge and from seeing how some details didn't change (since they showed up in the other answer and comments). I'd like some PF expert to double-check my answer for mistakes.
@Zachiel I don't know anything about that issue, but I'd like to say that I was very impressed with your answer to the "how to deal with issues that aren't covered by rules?" question before it was closed.
The FATE Game room; a script @Problematic made that puts a green outline around users' icons when they're typing in the channel; because I really like knowing when someone's typing.
He designed the script to make our play-by-chat games flow more smoothly, but it works in any chat. The catch is that it only works for other people who also have the script installed.
We also have a script that turns d6s into dFs in that room alone. It's pretty shiny.
not just yet, but I will be. Military police pulled me over for 5mph over the limit. But the vehicle I happened to be driving at the time wasn't up-to-date with registration, so I had to tow a perfectly good vehicle off base to home.
Not sure what federal speeding charges are, but I doubt it's anything like guam's 4/hour over.
@BESW What do you think of Ygorl? And of my thinking I'd like to sick a level... 13-ish version of him with identical but numerically toned down powers on my players further into the campaign?
(My campaign which is developed pretty well to be geared toward the elemental chaos unless my players take the chaos of the elemental chaos to my plans)
I was thinking I'd put it on the tank, have other slaad surround him, then turn to my players and do a little sideways head-wag and say "what now bitches?"
(And the party suddenly doesn't want them to die near their friends, so their strategy is divide-and-conquer, which Well of Entropy makes nearly impossible.)
@BESW Oh man. Put Inescapable Endings on an ally beside him. Smack another ally beside him on the head. It dies. It heals him. It heals the other guy. That heals him too.
(Wait, but it explodes too, so hm... healing range is greater than the explosive range, or the chaotic explosion doesn't hurt --- oh my god, the chaotic explosion is what heals them)
@BESW Warhammer has a parallel plane of psychic energy in which (almost) all living things have a presence. It also has psykers, which tap into this extremely dangerous parallel plane in order to perform magic in this one. Being a psyker is risky business.
The situation is different for Orks. They have a shared psychic field named the Waaagh!! which bends reality according to Ork belief. Ork equipment - spacecraft, guns, etc - is faulty beyond belief and should by no rights ever even work, except they believe it works, so it does. Orks paint their ships red because it believes red makes them go faster. Therefore, red makes them go faster.
Ork Psykers don't tap into the parallel psychic plane. They tap into the Waaagh!! and use that to manipulate reality and cast magic.
And, in doing so, the awesome power of the Waaagh!! completely overwhelms the Ork psyker and their head explodes.
(that's all.)
(I believe they have a chance to resist the head-explodey business but Ork psykers do not have a long life expectancy)
@BESW Oh hey I wasn't even aware temp HP didn't stack. Yes, I'll do it like that. And, to make matters simple: Ygorl's attacks against fellow Slaadi always hit true HP and bypass temp HP.
@BESW ... this made a large smile appear on my face. Because this: most unique Slaads will have something that involves breaking at least one game rule somehow.
I don't know if that should be boss fights alone, or Slaad that stand out or are used rarely, or each Slaad unit should have its particular rule-break.
I'm a graphic designer. Got a pretty major job I'm behind on, and I've also got a lot to do to prepare for taking care of my dad by myself for the next month and a half while my mom's away to help her sister care for their mother.
@JonathanHobbs I'd say that every Slaad encounter should feel like logic/physics is being bent if not snapped in half.
I am imagining: looking at a Slaad with high temp HP is not straightforward. The looking at him is the not straightforward part. It will feel like staring at a jittery optical illusion where he looks like he's in a few different positions at once and all of them are true. Like a real-and-not-theoretical completely uncollapsed probability field.
Five obvious caster-types in the front of the room and a great hulking toadbeast in the back. Naturally, the party assumed that the toadbest was going to charge the door, keeping everyone bottled in the hallway while the casters pew-pewed from behind him.
They consulted and agreed that the casters could probably teleport, but the toadbeast would be easy to pin against the back wall. The tank would do that while the DPS cleaned up the casters.
So the tank wins initiative and runs in screaming, pushing the toadbeast into a corner and ready to keep him from moving past.
Suddenly, the party learns that toadbeasts can teleport, because he's in the hallway ripping up the squishies while the casters are keeping the tank from getting back out of the room to help.
First, a room that rolled, with the boss hovering in the center.
Every round I rolled for a random new side it would wind up on, and everyone got slid into a pile on the nearest edge of that side.
Second, a room with... capricious... gravity: if you move more than X squares in a single action, you fall to a randomly-rolled side (sometimes you just floated up a bit and then came down on the same side).
chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/3564982#3564982 the most amusing section of transcript I've seen in a while, if only because I'm picturing a bunch of people sitting around a table in silence, eating shawarma and rolling dice.
Oh wow, Kinda has a really cool premise... I think.
Even if the name could use an extra "n" to make it less confusing.
It's a "Garden of Eden cycle" concept.
The Kinda, a race on a distant planet, developed ambition--which led to society, technology, and a civilization which grew until all their ambitions were answered, all their needs met.
They retired to their Garden of Eden, which stymied societal advance and their technology and civilization collapsed... until they developed ambition again.
In this iteration at least, their "garden of eden" solution seem to be that they terraformed and genetically modified their entire planet so that the weather was fair and predictable, the trees bore fruit all year round, and their needs were generally all met automatically.
@waxeagle In what sense? Miranda was about making people docile in spite of their situation, not people creating a situation that removed all need for agitation.
It was literally a garden paradise where all their needs were met automatically by a self-sustaining system.
The best we can do is make educated guesses based on what's said (and whether or not we think the people saying it are lying or misguided). The novelizations have gone into more detail, but they're only semi-canonical.
Regeneration is a biotechnology, not a natural process. It is granted to Gallifreyans when they become Time Lords (which involves hereditary rights as well as tests, among other requirements; Time Lords are the technological elite of Gallifreyan society).
Regeneration is limited to 12 times per Time Lord not because it is impossible beyond that, but a) because the "photocopy effect" gets worse each time and beyond 12 it's less reliably stable and b) Rassilon was a jerk, but he recognized that true immortality isn't good for anybody.
Now, closing in on your question specifically: regeneration can happen under three known conditions.
First, the High Council can force it.
Second, the Time Lord can voluntarily trigger it.
Third, it occurs automatically when a Time Lord is lethally wounded (though sudden death can interfere with or prevent this).
Regeneration is a process by which all the cells in the Time Lord's body are rejuvenated at once. It is somewhat like becoming younger, but the process also scrambles the Time Lord's DNA so that he changes appearance and his personality traits are reshuffled (not changed, just re-prioritized).
When the process is triggered on purpose, by the Time Lord or the High Council, the result of the regeneration is controllable.
Indeed, we've seen one Time Lord who seemed to be able to "try out" different bodies during the process before she settled on one she liked--although that could have been time-projections similar to the Valeyard.
But when the process is forced by mortal injury, it is uncontrolled and unpredictable. At best, the Time Lords' unconscious thoughts and desires at that moment may influence the re-prioritization of his personality.
So: generally, it seems that the Doctor doesn't have control over his appearance (except maybe subconsciously), because he only ever regenerates under stress.
If he ever chose to regenerate, he'd be able to choose his new image.
(The Second Doctor was forcibly regenerated into the Third by the High Council, and he was given a choice of new bodies; he rejected them all, so they chose for him.)
@waxeagle I don't think she's in FB games. The artist is not into professional graphics. However she is perfectly capable of flashing cleavage. Especially because she's 4 feet 6(9⁄64) inches so top views are easily possible.
I'm planning on going back and watching the available episodes once we get back to finishing the new stuff (now that GoT is over for the year we will probably do that soon)
(His first companion was his granddaughter, and then Five got Romana, who was played by two actresses.)
The High Council offered to give the Doctor's remaining regenerations to the Master in exchange for his services once, and the Master tried to steal the Doctor's regenerations twice.
...As did the Valeyard, who is a "time projection" from between the Doctor's 12th and 13th regenerations. Because he failed to get the Sixth Doctor's regenerations, he ceased to exist.
(The Master also once tried to 'recharge' his regenerations through direct physical contact with the black hole that powered all of Gallifreyan technology. It didn't work, but not because it was a stupid idea-- and neither did it end as badly as it probably should have.)
(After the first actor who played the Master died, the Master spent a lot of his time as a near-zombie at the end of his last regeneration, obsessed with regaining regenerations or becoming immortal.)
In New Who we're told that newly regenerated Time Lords have powers of regrowth (like if their hand gets chopped off) to the point of being nearly invulnerable (taking dozens of rounds of ammunition without even bleeding). The first I could almost credit as being compatible with the Classic Who presentation (this is one case where The Movie actually helps), but the latter.... yeeeeeeah. River Song ruins everything she touches.
(She also defies the "biotech, not biology" thing.)
@JonathanHobbs No, but he eventually managed to possess the body of a near-human.
The near-human body didn't have any regenerations, but the Master eventually found a planet that would sustain him, although it turned him into a catman in the process.
@JonathanHobbs I think they're in cahoots. She encourages him.
The next time we saw the Master, he was executed and his ashes turned into an ectoplasm snake that possessed a human played by Eric Roberts. In that body, he made his second attempt to steal the Doctor's regenerations (more evidence that regeneration is biotech, not biology, if it can be applied to a human body).
When that plot failed, he either died or was sucked into an alternate negative-energy dimension or was trapped in the Time Lord computer database.
Later on and entirely off-screen the Time Lords revived him, gave him at least two regenerations, and had him fight in the Last Great Time War. From which he fled, regenerated, and made himself seem human (and think he was human).
That's how he appears when he first shows up in New Who.
The power will deal damage to anyone hit before you are hit!
I think it is helpful to clarify order-of-execution in scenarios like this.
Declare target(s)
Make Attack Roll(s)
Make Damage Roll
My original thought was that you do all the declaring, then roll all the attacks, then, after all hi...
It's a little better and a little worse than you doubt.
First of all, if you cast a spell without casting defensively, you get one attack of opportunity from each single enemy that has you in its threat range, unless they've already done an AoO in that round.
This means several different things...
