Yeah, but it's one of the early histories. Although that makes it one of a very few serials of its kind (only the very earliest histories lacked any supernatural or science fiction elements beyond the fact that the main characters had traveled through time to get there), the reason there aren't any more than there are is that they were generally heavily padded and kinda boring.
It spends far, far too much time on characters we'll never see again.
Hartnell spends a lot of his time playing an abbot of the time period who looks like the Doctor, rather than playing the Doctor.
Again, it's a pure historical so it's got a lot of padding and most of its tension banks on Dickensian drama or expecting the viewers to know the historical tragedy it's leading up to.
It's technically the serial with the first appearance of a new companion, Dodo, but she's only in a couple minutes at the very end.
@BESW I kinda saw it coming when someone told me to watch it. I saw someone playing a RD character in a rp and he completely owned the guy she was fighting.
Since then the animators have included her as an easter egg in many crowd scenes, and every now and then she comes forward for a bigger role.
@Aaron Yup. The creator had an idea for a similar character called Ditzy Doo, but the fan concept was close enough that the production team decided to run with it.
@JoshuaAslanSmith I tried to clarify some things in the comments there as it looks like they were talking past each other and missing the whole "what's a keyword" point
But the speaking role had some drama associated with it (someone said the name "Derpy" and the pony's clumsiness and eyes were offensive to the impaired), so the team scaled her back to a background running gag again.
It is listed as a keyword, but it's an "accessory" as far as the PHB1 describes it, and doesn't fall under damage or effect type. Might count as a power type?
@Aaron For me, the real problem was that it was poorly thought through. The production team wanted to throw the bronies a bone, and didn't put a lot of thought into what it'd mean for the show's primary purposes.
And the instant the show starts being "for the bronies" instead of "a show enjoyed by some people seriously distant from its target audience," it'll stop being the show bronies came for.
@Aaron By giving a fan-made, fan-named character a speaking role and using her fan name.
If they'd thought about it, they'd either have made a choice they'd stand by instead of censoring Derpy's name and changing her voice in all subsequent broadcasts, or Derpy would've stayed a background gag for the bronies to notice instead of getting a moment in the limelight for no particular reason except that she's a brony icon.
not finding anything. I'm trying to remember what I saw. I'm thinking it was in reference to resisting a specific keyword rather than a damage type. Still hunting but my comments are withdrawn
> Amulet of Scales (D 365) - Scaling, immediate-application, encounter-long resistance to a keyword (which includes Arcane, Weapon, and the like, by the way) is nice.
> Resist: Resistance means you take less damage from a specific damage type. If you have resist 5 fire, then any time you take fire damage, you reduce that damage by 5. (An attack can’t do less than 0 damage to you.)
and opening it up to keywords in general just... aaaaaaaaaaaa
There are reasons to be cautious with Dragon Magazine material and only allow any of it on a case-by-case basis after thorough checking, and this is why.
I'm no longer satisfied with the weapons and armor available to me. I always end up playing with the gun model from Player's Handbook, and armor with the same CA and properties. Besides this material (PHB), what other sources are there for new armor and weapon types?
@BESW I'd pick encounter. I'm only going to be hit by one or two dailies and if I do it's going to deal something like 60 damage at early levels anyway.
@Zachiel Same thing, but in 4e it seems player character powers and monster attacks have entirely different keywords - monsters having the simpler ones.
However if it's something that deals damage on the next turn he resists that if the keywords match up.
so if he's resistant to the fire keyword and it's a fire zone, the zone's damage on the following turn is reduced. But if the zone is non damaging there is no effect
Whoever makes that new answer or edits Hobbs': the key to understanding why damage keywords are so strictly limited lies in the power of doubling up to overcome resistances.
I ask someone something I know they know and it would take them less than a minute to tell me. Then they end it with "You could have looked it up." and it would have taken me over five minutes.
I guess I don't mind explaining stuff. It never bothered me when people asked me stuff unless I am really busy and then I just tell them to ask me later.
@waxeagle Answer edited, but... I'm going to leave out that amulet of scales if you don't mind. c(:
and... pretend it doesn't exist.
Weapon sure is a keyword for monster attacks, but just like with players, it's also not a damage type, so it's not pertinent to this particular answer.
@Aaron Yes, and you can answer it too because this page says that HD always come with skill points, and this page tells you how many skill points a construct gets per HD.
"simply multiply the total number of ranks per Hit Dice gained by a monster of its type times the total number of added Hit Dice and add that number of ranks to its existing skills. "
Where does it say how much ranks it gets per HD? or am I miss reading that
d10 Hit Die. Base attack bonus equal to total Hit Dice (fast progression). No good saving throws. Skill points equal to 2 + Int modifier (minimum 1) per Hit Die. However, most constructs are mindless and gain no skill points or feats. Constructs do not have any class skills, regardless of their Intelligence scores.
The comic isn't among my favorites, but I appreciate it for its style and craftsmanship and earnestness.
The film... well, instead of having something to say about important issues, it just kinda mentioned them and waved its hands shouting "Look! Topical issues! I'm mentioning them!"
Oh, surely. But I don't have to agree with something to recognize that it's a brilliant piece of craftsmanship and an earnest, vehement treatise on what the author holds dear, and I can value that without buying into it.
The film didn't feel like it valued much of anything, nor did it feel like it had a single earnest bone in its body--although its actors tried to make up for that.
The second one. It was Voltaire who said he didn't agree with someone's idea but would fight to the death to let them express it. I know it's a bit more extreme than valuing it, but...
I believe that's a commonly misattributed quote written by one of his friends about his attitude, but the point stands.
"To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom." - Thomas Jefferson
Ah, my mistake. It was a biographer of Voltaire, not a friend.
Once I surprised my dad watching it. Turns out he doesn't get black humour.
Snatch happens to be my favourite movie. I saw the first 10 minutes once on TV just before I had to go sleeping and I knew I would have liked it. Years passed. And now between my friends you're nobody if you haven't seen Snatch.
> Serene Blade: This option, like Defiant Word, is WIS-based, and it's more defensively-oriented, helping you survive with an endless fountain of temporary HP rather than harming enemies for attacking you.
> It grants you proficiency with military one-handed and two-handed heavy blades, so you have access to a decent +3 proficiency weapon without a feat or background, if you so choose. Likewise, this Artistry opens up light armor as an option, allowing you to apply your WIS to AC if you choose to do so.
> This requires a stricter stat spread than wearing heavy armor, but it also opens up other enchantment options and gives you a higher speed. Note that you do not have to wear light armor if you do not wish to; you still gain the other benefits even in your typical scale armor. Thanks to the abject silliness that is the Elven Chain Shirt, this Artistry has the highest AC potential of all of them, though it's pretty close to just matching the others if you don't go down that road.
You see, @BESW, @waxeagle, @JoshuaAslanSmith... that's the sort of things I get called to allow or disallow in my campaign...
It requires tracking a lot of fiddly bits and orchestrating the whole group to take advantage of them.
If there's a "group organizer" who takes the runepriest into account, it gets pretty good.
Compared to some other leaders, who can give the group their benefits without needing the group to do anything in particular, the runepriest takes a lot of finesse and coordination.
No, it's fine. It'll be missing its full potential, but it'll still be useful and it might give them good training in the value of tactics and positioning.
The thing about runepriests is, they like to have their allies around them.
One neat trick if your party is melee heavy is to give their 2HW Reach 2, so they can stand behind the frontliners and buff three melee at a time, with the ranged standing behind the runepriest (three squares from the target) and still getting buffed too.
But they've all got high defenses, high HP, and generally slightly lower attacks, which just translates to "combat drags." Marks make combat drag more because they force misses--either with their -2 penalty or by forcing attacks against high-defense targets.
And I have no interest in whiff-fests.
Any monster that looks like it's going to turn a fight into a grind, I modify heavily or toss in the reject bin.
I'd suggest its bad form to delete comments that add context to an answer -- edit that information into the answer first! (Obviously preferable for the person leaving the comment to use the edit button, but the world is seldom perfect.)
This is especially true since there's no notification that...
@shatterspike1 They're like the incarnation of innocence, I guess that people in Krynn believe that without Kenders innocence would be lost. Most good guys don't like that to happen.
I guess it's just like the reason why I don't kill small children on sight. Especially when they start shouting or stomping feet during cerimonies.
You know. The more games I play, the more I realize that balance is entirely overrated. The most fun I've ever had in games has been abusing imbalance. Just like how that's the most fun I've had in life.
Aaaw :) yeah, I've been very envious, too. That Cthulhu.... swoon!
I'm still not sure whether or not to go through with it. Overseas shipping has turned out to be an extra 40ish bucks, so it suddenly turned into quite the investment.
I've been playing Dungeon World for a while and I encourage players to collaborate to make the game really "our game" by using the principles to the letter. But when I look back at the world we created, it looks nothing like a coherent settings. I think this is the consequence of improvisation mi...
I'm no longer satisfied with the weapons and armor available to me. I always end up playing with the gun model from Player's Handbook, and armor with the same CA and properties. Besides this material (PHB), what other sources are there for new armor and weapon types?
I'd suggest its bad form to delete comments that add context to an answer -- edit that information into the answer first! (Obviously preferable for the person leaving the comment to use the edit button, but the world is seldom perfect.)
This is especially true since there's no notification that...
