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From: Anagram | #159
GenesisTwilight posted...
So during all that time, let's say Ashara was disenchanting those sickles, trying to figure out what that heart blade is, and making some potions and alchemy stuff.

I'm afraid you can't disenchant the sickles. Disenchant Magic Item only lets you disenchant items up to your level. The sickles are above level 5. As for the identification, what do you roll for that? And what potions do you want to make?

From: OmarsComin | #004
is it ghosts or vampires who can't see their own reflections?

this is important to answering the question

From: Anagram | #001
When Ramza appears after it's been established that that's impossible, is uh

Is he actually there? Or is it a ghost? Or a hallucination or what?

From: Anagram | #145
Algus? In that she makes you want to kill her a lot? Because... I can literally think of not one trait they have in common besides being white. Like, a single thing.

From: UltimaterializerX | #134
pffffffhahahahahahahahahahaha people will f***ing cry about any goddamn thing they can these days. Beta males being beta males.

This EXACT same topic got made before 13 came out and this whole board whined about the game being a hallway. Now Square gives you all exactly what you want and the same people cry like girls. That map isn't even complicated, either; it *is* the happy medium people have been whining for since FFX. Have any of you people actually played a JRPG from the Playstation 1 era? Vagrant Story and Xenogears absolutely crap all over that map for complexity.

It isn't Square that "doesn't know what they're doing", it's Square's whiny mainstream hipster fangirl customers who want to have their cake and eat it too. This goes to show that casual gamers should never be taken into account during any game's design process because they are all completely clueless as to what they actually want. Whoever coined "the customer is always right" was living in Bizarro World.

13 was great, 13-2 is going to be Hall of Fame caliber. Can't wait to play it.

From: Anagram | #142
KanzarisKelshen posted...
We unloaded a billion dailies on her. The same would have happened had the dominate missed and Valerian fought her instead, for example. On a nova turn, we could have hit for...one second...

-One minor action attack.
-Another minor action attack.
-One charge.
-A second charge hit.
-Two action-pointed attacks with a WIS bonus to damage.
-An extra bonus to damage equal to +15, if properly positioned. This is per hit.
-Potentially, a punishment attack off-turn.

This with two rolls per attack except the double hitter, hitting on a 2, and before adding in Euri and Ashara's buffs, or the owlbear's aura. If we fight a single fight per rest, we will decimate it. We've got three strikers and two leaders. If we're not making mincemeat out of a target, we're doing it wrong. I would honestly suggest keeping the Furies within two to three levels of us *at most*, but giving them phases like Final Fantasy bosses - otherwise, we're going to trash them. Our focus fire damage is obscene.

I'll keep that in mind. It's okay, though. You may have taken out two, but they were the weakest two, anyway, and the others have gimmicks that will be, I expect, more problematic.

PS: Incidentally, what about Marial's fight would have made her so horrible for Valerian? Or was that miss Barbarian you were thinking of?

It was Shursh, yes. You'll have to wait and see what makes her a problem, though.

From: Anagram | #143
By the way, could you guys tell me what you think of Sonya? Out of character, I mean.

From: Anagram | #140
KanzarisKelshen posted...
Sonya didn't get a chance to grant combat advantage. That would have been a considerably easier battle had Valerian hit on 13s and 12s instead of 15s.

(Also, I think that, given all the enabling power we loaded, taking her down like that is fair. Had any part of the combo missed, that would have been a hellish fight.)

You don't understand. Marial had silly attacks like an arrow that dazes the target it hits and then ricochets to other targets, dazing each of them. And she goes down like a punk.

From: OmarsComin | #124
I made a post about how Square jumps from extreme to extreme in map design between games and then said I wanted an FF9 HD Remix

if that's the criteria I guess those posts make a lot more sense!

From: OmarsComin | #109
just as an aside, it's entirely possible that this game will be labyrinthine and horrible

I mean this is Square-Enix guys

they haven't made a good FF game in a decade

From: LeonhartFour | #028
Yeah, that's my main problem with XIII-2, honestly. The game looks fine, but it seems like the whole design process was "Fix what people complained about."

We'll see how it works.

From: Rad Link 5 | #021
I mean just look at the first map. If you want to explore all of the pointless branch-off hallways, you have to backtrack through the same hallways like twenty times. That's just ****ing ridiculous. Someone trying to get 100% could spend way too many hours in just that one dungeon, unless some of those hallways have nothing in them, in which case someone without a guide could spend way too many hours exploring absolutely empty hallways. The only remedy to this is if you move extremely fast in this game, in which case someone just trying to get through the dungeon and ignore all the exploration would get through the dungeon way too fast.

From: Rad Link 5 | #011
No. The pointless branch-offs were much shorter and less numerous.

From: shadosneko | #015
How about we just have a JRPG where every area is accessible from the start on the world map and the only thing stopping you from going there are the levels of the monsters?

That'd be cool.

From: Viktor Vaughn | #014
if you believe ray kurzweil anyway

which i mean

he's a smart dude but

he doesn't know everything

From: Maniac64 | #239
And then HP ended up in 5 different results.

From: muddersmilk | #236
Seriously though Kanz, Tom declared himself the Interim GM and we all rolled to fill our quadrants.

This is what happens when you don't show up.

From: Sceptilesolarbeam | #117
changed

Amulet of Protection +2 (Level 6) (Player's Handbook)
Siberys Shard of the Mage (Level 3) (Eberron Player's Guide)
Thunderwave Quickbeam Staff +2 (Level 8) (Player's Handbook), and this one is so damn cool I'll give up Staff of Ruin for it.
Resplendent Boots (Level 6) (Adventurer's Vault 2)


I care. I care a hell of a lot. Why would my character, who is a psionic armsmaster, have reason to take the armor and weaponry of his enemies (especially the weaponry: Vae Damno was a gift given to Val by another member of the Crisis Band, and has plot and sentimental value to him) for himself, instead of simply refining his craft? Valerian is not Rei. He doesn't collect trophies, and in fact he's more likely to bury someone with the treasures they wore as they died than take them for himself. It just doesn't fit his character, honestly. That's what it comes down to. The tried and true D&Dism of "random loot, get that phat gear on yo' ass" doesn't fly with him.

So he's stupid? >_>. I understand your point, but if items that granted magical abilities to their wielder were commonplace, it would be foolish not to take what you can get. It's not a matter of trophies or treasure, it's about power that you, as a character as well as a player, need to have a chance at success.

From: Sceptilesolarbeam | #115
Who cares about that stuff? >_>. It's not like you'll have to see it, it's not WoW.

As for inherent bonuses + boons, I was considering going that route for my own campaign.

From: Anagram | #113
Wishlists are fine. Like I said, make them and I'll figure out the details. Please post them in this topic, though. I would appreciate it if you also list what book they're each in (yes, this is my fault for not mentioning this earlier, sorry Kanz and Scep).

From: GenesisTwilight | #106
Yeah, there's a feat I can take that will let me create items of my level +4. So enough of this wishlist stuff. I'd honestly prefer getting somewhat random hand/arm/waist/foot items.

From: OctilIery | #082
"I don't consistently have friends available to play the game clearly means I don't have social connections"

Stop defending the godawful system with your idiotic retorts. The fact that you are forced to do duo to progress is terrible.

From: OctilIery | #080
Except for the fact that with a good duo, you're raising your chances of winning a good deal, while playing solo you have none of those advantages while still having to deal with the russian roulette of dealing with duo queues.

So yes, it is damn unfair because it basically means if you care about Elo, at all, you have to duo queue. And that's a horrible, horrible way to have it, but Riot lets it continue to be this way because they're an awful company with little real idea what to do with their game.

From: Anagram | #101
Level-appropriate items, of course, which I think in your case is any item up to level 6 in power. Correct me if I'm wrong, though.

From: CherryCokes | #013
Use whatever criteria you want.

I personally don't see how you can view this as only a matter of voice.

From: Anagram | #093
KanzarisKelshen posted...
Incidentally, should we make wishlists for our items?

Like what? "Here's what I'd like to see in the future, maybe it'd be cool if we happen to run into a bad guy with it or a friendly NPC with crafting skills?" I had just kind of figured the party would meet someone capable with crafting.

From: Anagram | #095
GenesisTwilight posted...
I have the "Enchant Magic Item" ritual >.>

Or that!

From: Pram_the_Oracle | #275
2/10 what

Best song in The Felt.

BTW, was Sunsetter ever used?

From: tereziWright | #268
I'm listening to Cascade Beta and Descend one after the other, and watching Descend with the volume off and Cascade Beta playing instead, and....I'm really just not even seeing a remote similarity here.

From: KimPine | #266
Flare has Dave and Rose drifting to oblivion, it's a very emotional part of the flash. Perhaps it's undermined by the fact SotDD and Jade going Dog Tier is so uplifting and such a memorable moment.

From: Pram_the_Oracle | #262
Am I the only one who likes English?

From: Sceptilesolarbeam | #261
The buildup to Spades shooting Snowman isn't memorable, huh?