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Funny how I ask people not to make false accusations and then get victimized myself. Why do people love lying on the internet? I am a marshal in DR with a spotless record. I can't speak to any warnings or bans because this is the first I am hearing about them. Maybe because I was never in HR...

I lived and played through the Nero / Nero Alliance split in the 90s. To this day I wonder how many friendships that split cost me. I don’t want to see another split, because splits are bad for players. Some people are saying we’re in a bad place now. Do you blame the guys who bought the game...

Thanks for the replies all. I was thinking about 80 celestial channeling, 20 earth channeling, 5 improved channeling. Earth for efficiency against undead and versatility (the option to pick someone up off the floor). Secondary school channeling doesn't cost much extra. I could do 106 celestial...

Hi friends :) Can people share their channeling secrets please? I am looking for a simple to build / simple to play character. I can get some items, but I don't want too much to keep track of. I don't think I want to learn new verbals. I think channeling my be good. For example a simple to...

I was just thinking how both school spellswords are good relative to fighter now. When I started playing in Ashbury in the 90s, the big characters were around level 20. The biggest fighter swung for 12, next biggest swung 10. I wanted to be the guy swinging 12s. Meanwhile, the big templars would...

While I agree that alchemy is crazy overpowered and getting worse with the new rules, I don't know that moving where poison shields come from would make any difference in terms of the OPness of alchemy. Every shady PC would still need two packets to take down anyone playing the wrong race...

I think this is exactly right, but want to add that it seems we started looking to fix the rules from the wrong angle. It seems someone decided that damage bloat and body bloat were problems. Then we designed rules on that bad foundation. Why is bloat a bad foundation? Because when we measure...

We can see how similar scholars and fighter are at avoiding take-outs in playtesting. A few thoughts: To have fun, fighters usually want to be on the front line. Takeout effects are likely to target people in front. When fighters can't melee, the class is broken. If (compared to fighters)...

To me the problem is with Kyn being the superior high makeup race for most minmaxers. I agree that high orcs get shafted a bit, but so do high ogre fighters with racial resolute. I think it's problematic to say that players should just choose a race for RP reasons when there are pretty powerful...

The purpose of this post is to provide a framework for playtest feedback based on the stated intentions for the new rules. Normally, it would be better to do this kind of work before writing and testing new rules. Also, it would be better to have started with performance objectives. But I think...

I agree that simpler isn't always best, but I'm asking about a pretty specific context. I'm asking because it seems to me that ARC and owners want fewer mistakes: "ARC expanded the scope in an aim to make the game friendlier to new players and remove redundancies as well as exceptions. Over many...

if people are still screwing up their defensive calls, the better solution might be simpler rules instead of longer verbals. Basically mistakes should be super rare instead of so common that we need to listen to everyone's long verbals to see if they are doing it right.

Same, and I find this weird. It seems like we are telling min maxers to take the martial race down caster lane while saying if you want to be a fighter you'd better play a different race. Hopefully the next version of resolute makes the racial useful for fighters.

Regarding the first concern, playtesting should tell us if combat encounters are getting quicker. But I agree that the new rules promote less body and that spell damage will probably take out NPCs quickly. Part of that is there may be more casters (the cost for spell damage never increases while...

Not for me. I still end up on the ground like a chump instead holding my ground like a hero. I would a RP requirement, just a few words up to the player (you shall not pass) and then make it so you can't be reduced below 1 for a few seconds. 5 may be too strong though.

Yeah I did not get that it worked against spell damage. But damage spells are probably the s fighters fear least.

I thought it looked bad on paper. And I think racial resolute is terrible for a race that should be decent fighters. I think the problem is that resolute doesn't let you be all you can't be. If a better fighter is attacking you, even multiple resolute won't save you. It needs a timer, like you...

Can you post some of the level 30 plus fighter builds people enjoyed during the playtests? I had trouble building them but could be I am stuck in old ways of thinking.

I think we will see fewer high level fighters (and rogues). Just so we're all on the same page, are we talking level 30+ or what did you have in mind? I think the new rules encourage high level players to go scholar or templar. I tried building a few (I posted one on Matt's character thread)...

It is kind of a double whammy. Fighters and rogues have to spend more build for profs/backstabs as they increase in level and they have to set aside crit attacks or back attacks to fuel some items. Meanwhile scholars always pay the same price for their spells and don't have to use build to power...