Recent content by Mori

Because if you can't take things out in at most two shots the high-risk/high-reward "sneak behind the lines and murder an enemy before running away as fast as your legs can carry you" play style isn't possible, and that is fun for some of us.

In the section "Matters of Life and Death" is says: "they will have to abide by the rules for carrying another body (no running except for a few seconds with an Endow spell, etc.)" Are those rules specifically defined anywhere? The three-count section implies that it might not be a three-count...

This may also explain why Scout is so uncompelling: the thing that makes Spell Swords and Adepts cool is the abilities that people in one class might want from another. In order for Scout to be compelling, Fighters would need something big that we regret giving up by not buying Stealth skills.

The idea that fighters have to always be obviously better to rogues, as judged by people who play fighters, is to going to make it pretty hard to come up with something that is both acceptable and compelling to people who do play rogues. If that is an actual design constraint, I don't really...

On the field this weekend I made a call that if a hit was too hard, you should inform the player and not take the damage and should bring it to the attention of a marshal later, but searching the rule book afterwards there doesn't seem to be any explicit indication of how to respond to a...

Rogue-into-someday-Scout. I have one Doom Blow to stack on my three Retributions and that's in a game that had things that took extra hurt from curses. It doesn't do much of anything for flavor. It makes things use a Parry/Dodge/Evade/Cloak/Resist Curse instead of Parry/Dodge/Evade/Resilience...

Scout is not scary-good: it has none of the synergies that Spell Sword and Adept get, a high cognitive load (you have ten seconds to figure out which of seven possible defense you have left, before we get to protectives, spell parries, racials, reposts and retaliations, that apply to this...

(My hypothesis on Scout is the lack of Improved Slay/Improved Assassinate synergy leaves them with significantly less damage output than either class could get alone, given how important those bursts are being.)

Are other chapters seeing Rogue archers? I haven't seen any, personally. The lack of the 1.5 multiplier Fighters get from profs on bows and it taking 3 buys of Improved Assassinate/Improved Slay before Assassinate catches up to Slay heavy crossbow damage has thus far seemed to be dealbreakers.

The problem with rogue from my point of view (as someone who's main'ed rogue since 2008-ish) is that what had been fun about Rogue isn't as fun anymore. Without an effect that has an extremely strong possibility of taking someone down in a single hit, you can't play the extreme waylay game...

@Durnic Thank you for actually answering my question. Everyone else: I'm so sorry me actually role playing my race gets in the way of your rules theorycraft. Now that I've confirmed making it suck for MWEs was intentional, we can all move on.

The reason my friends wouldn't use it around me is because I would look at them like they had just kicked a puppy and then they would feel bad. Rules people may not care, but ask Cedric if he threw Charm in front of Issalura.

I felt your reply, which amounts to "well, it isn't *required* that you role play" was patronizing and dismissive, which is why I responded in kind. I don't need you to tell me I'm wrong to play my character the way I've always played her, and your continued attempts to explain to me how I...

I'm glad you are looking forward to it, and like I said above by embracing Rogue as a different play style of melee fighter I think there is a lot of potential there. It is just unrelated to the rogue game many of us have been playing.

If I were a min-maxer I wouldn't play a race that spent half a level on craftsman anyway and I'm sure it's possible to rationalize why it's fine, especially if it wouldn't affect your characters: I just wanted to be sure people were disadvantaging MWEs on purpose rather than by accident.