Re: Coming back to DnD

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:39:52 -0800, "Malachias Invictus"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> carved upon a tablet of ether:

> Yes: What crack are you on?  Sorry, but the Bard was not that great.  It
> *certainly* was not the powergamer's primary choice.

It did give you _lots_ of hit points, though. However that fact that
your THAC0 was fixed at what you ended up with from your fighter days
was pretty suckful, as was the fact that you had to live through your
period of dual-classing to get there, and so on.

> ...only if the GURPS player had no imagination.

Heh. Just look at all those threads in many forums on how this
advantage, or that spell, or that psi power is b0rked because it can
be munchkinized.
 
> > Case in point was this example given in Dragon #99's "History of a
> > game that failed":
> >
> > Lord Arrogo, a 15th-level fighter with plate
> > mail +5, a shield +5, and a dexterity 18 (AC -12), hammer of thunderbolts,
> > gauntlets of ogre, power, a girdle of storm giant strength, ring of fire
> > resistance, and ring of spell turning. vs the huge, ancient red dragon
> > Feuerhauch (AC -1)
> 
> Oh, you mean when Dragons were pussies?  A middlin' to upper level Dragon
> would stomp that Fighter's ass in 3.5E, let alone a Great Wyrm.

Oh yeah.

-- 
Rupert Boleyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Just because the truth will set you free doesn't mean the truth itself
should be free."