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On October 24 2015 02:16 Seuss wrote:
Solars are glowy demi-gods of justice. They don't have wings, but that's close enough to angels that I'm sure they're what Ketara is alluding to and the lack of wings probably doesn't bother him.

You could probably invent a custom charm to temporarily give you wings anyway.

On October 24 2015 02:29 Gahlo wrote:

Yup. NWN was 3 and NWN2 was 3.5

On October 24 2015 02:36 Zdrastochye wrote:


Is 3E and 3.5E still popular among table top D&D players?

Happy Urfday juicy dad Mordek.

On October 24 2015 02:32 mordek wrote:
It's my birfday so some of my brothers are coming into town. Gonna play some Dominion and other board games probably :3

On October 24 2015 03:06 Zdrastochye wrote:
Is Pathfinder similar to 3.5?

On October 24 2015 02:32 mordek wrote:
It's my birfday so some of my brothers are coming into town. Gonna play some Dominion and other board games probably :3

On October 24 2015 03:17 Holyflare wrote:



happy burfffdayyyyyy!

Today is a great day, someone just put an offer on my house and so will be very soon moving in with my gf, yay <3! (dick headed withdrawals pending)

On October 24 2015 03:16 TheYango wrote:

Yes.

The core design is the same, but certain aspects of the system were cleaned up. Of note:

- XP gain cleaned up and variant XP gain options introduced that allow you to better tailor the power growth of a party (party leveling up and gaining unrealistically powerful abilities too quickly is a problem of 3E)
- Rules for special combat maneuvers vastly simplified (grappling, bull rushing, sundering, disarming, etc. are all pointlessly complicated in 3E)
- Multiclassing tweaked to be less punishing/more flexible (you don't get an XP penalty but instead get minor bonus stats for staying single-classed). 3E multiclassing was pointlessly punishing for players who didn't know what they were doing while failing to be a deterrent for players who abused the fact that prestige classes don't count toward the multiclass XP penalty in 3E.
- Feats are granted more frequently but are less powerful (every odd level rather than every 3rd level)
- Skill system cleaned up. Pointlessly specific skills were aggregated, the level 1 4x skill points granted was removed, and the class/cross-class distinction was removed for skill point spending/caps. You instead just get a flat +3 to skills your class is proficient in if you've spent skill points in them. Much simpler, less bookkeeping, and less prone to powergaming abuses.
- More class abilities, spread out across class levels, most of which scale with class levels. This accomplishes 2 things: 1) discourages 1-level "dipping" to powergame and get level 1 value abilities, and 2) avoids "dead levels"--levels where a character does not gain any notable new abilities, which are universally regarded as bad design
- Rebalance of spells. Cantrips are at-will like in 5E, general cleanup of acknowledged broken spells in 3E (polymorph neutered, rebalance of all XP-cost spells to not have XP costs but produce correspondingly weaker effects)

A lot of similar changes were made in 5E, though 5E also introduced some vastly more radical design philosophy changes, partly inherited from 4E. Pathfinder is preferable for people who want that 3.5E "feel", while 5E has somewhat smoother and slower progression (attack bonuses/skills don't scale up on a level-by-level basis, lower rate of gold and magic item acquisition, and systemic restrictions on certain aspects of spellcasting tend to temper a party's overall power growth--making for a very different campaign experience from 3.5E/Pathfinder).

On October 24 2015 04:44 Zdrastochye wrote:
I don't have enough creativity in me to imagine a character, I'm so bad at roleplaying stuff like D&D and Mafia are really not anything I can do successfully.

tl:dr I suck at acting.