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Started by DeeL, October 31, 2006, 10:45:45 PM

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DeeL

Do Not Want my sorcerers to be without the quickened feat.

Do Not Want sorcerers to be descended from dragons.

Do Not Want half-orcs to be so constrained in their range of excellence.

Do Not Want the undead to be inherently evil - even the mindless ones.

Do Not Want warlocks to be so associated with the powers of evil.

Do Not Want hexblades to be unable to achieve Goodness.

Do Not Want spellscales to pop up as children of sorcerers of any race, for no reason.

Do Not Want divine minds to exist.

Do Not Want to hear about how I can make this stuff the way I want it in my own campaign setting.  I got that.  I am making my own campaign setting, and I'm making it my way.  I can do that.

But part of the basic principle of my setting is that it can include the material from any supplement.  And each supplement coming out from WotC includes material that I have to houserule my way around, because it supports elements from previous publications that I Do Not Want!!!!
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DeeL

I did not ask for, did not receive, and will not pay for the item in Line 1 of your invoice, 'tax'...

     -From a letter to the IRS from one 'Titanic' Thompson, con-man and gambler.
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CYMRO

Do Not Want another kidney stone.

Do Not Want Barbarians to exist as a class. :explode:


Xathan

Quote from: PONTIFEX BRASSICUS CYMRO XIIIDo Not Want Barbarians to exist as a class. :explode:



Oh, come on. Barbarians are far, far better than, say, Paladins.
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CYMRO

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Quote from: PONTIFEX BRASSICUS CYMRO XIIIDo Not Want Barbarians to exist as a class. :explode:



Oh, come on. Barbarians are far, far better than, say, Paladins.

Do Not Want Barbarians or Paladins to exist as a class.

SA

Do Not Want smite evil to be such a weak-ass class feature.  Only Cha bonus to attack rolls and level bonus to damage ONCE PER DAY???  This is their frikkin' DEFINING CLASS FEATURE, the ability to channel your righteousness through your exalted blade so that your enemies might feel your holy wrath, and it only has a marginally better chance of success than a standard attack! Heck, a pally might as well just sacrifice for a level of sorcerer and capitalise on the possible FOUR True Strikes a day.  At least then their "valiant strike fuelled by the powers of Good" would actually look the part.  As a matter of fact, just go all-out sorcerer, and at twentieth level wander the lands muttering wail of the banshee like a mantra (I call it: Night of a Thousand Wails).  Oh, for the days when power word kill was not restricted to a single foe!

Do Not Want Vancian magic.  That's the one thing keeping me from implementing Nnight of a Thousand Wails".  I mean, who says spending all your arcane energy on a single life-quenching spell is overpowered?  If I want to cast twenty polar rays in two minutes, that should be my prerogative.

Do Not Want Mialee to even exist.  What the hell is she, anyway?  Some kind of anthropomorphic insect?  So much for racial archetypes...

Raelifin

Do Not Want another month to pass with no ROTFLMAO emoticon! :yumm:

beejazz

Quote from: Salacious AngelDo Not Want Mialee to even exist.  What the hell is she, anyway?  Some kind of anthropomorphic insect?  So much for racial archetypes...

Yeah... fugly elf chick...
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England.
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SA

Do Not Want Uwe Boll to make Far Cry or Postal.

Do Not Want to think about the fact that he has the rights to both films.

Do Not Want Uwe Boll to ever acquire Half Life or... any other game.

Except Big Rigs.  Somehow, that seems oddly appropriate...

Do Not Want to hear another noob say that Oblivion was better than Morrowind (or even a serviceable RPG).

Do Not Want Fallout 3 to be re-relagated to the status of vaporware.  C'mon Bethesda, time to make up for your laxity with some hardcore tongue-in-cheek, post-apocalyptic action.  With two-headed cows.

Ishmayl-Retired

Do Not Want to go one step further without Hobgoblins beside me as a playable class.

Do Not Want Paladins, Rangers, or Bards to ever be represented as a core class.

Do Not Want X-Men 3: The Last Stand to exist in any capacity unless time reverts itself and Bryan Singer directs it.  I mean, seriously, would the Wachowski Brothers say they were writing an epic trilogy if they directed the first two movies, but then hired Chris Columbus to write and direct the third?
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SilvercatMoonpaw

Do not want class features to be pre-defined.

Do not want save numbers and BAB to be pre-defined.

Do not want skills and skill points to be pre-defined.

Do not want racial features to be pre-defined.

Do not want copcious amounts of magic items to define the usefulness of a character.

Do not want combat skill to define the usefulness of a character.

Do not want to like D&D despite all its flaws.
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Wensleydale

Do not want the Lawful Stupid alignment to exist! EVER! EVEREVEREVER!

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DO NOT WANT class and level to have tangible, observable "labels" in the game world.

DO NOT WANT five-minute-a-day omnipotence for spellcasters.

DO NOT WANT magic to supplant military force as the go-to method of large-scale destruction.

DO NOT WANT characters' "person-ness" to be overridden by game stats, ever.

DO NOT WANT characters' "person-ness" to be summed up entirely by alignment, ever.

DO NOT WANT magic common enough to become mundane through overuse.

DO NOT WANT the assumption and expectation that PCs should and will be bedecked in dozens of magic gewgaws.

DO NOT WANT oversimplified, black-and-white issues of morality.

DO NOT WANT thirty-two billion subraces, elven or otherwise.

DO NOT WANT combat to be the sole problem-solving process in a game... or even (necessarily) the primary one.

DO NOT WANT the choices made by players to be taken out of the central spotlight, by anything.

DO NOT WANT death to lose its sting.

[ooc]DO NOT WANT to write my term paper. :( [/ooc]
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brainface

QuoteDO NOT WANT death to lose its sting.
DO NOT WANT death's sting!
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