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Posted by: JongWK Apr 8 2004, 09:36 PM

http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?threadid=142565&perpage=30&pagenumber=1

Posted by: nezumi Apr 8 2004, 10:14 PM

This is why I stopped playing DnD... At least in shadowrun you have to cheat to reach quite such obscene levels of munchiness.

Posted by: Nath Apr 8 2004, 10:16 PM

I really liked the moment they reach 600 millions pounds doing 3 millions of D6 of damage, and start arguing over the issue of a one pound overload But it's great too when they calculate the Earth number of hit points...

Posted by: Austere Emancipator Apr 8 2004, 11:38 PM

What I find odd is that they're all going on about terminal velocities and how that sort of mass should kill anyone if the rules of the game followed rules of physics... But no one seems to mind that anything organic between those 9-figure pound iridium balls and earths core would immediately be squished to a smooth paste and pressed deep into the crust.

And those HP estimates are way off because of densities. Earths core has got to have way more HPs than normal iron per unit of volume!

Posted by: shadd4d Apr 11 2004, 11:51 AM

That's just mildly disturbing. At least Shadowrun has some claim to balance, but any game system can be munchnkined. GURPS just seems to be the worst in my experience (as I remember from my college roommate, lifetime GURPS player, who minmaxed a character using edges).

Don

Posted by: Moonstone Spider Apr 14 2004, 07:45 PM

I couldn't bear to read anymore after the third page where they start claiming that if you interpret the rules properly a character could use the entire Universe as a thrown weapon.

Posted by: TinkerGnome Apr 14 2004, 08:09 PM

I love gamers.

Posted by: Sunday_Gamer Apr 17 2004, 09:10 PM

Why am I reminded of one of the joke characters from Hero System?

This guy is like Planet Man ( who throws planets at people )

Sunday

Posted by: Scarab Apr 17 2004, 10:23 PM

Heh. I love stuff like that in D&D. I made a monk that could run at a speed of about 350 km/h once.

Of course, I'd never do stuff like that in the game. My rule of thumb as a DM: anything and everything the players do, can and will be used against them sooner or later.

Posted by: Arethusa Apr 18 2004, 03:09 AM

I can't believe there was a time when I tried to make DnD more realistic with a set of gritty combat houserules. Good lord, the hell was I thinking...

Ah to be young again and new to RPGs. That was, what, two years ago?

Posted by: Sammiel Apr 18 2004, 05:48 AM

its a great laugh for reading. the powergaminess brings shame to my sorcerer/contemplative.

Posted by: mfb Apr 18 2004, 06:12 AM

haha, yeah, SR is the epitome of balanced gaming. woo, to be young again and new to RPGs!

Posted by: Kakkaraun Apr 19 2004, 05:39 PM

SR might not be the most balanced thing ever, but I think it's fairly realistic. At least compared to the "table top video game" experience of DnD.

Posted by: Arethusa Apr 19 2004, 08:23 PM

That isn't much of a comparison. I mean, apple juice is sweet in comparison to drinking your own piss, but it doesn't really help me clarify anything.

Posted by: Kakkaraun Apr 19 2004, 11:59 PM

...that was actually a really great analogy comparing the gaming experience of SR and DnD...what you just said there...heh.

Posted by: JongWK Apr 20 2004, 09:28 PM

Want to know something else? I posted that link on a d20 website, and the first answer I had was "I can easily double that".

Worst thing is, he did. Just add spikes and damage doubles.

Posted by: Scarab Apr 20 2004, 09:45 PM

When all else fails, add spikes and bigger shoulder pads.

Posted by: Phaeton Apr 21 2004, 12:51 AM

...J*sus...No comment, fellow Dumpshockers. *rendered speechless by the link*