Josh Sawyer's Pillars of Eternity Tabletop RPG

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[Cryomancer]

Does this game has OHK spells? Every good magical TT RPG has it

• GURPS has OHK magic
• Vampire: The Masquerade too.
• Mage : The ascension too.
• Lamentations of the flame princess too.
• Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea too.
  
• D&D 1/2/3E too.
• Pathfinder 1E too.

Even PF2E, which is vastly inferior to 1E has SOME spells which OHK on critical like finger of death.

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

This beard and moustaches looks like shit, what a strange fashion. You could be one of avatars in Might & Magic VI.

 

[Roguey]

Does this game has OHK spells? Every good magical TT RPG has it

Assuming it's like the games, there are two spells (Death Ring for wizards, Detonate for ciphers) that will outright destroy any target that has 20% or less of its health left. Sawyer is against all-or-nothing save-or-die spells.

 

[Cryomancer]

y target that has 20% or less of its health left. Sawyer is against all-or-nothing save-or-die spells.

Thanks. Will be a low lethality boredon, but in table.

 

[Butter]

There's no way he made the TT combat as low lethality as the CRPG, right? It would take all day to do a single combat encounter.

 

[Cryomancer]

There's no way he made the TT combat as low lethality as the CRPG, right? It would take all day to do a single combat encounter.

D&D 4E disagrees with you.

Yes, there is mobs with hundreds of hit points if not thousands on mid levels and mid levels spells like disintegrate which would OHK then on any previous edition or other TT game, just dishes 4d10 + int mod damage and a ongoing minor damage. Why anyone would play his CRPG over D&D 5E, 3E, 2E, 1E or any retroclone?

 

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[Thac0]

It looks like a really tanky ruleset.
The huge attack that killed one of his guys did 1d12+3d6.
That is 16 damage average. All his doods have above 30 hp.
So even if you do an all out super duper attack you only take about half someone's hp bar on average, which sounds very par for the course for the pillars balance.
Also the units seem to have soak on top of all that hp. Soak, if it works like in other pnps, is flat damage resist (formerly DR). If you have a unit with 37 health and 11 soak (that barbarian chick) it is save to say that that chara can take a few dozen swings from normal attacks, unless soak is limited in some form.

 

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[Roguey]

I guess it's on brand for Sawyer to get really enthusiastic about some incredibly boring stuff that only a few people will ultimately care about.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Is that part of defining autism and boring interests?

 

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[ERYFKRAD]

A german does the same damn thing when making stuff up, what a twist.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Can't see twatter. Whats it say?

 

[0sacred]

I guess it's on brand for Sawyer to get really enthusiastic about some incredibly boring stuff that only a few people will ultimately care about.

seems like he just has to share the great decisions his brainlet group is making

also:

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Infinitron how much would I have to pay you to stop posting in this thread

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

This thread is a vital resource documenting Sawyer's slow descent into madness. Dude is basically talking to himself about a game he is playing with himself.

 

[Roguey]

Can't see twatter. Whats it say?

When I do something in the Pillars tabletop game and then remember the same thing existed in Deadfire and I check how we did it there and it's the same way because I also did that.

Hmm. I should make Berath's Spiritual Weapon a long sword that does Corrode damage. Wait I should check to s- yes! Yes! Brilliant.

His senility makes him forget, but the autism ensures he will always do things exactly the way he did them before.