Josh Sawyer's Pillars of Eternity Tabletop RPG

[luj1]

> Unbalanced
> Sawyer

Chose one.

PoE didnt end up balanced, thats the funny thing

certain races/clases are god tier compared to others

 

[Roguey]

PoE didnt end up balanced, thats the funny thing

certain races/clases are god tier compared to others

Sawyer stated that the goal of having no bad builds was more important than having no builds clearly superior to other builds.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

And we ended up with garbage.

 

[luj1]

PoE didnt end up balanced, thats the funny thing

certain races/clases are god tier compared to others

Sawyer stated that the goal of having no bad builds was more important than having no builds clearly superior to other builds.

It doesn't matter what he *stated*, he failed in both.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

this thread is still in the wrong section, it should be in the gazebo

 

[Tenebris]

Sawyer stated that the goal of having no bad builds was more important than having no builds clearly superior to other builds.

And thanks to that he made every class feel boring.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Hey bad design is bad design. Let's just call a spade a spade on this one.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I hope these people get paid for this. Imagine spending your free time hanging out with Sawyer to play his homebrew D&D knock off.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Double double overtime doesn't even begin to make up for that shit.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

this thread is still in the wrong section, it should be in the gazebo

I will not have Sawyer in the same section where we discuss Gygax et al, thank you very much.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Infinitron Twatter again I'm guessing?

 

[pomenitul]

Have you tried… not caring? It pains me to see you so enthralled with Joshua Eric Sawyer. Poor thing, you must be hurting.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Have you tried… not caring?

Sir, this is the codex.

 

[Infinitron]

Josh sees the light!!

 

[Infinitron]

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Crom on a cracker, dude.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Infinitron]

The adventure continues:

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Bester]

^ Typical sawyer design. Some contrived, abstract function is declared, and sawyer thinks this is ok.

The entire premise of fantasy is a return to where objects' function was tied to its appearance, a "return to simpler times". And sure, a glove can be magical. Let it do its function then. You grab smth while wearing a glove, it goes into an extradimensional space. Then you can make it appear in your hand at will. Does a glove function as a garrote? No more than a knife functions as a garrote. If you're going to strangle someone just wearing gloves, it has to be from the front. Your hands will be tied up, while the opponent can gouge our your eyes. You only strangle someone from behind arms or a cord. What he comes up with just doesn't work. It's always abstract. Not to mention, strangling from the front is reminiscent of absolutely cheap B-tier series like the original Star Trek circa 1969. It's when karate punches on the shoulder made people lose consciousness. It's ridiculous to the highest of levels.

He's the one that said "you know what, D&D was abstract. You could fall off a castle and take flat damage, then hop up and go on. So being abstract is fine". No, it's not. D&D had a few ridiculous abstractions, for which it was critiqued. That's not a reason to make your entire rpg completely abstract and detached from reality.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Holy cracker! I am so excited! I anticipate this will be picked up by no less than four people (one of which will be Sawyer's mom).

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Theodora]

more pnp systems by people with obvious passion and experience can't be a bad thing

 

[ERYFKRAD]

more pnp systems by people with obvious passion and experience can't be a bad thing

Right but this is about Sawyer's game