>an ancient evil is using a scimitar instead of a longsword because "crits all day everyday"
>>43940430
>His ancient evil is so pathetic it actually uses a melee weapon
>>43940430
>3.5e
>Melee weapons
>Weapons at all
>>43940490
>Implying.
>>43940430
>Scimitar
>Not Falchion
>>43940490
>>43940535
>Not mass-producing Animated Weapons to keep out the riff-raff
>>43940490
>>43940535
>playing caster edition
>>43940592
I never understood how all those parts got an attack in in a single round. Does he rotate his body and rub up against you? In the myths they all had rocks they threw, which made sense how they can all hit you. It would be more appropriate for him to never be flanked and have some kind of all-direction cleave.
>>43940490
>an ancient evil kills the God of Magic so that spellcasting becomes impossible for a couple of years and the youth of the realms will consider becoming fighters again, like when he was a young man
>>43940642
The Pathfinder version just makes it so whenever it attacks, it hits everything within its reach (assuming it beats their AC), rather than giving them 100 attacks in a full attack.
>>43940642
I don't think you understand 3.x logic son. If a monster has x things that can hurt you it gets x attacks. That's why the Tarrasque gets a bite attack, two separate claw attacks, a tail slap, and not one but two separate horn attacks in one round. DBZ characters can't twist their bodies around to make that many attacks in six seconds.
>>43940490
>His ancient evil is so pathetic it uses ez mode magic
>>43940430
>DM asks you to familiarize yourself with a different game, you play oneshots every so often.
>The ancient evil throws the world into chaos by removing the Stone of Law from its pedestal in the Plane of Law.
>Pure Lawful energy turns the Evil into an immovable statue of mysterious, indestructible material.
>"All right, roll up your characters in the other system. that Ancient Evil accidentally changed the laws of the realm."
>>43940767
So your DM changed the setting/system without asking if it would be cool to do that?
>>43940839
He's the damn DM, he can do what he wants. Plus, it's only after introducing everyone to the system and playing one-shots in it for awhile on multiple occasions, so it's not like throwing them into the deep end of a system they don't know already.
Sounds like a fun idea to me.
>>43940839
>>43940880
>>43940880
Personally, I would have it be an inter-campaign thing, one campaign in one system, the other in another.
>>43940880
>sign up to play a Mystara campaign
>"lol nope we're playing Fallout now, hope you like the SPECIAL system"
>>43940430
It's a D&D convention... unique to 3.x? Either way, other gaming systems don't have it.
If there's a cliche, it's good w/ longsword, evil w/ scimitar... but not a hugely overdone cliche in actual games. Tolkien and... who exactly does this on a regular basis?
tl;dr not really a trope. A couple examples in settings. The game effects are limited to one system. Next thread, pls
>>43940707
Why the PCs don't follow that rule? why if they have many things to attack they only attack once very 6 levels?
>>43940430
>>43943575
You can always two weapon fight with your fists or your other hand. 3.x is halfway to being a very awkward physics simulator.
That's why a chicken has stats even though a chicken will never harm a party member - because that chicken could have Enlarge Monster cast on it, and then you'd follow the rules to see how damage a large chicken would do.
>>43940592
>no scimitar
>>43940535
>3.5
>2015
>im-fucking-plying
>>43940592
what a shitty hecatoncheires
>>43943777
I know man, there's only like 25 hands there.
>>43943788
and all the heads are facing forwards
this is what a hecatoncheires should look like
>>43943813
>Wayne Reynolds
>>43943838
you mean the only good thing about pathfinder.
or more accurately the only thing that makes the iconic bearable he is good to talk to about that art.
and damit hes a great artist
>>43943862
>More belts than Tetsuya Nomura
>Great Artist
He has a visually distinct style that is unfortunately imitated by a good deal too many aspiring artists in the fantasy game genre. He is a technically accomplished artist, but he is by no means "great."
But thank you for sharing your opinion.
>>43943907
i think the belts are what makes his art so great they fit so well on an adventurer when you consider just how much shit they carry around.
but i can understand how it could put some people off from his work.
>>43943907
That description is exactly how I feel about Frank Frazetta.
>>43943907
>>43943862
>>43943838
The man can't draw feet, wrists, or ankles, he's hardly technically accomplished.
>>43941121
West vs middle east/asian tends to have this cliche, movies and literature.
