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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s this week’s Super-sized episode of UnderDiscussion! This week on the show we discuss superhero movies.This episode clocks in at about an hour and 45 minutes.
Please take the 2012 Podcast Listener survey and show your support for UnderDiscussion: The Undergopher Podcast. Today on UnderDiscussion I present what has to be the longest bonus episode we’ve recorded to date. Hooligan and I got together with the aim of recording “something” and something is what we got. For close to an hour we discuss [...]
Please take the 2012 Podcast Listener survey and show your support for UnderDiscussion: The Undergopher Podcast. This week Hooligan and 8one6 sit down for a brief discussion of Fantasy Flight’s Warhammer 40k RPG Deathwatch. We touch on the fluff, the mechanics, and rant a bit about Games Workshop. This episode clocks in at about 30 minutes.
This week on UnderDiscussion WDR and Hooligan take advantage of 8one6′s absence to talk about a topic they’re more passionate about then even RPGs: Sports. They talk about their favorites, about the surprising similarities between roleplayers and sports fans, and get a little insightful as to the reason the two groups don’t always overlap. This episode clocks in [...]
Yes, we are still alive! An to prove that fact we had Kat join us for this episode about gaming in public. We discuss some pros, some cons, and as always relate a few gamer stories from the days of yore. This one clocks in at about 25 minutes.
This week on Underdiscussion Kat joins us to discuss RPG settings. General differences, a few specifics, and finally our favorites. This episode clocks in at about 43 minutes.
For this week’s bonus episode Slacker joined us for a quick game of the classic eurogame Puerto Rico. This episode clocks in at 46 minutes.

UnderDiscussion 66: Looking forward to 2012

Feb 272012

Recorded all the way back in January, Slacker joined Hooligan, WDR and I to discuss everything geek that we’re looking forward to in 2012. This episode clocks in at just over an hour.

A quick correction, we mentioned Far West, but couldn’t quite remember the name. It is indeed Far West.

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Oakthrash, Captain of the Nature's Bane

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Feb 242012

Looking around my old files I found this little gem. Presented for your approval, straight from the days of the Pathfinder Beta playtest, is Captain Oakthrash. His huge ironclad ship, The Nature’s Bane, and it’s treant crew were the terror of high space. Forgive the formatting, I wasn’t used to the new Bestiary format at the time.

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Captain Oakthrash
Huge Plant
Hit Dice: 10d10 +82 (141 hp)
Initiative: +3
Speed: 30 ft.
Armor Class: 30 (-2 size, -1 Dex, +13 natural, +2 armor training, +8 armor), 7 Touch, 30 Flatfooted
Base Attack/CMB: +10/+22
Attack: +23 Melee (Hg mstr Greatsword 6d6+17/17-20×2)
Full Attack: +23/+18 Melee (Hg mstr Greatsword 6d6+17/17-20×2)
Space/Reach: 15 ft./15 ft.
Special attacks: Animate trees, double damage against objects, Trample 2d6+13, Weapon mastery (+2/+2d6)
Special qualities: DR 10/Slashing, low light vision, plant traits, vulnerability to fire, bravery
Saves: Fort +7, Ref +3, Will +3
Abilities: Str 30, Dex 8, Con 22, Int 12, Wis 16, Cha 12
Skills:
Feats: Blind-fight, Endurance, Diehard, Improved Critical (Greatsword), Improved initiative, Power Attack (-10/+10), Overhand chop (standard, +5 dmg), Weapon focus (Greatsword), Backswing (+5 dmg first atk during full atk), Weapon specialization (Greatsword), Greater Weapon Focus (Greatsword)
Treasure: Huge Masterwork Greatsword, Huge masterwork Fullplate

Bravery (Ex): +3 bonus to will saves vs fear.

Animate Trees (Sp):
A treant can animate trees within 180 feet at will, controlling up to two trees at a time. It takes 1 full round for a normal tree to uproot itself. Thereafter it moves at a speed of 10 feet and fights as a treant in all respects. Animated trees lose their ability to move if the treant that animated them is incapacitated or moves out of range. The ability is otherwise similar to liveoak (caster level 12th). Animated trees have the same vulnerability to fire that a treant has.

Double Damage against Objects (Ex)
A treant or animated tree that makes a full attack against an object or structure deals double damage.

Trample (Ex)
Reflex DC 22 half. The save DC is Strength-based.

I’m going to have to go back and bring this up to current Pathfinder standard someday.

Random Quotes Wednesday 2/15

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Feb 152012

Let’s get to quotin’

Actually, as a consequence of a really bizarre interaction of the Higgs boson, the current common language of all Material Plane semi-European cultures is, in fact, modern English. Earth, Golarion, Toril, Krynn, Oerth, Aebrynis, Scarn, it’s all the same language.
Thank you for your very helpful commentary.This message is automated to tell you that it while the DM in question does and will continue to make homebrew items he prefers when possible to use the stuff that’s already there as it would make life easier and less time is spent on a side thing. Additionally, the fact is not all GMs like having players submit homebrew due to the largely varying quality of it.
he’s so fucking suave his accent wears a tuxedo
No, running back into a burning inn to rescue the people who spit on me at dinner makes my characters heroic.

Anyone else find it hilarious how most gorups always have one guy that has really high charisma?

“Hello I’m Sir Face of Charmingston. Do not be alramed heh, you’re merely feeling the efects of an arbitrarily high diplomacy roll-please no autographs-allow me to introduce my companions.
This is Noodly mcpizzaoldface the highly intelligent and all powerful wizard.
This is Loner McGothkid the stealthy assassin.
And this is AM BARBARIAN I here tell he sunders things.
Don’t mind their smell or their terrible fashion sense, please, we’ll just pay less than normal for a night here and, heh, be out of your hair.
Oh? Oh them? Oh they’re just my fangirls, just ignore them. I certainly do.
Ciao~!!”

I rolled my eyes so hard my head flew off my shoulders
“The plan is astoundingly short-sighted…clearly dwarves are behind this!”
If this kind of thing is possible, then it’s possible to exploit.
I don’t think you guys are giving him enough credit. It takes a very brave individual to steal from a group of people that just killed all the possible witnesses.
Sorry, but if you aren’t willing to invest some minimal effort like a transatlantic flight, you don’t deserve any of my bread.

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Random Quotes Wednesday 2/8

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Feb 082012

I could talk about [topical topic X] but this post was written a month ago.

It’s shocking how much I don’t care.
The brilliant thing that Crane Style does let you do? Tank a T-Rex, as a monk (yes, or anyone really), at no risk to yourself! I have to admit, that’s awesome. Definitely a feature, not a bug. I’m just seeing this T-Rex come charging over the hill and the monk stepping forward, narrowing his eyes and saying “Don’t worry, guys. I got this.”
No, it’s definitely a solution. If one thing doesn’t work, use something else.
So expect D&D to be much like you’d expect Magic: The Warhammer Fantasy Battles would be if the two games got together and had progeny.
There’s so many people trying to put the cork back in the elephant I almost missed the blast.
“They’ve actually managed to cast someone with less dramatic range than Schwarzenegger.”
The rule for Colin Farrell movies is Irish Accent = Good Movie, Other Accent = Bad Movie.
That uncertainty is part of what makes the game challenging and different from other games, and it can force players to guess about their best course of action, which in my experience often leads to roleplaying.
Roleplaying and building an optimal character are not exclusive. Having a less than optimal character does not make you a better at roleplaying, no matter how you look at it.

These are filler to make the blog look active in-between podcast episodes.

Random Quotes Wednesday 2/1

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Feb 012012

What are you planing to do with your extra day this month?

And they will never stop complaining. It will always be something. Because once you start giving people’s opinions the illusion of moral force, they get addicted to the power of complaining. So they don’t ever stop. The only way to deal with that is to ignore them.
Don’t confuse me thinking very little of your argument with an inability to comprehend what you’re saying.
Prices in this area have been known to spike .25 -.30 cents over night. I can only assume one of the sheiks camels died, or spat in the eye of the local shaman the previous day.
Do you really have an ability if the DM never lets it come into play?
What I will say is that the FDA has guidelines for how much rat poop can show up in your food. Same with hair, dangerous chemicals, etc. Those numbers are not zero, because they *can’t* be zero. Rat poop happens. What they’ve done is set the bar as high as seems feasible (and, hopefully, safe).
Yes, if only we had a gear quality mechanic we could draw on and and use to gauge how well a particular piece of kit functions. But alas, such a thing most definitely does not exist on page 296/297 of the Core rulebook. *cough*
There’s some GMing advice I read somewhere: “When in doubt, err on the side of awesome.”
“And for the record, her penis was very charismatic.”
Charisma is not a measure of a character’s beauty. Hitler had a high charisma, and he was uglier than a sack of smashed @$$holes.
Conversely, you could simply have no idea what actual optimal choices are, and your character is gimptastic in practice. I’ve sat at enough PFS tables with people who thought their characters were the end all be all, but were in fact a boat anchor. You might well be in the category.

Me I’m planing something. Oh yes. Something that’s totally not stay home and play minecraft.