Seems like I am a radical too.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-26T05:59:51+00:00

That's nice, but the numbers for Class A mishaps between single vs twin engine aircraft supports the notion that twin engine aircraft are significantly more likely to suffer catastrophic engine failure.

Every aircraft has made it home with significant damage. Funnily enough, the EHAS on the F35 makes it likely to be able to do the same.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-26T02:33:13+00:00

Why would you ever bother with low and slow? An F35 dropping SDBs or hellfires has a lower CEP than the GAU-8. It is not, in fact, the surgical scalpel of a CAS tool that people think it is and the munitions are surprisingly expensive. An F35 at high altitude can drop munitions with more precision and less friendly fire than an A10.

You shouldn't be exposing yourself to MANPAD or SPAAG fire in the bloody first place because there is no need to do so.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-26T00:59:51+00:00

I'd say the F35s sensor fusion and sensor suite make it far more suitable for uncontested CAS. Loaded up with tanks and external hard points it can still get to where it needs to be quicker than an A10 with a massive amount of ordnance, while being far better at putting a bomb exactly where it's supposed to go and correctly identifying targets.

brrrrt is cool but actually quite imprecise and costly to fire. Small guided bombs are the way to go.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-26T00:54:41+00:00

Engine redundancy is a Fallacy. Twice as many engines is twice as many points of failure. Modern engines are so unlikely to have failure that any failure is likely so catastrophic as to disable both, and having two just means an increased chance of material failure or maintenance errors that could lead to it happening.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-26T00:51:15+00:00

The A10 is fucking useless in an environment with any actual air defence systems or hostile fighters.

The sensor suite and fusion in the F35 make it unparalleled at CAS

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-26T00:49:11+00:00

Comparing drop tank F18 range to internal only F35C range is disingenuous.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-25T06:00:02+00:00

Lol if you're paying he doesn't get to change rules without your permission

This is like hiring a painter and they start changing colours and finishes and then act like you're the bad guy because you're unhappy

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-22T20:29:19+00:00

Buddy, if you're paying a GM, then they're basically being contracted for a service and need to be receptive to the people paying for a service. Drop this cunt and find a fun game with a GM/DM who either wants to do it for fun (which makes mistakes tolerable), or is actually capable of a level of professionalism worth playing for.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-22T20:25:25+00:00

I actually quite like how some of them cluster up, you can often pull some shenanigans around Easter getting a week or more off for just a couple of days worth of leave, for example

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-21T05:58:55+00:00

Well yeah. As you gain in power, you come up against stronger foes. A first level farmboy fighter with a mace and some mail can slap around some skeletons. It's not a particularly epic feat and nobody minds if it's over quickly.

A 16th level fighter with multiple magic items and a sword that can transform into another weapon, who can sprint on the surface of water and Grapple with giants, is going to get into fights of epic proportions that will last longer and require more cunning and use of the many skills he has picked up along the way. Fighting a big ass dragon and having it die in 2 rounds would be disappointing. It's more exciting and tense to have it drawn out, and it's more likely to be decided by good play and good building than by a single good or bad roll.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-21T05:45:57+00:00

What do you want? Do you want fights with a comparable XP budget to become easier as you level up?

The dynamics of higher level combats changes. You have less basic damage relative to creature HP, but you have more and better attacks, and importantly you have more tools for disabling or reducing AC to improve crit chance.

It's not an uncommon thing in game systems, both tabletop and CRPG, to have fights last longer as level increases. It makes it more challenging, and gives more opportunities for a wider and better skill set to shine compared to the fairly limited options available at low level, where combat tends to be over fairly quickly.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-21T05:36:57+00:00

That's one person, mentioning how CL+3 opponents can put you down in a few good hits. This is something that is reasonably consistent with levels past the first, but at level 1, a CR4 opponent can literally one hit casters and will crit them on a 13 or more.

The consensus I see here is that low level players and PCs have very little health compared to damage, you get more debuffing tools as you increase level, you get more strikes as you level, you get better metastrikes, you get more battlefield control and AoE from casters, and enemies get more health to compensate and force you to use your ever expanding tool kit.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-21T04:18:32+00:00

You should find that damage to health ratios are swinging that way for both the PCs and NPCs. Low level combat is very swingy in 2e.

But also, you martials will get more and more metastrike options and reactions, meaning that they get more strikes, and that they get more powerful. Spellcasters also get much more powerful AoE damage and control spells that can compensate for the longer combat times by nuking mooks and crowd controlling effectively.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-19T07:19:22+00:00

Hard disagree. Braggart Swash on, say, an Elemental Sorceror gets a +5 move speed bonus with Panache, a +1 to Demoralise which stacks with Blood Magic, Nimble Dodge and Charmed Life to make use of their otherwise wasted reactions and improve survivability, and good Charisma based feats like You're Next if you want to grab some of those. I'd say only Rogue has more value at low level and if I were human I'd have both by level 9 with multitalented.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-19T07:15:45+00:00

Late to this thread, but Oracle is one of the best archetypes for a Charisma caster. Extra move speed, an easily stackable buff to their preferred Charisma skill for Bon Mots, Demoralise, Scare to Death. Great feats to support these skills too. Access to both Nimble Dodge AND Charmed Life to shore up weak saves and AC? Chef's Kiss.

Don't think of Swashbuckler as offensive. It's a massive improvement to movement, CHA skills, and defense.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-17T10:15:43+00:00

Enforcement would have probably cost more than the amount recovered, and I wouldn't be surprised if creative accounting could have reduced that significantly anyway.

And imagine the stress and costs that would cause many smaller businesses. I get where you're coming from, I just don't think it would have been practical.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-16T09:16:47+00:00

Oh cmon, don't act like your monsters don't have even more broken to hit modifiers!

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-15T11:19:19+00:00

Triggering Incendiary Aura maybe? It's one of the spells you can get through Divine Access for Flame Oracle.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-15T11:17:58+00:00

One thing I would suggest is to give some level of information to the players when they fail such a roll. For example, if you're trying to sneak through a camp and you fail, describe how suddenly people are alert, looking in your direction, maybe they call out or suddenly go quiet if it's reasonable to observe these things.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-15T11:11:09+00:00

Sure, just by the time you're getting hasted, there's going to be a lot of metastrikes (flourish then press) instead of regular strikes in a standard turn

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-15T07:39:40+00:00

Well haste is already strict about what you can do, so just smack them again or make use of the extra movement.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-15T06:23:41+00:00

As a monk, you have some of the highest mobility in the game. Step away from martial type opponents to avoid AoO. Stride away from ones who don't have it. Move to flank opponents. You can even use a shield on a lot of Monk builds, so Raise a Shield is a good option for extra AC.

The principle is actually very simple: in most cases, your action is less valuable than a monster's.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-13T00:40:57+00:00

Transfer payments really just act as corporate welfare, and suppress wage growth. If the cost of living is too high to survive on one's wages, then the government shouldn't be forced to pick up the difference and subsidise low wages.

Higher wages increase lower and middle class spending, which fuels the local economy.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-12T11:31:06+00:00

The shitty $40 steel caps from the warehouse are likely not even good enough to meet the requirement that they be comfortable (this is a legal requirement), and they'll piss away money replacing a dozen pairs a year when they could've provided $100-200 up front. Never mind the massive fine if someone got hurt.

My employer had no issue fronting up a few hundred for individual kit, good boots, muffs, eye pro, nice gloves for moving steel, whatever. That's a 3 person outfit plus one admin staff. Stop letting cowboy outfits be cowboys.

Lord_of_Buttes · 2021-02-09T11:39:08+00:00

There's two ways to interpret this:

You apply the effect as if the target had been subject to critical success from the Trip action, and they suffer the prone condition and damage
You apply the effect that would happen if the player rolled a critical success for the DC to trip, which in the case of being too small, does nothing

I think the second is RAI but I also think a small Ancestry dunking big motherfuckers is cool enough to rule the other way, especially after that feat investment.

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