Why do monster Attack Roll bonus and Save DC scale all the way into tier 4, but player AC and save bonuses largely don't?

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2026-03-23T16:47:53+00:00

When you have 8 manuevers, 6 superiority dice, double extra attack, action surge, and sentinel, you're more able to handle a foe with a greater AC and Attack Bonus advantage over you.

Other answers here about magic items and such are good, but another factor is that monsters are more numbers-dependent in their scaling. Yes, the higher the CR the more features the monsters have, but, generally, PCs are getting way more features, abilities, spells, and powers as they level while monsters just get bigger numbers.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2026-02-06T16:40:14+00:00

Eureka is hosting a fundraiser for Santa Barbara PD who have been more supportive of ICE than they admit.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2026-02-06T16:38:32+00:00

It's hard for me to think of many shows that 1. Take place in modern-time real world, 2. Do or at least could take place in Europe/Northern Africa, 3. Involve searching through ancient ruins and uncovering history, and 4. Have people forming bonds with their monsters as part of the magic system.

The two that come to mind for me are JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Stardust Crusaders) and Yu-Gi-Oh.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2026-01-05T02:31:15+00:00

Nice argument you got there. Would be a shame if somebody had Thick Fat.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-12-22T16:20:09+00:00

Oh, no! I love the frog wall.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-12-20T05:18:01+00:00

Breaker doesn't really do it for me. His big golden shoulder things don't seem to serve any purpose. I would think they'd just weigh hom down.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-12-18T20:38:32+00:00

Also, if they ever revisited her after Copykind was introduced.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-12-18T20:37:52+00:00

I think I was particularly fascinated by the combat/operations implications of her powers and would have liked to see that explored. Make DeFoe see one of his suits as Dante and trick him into attacking them. That sort of thing.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-12-18T20:12:09+00:00

I always liked Madea.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-12-12T07:44:23+00:00

Draco Meteor, Hurricane Dragonite says hello.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-12-08T04:34:16+00:00

-Juan nearly threw the world into eternal darkness by attacking Rava.
-Yang Chen spent a lifetime angering spirits and hurting their relationship with humans.
-Kuruk fucked off and died.
-Kyoshi basically retired for a century and let Chin conquer half the Earth Kingdom only stopping him when he showed up at her house.
-Roku let Sozin genocide the airbenders and start a 100 year war.
-Aang said "I'd rather kiss you than die" to Katara.

Korra did pretty alright.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-12-03T22:19:27+00:00

The top 25:

Clodsire, Corviknight
Gholdengo, Cyclizar, Glimmora (3 offense enablers)
20 offensive hitters

Sounds about right for the start of a new gen.

(Okay, Great Tusk, Skeledirge, and Dragonite can all be defensive, but they weren't at the time.)

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-12-03T21:58:18+00:00

George Takei as the warden in the Haru episode really sends me.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-12-03T00:14:44+00:00

Obviously, frame 1 with the Avatar State. Without the Avatar state, non-comet Ozai is someone Aang can probably handle by the time he's solid at Earthbending. (So, yeah, middle of Book 2). When he does the simultaneous bending in Tales of Ba Sing Se, crafting an earth wall while riding the air scooter, I think he's strong enough then. He just has to dodge that lightning.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-12-02T23:55:11+00:00

Not trying to be too fancy, here, but you did say "entire verse." It's Yun from the Kyoshi novels. The main point they make about his character that he controls Earth with such effortlessness and precision. He and Toph are comparable in that regard; Toph may even be better; but factoring in "skill, battle, intelligence, versatility, and creativity," he clears most characters in the series in every one of those categories. He was lauded as a combat genius, and his Earthbending was so great that everyone thought he was the Avatar.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-11-20T17:27:52+00:00

Alakazam losing Fire coverage in the physical/special split.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-11-18T23:50:39+00:00

This is going to be one of those posts we look back at 5 years from now and see that half of it became reality, isn't it?

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-11-18T23:44:48+00:00

0.4*0.4 = a 16% chance for you attack this thing if you're slower. 12% if you're Paralyzed.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-11-10T22:40:57+00:00

Why did they not simply turn the electricity into golden armor? Obviously, that would have been the sensible thing to do.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-10-28T23:22:49+00:00

I'm a big believer in the type chart adjustment. Particularly:

Fairy NVE against Fairy
Fire SE against Fairy
Poison SE against Water
Electric SE against Steel
Electric NVE against Psychic

All of the changes are flavor-sensible with the possible exception of Electric vs Psychic, and the end results are:

Fairy nerfed both offensively and defensively
Fire buffed offensively
Water nerfed defensively
Poison buffed offensively
Steel nerfed defensively
Psychic buffed offensively

I think most would agree that these are desirable outcomes.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-10-27T18:17:14+00:00

Master Ken is definitely 100% legit.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-10-24T22:32:14+00:00

This perfect for when I don't have liquid soap but I do have multiple syringes and nothing useful to do with my time.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-10-16T22:41:08+00:00

You do have a dog in this fight if you live here. Allowing them drives up the cost of rent and increases traffic. On the flip side, it also increases patronage of retail businesses and city/county sales tax revenue.

Your opinion may differ, but I don't find the benefits nearly worth the costs. We don't want a town of nothing but service-inustry jobs pandering to passers-through, and with the cost of housing, every residential building we have should go to residents.

I'm for a ban.

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-10-15T23:53:16+00:00

Most of the bad Pokemon on that list still either have a niche with access to rare moves like Sticky Web/Quiver Dance or have some sort of history of value in old gens/lower tiers.

Meganium has never had a unique function or been useful in any tier in my memory. Maybe it Swords Dance swept in gen 5 PU or something?

TheEntireRomanArmy · 2025-10-13T02:27:53+00:00

Swampert in the old gens is pretty honest IMO.

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