Michael Poe wrote:
Zherical wrote:
And why has the plot allowed people to go from needing elaborate wording to cause a spell to happen, to now needing nothing more than a constipated bowel and a severe facial exertion?
Well obviously Sarine is one of those god awful epic level Forgotten Realms NPCS who has like at least one level in every class, three different prestige classes, (one or more of which was obliviously created just for her so her game stats can match up with all the crazy shit Greenwood/Salvatore/whofuckever wrote her doing in the novels) and has some sort of special power she got from fucking a god, wining a bet with the devil, being born as a natural font of magic or a special mary sue race that pc's aren't allowed and therefore she can just run around all day tossing out
quickened, silent, still meteor storms and shit.
And Sara? Well Sara's player is a fucking min/maxer who read one of those bloody Character Optimization forums and is using a cheesy build that involves some overpowered fighter/monk/wizard Prc from a splatbook that lets her cast time stop at level twelve and proves that the Devs never actually do play testing anymore since DnD got bought out by the 87th Big Evil Corporation That Obviously Only Cares About Selling More Books And Will Ruin the Game Forever(tm) to do that since the 80's.
Meanwhile Ian's player left the game because she finally got a RL boyfriend and so the GM decided to turn her character into a major plot npc. And Meji and Jon's players are bored, and want to quit the campaign and go back to running an Exalted game. And Bani's player decided to quit after showing up for just one game session and keeps promising that he'll come back for the next campaign.
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Okay... I forgot what I was replying to... oh well.
You know, I might be wrong, but it sounds like Poe is making some kind of comment about people trying to break down all fantasy works as if they're AD&D.
"Dude, how can she cast that without verbal and somantic components? She's clearly using mage levels to access magic!"
Again, I might be wrong, but I don't think that ES works like Order of the Stick.
I don't recall Sarine ever needing big flashy long-winded phrases to cast magic. It's possible Meji just likes being flashy, or uses a different style because she learned magic in Tsuiraku over the last several years, instead of from elves almost 3000 years ago.