"Oh thanks Mister!" Lancer grabs the takoyaki, barely remembers to nod in thanks then rockets off with food in hand, back to Laoise, already eating along the way.

Lancer, having materialized, clung close to Laoise, almost seeming to be some kind of lost little sister, except his eyes seem more likely seek out and beat up somebody, even as he mumbles under his breath. "Perhaps a grave marker of the summoning catalyst. But that would be of sentimental value alone, Akasha is a better remembrance than any grave."

"Disturbing it would be ill advised at this point in the War. Maybe if it was blown up in a fight instead"

Thirding Maptool, it's extremely good for your purposes, especially if you preload it with whatever content you want to use. Might have some teething problems until it manages to synchronize your additional graphics assets with your players though.

Well, it sort of derived from the war-game teams, you naturally got effects that only worked on enemy factions so you can blast an area without friendly fire.

The ranking isn't based on that, it's more focused on how well a given character can solve game situations. The wilder can trivialize a smaller set of situations than the psion due to a smaller set of powers known, as both already have enough 'oomph' to win through in terms of power.

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Quote from: Amechra on May 15, 2013, 08:17:40 PM

Heh, that is pretty cool.

Something to show the "it's too anime" crowd.

With a "well, so was 1e, but you don't see me complaining!"

They'll probably say something like" it's just the artwork that changed.  4th Edition changed the feel of the game."  Or "of course they'd put Japanese stuff in a Japanese translation!"

The particular gimmick is that modern processors are already reaching the limits of their useful speed with regards to the operations they are good at, so much so that I/O(device or memory) is going to be a bigger choke point than raw speed of operation, as well multitasking to do more on a given unit. 

Quantum computing works around the major difficulties of cryptography, modeling and massively parallel problem solving, which are the main things which require more processing power than present chips can supply effectively. And quantum computing is way better at those.

As far as the home user is concerned, it would affect file compression, media playback(both by fitting more data into less space without taking more time to interpret), security(either quantum computers break traditional encryption by being able to backsolve for what would normally be insoluble due to complexity, and/or quantum cryptography makes it impossible to intercept information) and graphics(your games can now be hyper-realistic, as the operations necessary to render sunlight scattering through clouds of dust and semi opaque substances can do things the proper way rather than using shortcuts that trade detail for finishing the calculation in decent timespans)

Water also limits visibility dramatically in it's own right. You don't need cover to hide yourself when even a light source might be clearly visible out to 30-60ft at best, nevermind the visual distortion caused by currents and detritus. Of course, you can be heard much further away, but that doesn't do much for pinpointing.

The 2E treasure was probably a lot more varied though. 3E loot is pretty functionally oriented. Earlier editions took more of a whimsical approach.