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[Flying Dice]

Yeah, Neo, the two I played with you were more or less fine for the time that I was there; the worst thing was that guy that wiped us in the 5e pre-module intro when only three of us showed up to play, and that was incredibly mild as bad times go.

That's why I tend to prefer PbP when meatspace isn't an option, it's too easy for people to forget or "forget" to not come to IRC/Roll20/Maptool session and you lose out on a lot of the personal interaction aspect without reducing the burden on the DM. PbP gives you more time to prepare materials, allows you to pace things and give more thorough descriptions, and gives players more time and space to roleplay and develop their characters.

Plus if you get at least 2-3 people really into the roleplay, you can use them to give yourself more time to work on campaign materials without obviously stalling. 

There is, of course, the great downside of not having an integrated dice roller, so you either "get" to roll everything yourself or require the use of InvisibleCastle and either check occasionally or trust your players not to fudge rolls. Or trust them outright to roll with their own dice, but that's not something I'd necessarily recommend. (I also wouldn't trust myself to roll with my own dice, but that's 'cause all I have are shitty probably-flawed Chessex crap, hah.)

[Twinwolf]

I wasn't in any of your games, Neo, but if you start a PbP on the forums I'll probably join.

[Flying Dice]

Oh yeah, I forgot to say, PM me as well if you do.

[BlackFlyme]

Something I've been wondering about since I came up with a stupid character idea: How do you do point-buy when the creature-type you are creating doesn't have a certain ability score?

For example, there is a Pathfinder race called a Wyrwood, which is a small-sized construct, and thus does not have a constitution score. Do you just leave the score at 10, and not raise or lower it? Does it automatically go to zero, and give you a massive amount of extra points? I highly doubt it's this second one.

[Neonivek]

Something I've been wondering about since I came up with a stupid character idea: How do you do point-buy when the creature-type you are creating doesn't have a certain ability score?

For example, there is a Pathfinder race called a Wyrwood, which is a small-sized construct, and thus does not have a constitution score. Do you just leave the score at 10, and not raise or lower it? Does it automatically go to zero, and give you a massive amount of extra points? I highly doubt it's this second one.

Typically you assume the score was 10.

Since the score was Blank, and not 0.

[NullForceOmega]

I'd agree with Neo there, since the attribute is simply 'missing' you would subtract the number of points needed to make it average (no bonus or penalty) from your pool.

[scriver]

Why would a construct not have a CON score?

[Harry Baldman]

Why would a construct not have a CON score?

Presumably because they feel no pain and have no biological processes, just like undead. Undead, if I recall correctly, used their CHA for hit points or something like that and always had a d12 for HD when they had class levels.

[Neonivek]

Why would a construct not have a CON score?

Presumably because they feel no pain and have no biological processes, just like undead. Undead, if I recall correctly, used their CHA for hit points or something like that and always had a d12 for HD when they had class levels.

It is entirely the biological process lacking aspect.

5e handles the attributes differently (and I kind of like it to an extent)

[highmax28]

So I have a dilemma. My character died in Pathfinder and I'm given the chance for him to return for free, but the rules lawyer told me I'd be half my level upon doing so (I'm level 8 upon death) and storyline wise, I would stay dead.

So I don't know if I should make a new character and roll with that, revive my guy, or have one of my character's seven remaining brothers come in to take his place.

The main problem is the rules lawyer also made it broken as fuck and hard to do anything without breaking the game. How? He's level 8 and has double all my stats (my guy was a ranger) as a summoner who IS NOT a synthesist. He also has a few levels in swashbuckler. My character had to solo fight a guy who was five levels higher with less than half his HP left (backstory reasons) and I pretty much dropped him to almost dead in one attack, and then I got perma-killed by a crit.

Can I get some input?

[Gentlefish]

Well, the rules lawyer is a douche. So do what you can to spite him.

[Neonivek]

I don't know what the heck the rule lawyer got that rule from...

[Bohandas]

Yeah. IIRC you don't lose half your levels, you lose half of a level, reverting to one level lower than ypu were plus half the xp required to get back to your original level

[My Name is Immaterial]

Also, why is the rule lawyer making that call, instead of the DM?

[Flying Dice]

Quote the actual rule to that asshole and tell him that people on the internet don't like him.