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- Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:54 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Need Input: Attributes & Skills
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1171
Lore sounds like it doesn't do much. Traditionally everything you can do with a Knowledge or Lore skill is either: a poor substitute for using metagame knowledge (and if there's a game where players don't use metagame knowledge, I ain't seen it) irrelevant, because the DM needed you to know X for t...
- Mon May 28, 2012 6:01 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Need Input: Attributes & Skills
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1171
Actually, I've already decided to go with 4 Attributes x 5 skills. The 5 skills: combat, magic, exploration, social, and lore (or something very close to them) are meant to represent roles or jobs that each player can have. Character creation will be set up to allow for characters to have some skill...
- Sun May 27, 2012 11:44 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Need Input: Attributes & Skills
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1171
Need Input: Attributes & Skills
Stop me if you've heard this one before: I'm working on a Fantasy Heartbreaker. What I'm going for is a rules-lite, mythic high fantasy game in the vein of higher level D&D and Exalted. That is, a superhero game in a ren fair outfit. The system is based primarily on a hybridization of concepts f...
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 12:45 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Making D&D more attractive for TTRPG beginners.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5937
- Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:27 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Women and Gaming
- Replies: 114
- Views: 17978
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 4:30 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Size modifiers to things need to go away.
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6539
yeah, I'm gonna have to agree with Flatline on this one. Hell, I've even gone so far as to add size modifiers to more stuff -- namely, jump checks, climb checks, and falling damage. it's always perplexed me how they went through the trouble of giving a nod to the cube-square law, but stopped short ...
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Class labels as a mechanical straightjacket in D&D.
- Replies: 166
- Views: 25537
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:38 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Mike Mearls is trolling...
- Replies: 52
- Views: 9915
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:54 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Fuck it, D&D is doomed. Recommend some alternatives!
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6287
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:03 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Class labels as a mechanical straightjacket in D&D.
- Replies: 166
- Views: 25537
- Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:40 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Is it even possible to have reasonable dicepools for D&D?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4417
- Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:17 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How much of the anti-4E sentiment is actually justified?
- Replies: 810
- Views: 82931
- Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:43 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How much of the anti-4E sentiment is actually justified?
- Replies: 810
- Views: 82931
- Wed Mar 16, 2011 2:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How much of the anti-4E sentiment is actually justified?
- Replies: 810
- Views: 82931
- Wed Mar 16, 2011 2:42 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How much of the anti-4E sentiment is actually justified?
- Replies: 810
- Views: 82931
- Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How much of the anti-4E sentiment is actually justified?
- Replies: 810
- Views: 82931
- Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:04 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How much of the anti-4E sentiment is actually justified?
- Replies: 810
- Views: 82931
There are rules in DnD for generating monsters and creatures like a chicken. Clear consistent ones for 1st level, small animals. Even gives them a list of skills they can have and all of that stuff. So I can spend my free time assigning skill ranks and feats to a chicken. Huzzah. This just became m...
- Wed Mar 16, 2011 2:22 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: So what IS going on with 4E these days.
- Replies: 352
- Views: 66165
- Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What's the maximum complexity a D&D PC should have?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7738
Winds of magic? Alignment of the stars? Cooperation of the Cosmos? edit to add: I really, really , want magic rituals that must be performed on certain days of the year, or at certain places in the world, or not be performed at all. In Warhammer FRP, magic is accomplished by shaping chaos into spel...
- Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What's the maximum complexity a D&D PC should have?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7738
That's completely backwards. Option paralysis results when the options are so varied that the best option isn't obvious. If the moves are similar then it becomes easy to pick the best one, because you only have to evaluate one variable (fireball vs. cone of cold) rather than several (cone of cold v...
- Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:37 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What's the maximum complexity a D&D PC should have?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7738
Re: What's the maximum complexity a D&D PC should have?
"do i hit" is from immature players. If they ask it, just sit there and stare at the player for a minute or two when they ask it and make them wait for you to tell them. You really aren't solving your problems by giving them more information, when the problem isnt the information, but the...
- Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:09 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How much of the anti-4E sentiment is actually justified?
- Replies: 810
- Views: 82931
- Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How much of the anti-4E sentiment is actually justified?
- Replies: 810
- Views: 82931
I have a huge list of house rules and I was even using the 'bump monster damage up, deflate monster hit point' houserule for quite some time. Could you elaborate on some of these houserules? You generally have some good ideas and I'm curious to read what you've done with 4E. Personally, I refuse to...
- Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:55 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How much of the anti-4E sentiment is actually justified?
- Replies: 810
- Views: 82931
- Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:33 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How much of the anti-4E sentiment is actually justified?
- Replies: 810
- Views: 82931
I find it doubly laughable that people are seriously arguing that a cloak is a monster ability. If you kill Mordenkainen, does he drop his Faithful Hound? Yeah, you pick up his spell book and copy the fucking spell. Next? Touche'. What I mean, however, is that Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound isn't an...