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Some other numbers for a 60 active / 12d6 cap typical superheroes game: Due to the Stun Multiplier being a single d6, Killing Attacks are high variance and much swingier than normal attacks. A 6d6 (30 active point) normal attack averages 21 Stun damage and only hits for maximum of 3d6 Stun damage o...

I suspect (but I'm not going to download a copy of this a dozen odd WW corebooks to check) that part of the reason for having so many credited designers is that they handed out design credits (but not actual money) to people who made earlier Storyteller games that this game "built on". Fro...

virgil wrote: to allow for fiends and archons to split a pizza

If your setting is supposed to be about the importance of alignment and philosophy you need to not have shit like this in it.

Are the level requirements on Maneuvers & Stances Class Level or Character level? Provisionally: Class Level. If it was based on Character Level, it would end up being better to multiclass into Crusader later in your career than multiclass out of Crusader early in your career. And that kind of ...

Are the level requirements on Maneuvers & Stances Class Level or Character level?

The rpgnet thread mocking discussing it is fairly amusing.
According to the MMO players there, Ryan "Steve Jobs" Dancey's press releases/adcopy brags that the Pathfinder MMO will have all the "features" of Ultima Online that made people drop it in favor of Everquest.

A Word on Language When referring to genderless or intersex characters, I've chosen to use the formulation ze/hir/hirs/hirself rather than he/him/his/himself or she/her/hers/herself. Hopefully this won't cause too much confusion. Please don't. There are at least a dozen invented pronouns for indefi...

Lord Mistborn wrote: Hitting a fireball in flight with a bat is on the same level as snatching an arrow. It's one of the blatantly superhuman feats that practically requires some kind of weeaboo fightan magic.

Search for "arrow catch" on Youtube.

Also Fuck you.

The main difference of course is that I have never in my whole life seen anyone on either side of the screen get upset about player wealth being too high for WBL guidelines and request a series of treasureless encounters to make up the difference. That has never happened in my presence. I don't kno...

Anyone have a link to where I can download the packet w/o going to wotc's site? I want to point and laugh but not enough to deal with the hassle of logging in there.

hogarth wrote: Anyone who tells you that there was no expectation of "magic items by level" in AD&D is misremembering or misrepresenting.

Or they actually mean there was no clearly communicated expectation of magic items by level. Which is true.

There are a fucking lot of spells you can cast, rest, rememorize before they run out. Most of these had there duration cut in third edition, so you're going to have to pour through the spell list to find them, hint invisibility lasts 24 hours.

I think diceless games fail on principle, and somehow the ad for that game got through AdBlock. Good to see I was exactly right. When the game is going to MTP everything anyway, you're better off going diceless and admitting it to yourself. Not that I expect RPGPundit's game to be worth the bandwid...

They can fly at 60' at will and at 45' at will. you're never going to see them fly at 45'

Is there a good reason to give the Arcanodaemon both Supernatural fight and spell-like flight?

Let me tell you about Feats. A specific Feat. A Specific Feat from Paizo’s Ultimate Combat for Pathfinder. This Feat is Prone Shooter. Let me tell you what Prone Shooter does. It puts you into the mindset of The Prone Shooter. You go prone, you lie prone, you are thinking “I am a Prone Shooter” and...

A Man In Black wrote:

Archmage Joda wrote:(and hell, probably inspired shadowrun to some degree)

This is quite the understatement.

It would be if we were talking about RTalisorian, but I'm not convinced the people who made 1st edition Shadowrun had any exposure to cyberpunk besides CP2013/20.

Miryafa wrote:I had similar thoughts about the Tome Monk. Level 1 gives +4AC,

It's an armor bonus, the ability is worth 100 gp.

Any system which both requires fliers to maintain forward momentum each round and also limits turn degrees per round is just fundamentally more complex than D&D combat can support on a battlemat. That's one of the glaring issues with the extent maneuverability category rules, and regardless of ...

Salamanders have flaming spears. You go fight a salamander, you get a fucking flaming spear. It's right there. It exists. If you want to play a game where the flaming spears on salamanders don't drop and you keep using a sword your whole life, go play some fucking World of Warcraft. No, Salamanders...

Fire Burst should probably scale somewhat so it remains a Niche ability longer, rather than becoming worthless almost immediately.

FatR wrote: Drizzt actually had at least three, maybe four quite powerful magic items (my memory kind of fails me if his armor survived sunlight, or only blades). At the time when normal characters weren't guaranteed to have one.

But could be expected to have dozens.

Don't have Department the PC works at be a splat. It's stupid. The PCs are all going to work for the same Department because they are all coworkers.

Kaelik wrote:If you are playing in a non WBL system, then sure, complain about how in 2e your character earned his stuff, and incoming characters didn't.

Wrong. 2e was also a WBL system, it's just that no-one designers included had a good idea what the intended WBL was.

Also, fire elementals are inherently and physically made of fire. Owlbears, are, of course, physically a bear with an owl's beak on it. But last time I checked, dragons are not hatched holding a roll of quarters and snapping at anyone who gets too close there. In Greek Myth they come about because ...