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By that criteria do any of the PC races have interesting racial features? I'd argue that the only racial features that actually make any of the PHB races interesting to play are size and vision. Halflings being small changes how they interact with the entire world in a way that the Dwarven +2 vs gia...

If you mean, that the part that explains you need to argue with your MC needs to be short, I agree. But any part of your ruleset that boils down to: argue with your MC, needs more text to describe it. Since you need to give people a starting point to argue from and an indication what is supposed to...

@PL: You're mistaken. Modular design doesn't mean the modules behave the same way or generate the same outputs, it just means the interfaces fit either. no PL is exactly right about modules for computer programming. If one module gives a different output with the same input, that's called a bug. So...

Now go back and look at that entire post that you just quoted from, and tell me what about my assessment doesn't jive. Modularity is when the actual system changes. Like how 2nd edition has rules for playing it on a hex grid or a square grid or no grid at all, and thus things that affect facing hav...

Well, for that matter, 3e did a bit of the modularity thing whenever they introduced a new subsystem. Could you cite some examples of "modules" in 3E? I can only think of two: The choice of "psionics is different" vs "psionics is magic", which simply decides if wizards...

Anyway, about the Great Wheel and not being sure when the Law/Good/Chaos soul economy started, can you point me to the source material where YOU first heard about it? Even if its not the original? Also, have you ever found anything trying to defend the logic all outsiders doing the same thing? This...

jadagul wrote:(It seems relevant that everyone winds up with "ten" even though they distribute them very differently. Probably because we have five fingers on each hand).

The most interesting thing about the ten commandments is that there are ten of them, when the magic number of the Bible is twelve.

Isn't this just a super lazy implementation of the "Spell slots for everyone!" thing that was being played around with for awhile?

They actually had some decent ideas with D&DN. The concept of a modular game with interchangeable systems is a good idea. Anyone with half a brain should realize that you're never going to get the OSR crowd, the 3E crowd and the 4E fans playing at the same table. You might be able to get them a...

And, back on subject, you don't see this a lot in fantasy religions because presumably the deities in question can pop on down for a spot of tea and to lightning bolt some heretics and give the Official Version. Don't forget that debates about Christian scripture were purely internal matters for so...

Having been raised Southern Baptist (not my fault, btw), I was always bewildered with how Catholics can technically call themselves Christians. I was even talking with my pastor one time about it, and made the observation that "by strict definition, wouldn't Catholicism technically be consider...

echoVanguard wrote:Vecna, because a God of "Stuff You Aren't Supposed to Know About Also Kill People Who Shouldn't Know Things" is ripe for story hooks.

also Vecna is one of the only gods with real drive and vision.

Do you even know what the Problem of Evil is, Sashi? Sure, it pretty much boils down to "how can evil exist if God is both all-powerful and all-good?". In a pantheonic DnD world it becomes more like "How can Pelor say that the Ultimate Good is helping the weak and needy but Obad-Hai ...

Lago, get off your moral absolutist horse, it's not useful. In a DnD world with divine magic you have deities who definitively a) exist b) intervene in the world That means that The Problem of Evil is alive and kicking in the world and must be dealt with . And the best way to do that is not to say &...

Well, a lot of people just have this thing, you know? Where they wanna live forever. So we give them the ability to get the power to live forever in a fantasy game. The same way that people wanna get cool cars with rims and so we let them get cars that have rims in a fantasy game. Because Frank is ...

So the thing I'm unclear on is why immortality needs to be tied to magics that people can get through character advancement at all? It's one thing to let Resurrection grant "immortality" through soul swapping, but I don't know why Gift of Health or really any sorcery needs "and BTW yo...

I think a 3-5 page summary reference would be fantastic. Especially since it's a .pdf and you can just print out those 5 pages for every player.

Page 1: character creation and advancement
Page 2: Skills & Master Passions
Page 3: Combat, healing, environmental effects
Page 4&5: Magic

And where I draw that line is that if the product does not directly involve looking at or being with hot women, then it shouldn't be using them to advertise itself. There's an inherent dishonesty in using sexy women to sell something like Evony or its dozens of knock-offs, and likewise in taking a ...

Apparently there is an extremely socially inept subset of male nerddom that when faced with attractive young women who show up at comic book stores (or, god help them, conventions) wearing a superhero t-shirt (or god help them, a consume) and attempt to engage them in conversation about comic books...

Suffocation, Starvation, Fatigue, and Poison are real things in the game that someone might conceivably want to spend real character resources to become immune to. Mortality ... just isn't. Even a magical artefact that turned you young/old isn't going to subtract/add years from your life, they're es...

How on earth do your CFLs last so long??!! Are there handling procedures that make them last longer (aside from not using them)? The 12,000 hour bulbs i bought didn't even make it through the first year. Most CFL lifespans are based on optimum use, not average use. If you leave the bulb on for long...

As for animates, I don't actually think the immortality thing is even the important bit of Patience of the Mountains compared to being a relentless being that never rests or falls prey to fatigue. Hell, it's not even that hard to posit animates who were either flawed in some way or were cruelly giv...

Yeah, if I could get LED bulbs for that price, the whole-house conversion from CFLs would pay for itself in 2.5 years with best-case numbers. Is that counting the fact that you had to dispose of the CFL without running it for the full lifetime? I'm trying to replace my CFL bulbs with LEDs as they b...

Also aging, why didn't either of you bring that up? Clearly vampires need to not age because they're undead. The point of vampires needing to have Patience of the Mountains is that they don't age, they just mope around for hundreds of years at a time. That's their thing. OK this makes sense. And I ...

That just ... doesn't make sense, the game simply doesn't care about what people are eating/drinking, even the Survival skill doesn't mention food. It's completely fine to have Vampires chow down on raver chicks while Dryads stand in a bucket of fertilizer and the Icarid and Mi-Go take a trip to fuc...