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Vader would still be Vader if he used a glaive, though he wouldn't be nearly as entrenched in pop cultural memory if Lucas went with his original idea for his outfit to just be a once-scene spacesuit rather than 24-hour armor. The the thing about Vaders Suit and Boba Fett's armor is that they aren'...

but if the straw poll is taken and the party decides to go on the adventure for the Sorrow Sword instead of the Ax of the Dwarven Lords your character had better be playable. And the character would be just fine, if enchantments could be transferred. No, he wouldn't. Because instead of having the A...

Main flaws with your critique of horizontal advancement: 1. You don't have to do overlap. There is literally no reason why you can't come up with an infinite number of Fighter tricks that never overlap with Wizard tricks, other than your own lack of creativity from a design standpoint. Really? How ...

You can have consequences without having permadeath. A TPK doesn't have to end the session, you can easily rule that the characters are just knocked out and and thrown into Venger's dungeon while he completes a ritual that transforms him into a god. So now instead of the level 10 wizard that you'll ...

Except those systems are very shitty. Because they mandate that you tell Wolverine he absolutely cannot get on one of the motorcycle's on the street because that would be like getting free super-speed, and that is some verisimilitude breaking bullshit. Sure you could let him do it once but what's t...

High level characters don't bathe, they Prestidigitate. Many of them don't sleep, and if they do sleep they do so surrounded by wards and alarms and preferably in a dimension low-level characters can't even access. High-level characters don't keep their wealth in banks because they have bags of hol...

The benefits of random treasure drops described here seem to depend on ALL treasure being random. Is that really a realistic goal? Every campaign is going to have recurring enemy types with signature weapons, or an NPC whose equipment you selected to supplement his fighting style or his role in the...

Alternatively, going back to Wheel of Time references, what if I decide I want to play an Aeil. They have major issues against using swords. Sure it might not actually matter, and if they got one they could in theory use it, but they have a specific code that says "I won't touch a sword to sav...

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Ah, I have been instructed. I thought the older version was called Chainmail. My apologies.

Chainmail is a pure wargame without significant roleplaying elements. The original D&D was loosely based on it and and you could easily slot the Chainmail rules in for large battles.

You can write your "system" there hymarca a lot more clearly as follows. The GM listens to your proposal and based on how it makes him feel in his ass he pulls a number out of it between -120 (or less) and +145 (or more). Precisely what roll or mechanic this modifier interacts with is unc...

Attitude Modifier Ranges from -10 (loves you to death, would happily die for you) to +20 (his hatred for you burns hotter than the fires of hell) Trust Modifier (Default 0, ranges from +10 to -10 depending on your reputation and past dealings with the target) Leverage Modifier (what's the chances th...

I've seen Hayden Christensen act in many other movies. I've seen Natalie Portman act in many other movies. The mess that is Starwars 2/3 is all about the writing and the Director. Hayden is actually a fine actor, and with the right direction would have been fine with Anakin. The problem is that Ana...

Well, it makes sense that whatever magic prevents their brains from degrading over time also keeps their memories fresh. Hence they're got perfectly clear highlander flashback powers.

Let's face it, if they were constrained by real world neurology they'd all be senile as hell.

Josh's backstory is entirely too complex. The backstory could honestly just be "Sacred Combat to secure the blessings of the Gods." and go from there. Or how about this: the matches have actual political significance. A long time ago a bunch of powerful guys conquered the world and instit...

She wasn't even accused of murder. -Username17 Indeed. According to Gx, she was accused of Murber. Now, I'm not sure what murber is, but that's what Gx is trying to discuss and I think we should respect him by staying on-topic. She was convicted of second-degree murder, and then the conviction was ...

How about this: The Empire is founded by secular humanist Ur-Priests and runs almost entirely on stolen divine magic, with very little arcane influence. The Ur-Priest overlords smash and burn the temples of the gods, outlaw their religions, and generally stamp out theism wheverever they find it in ...

How about this: The Empire is founded by secular humanist Ur-Priests and runs almost entirely on stolen divine magic, with very little arcane influence. The Ur-Priest overlords smash and burn the temples of the gods, outlaw their religions, and generally stamp out theism wheverever they find it in o...

After an utterly bizarre dream involving Zeus, King of the gods, chained to plow on a Southern Plantation and the plantation owner simply explaining to a religiously devout foreigner that in their country men to do not serve the gods, the gods serve men, I just can't get this idea for a setting out ...

Psychic Robot wrote:canadian woman murders her baby, gets 16 days in jail

there is no slippery slope you ignorant conservatards IT'S A LOGICAL FALLACY THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A SLIPPERY SLOPE

Her baby's dead, isn't that punishment enough?

Statistically, teen sex isn't much of a problem. Statistically, teens are having less sex than they were two decades ago, they're having it later, they're having it less often, and are more responsible about it. We've got the highest rates of teen condom use ever in the history of teens and condoms....

I'm always leery of bringing science into D&D. For one, I'm dis-knowledgeable enough about science that such a world would not necessarily have any more verisimilitude than something I made up. Secondly, I'm not sure I really want my world to be scientifically accurate. It kinda makes things I ...

The questions are bullshit. If you actually have moral clarity, you don't have moral dilemmas. Moral dilemmas only exist if your rules conflict with your gut. If you ditch the stupid rules and have moral clarity, you don't have moral dilemmas. You have choices where there are options that are wrong...

In the case of 50 Gold Pieces to an Iron Wall (more like an Iron sheet , or 1-2" thick slab); the highly corrosion resistant gold, with a higher amount of neutrons, protons and electrons; gets rendered down, and the fission energy by-product gets recollected to form more iron (the energy to ma...

The practice of using long effreet chains to get huge numbers of wishes eventually leads to catastrophe as the total number of effreet in the world increases the mass of the planet to the point that surface gravity becomes intolerable. A sufficiently large effreet chain would eventually create a bla...

So it's basically The Iron Dream without the parody?