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The road to Hell is paved with good intentions?

Actually, there are instant runoff elections in my home state, although only for the city Minneapolis (which is actually listed in in Wikipedia article). I've heard rumblings that any higher-level runoff elections might be declared 'unconstitutional' for 'depriving an individual of his or her right ...

1195994443[/unixtime]]You put your choices in order. They count everyone's 1s. The dude with the least ones is eliminated and his votes split up and given to whoever has a 2 on the ballot. Repeat until someone has >50% of the votes. [br]That's an interesting system. I'm a little bit confused as to ...

1195949206[/unixtime]] 1195918373[/unixtime]][br]Plus 50% or Double damage vs evil or good targets is fair enough imo. [br][br]Okay, I understand the rest, and it's a good point that we don't want BBEGs just stabbing their bodyguards back to full health. [br]Why not? A BBEG driving his zombie hoard...

Crissa at [unixtime wrote:1195878142[/unixtime]]But if they have DR/5 and not your type of energy resistance, you're still up your 1/2 damage that isn't resisted.

Only if you're dealing less than 10 points of damage per attack before DR.

Surgo at [unixtime wrote:1195854125[/unixtime]]Differential equations? Isn't that what we get Mathematica to do for us?

Not when we have a fucking midterm on Monday, god damn it.

1195765829[/unixtime]]That could work; you simply add the energy type as a modifier to the damage type(s) dealt. [br][br]Er, no. That would mean that if you're attacking an acid blob (DR 10/slashing, resistance: acid 5) with a caustic club, if you roll 15 points of damage (4 + Str 5 + power attack ...

For elemental weapons, why not just extend the 'spirit' of the weapons damage type rules, such that a firebrand (greatsword) deals 2d6 slashing "and" fire damage?[br][br]What this really means is that the Meteor of Dave is a morningstar which deals 1d8 (piercing AND bludgeoning) OR (fire X...

The second two feats would indeed push things off the RNG, as it tends to be much better defined for AC and attack bonuses than damage. They're about on the same level as a quiver of defending arrows.

So based on the two suggested games, I've got two ideas for characters bumping around in my head. Unless there ends up being a gaping hole in the party make-up (or for whatever reason I can't play), I'll probably go with one of these two.[br][br]1) Ilya Zelezny (pseudonym). I've already mentioned th...

1195513682[/unixtime]][br]Which may imply that the term is more loaded than what it just means to use the English term adversary.[br] [br][br]No, it means that it's exactly as loaded as the English term.[br][br]When Christianity speaks of The Adversary, there is really very little ambiguity as to w...

This system actually seems to run counter to the idea of modifying your armor regularly, due to the amount of math involved. It looks good for a computer game, but maybe not so good for pen and paper.[br][br]Also, doesn't piling on lots of ranks of padding give the most bang for your skill penalty b...

I didn't realize that "jihad" could mean something so mundane. I thought at least that it had some connotation as a greater struggle for the glory of God. But then again, I guess religious cultures are crazy enough to say things like 'I'm going to work hard studying physics for the greater...

Blast is designed to replace "violent thrust". This is for four reasons:[br]1) If you allow attacks with "combat maneuver", you can already throw things around and into walls.[br]2) It's designed to model the effects of hurling lots of little things at once better than 'lots of a...

This could easily form the basis of a set of 'psionic' classes, which actually do things right . I like the "Telekinetic abilities" a lot, but I think they're too specific. You could just make it into a class with just one or two PrCs to allow for defensive/'sphere' specialists and soulkni...

sigma999 at [unixtime wrote:1195180660[/unixtime]]Frank: you sure? I coulda sworn some Islamic zealots "officialy declared jihad" on Israel not too long ago, maybe a year at most.

Jihad on Israel =|= jihad on Jews.

Thanks. I was basically just wondering if the company was Chinese or not, but I guess with extraterratoriality it almost doesn't matter.[br][br]The character in question is probably implemented as an ork with the "human-looking" perk. He happened to have a human father, ork mother. The exa...

Not all pants are full of magic ;)[br][br]But if you want to come up with new 'armor' types, I'd like to see them. That's one section of the book which could definitely use more fleshing out.[br][br]Some of the armors aren't very balanced as written, so be careful. For the most part nothing is game ...

Don't try to balance consumable items to non-consumables. Just say that every character should have some fixed number of once-ever abilities which refresh every adventure (or periodically at downtimes/when you feel like it). If you don't get a chance to use your Potion of Extra Hair Growth, that's j...

Nice job on the flavor for different OSs' AR setups. That's something I didn't even realize was missing from the core book until you wrote it up.[br][br]So now I can have my half-orc Georgian hacker Ilya Zelezny running Navi on his !. Thankfully I don't have to know what the ! looks like, as it's in...

Telekinetic spells:[br] entropic shield, fabricate*, feather fall, fly , floating disk, forcecage, gate*, globe of invulnerability [lesser]*, gust of wind*, implosion , levitate, mage armor , mage hand , move earth*, overland flight, reverse gravity*, shatter*, shield*, slow*, sound burst*, telekine...

Hostage situations are crappy. If you can put a value on the hostages' lives, you can do a cost/benefit analysis and take appropriate action:[br][br]Case: One or a few hostages are more valuable than the cargo/other hostages. In this situation, you're doing an extraction on the high seas. You want a...

1194869252[/unixtime]][br] Telekinetic Bolts - As a standard action, a magical energy darts forth from the Telekinetic and strikes its target, dealing 1d4 points of force damage. The telekinetic may fire up to his class level in number of these bolts.[br][br]The missiles strikes unerringly, even if...

1194817392[/unixtime]] 1194735563[/unixtime]]If any NPC with a character sheet is by definition a DMPC, then I agree.[br][br]When I think of 'necessary hole-filling character', I think of an NPC, hireling, or cohort (played by a DM or PC, with or without a full character sheet). A DMPC is there bec...

1194902438[/unixtime]]Same for Brazil. We don't have an history either, except for the hilarious part where the "beloved" Portuguese royal family came here outta fear of the Napoleonic Wars. The public school sucks too; the only thing I learned there was how to knock people down. :( [br][...