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If some bizarre mechanic needs a nerf to caster level, it should just use caster level -2 or whatever in the mechanic. 3e as written just works better with no term for caster level at all and everyone using their level for that. No increase or decrease to caster level, just cast at level +2 or leve...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundoshi#Cultural_comparisons Funny how it means the roughly same thing across most of Eurasia. http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/10/02/how-to-gird-up-your-loins-an-illustrated-guide/ http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticon_Matrix The fact that Laserbeak is the Kingmaker......

One edge-case that I can't seem to place among this is how entering/leaving the Stealth mode works? The zones of detection aspects you've mentioned seem to be the biggest stumbling block in developing stealth mechanics. Right now the stealth rules look like use of them involves shifting of total mod...

"I like 4e monsters better, because they don't have any monsters with more than 3 abilities, and I'm too stupid to remember what dispel magic does when reading the MM." It's like someone saying they want to make you some delicious avgolemono soup with salmon and fennel, but when they open...

Fritz Leibner's Council of Thirteen certainly is a source of Skaven; but it's possibly the inspiration for the variety of [Thing]+Rat monsters that exist in D&D's science-fantasy kitchensink (Ashrat, & Moonrat, come to immediate recollection) solely in populated areas, to undermine humanoid ...

Go all crazy witscraft/pythagorean on this. Organize/Label them: Icosahedron - Orb of Liquid - Aquatic creatures, liquid chemisty powers Octahedron - Spindle of Gas - Aerial creatures, gas chemistry powers Cube - Brick of Solid - Terrestial Creatures, solid chemisty powers Tetrahedron - Point of Pla...

There are no advancement mechanics in Deities & Demigods, but the heroes described within clearly don't follow the rules presented in the Player's Handbook. They are cut from an entirely different cloth than PCs, who are more heroic than everyone else. That's very odd, because it means your PCs...

Well, keep in mind those are Deities & Demigods stats, and don't follow the regular rules for multiclassing or dual-classing. That both makes it more confusing, b/c I never read the Deities & Demigods advancement mechanics; as well as making it more interesting, b/c this seems like some sor...

the characters of Fafhrd and the Mouser are as close as you get in literature to what we think of today as D&D adventurers. This here. I never made the connection between Lankhmar -> D&D Thieves, but it always looked obvious for me that Fritz Lieber had inspired the ethos of D&D adventu...

The reason SW's space combat makes no sense is that George based his settings physics from a wide range of pre-existing films focused on dramatic over documentary. In playing telephone with what was already soft science fiction; the setting's physics are always going to lean more towards soft scienc...

This is awesome Koumei. What scale in pixels are the tiles you plan on using? I know that GM VX can have varied pixels per tile.

So it's nowhere near as pointless as statting up Azathoth or something, but of course they get stats not because that is helpful, but because that is what is done. All Call of Cthulhu rules are about the appearance of RPG rules rather than actual playability in the traditional sense. -Username17 Th...

We must boldly seek out all phenomena, anomalies, and other novelties.

Of course, it's likely that the third anomaly will overload & anomalize us into anomalous matter.

Too bad we can't cut our infected arm now. That might stave off potential madness & death.

How the fuck is being able to relate your character sheet's numbers directly to things you can talk about in the actual game a problem ?! Back when I larped my immersion was fucking killed whenever we were expected to come up with a different in-character term than spell level to describe the level...

Frank's "Warp Cult" also used a gridless combat system. Cleaning up Necromunda, and run off of Shadowrun's dicepools essentially.

I realized today that I made this back in april, but I haven't updated it since. I might as well post it since it's the most recent version of my attempts to shoehorn AS into a Retro/Stupid/Pretentious type game. Some larger changes from AS's content: Universal Powers are now "Psychic"; as...

Poking swords where our noses lead has worked fine all this time. It's not like we haven't been beating the power-scaling encounters up until now. Also, this sort of book doesn't seem to have Die-no-Save/Battle type encounters one finds in the Fighting Fantasy franchise of CYOA books, so we'll proba...

Why not check out noise? Assuming that the noise is new to the story, and not something expected in the cemetery. I haven't been keeping up w/ this thread for a few pages now.

@Stashlsteele Chaos has always had a "our tech is old & hasn't been receiving their regularly ordained 1,000 year hardware/software updates"; so they're 10 upgrade cycles of obsolescence b/c they've literally been using the same pieces of equipment for the past 10k years (which is only...

Imperium is the one that's been stealing chaos toys for years now. No wonder that several chaos players just gave up and started using loyalist scum rules for their chaos models. Pretty much what I did. Once I had piles of spiky CSMs I tried to keep them looking fairly generic, and used whichever c...

So, seriously: How common is it to want to play a game where you rub elbows with major characters from source material? It wasn't when my gaming group was playing the Wheel of Time d20 game. Mostly b/c the WoT characters have to carry author-mandated, and genre-approved, idiot-balls. Also, b/c play...

Special Characters These were the heroes of Herohammer - the important/legendary characters that people could field if they're feeling beardy. Astragoth, High Priest of Hashut (Chaos Dwarf sorcerer lord, 358 points, mecha) I feel that last one requires some flavor text: Astragoth is the oldest livi...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hm1IRYwM_nY/T8aa5iDXgmI/AAAAAAAADP8/JI-WSXAjirM/s640/GW_Queen_Helga2.jpg There are female dwarfs in Warhammer Fantasy, and at least a couple models for them. They have sex and reproduce the normal way. We'll get to the sorcerer-statues in a bit. That makes sense, the older...

The only thing that I can recall about Chaos Dwarves from back in the 1990's was that their minis were really unique compared with the other pseudo-European factions. Also that they (more specifically, their sorcerors) petrified from the feet up , and were placed along special avenues that commemora...

Jes has said similar thing about his elves, samurai and Persian influence. I think that the conical Elf/Eldar helmet shapes in WHFB and WH40k might be inspired by Assyrian designs. Conical helmets are among the oldest designs (e.g. Mycenean "boar-tusk" plated leather) of human helmets, bu...