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Not much, really, but Riot basically picked "human-dominated lands" to be in charge of for the setting, and he basically likes to plan a bit so when the whole table looks at him and asks "who the hell are these dudes in the town over there?" he has a ready answer. The guy who wan...

What has been seen cannot be unseen!

Okay, seriously, any fantasy setting that employs a pastiche of real-world cultures has probably been done before, so yeah, this Gor thing and prior art and all, and it in turn was derivative of prior art, but... wow. You may as well use /b/ as a setting.

Not really a balance issue, but... Protection of the Ancestors (Su): Hitodama often linger in the material world to grant aid. At 8th level, When in Hitodama form, you may radiate a Protection from Evil or Protection from Good effect as the spell. Beginning or ending this effect is a free action. D...

Yeah, 12 forms right off the bat is simply too much, and several of them don't give you any real reason to use them aside from the spell they offer. At least walking around as a dog is likely to not arouse suspicion. I have no idea why you'd turn into a Reikar at all before the level you can cast he...

Some other conceptual questions that occur to me:

Why is damage scaling for Tiger form handled via strength bonuses rather than bonus d6s?

Do the minor zodiac forms really need to alter stats?

Thinking about it more and looking at some more numbers at level 10, I'm starting to agree with the tail-snap scaling. I think I'm going to cut it back to being essentially a monk-style slam attack that hits almost anything and applies debuffs, but has basically static damage, and leave the tiger to...

Here's another class for a game I'm running. Again, it's going to 12th level, hence the cutoff. The class is intended as a "nature's wrath"-themed battlefield controller for a player new to DnD (though an old hat to many other RPGs). I feel like 6th level needs something else, and I'm so-s...

I feel like the Tail Snap and Tiger Claw abilities stack too high - rather than gaining a broader selection of tactically interesting hammers, you simply gain more and more super hammers. Thanks for the feedback. Tail-Snapping is basically an at-will, short-range evocation spell. It's pretty good a...

Also, there's obviously quite a bit here borrowed from the Frank & K monk and barbarian.

The game is only going to 12th level, and begins at 6th, so that's the key area of interest. Hence no levels after 12th

The bold and italic text was lost, unfortunately, but I think the rest of the formatting was preserved. Whatcha think? Zodiac Warrior "No, actually, 'Dragon Snaps His Tail' isn't a metaphor." [Class Description goes here] Alignment: Zodiac Warriors may be of any alignment, and there haven'...

I'm liking it. Seeing through cover allows you to detect burrowing and other such tricky things, and See Invisibility combined with that allows you to detect ghosts and such hiding out in walls. You can use the ignore concealment option to pierce Darkness effects. It's surprisingly broad in applicat...

There are rules for garrotes in Lute and Loot (Song and Silence). I'm not saying that they're good rules, mind you...

Yeah, also we're talking about a game, and while sure, one shotting your enemy can be fun from time to time, getting killed in one shot is most certainly not fun, especially when you don't even get to act. It feels very cheap and most players are rather upset when it happens to them. And further, t...

If you wish to play a supers gonzo fantasy game, I would suggest Exalted. As it seems you wish to play only games which have one actual inherent 'Job 1', as you put it, Exalted would fit your needs much more then DnD, in any edition, ever could. We've tried it, actually. DnD delivered the experienc...

I guess I'm having difficulty thinking of what 'appropriate to level' means in the context of these sorts of abilities. Okay, so you want to be a sort of scouting beacon with this? The watcher in the darkness? Let's assume that's the case, bearing in mind that we still need to hash out the finer po...

If I want to play a game where I undertake long and arduous journeys to achieve a destiny and change the shape of the world through mechanically-supported negotiation and pursuit of personal goals, I've found better systems for that. Systems that focus on that as job #1 and drive straight for making...

My only thought is to summon something fireproof and order it to get near the thing and shove a portable hole into a bag of holding for the free trip to the astral plain effect. I'm not seeing any Plane Shift-type ability at all, so yeah, shoving it through a portal or a gate or whatever is a prett...

The whole game's 1-30 power curve seems to be a remapping of the 1-10 level range of 3.5. Nobody ever gets to animate the dead, teleport around the world like it's no big deal, make permanent walls of iron, walk on clouds, triangle jump between two walls, etc... The first Dominate effect I've found ...

Intimidate looks to be the new Diplomacy. It's a skill that targets Will rather than being opposed by a skill, and one of the example uses is to make a bloodied target surrender. You take a -10 to use it in combat, and another -5 if you don't share a language, for a likely net -15. A 2nd-level Warlo...

Also, is the Forge as cracked up as he makes it out to be? The Forge is a massive circle-jerk of coffeehouse scene kids. It's also produced actual good games that you can actually buy in a store - which is to say, people from that forum have written games based on principles espoused by forum membe...

My recommendations for a more medieval-feel RPG are The Riddle of Steel , or Burning Wheel . This. Riddle of Steel, in particular, is brutal. You will lose hands, legs, and other vital bits, often and forever. It's supposed to be a gritty blood opera that ends poorly for almost everyone involved.

Didn't you know? The internet is serious fucking business. Cue the many pictures with that very message. http://www.hfstival.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10148/normal_Internet-SeriousBusiness.jpg http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/182/internetsle5.jpg http://cache.bordom.net/images/f9cc829ae0b529241...

Why compare yourself to Fox News and the Chinese Media, who are basically supporting a vocal minority? ...In short, how does being an "incorrigible c*&%" help prove a point? Or I am I not supposed to take what you're saying seriously? Not to answer for Frank here, but Fox News et al. ...

1197763819[/unixtime]][br]Well, yes, like I said what I'm going to share with you could possibly be chalked up to insanely astronomical coincidence. [br]Right, but that wasn't an insanely astronomical coincidence that was cited there. It was the product of misunderstanding statistics, and thus a fa...