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Er... Elves get proficiency with bows, longswords and rapiers because they're trained in their use in their home villages. Yes, this happens, because in D&D, "Elf" is a country (the home village). You get to play as a guy from there. Here, I'll create another Race: Roman - Romans are ...

The essay is in the first edition PHB or DMG, can't remember which. Not sure if it's online anywhere. Well, that's a pity. But for once, I agree with Gygax about the alien mindsets. I believe the non-insulting way to play as another RACE is to think in alien terms. I don't agree with his conclusion...

What happens, then, when the imaginary category of fantasy "race" disappears? PCs will have to chose which fantasy culture and possibly ethnicity they belong to instead, based on things like where they grew up, what language they speak, what pantheon they light fires to, that sort of thin...

Gygax's "Players shouldn't be allowed to play non-humans or women because it's an alien mindset they can't comprehend" essay is bullshit (and for more reasons than just it's sexist nature). Link for this? Sounds like a must read, pretty much for the same reasons than F.A.T.A.L. About your...

If you're going to have more than one race, you may as well have elves. In fantasy games where there are no elves, there's inevitably one that that's presented, at least informally as "These are warglblasters. They're elves." "But you see, I'm not one of those uncouth Wood Warglblast...

One immediate issue is the shallowness of fantasy "races". When a player says: "I'm making a dwarf!" everybody understands that he's actually making a guy from a mining village of about 200 short gruff norsemen, because all the "typical dwarven characters" have the vari...

That kind of hit-point based save or die that Monte Cook is proposing sucks and will never work in a hit point system that scales as much as D&D. Yes, I totally want to memorize the little numbers that Digivolves my spells from 'harmless chaff' to 'save or dies' for every goddamn spell and mons...

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Ted the Flayer wrote:I am repulsed, yet somehow intrigued by that description...

Well, here's your Touhou futa, you scary pervert you. Link is extremely not safe for work and not safe for sanity, but HOTTT and SEXXXY as HECKKK.

Uh, that last one, didn't... quite work out...

Oh gods, my poor, poor Satori.

3E wise, in the game I'm playing in the Fighter (currently ECL 9) is still consistently as useful overall as the Wizard (currently ECL 10) and still can do something the Wizard cannot or at least do something better than the wizard can (massive damage output, reliable threat neutralization--there's...

druid is listed in the priest section of the book..so would you expect it to reference another class and say "cleric of nature"? Warrior, Wizard, Priest Rogue.. those are you class groups for 2nd. check it out some time.. you might learn something. 2nd edition was my first RPG. I still ha...

The fighter is a warrior, an expert in weapons and, if he is clever, tactics and strategy. Copyright 1999 TSR Inc. hey look mechanics described in the fluff. The druid is a priest of nature and guardian of the wilderness, be it forest, plains, or jungle. Copyright 1999 TSR Inc. look no mechanics me...

why not? so the fighter hits things hard, and the druid protects the land from abuse. One of these is a How and/or What, the other is a Why, which should never be a class issue in the first place. How can you not understand that, you drooling retard? they are ALL why. why does this class exist? Fig...

In defense of WFRP 2nd ed.: 4 - good games with trap options for the PCs. WFRP really is an RPG based around Warhammer; the material edge of a high level character vs. a teenager with a sword is not that great - a Force Commander probably doesn't beat an imperial guard squad all by himself, he expe...

present YOUR interpretation of the classes then so that others may see them. Alright. Thinking about D&D fluff (and ignoring what the game rules actually create), here are how I imagine each class schtick: Barbarian: Brutal fighter that screams and hits things really hard Fighter: Weapon master...

This is confusing. You can't have "hit things hard" aside "tree hugger".

I honestly can't even imagine why you thought that was a good idea. It's a pretty bad idea even in Warhammer, and that's a one-shot wargame with a heavy comedy emphasis. I like keeping magic dangerous, when it comes to major effects. It's fitting with a Sword & Sorcery-type approach I'm using. ...

I fukken hope you meant a slutty MARIlith, because my body is not ready for a slutty huge demonic mantis shrimp. Then do I have bad news for you! Yes, I specifically went "Um, demon that isn't even vaguely humanoid... aha!" mother_of_god.jpg :ugone2far: The bebilith is wearing heels, a mi...

I really like that idea of Cortez and D&D. Yeah, it's really pertinent and helps to put what a classical "adventure" actually is. Besides, the starting description a step removed from "I think Cortez is a pretty cool guy. eh crushes classical societies and doesnt afraid of anythi...

BRB, writing some hot springs encounter tables. Pfft, been there, done that: 20: Harem of Succubi (2d6 plus 1 Greater one from FCodex or a slutty looking Bebilith, your choice) I fukken hope you meant a slutty MARIlith, because my body is not ready for a slutty huge demonic mantis shrimp. But's a v...

*Facts* Unfortunately, I forgot to mention this was during my short test trial of 4th edition. No such thing there, I'm afraid. Another one, though from much farther: Transmutation and other shapeshifting effects destroy your clothing. Anything to get my rogue naked, actually. So I'm taking this wa...

One of my DMs, after our melee dudes discovered the special attack section, made a houserule that you had to spend 1d4 turns "recovering" after using bullrush/trip/charge/feint/whatever before you could use that ability again. Cue groans from fighters. I think the better answer for such m...

No teleportation through anti-magic fields. It's been a year and I still can't get over it. Eh? This one sounds actually reasonable, the way I'm visualizing it: "Teleportation requires a special "line of effect" of uninterrupted magic space to the target. If the target is enclosed on...

"Vancian casting" has, in D&D, come to mean "The D&D style casting where you have spells of different levels and they are each their own separate pool." So basically "Anything that isn't everything-at-will or psionics." And most people seem to understand this. ...

All I got from that manifest is that you're going for a Silver Age feel for your games, since you're rejecting explicitly the "dark, adult and brooding" 90's thing.

Oh man, I'm totally making a woman sorcerer now.