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Duke Flauros, a couple posts up you attributed a quote to me that's not mine. That description of Blue Rose is courtesy of Libertad. Fixed. In trying to remain a rational human being, that line of thinking is pure fucking fallacy. Look at the shit fundamentalist Islamists are doing. Does that make ...

Basically the main controversy was that the setting was more blatant about gender and homosexual equality. Heterosexual monogamy was common in Aldea, yet it was not the only form of love. Approximately 10 out of 224 pages discuss the nature of romance and relationships in the campaign world. One of...

However a set of better design goals than Mearls and directives for actually achieving them: that's cake in well under an hour. Simple. Create a system that Is internally consistent. Can be applied to a wide variety of settings and genres. Can be picked up and understood in less than an hour. Can b...

Catholic images and symbolism have a far reaching cultural impact that goes way beyond their actual religious teachings, and there is thus utility in using things like the seven deadly sins even if you have absolutely no intention to actually spread any kind of Christian morality. 1) That line of r...

That despite whatever WotC folks currently mean by 'bounded accuracy,' it has nothing at all to do with the fact that their system falls off the RNG very quickly, and at low levels. It doesn't fall off the RNG at low levels. It was never anywhere near the RNG. ...Instead, we represent the differenc...

I suspect that things are stacked a bit against stereotypical hawkish conservative factions simply by virtue that it's easier for a lazy writer to set up the the guys who are more willing to resort to violence as outright villains than it is the liberal hippie dippie types. Well, unless you're Terr...

So RPGs shouldn't care about the african american demographic, either? Ah tell you, cuzin Billy-Bob, no one cares about them there neegers, them there preeverted homy sexuals, or them there Jews! Unless you are actually significantly more than one person, no amount of your belonging to a demographi...

Again, I don't know where you're getting a definition of "bounded accuracy" that disagrees with the above statements. The basic premise behind the bounded accuracy system is simple: we make no assumptions on the DM's side of the game that the player's attack and spell accuracy, or their d...

uot;] And I think that the feel of the rules is always gonna trump like the mathematical soundness and the aesthetics of them. He even admits it, Frankie. Please to be providing link or citation for that so that I may siggy it....? http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/07/15/2129225/slashdots-rob-roze...

I once read a brief statement in a blog post by Robert Kuntz that modern-day RPGs are more "politically correct" than their older counterparts. Various RPGs (Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Blue Rose) have been described as carrying a liberal message. Some recent examples, such as Eclipse Phase...

OgreBattle wrote:physiologically, an RPG session should follow the pacing of a porno movie. Few are 4 hours long

"Hello, ma'am, wanna see my natural 20's?"

The ability scores form the basis of the minotaur’s attacks. Its 18 Strength gives it a +4 attack bonus, which is on target for its level. I settled on the greataxe as the default minotaur weapon. Since minotaurs are size Large, their weapons deal one more die of damage than normal size weapons. Th...

Mearls is saying he doesn't know what he wants and can't do arithmetic. He keeps issuing edicts and then running with them for a bit and realizing that the numbers get crazy titanic almost immediately and then announcing new edicts that are supposed to keep the numbers from rising so much. It's lik...

ScottS wrote: How long can a single run-on sentence go before an ordinary mortal speaker passes out from lack of oxygen?

Transcribing it by hand was a pain. That might have been one sentence, it might have been several, since Mearls jams his words together and doesn't enunciate.

Someone watch this turkey so I don't have to. His enunciation is so bad that he turned “probably a little more” and “rather than you even have” into one syllable, and turns “appeals to” into “keels”. I may not have gotten this exactly right. -Duke Flauros MM: My name is Mike Mearls. I am the, uh, s...

Unfettered are closer to rogues, but their clear match is to Swashbuckler. I'd take Unfettered over Swashbuckler however. I'd call this a successful power-up. If compared to Rogue then they are about even and rogues were at the top end of non-casters, so meh. 1/2 the sneak attack dice and no UMD ma...

I don't thinking laughing at handicapped people is a nice thing to do, but I couldn't help but laugh at some of those people in that thread. Benoist especially. I think I lost braincells when I read "That's a bullshit argument based on the idea that the rules are the game and the game the rule...

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Here the slashdot interview is.

In a general sense, he powered-up fighting guys and powered-down magic guys, closing the gap between the two. That was pretty revolutionary at the time. At 25th level, a champion of the light gets a permanent +10 bonus to movement speed, and can increase that by +90 for one round per class level 1/...

OgreBattle wrote:

infected slut princess wrote:I think it is critical that your actual core rules be free and available for multiple platforms. PARTICULARLY APPS FOR MOBILE DEVICES.

So what RPG company does this? Or what tabletop game?

The OGL, along with the SRD, helped prolong 3E's lifespan.

WOTC seems to be trying to mashup DND and 40k now: http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ro3/20120717 Before I start this week’s Rule of Three (which focuses on the Dungeon Command questions we’ve been getting in lately), I wanted to offer a clarification about something I mentioned in last...

The good: Interesting races, helps fighters more than casters for the most part, interesting classes, decent fluff. The Bad: Still doesn't solve many known problems (UMD being the best skill in the game, summon monster being better than an unoptimized melee fighter, blaster mages being inferior to o...

Why did you link that stupid fucking thread? It's a good example of how a game can successfully outlive its expected expiration date. This is "Legacy" part, actually. They are not vouching for 1E/2E but for the times when grass was greener and character optimization boards did not exist, ...

Manipulation sounds like a key one, trick the pre teens and RPG fans (Read:Neckbeards), into thinking your game delivering on their ideal and limited boring fantasies. http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?s=5d00b51495e4bc036c6f2892096985d5&t=23138 There are neckbeards still vouching for 1/2...

That is an interesting question. I mean, Forgotten Realms book are a pretty big deal, aren't they? Salvatore still does Drizzt books every year, I think. They are pretty lame from what I hear. Drizzt never faces a serious challenge so no one cares. Maybe if someone beat his whiny ass once and for a...