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The best Star Wars RPG is Traveller.

So, when the Rogue says he's going to sneak into the enemy camp and rolls badly, he is justified in saying, "You know, I'm not feeling particularly stealthy right now. I'm going to try back in an hour."

Okay, I accept that all NPC's in a Phonelobster run game are fourth wall breaking Deadpools who know when they have failed a roll, not based on any in game information, but rather by the numerical outcome of the roll.

I guess I'm just an idiot and a bad DM for handling such situations differently.

Eh, whatever. Nothing you are saying is interacting with the actual rules you idiot. You don't just get to say it's a grey area and have it be true with any amount of repetition. Making a "metagaming is bad" argument as a failed attempt to bolster your position that "the rules don't ...

"I have no idea what the weather will be like tomorrow" is actually a reasonable output. I don't like it. I don't have a long, impressive reason for why. I just don't. Oh, and I would make it work a bit like knowledge checks and say "you can roll once a day, with rerolls allowed only...

More charitably you MIGHT be arguing that the designers basically made (pretty damn huge) typo, Yes, the rule is technically incomplete, and only YOU know that it exists As Radiant Phoenix pointed out, there is no clarification regarding what type of action it is. There is also no actual clarificat...

So... you are seriously going to run with the argument "fuck the stinking dirty rules! I'm going to imagine up an entirely different way for them to work and call it 'realz roleplayingz" and denounce everything else as 'rulez playingz"!!1!" Pro-tip. That's an offensively stupid ...

Congratulations to ishy and Josh on both getting your heads lodged up Josh's ass. Are you seriously arguing that the reasonable interpretation of failing a "predict weather" roll is not just predicting the wrong fucking weather, but instead going into momentary brain lock and having "...

No. It doesn't, because that is explicitly Survival. And since that's a DC 15 untrained use with no retry restrictions, the average 1st level commoner always knows the next 48 hours' weather perfectly anyways. http://www.d20srd.org/srd/skills/survival.htm Retries to avoid getting lost in a specific...

Now I'm thinking about how you would go about "grognarding" various feats. Grognard Edition Close Quarters Fighting: DM - The Owlbear hits you with both claws, triggering a grapple... Fighter - But wait! I will (out of turn) brace my sword pommel against my breastplate, so the Owlbear will...

I don't remember where I read the argument, and I'm leaning towards RPGSite, but the gist was that Feats were a terrible introduction to D&D because they codified a bunch of things that martials should have just been able to try to do anyway. Now, there are some obvious exceptions to that, notab...

Pathfinder Online sounds like the World of Hackcraft satirical game from the Knights of the Dinner Table comics.

I like rules to be thorough and to set benchmarks. In 3.X, you can research your own new spells. Now, this is clearly heavy "blow the DM" territory, but the argument can be made that the large number of spells printed for 3.X set benchmarks for what a spell should be able to do. Over the l...

Perhaps this is due to the local focus on D&D 3.x and derivatives ? Yeah, the narrow focus on D&D and Pathfinder is pretty silly considering that they are just the lion's share of the gaming market. We should be talking about Bear World and other shit that the typical gamer hasn't actually ...

Wiseman, I like your Sword of Megadeath. I could see a campaign where the party goes on a quest to be granted the sword, then uses it to off some baddie far above their weight class. Of course, I would probably seriously encourage them to return the sword to heaven once that job was accomplished. Ma...

Excalibur isn't powerful because Arthur is awesome. Excalibur is powerful because it was made but fuckoff powerful faeries, and Arthur got it by going down on the Lady of the Lake. If you gave head to powerful faeries, you too could get a sword as awesome as Excalibur. Saint George's equipment like...

Artifacts tend to fall under a few categories, each with their own problems: Don't Touch It, It's Evil! : The artifact is a ball of evil spreading evil everywhere not already contaminated with evil, and must be destroyed in the Fires of Mount Plotanium, across the Hills of Level Appropriate Encounte...

Tactical + Diceless brings to mind Star Wars: Epic Duels and the first Game of Thrones Board Game. In GoTBG in particular, the larger army always wins with all else being equal. However, each player has a hand of "Nobles" cards that offer varying bonuses (typically 0 to 3) that they play a...

For instance, I'm in a thread over on rgfd where people are right now saying that riding a bucking bronco is some sort of weird epic magic-only trick that a basic mundane 1st level Warrior type may not even attempt. A professionally trained bull rider with gear specifically for bull riding is consi...

fearsomepirate wrote:
In a real situation, those 830 guards don't stand a chance for the same reasons.

You gonna throw some rules and numbers behind that statement? I'm guessing not, since you've already disdained those who feel compelled to math-hammer things.

@shinimasu: The problem is that any monster that you can board, walk around on, and hide in, is more of a specialty dungeon than a creature belonging in the Monster Manual. The Death Star is not following the same rules as an X-Wing. If I were trying to do something like Shadow of the Colossus in D&...

Okay, yeah, I missed the DR column on dragons. So the king buys acid arrows for his archers.

100k Corrosive +1 Arrows would cost 16.7 million gold in 3.5. I think you could get some seriously more impressive shit than 100k archers who are good for one shot for 16.7 million gold.

There seems to be random xp, but very little random loot. like "this is backwater shit, no one has shit" Yeah, part of the problem with Kingmaker Random Encounter is that many of them have no actual treasure, while others are "run away or die." It's entirely possible that, in th...

Arrange sales to foreign nobles with too much money, and skim a little off the top of those sales to start working on your own little projects. So the PCs are encouraged to be corrupt governmental officials? The module gives you crap for treasure, and seems to demand withdrawal + item creation to s...

Your Stability bonus is to avoid or minimize the consequence of Random Kingdom Events . It is actually the least useful of the bonuses, because the Random Kingdom Events can usually be addressed by direct intervention by the party. So Stability is mostly only tested when the Party fails to solve th...