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I'm pretty sure that at least a few of the other finalists had their work published by 3rd-party companies. I think Dawnforge was one of them, for instance.[br][br][counturl=99]Link[/counturl][br][br]Oh, and here's a long-ass review, which should give you an idea of what it's like as a setting.[br][...

1188857840[/unixtime]]Keep in mind, though, that a character should be twice as powerful as someone two levels down. You're an even match for two people who are each (your level-2). Trading a feat for some guy who is half as cool as you are isn't really that big a deal. [br][br]Um. If an entity of ...

1188559060[/unixtime]]Actually, having a griffin as a Lion4/Eagle2 is an awesome idea. It just will be difficult to have it scale past level 6 or so when animals stop being a real threat. [br][br]I guess you'd have to start throwing on extra-awesome stuff like the Tome Fighter has. It's not what mo...

1188511359[/unixtime]]But how would one go about making classes for turtles, elephants, butterfly swarms, ghasts, will-o-the-wisps, etc? [br][br]Well, most of them run into the Fighter problem that they don't really have theme-appropriate crap to do at higher levels of the game. It's worse, really,...

1188066351[/unixtime]]If a 5th level character can do all that, then why is there even any wars in your campaign world? I mean, you'd get some 15th level diplomat at some point who just achieves world peace, and then nobody cares anymore. [br][br]It seems like what's needed is a negotiation CR. So ...

Hm, yes. Poorly organized thoughts. Redone.[br][br]1) The weapon-based feats still suck compared to magic-based feats.[br][br]2) The level-based scaling is incredibly uneven. The Attack Focus feat never improves at all. Plant Shaping improves in one way (level x40 feet radius of difficult ground) an...

The problem is that not everything scales to your level.[br][br]Attack Focus is still Weapon Focus: a +1 to hit. Yet it costs the same Feat as Plant Shaping, which can entangle enemies in an area, or create a hedge maze of difficult terrain.[br][br]Attack Focus never ever improves. Plant Shaping imp...

If it moves, has ever moved, or looks like it might once have thought about moving, someone who wants to make sweet love to it is using the internet to find other people who want to make sweet love to it.

I don't care if they go there, as long as they don't take me with them.

It's a time-tested method of declaring why your character is all unique and has shiny powers that no-one else does, but hey, he can't help being cooler than the rest of y'all, man, he was born that way.

Speed factors. You need to bring back speed factors. Basically in 3E you can wield a longsword as fast as you can wield a greatsword. That's not right. You don't want to go overboard but it's generally not right. [br][br]1. Greatswords are, in fact, faster to wield than longswords. Generally, putti...

1187065573[/unixtime]]But I think that, with the new 1/2 dragon (for the breath weapon, because anyone can tell you that dragons breathe fire ) [br][br]Mythologically speaking, there are at least as many dragons which breathe poison, or are just poisonous, which the Wyvern already does. Of course, ...

Well, if the hardcore guys are already playing firebottle Rogues and Cleric Archers, let the casuals play Tome Barbarians and Fire Mages, which are designed for casual players anyway.

That's more or less what I was trying to say, PhoneLobster, though my thoughts were scattered, so I'm not surprised it didn't communicate well.

Although, the Torch/Spellbook/Other stuff never occurred to me. That could be pretty cool.

No, see, because now you're 3rd level, you have +1 to hit, +2 to damage, and the Ogre is still owning your face. Or you're 18th level, you have +10 to hit, +9 to damage, and no-one cares.[br][br]I'm thinking there should be a weapon version of the Tome scaling armors. So, yes, a flail can be enchant...

Not to mention that as you go up in level the number of hostile actions heading your way that even care about natural armor grows ever smaller.

So, Frank's talked about how the longsword stops being an appropriate weapon after 2nd level. How would one remedy that?[br][br]What if something as basic as the class feature Martial Weapon Proficiency scaled like a Warlock Path? If it looked something like: [br][br] Martial Weapon Proficiency [br]...

I'm working on testing a 'save-or-kinda-suck' system, where spells that would normally remove the target from the game are just debuffs: Blind, Slow, Root, etc. [br][br]They ratchet up to save-or-suck if the target is enough hit dice below the caster. This is where all the stuff that makes you lose ...

1186308458[/unixtime]]And as far as artifact swords, honestly we don't even know how powerful Excalibur or any other fantasy sword really was. I mean, just because a blade has a name, doesn't necessarily mean that it's all that awesome. In a low magic setting, it could just be a +1 sword. Seriously...

1186092551[/unixtime]]The ancient (Athenians) were a (people) of scholars and merchants. [br][br]Fixed that for you.[br][br]Seriously, there were a lot of different cultures in that area throughout that time, and plenty of them were warrior-based, or religion-based, or piracy-based, or what have yo...

1185971551[/unixtime]]Gandalf doesn't "defeat" the balrog, gravity defeats the balrog after a very long fall. Note also that Galdalf also dies. [br][br]Unless we assume that Gandalf is lying to seem more impressive, he does report that after the fall, he and the Balrog have an epic chase ...

Iron Heroes has been discussed a few times on this board, particularly [counturl=83]here[/counturl], but also somewhat
[counturl=84]here[/counturl].

Hey, that second one seems familiar somehow.

No, I'm pretty sure he was talking about skills.[br][br][br] If what you do out of combat is come up with complicated solutions to problems and jury rig stuff out of wax paper and bubble gum - you need a lot of skills.[br][br]...[br][br]If you are a Specialist, you get a very big skill list, and you...

Way back in
[counturl=73]this[/counturl] thread, one of the roles for a party member was the Specialist whose job it is to 'MacGyver' stuff with an extensive skill list.

What kind of skills would be on that list?

I'm pretty sure FATE essentially charges extra for magic. There's a few suggested versions of it, but basically magic is also a Trait, which means that you have less other interesting things about you, and using magic costs Fate Points.

1181978946[/unixtime]] 1181364257[/unixtime]][br]Similarly, the IG are there in case you want to fight off invading aliens with the WWII Russian army. [br][br]You cannot field an army that works anything like that. And it makes me sad. [br][br]Hey, I only said it was their goal. I didn't say they s...