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Cool chargen and it shows some gaps in the game so far. There is no military leader or noble leader like a 3.5 Marshal or 4E Warlord apart from Bards with College of Valor. There is no class that is a non-magical mounted combatant, like a worg/dire wolf outrider or a knight/cavalier. There is nothi...

I got elementalist as well, despite my limited D&D knowledge. I am satisfied.

Tenra Bansho Zero has a number of conceits I like: 1. The hearts of Oni can be used to power large machines like giant robots. Considering Oni here are sexy noble savages and not the cannibalistic giants of traditional lore, this can lead to some interesting drama when the miko go hunting for them. ...

Tenra Bansho Zero, BASH!, and FATE myself. Like Prak, went with FATE mostly for mechanic cannibalization.

Pull your choice of feats out of a hat (or tarot deck, or what have you) so at the end of your career, you're some Nuzlocke Challenge-esque thing of beauty.

Maybe some sort of Wizard ROTC for peasant kids who have the brains but not the coin. Ridcully was a farm boy, after all. You get some OCS knife & fork education alongside learning to cast spells. Once you can cast a big one (Silent Image seems a popular candidate), you do your initial tour of d...

When a fighter casts Flight by pulling on his bootstrap, it changes the world itself; why is Joe Dirtfarmer working a job with a daily income in GP you can could on one hand, when all these cool powers were inside him all along? When a spell comes from the sort of Dying Earth laboratory that only th...

Maybe some sort of Foil Ability stunt that lets them Captain Hobo up some mobility on a case-by-case basis. So, like Raiden jumping from rocket to rocket to attack mecha and fliers, Cutman might jump along a jotun's flurry of boulders to decapitate them. Part of the reason you might bank damage coul...

Maybe instead, you can just ignore a certain amount of AC by going Blade Mode on stuff, letting you hit iron golems and the like, letting you Power Attack for more against stuff without that level of defense, and maybe another ability that lets you Zandatsu the vital organs out of puzzle monsters an...

Usually if I want to play a DMF, its because I want to be Guts, not Mary Tzu. If I want to be Mary Tzu, I can load up Warcraft 3 and have it make rulings on army creation & management a lot faster than a human brain + dice could.

And I guess if you want to be Guts in 5e, you cast Magic Jar.

Make the welfare artifact a big toy hammer that causes hearts to fly out instead of blood, and change people's alignment to Good instead of killing them when it scores the final blow. Sort of like how games like Ninja Gaiden Black discourage you from playing on Easy while still providing the option.

Are there good examples in the books of SLAs that require skill levels to use? So like, at higher levels, Hanzo Hattori leverages his stealth and skulduggery abilities into turning into a cloud of sentient, free-roaming vapor? While Axel Foley might get so good at disguising himself that he, given s...

Often enough, the protagonist picking up whatever's at hand and using it with the utmost proficiency IS what Rule of Cool supports. Riddick killing with a teacup, Conan using whatever the situation calls for, or Caesar Zeppeli clowning on fools with soap bubbles . Weapon Virtuoso tends to be a more ...

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In my heartbreaker, stealthers would tap into the Quiet in the same way that the Hulk taps into the Anger force or Flash into the Speed Force or Joestar into the Hamon, achieving at will a level of undetectability a caster would have to burn several spell slots to achieve once per day.

What a phone would do better than dice for me is simulating things. Like, you draw a castle on it and it calculates the cost and construction time. Or, you have a Star Trek ship and the PCs are working various duty stations, and from there it can procedurally generate ship events that happen when yo...

Out of curiosity about the phrase used here sometimes, "Charles Atlas powers", I did some googling, and most of the comics seem to be the "Man" simply punching a human. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flex_Mentallo however alludes to there being a more surreal quality to some of th...

I'd like to get the attention of someone as vain as Shitmuffin, but not as exhausting to engage with. I know there are plenty of assholes on the Internet who could use a good verbal flogging. Too many know this place by reputation, sadly, like the guys on Something Awful who accuse you of worshiping...

Out of curiosity about the phrase used here sometimes, "Charles Atlas powers", I did some googling, and most of the comics seem to be the "Man" simply punching a human. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flex_Mentallo however alludes to there being a more surreal quality to some of the...

In the Hunter game I'm playing right now, I think Willpower has just ended up being refreshed per-session, like fate points in WFRP/Dark Heresy/FATE/etc, since the GM would rather let us Old Man Henderson all over everything than actually read our sheets and care whether we were playing to virtue/vi...

Exuding seductive manliness sounds like a good psionic power. Same as being an exceptionally good leader - psionics would explain why your army's keikaku is better than the wizard with SAD Intelligence's keikaku.

Conan specifically, no. But similar VAHs get rebuilt by OCP, Godo the Blacksmith, Arthas/Nerzhul, or the like into things that clown on closet trolls easily. While maintaining qualities of their former VAHness that made them endearing in the first place.

Being able to stomp crowds of mooks is a fine endgame for the Dirt Farmer tier, as long as the orcs can tap into the same resource to make the orcish Lu Bu come after Conan. Having Orc Lu Bu laugh off crowds of hirelings is a good way to bury the whole "high level mundanes command armies" ...

For me, the coolest part of a character arc like that of Conan or Guts is when they're told "your mook-slaying skills won't help you now" and the evolution takes place. It makes the antagonists more interesting too; that Guts has to become Mega Man to kill demons makes the demons a whole l...

I think there is a good-intentioned reason for wanting to be in control over the distribution of magic items as a GM. The road to hell... Right. For the sake of, as you've put it, the viking hat DMs, I'd put the magic items in the PHB, given the choice. That, or I'd strike some sort of balance. Eno...