The Gaming Den

DOMAIN An Rd6 system Table Top Roleplaying Game Domain TTRPG Edition 3 V28 Written by Jon Setanta Edited by Al Plato the Exegin and NPS founder Suggestions, playtesting, and additional content by: James Waugh Patrick Waugh Destinie Carbone Alex Whitehead Sven Æsirson Chris Kohlway Daniel Roberts Jul...

I'm not sure about what your intentions are with making this. What are you trying to get players to actually do with this? 1. Provide options... Emphasis on options... For players of my slowly released Domain TTRPG to do "social stuff" mechanically. Right now I'm reading Foxwarrior's thre...

Could someone put their feral dogs in a leash before they cover this thread with piss?

JonSetanta, my friend, I'd like to recommend you watch For a Few Dollars More . Mostly because it's an awesome movie, but also because it has examples of how people who don't trust each other still manage to lie to each other. There are actually a number of cases where people either believe someone...

Foxwarrior wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 26, 2024 5:59 pm

Ayyup, here it is viewtopic.php?t=53241

I'll take a look

You can not do either malicious deed to a person or group that doesn't trust you. I think it'd be easier to do a malicious deed to a person that doesn't trust you. It's weird that you break down their door, then you have to win their trust before you can murder them. That implies a pathological nee...

A lot is missing in this post but this is just an excerpt. A Rank in Domain is equal to a 5-level gap. Rank-based Totals Trust - Built by cooperative deeds and Quests, drained by spending it to manipulate or lie to people that share a Trust stat with you. You can not do either malicious deed to a pe...

Thaluikhain wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2024 3:57 am

Next random questions, the consensus is that 5e DnD is just bad, but are there any rules or mechanics that people do like?

Sorcery Points.

ALMOST a step towards having a "Mana bar" but not quite there.

In the real world, people accept debts to be paid in the future without any magical compulsion. Sometimes they fail to pay those debts. But honorable people often will do the things they promised to do. Failure can impact willingness to accept their word in the future. While a Respect mechanic migh...

I apologize yes it's been a while since I used high level spells in D&D, Atonement is the one, but what I intended was some kind of favor-collecting mechanic, you'd probably have to introduce a stat called Trust or other fungible social token to integrate to d20 rules, and at that point I'll jus...

So, if I'm understanding this correctly, in effect you don't have an ability or a spell or an attack or whatever that does, say "Fire Damage", you have "Element Damage" and you can choose between all the elements, and swap between them at will? When you buy fire ammunition you a...

I was just taking inspiration from an FnK postulation that "every paladin should get the Quest spell at an early level to redeem their own abilities if they lose divine favor"

Very true, just like with any games there are those savants with too much free time and neurons to take A, B, and C things, slap them together and come out with "i^2"

No doubt someone will break this but I was cautious about the design.

deaddmwalking wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 21, 2024 2:34 pm

And quest? Why do good characters need daily access to that?

If evil deals with ensnaring and trading souls, good does with favors.

I was trying to relate by example but if you want a direct answer, is non-lethal damage or any TGD "social combat homebrew" ruleset "mind effect"? If even Intimidate doesn't work, bending a Mind-influencing Intimidate into say a Fire or Electric"damage" by pulling a Dra...

Kaelik wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 21, 2024 5:34 am

No idea why a fighter would need that at all!

I had an AD&D warrior once that was devoured but a black pudding, which I believe are weak to Cold.

If ANYONE in the party could adapt to the encounter based on some... Soul ability... It wouldn't have been a TPK.

Frank and a few others peed on my suggestion a few years ago when I mentioned that everyone should get a free Domain for devoting to a pantheon or deity, but I still stand by the idea. Trollman pointed out that Spheres are inherently better in every way, but rely about 50% on non-SRD material. Domai...

Phonelobster is very bad at polite discussion, but I think his question is valid, so I'll attempt to translate: You said: this requires giving everyone multiple options that are not feat/class/species/spell dependent, but instead more like the 3e Disarm and Trip options for combat; He wondered why ...

Your statement doesn't "parse". You asked A question, I read this entire thread twice over to even come close to the grumbling gargle of bait, and yet you persist. Unless you want to actually, you know, offer ideas yourself for ME to pick at, this isn't a discussion, it's me feeding you an...

So why this? Why does providing multiple elements to bypass elemental immunities so that a bypass element choice is basically always available for some reason specifically NEED to be deeply independent of basically every element of every character build? Tell us a story. Make this make sense. I'll ...

Ok. V3 standardizes spellcaster and save interaction as by normal rules, cleaned up the wording a bit too. [Warlock Path] Mage 7/20/2024 Disclaimer and design statement: This D&D 3.5e class is an attempt to combine the versatile Sorcerer with the reliable yet weaker Warlock. I called this aim of...

One of the nice things about 3.x was an attempt to make a whole bunch of disparate systems work consistently. In earlier editions climbing walls was a percentage check and lighting a fire required rolling less than your attribute on a d20. Modifiers were inconsistent and arbitrary. If you want to a...

A touch attack requires an attack roll which can also be boosted out the wazoo..

I was trying something out but look just below where it says optional ruled

My metric is an optimized, fully slotted Wizard for a single encounter, but less damage due to the Warlock-like Invocation similarities. With this you can stack filters but none of the effects or damage happen on a pass save. I'm not ignoring your middle of the response but the important part I noti...

Here's the simple versions. Element filters only change the damage type for the d6s rolled. The rest remains Force damage. If multiple elements are applied, caster chooses which d6s are which element, but multiple elements all apply their status effects to all within range that either fail their sav...