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I want that 3rd party feat! It sounds so reasonable. I couldn't find it, but there are some other options... First, the closest I could find. Divine Charisma allows a divine caster to use Cha instead of Wis to determine save DCs. Not spells cast or spells per day, just DCs. Next, some interesting f...

Obviously you don't need books to create your character! You can just use the new online subscription-based service they're waiting to reveal! It went so well for 4e, they're gonna make it mandatory to play 5e Se.

I wish that explanation didn't fit so well....

What other objective demonstration are you expecting? If you start out with randomly-selected behavioral drives and let time pass for a bit, the drives that result in death are no longer part of the population. So if one person says that the best society is one where everyone can say whatever they ...

Please explain your completely logical not-at-all arbitrary basis for thinking that survival is objectively better than extinction. The universe causes configurations that are better at surviving to persist more than those that don't survive well. This is entirely tautological. "Things that ar...

Character creation systems that can give you two freshly created characters where one is strictly better than the other. Relatedly, systems where one type of currency is spent at creation and a different, inconsistently-converted currency is spent on advancement, such that, after two sessions, one c...

But any that aren't are merely logical extensions of the ones that are. I prefer having money to not having money, and that's not arbitrary, but it does logically follow from my desire to have the sense of security I feel when I have money (due to its uses in satisfying other desires I have). And m...

Aid Another is a simple way to do it. This leaves the problem that whoever rolls the actual check could probably manage it on their own, theoretically. I might let them add their results together, but halve said results (or double the DC; same effect, no rounding). Or perhaps one of them (the one do...

I consider Belts of Physical Might auto-buys so I included those in. The Summoner also has the entire Planar Binding line as well as Dominate Monster so making yourself a little Wish Factory for the +5 Inherent bonus is well within your abilities. With a Belt of Physical Might boosting your physica...

Sorry about the delay here. Stuff. Anyway, the Scout! 71) p27: Power Type: This is the first class with a power limitation and I haven't yet looked closely at the spells, but I wonder how much of a limitation this is, and what caused you to pick these two instead of a different pair? 72) p27: Combat...

Ah, okay.

Yeah, good notes. Thanks. You're right that they're not immediately relevant, but they will be useful if the game continues.

That's a very common, and an insanely stupid, idea. 'What to aim for' is something that can follow from necessary premises. Many human goals and desires are arbitrary, or at best contingent upon arbitrary preferences. It doesn't follow that they ALL are. But any that aren't are merely logical exten...

Replacement is better in the long term because it narrows where you have to focus your advancement efforts. At first level you'll see very little advantage but as the game goes on having a class feature bring your Strength and Con into the 30's allows you to invest more resources elsewhere. How do ...

And in this case, the stat-replacement probably makes them less powerful than stat-addition would, since a Synthesist has little need for mental stats (decent Cha, but you're not using many spells with saves). I recently built a Sythesist and while replacement might have been nice with a point-buy,...

NineInchNall wrote:That's on page 341. But because the book was laid out by retarded monkeys tripping balls on peyote and LSD, finding that shit ain't easy.

I don't even have the book. I was just arguing against the claim that a point per session for a disadvantage is somehow fatal to the xp economy or something.

And yet if it was in the XP chart in the MC chapter, it wouldn't be a huge deal. Showing up: 1xp Accomplishing at least one minor goal: 1xp Accomplishing a major (multi-session) goal: 3xp Exceptional teamwork: 1xp Being hindered by a disadvantage: 1xp Granted, at this point I think it'd make more se...

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Koumei wrote:a contract-forming lawyer demon that is protected by a magic circle of mutual nonaggression, subject to terms and conditions

Is this called a Kaelik?

Um...

Koumei wrote:a magic circle of mutual nonaggression

No.

I tend to refer to FATE as a rules-light game, but I'm fully aware that that's only a valid comparison by contrast to, say, GURPS (those are the two I tend to go for if choosing a system, depending on how much crunch I want). I should probably stop using the term that way, because yeah, if asked to ...

Honestly, when it comes to a good OSSR the most important thing for me is the reviewer having a good knowledge and interest in the material - being able to tell interesting stories about events surrounding the book, or it's effect on the in-game universe, or behind-the-scenes talk about the creator...

3e, right? I'd appreciate that, yeah.

If the difference between a 5.6 and a 5.8 is important to your system, there is no reason not to just deal with 56 and 58. I've taught math. Decimals freak people out more than big numbers and more than multiplication. Most people are going to be more comfortable with "Roll 1d20x10+38+21" ...

36-37) "A berserker gains 2 + 1/2 class level points of Fury when the Berserk spell is cast. In addition, while under the effects of the spell, they also gain 1 point each time they're damaged and 2 points when they damage a target. All remaining Fury points are lost when the Berserk spell ends...

I find it really hard to find in-person roleplaying groups, so when a joy-sucking game-destroying idiot joins the group I often stick it out for quite a while. I'm also never of the social status within the group to get them kicked out instead of leaving. My most recent group fell apart when the MC'...

The steering wheel must have fallen into my hands!

Now you know. You know, most times I would thank people for filling in the gaps of my understanding, but I do not think I was bettered by the reading of that, so I shall have to limit myself to an acknowledgement that that is indeed the information I did not have in my head and that now I do and th...

Magnets have no effect on tendons. You disagreed with Apgar & Norman's May '00 report on magnetic effects in nephropidae keratin ? (Apgar's January '09 followup published at Science here ) Holy shit. [hr] Also thank you guys for your anti-anti-vaccination resources. I had a long conversation wi...