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Ah, yes, parameters... Well, seeing as this is a concept that somebody posted in this thread that I happened to like, I'm not really too fuzzy about exactly what the parameters are, to be honest. I will do my very best to describe them as far as I see the character, so far: I don't really like the &...

<physics with heat> Just off the top of my head, you could control heat in the atmosphere and ocean in such a way as to not only control climate but also reverse impending climate change. You could run DSM's Reverse Entropy Man for civilian applications by creating a heat engine that provides every...

Well, damn. That heat-power is looking better and better! I'm definitely going to use some variation of that. I kind of like idea the "able to transport heat from one thing/area/whatever to another", but I wonder if it'd be as versatile or as powerful as "able to heat things". Or...

Oh man, so many good ideas, thanks so much! I will definitely start to read Worm, it should be interesting for more ideas. I especially like the Termokinesis, Momentum Transfer, and Summon Bananas. I've never really thought of the powers' paramaters as being the most important, it's a very good way ...

If there's anything that I can say about TGD from all my time lurking around here, it would be that you're creative in measures beyond anything else I see on the net when it comes to RPGs. I'm hoping to get some help with that creativity! I'm going to start a new Super Hero-campaign tomorrow with my...

Hmm, I thought I just grabbed everything from the Tomes and that the combat in there was Frank & K's system. What did I miss? The edge But the Edge is in there. Lots of times! At least a lot of Edge options for maneouvres and such... I couldn't find any section explaining it though, so that mus...

AndreiChekov wrote:The only thing that I have as a complaint is that the part where it talks about combat doesn't use the Frank and K system.

Hmm, I thought I just grabbed everything from the Tomes and that the combat in there was Frank & K's system. What did I miss?

Well, I gotta say I'm a bit surprised that you people seem to like my PDF! Granted, it's mostly edited and formatted copypasta, but I kinda expected some kind of bashing. Not that I'm complaining, mind you! Just happy to be of help

As I said, I made my PDF about 5-6 months ago, with everything that was lying around the Den at the time, so there shouldn't be anything there that's been added after February-ish. Glad you like it, princess!

Okay, here links to the documents:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3ykni3bl8lsm ... 1.2%29.pdf

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zju02eh5z0q0t ... 1.0%29.pdf

Hope you get something out of them!

About 6 months back I made myself two PDFs, for the same reasons you guys want to make another revision. It's a Player's Handbook and GM's Guide (the latter being quite a bit shorter than the first), and it's basically copy-pasted, edited and compiled from the various Tome threads and errata around ...

So, after a couple of years of trying out various systems with both of my gaming groups, both as a GM and player (but mostly GM), I now want to try out something more rules-lite. What we've played so far is Eon (Swedish low-fantasy, extremely rules heavy), a slightly homebrew version of Chimera RPG,...

Thanks so much, people who contributed puzzles! And thanks to you other people as well - I do hear what you're saying, and it's true. The case with my gaming groups is this: we started playing about 1½ years ago with a "normal" D&D campaign (but with another ruleset). In a dungeon, I a...

Nice ideas! I'll definitely find some use for them. And about those warnings... as I made clear in my post, my group likes puzzles and riddles, otherwise I would not do it. I've read that post before, and while it's a good one, it doesn't apply to a group that knows that it likes these kinds of thin...

My gaming group have recently started playing our own West March-style campaign, and we're having great fun. So far, though, I haven't really made any bigger dungeons; it's mostly been smaller caves or ruins. The players really enjoy dungeons and dungeon-related puzzles, though, so that's what I'm g...

Yeah, saw that. Good to have it on paper, or ones-and-zeroes, as it were. I've already made the appropriete changes to my PDF and treasure tables. I made the specific magical armours (as you've written them) into their own table, as I felt they didn't fit into the table of the special abilities that...

I guess I'll just implement starting money depending on class, then. Still, I'm unsure if it should be random or fixed... I really like your changes with the armours! Definitely going to implement them. A question, though: how would the rules on temperature and environments (below) work with the Lea...

Starting on max HP at first level is a 3e thing too. I let my players roll, then they can choose to take the roll or the average of the dice (rounded up). So a Cleric rolls a D8, then could choose the result or 4. It meant that max hp was still as rare, but evened out the low rolls and meant rollin...

I guess I'll be making a charsheet myself, then. Did it for another system a while ago, it wasn't really that hard. I was just hoping somebody might have beaten me to it! As for chargen taking longer time... We haven't actually started playing yet, but I've given the players my own "player's ha...

Ok, now we're actually getting quite close to playing, so thanks for all the help! Just wondering, what Character Sheet do you guys usually use when playing Tome games? It seems that it requires some more space for Feats, which I can't really see in the default sheets. Do you make your own sheets, o...

Ok, thanks! Another question has arised: how do you do Metamagic feats? Do you keep the ones in the PHB, have just the various Tome versions found on this forum or combine both versions? Are they comparable in strength? The Tome versions seem a bit stronger to me, although more narrow in scope...

Ok, so I should change Thief Acrobat to Medium, Assassin and Fighter to Hard? Do the others seem ok?

Ok, having gone through that awesome list of classes (thanks a bunch, Kaelik!) I think I've come to a mix I like. I wanted to sort them according to "difficulty" or rules knowledge dependance, as I have a few players that aren't really into min-maxing, while some love it. I'd love it if yo...

Okay, so how does this class list look?

Core: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, Wizard
Tome: Assassin, Barbarian, Fighter, Fire Mage, Knight, Monk, Samurai, Summoner

Ok then, that clears it up, thanks! Having a core Monk and a Core Druid both available as things players can choose is just as bad as having Tome Thief-Acrobat and Tome Fighter both available as things players can choose. Exactly why wouldn't you have Tome Fighter and Thief Acrobat in the same game?...