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Hey, here's a AnyDice script for showing the swingy distribution of dice rolls in CthulhuTech.

http://anydice.com/program/6177

Sorry for the necrothreading, but I chatted with the guy behind anydice.com, and he put together a script for showing the dice distributions for cthulhutech. I don't know how accurately this has been constructed, but it might be useful for people interested in this thread. http://anydice.com/program...

Sorry for the necrothreading, but I chatted with the guy behind anydice.com, and he put together a script for showing the dice distributions for cthulhutech. I don't know how accurately this has been constructed, but it might be useful for people interested in this thread. http://anydice.com/program...

I'm still a big fan of pre-MtG WotC's "Primal Order" system that Peter Adkinson created.

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/clas ... 2459.phtml

Requested... Ray Winninger's Underground. Mayfair's four-color dystopia written in 1993, using a nerfed version of the DC Heroes "MEGS" system. Logarithms! Atomic Kennedy! Ronald Reagan clone soldiers! Here's already a pretty good overview of the game. http://projects.inklesspen.com/fatal-...

Bull on SR forums is the developer of current edition. Bull in Shadowrun is his orc hacker character from ye olde times. Not quite correct. Bull the person isn't "the developer of current edition", that's Jason Hardy. Bull edits the missions on their "living" product, called &qu...

And I hadn't even heard that the Savage Worlds ED had become a real thing. When I was researching, it sounded like it was in the works, but I hadn't encountered any final product. And now, I even learn that there's a Pathfinder conversion?! Sheesh, edition mayhem. Both conversion suck. They had bee...

I was a 4E Kickstarter backer and got my Player's Guide PDF a couple of weeks ago. Several of the interior spot illustrations are good but the color art is so generic fantasy that it would be unrecognizable without the setting specific races. The layout is dull but serviceable if you want to use a ...

My feeble magic user has successfully grappled a gorilla and a hulking brute with a great axe among others. It probably was about +5 difference in each of those cases which meant that my 7 strength wizard can totally put a gorilla in a full nelson one quarter of the time. Nobody remembers if you ro...

How long can they keep that up though? I mean they keep firing people. Sooner or later they are going to HAVE to change up the staff because they will have fired everyone right? Maybe that's all that needs to happen, for EVERYONE to get fired so we can see new people with new ideas in their place? ...

momothefiddler wrote:TGD already has the only button I need to respond to this exchange, if y'all keep it up.

Why isn't he doing a kickstarter for Iron Heroes 2: This Time We'll Actually Do Math and Playtesting, Pinkie Swear or something equally demeaning? He could take a shit on Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner's face and he'd get a promotion and made head designer for Dungeons and Dragons 6: 6 Time's The Charm! ...

The dev blog had some good changes to the game presented as going to be in 4th edition, particularly that there's no more karma ritual or durability, they just scale with your circle. But it's been "almost ready" since like mid 2014. Yep, and something about thread weaving being available...

PDF version is available for $18 on FASA's site And although I'm no luddite by any means, reading a pdf on anything but a full-page tablet is not an ideal format. My ol' Nexus 7 probably could handle whatever smaller format some of the more recent ED books have been in, but there's nothing like the...

Out of print doesn't mean unattainable No, of course not. But I already own some 1e material, and honestly, it's probably plenty enough for playing. But I like the idea of gaming technology advancing, and I like the idea of seeing where games have gone in my absence. I dropped out of Shadowrun righ...

And I hadn't even heard that the Savage Worlds ED had become a real thing. When I was researching, it sounded like it was in the works, but I hadn't encountered any final product. And now, I even learn that there's a Pathfinder conversion?!

Sheesh, edition mayhem.

Yah, I'm still playing a 1e Earthdawn campaign. We started it like 7-8 years ago, had a long hiatus and then started up again last year and have been going strong with regular biweekly sessions. If 4e was a substantial improvement then I could imagine us converting over, but barring that, we alread...

Calling Forth The Army Of (Thread) Decay! Yeah, so 4th ed Player's Guide is finally out, and I'm not terribly encouraged by the things I'm hearing. I'd really like to get back into Earthdawn, and I've been doing a bit of edition shopping. Back in the day, I got several of the 1st Ed books, so I have...

When I look at http://earthdawn.fasagames.com/ , I get confused. No mention of 4th edition, and a hot mess of a list of prior editions. First Edition (ED1) is the original game created and published by FASA Corporation in 1993. Second Edition (ED2) was published by Living Room Games (licensed from F...

One thing that I'd forgotten about that maybe is new to 5e, would be using each ability stat as a saving throw. Maybe this isn't new at all (as I'm learning) because I dipped out of D&D just at the end of 2e and know very very little about 3e and 4e.

I get it, everyone here (or nearly everyone) hates on 5e. It's too simplistic. It's too low power. It's another caster edition. It's broken. Big deal, there are plenty of places to bash on it. It's fun to do. But what "innovations" are there that other games could, or maybe should, adopt? ...

In the interest of fairness, I thought it was an improvement content-wise over Run & Gun ...less immediately obvious problems, copy/paste issues, etc. I also thought it was a bit of an improvement layout-wise over Street Grimoire , although typesetting issues continue to abound, and the PDF at ...

Add "Toon" to that list. If by "add" toon you mean "replace the entire list with toon" I might agree. Yes, please, replace the whole list with just Toon. After all, why even include "Tank" if you're not going to include "DPS"? But then again, the ga...

Is this the source of where you got that idea?

http://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/2l ... _of_dd_rd/

Run Faster is fucking huge. I was in awe of the pdf because it just went on and on and on...