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I suppose my logic was that if X is something substantial (not necessarily a stat increase since lets assume this is 5e done by someone more competent) then the feats themselves could be and should be meatier. Less compulsion to create a bunch of weird mini feats that only do about half or a third o...

The point is that setting your feats to be equal to a boring math fix bonus would be horrible even if that had succeeded. Especially if that had succeeded. Telling players that they could just as easily take completely flavorless numeric bonuses instead of having any personally identifiable traits ...

I'm not saying 5e's feats are good (though I've also never experienced my actual skin melting off and snakes physically manifesting in my home either. Mostly just kind of meh?) but that the design goal of "A feat should be equivalent to X in terms of power and utility where X what you give up t...

I was counting the ones that give you a +1 bump because if you're following the idea that the highest a character can go at creation before racial is 16, then you probably do have at least two stats at 15 and 17 respectively. Agreeing with waiting until level 4 is dumb. The game being designed to st...

So my question is: if D&D 5E isn't worth jumping into with both feet, is there anything worth salvaging from it and transplanting into 3.X? The way they do feats. I remember playing both 3.5 and 4e and both games had pages upon pages of available across several different books. The only way to ...

The main benefit of a virtual tabletop isn't more complex calculations, but easier logistics. You can have a game that runs on d9s if you want, or standard boss encounters that roll 40+ d6s and count up their successes every turn, and you don't have to worry about where people are going to buy a d9...

I'm curious, do you think as things like tablets and airbooks become more commonplace, do you think there will be more rpgs with systems that take advantage of the fact that players will likely be using digital dice? I mean most of my players already use digital character sheets rather than paper on...

Pearl's tactics skill is probably pretty decent. Steven's animal ken is likely also very impressive given how he manages to tame a corrupted gem.

I think fusion is what makes SU hard to translate to tabletop. Since it's hard to figure out what limits (if any) there should be on when it gets used, and there's a clear conflict between narrative use and game use. In the narrative fusion is something you do when you like and trust your partner en...

Having seen both, SU is more grounded in "reality" while adventure time is more balls to the wall weirdness. Both are relatively light hearted comedy romps, but later seasons of SU go a lot harder on the plotlines. Both have a lot of coming to terms with the idea that your parents aren't p...

Hello all ! Searching the Den, i found this from PhoneLobster : And at least on the "bad ideas bad GMs constantly do badly" side of the list there are still plenty of omissions like "low magic" and "realistic wounds and healing" and "hardcore high fatality gaming&...

I can't tell if you're asking about the effect of the literal dice chosen or the probabilities of success involved. Like... for the purposes of this thread, do you care about the difference between a 4dFudge and 4d3-8? Are you talking about how being more likely to get an average result affects pla...

Since 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder', you're not going to get a definitive answer as to what dice systems 'feel best', but you might get a better sense of which ones work for the system you want to create. Yes that's more or less what I'm interested in. I know mechanically what different di...

So I know on an intellectual level that different dice mechanics in rpgs are about probability manipulation. d20 systems tend to have linear results and players can easily predict their chances based on what modifiers they have. I know if the monster has 20 AC and I have a +10 then I hit on a 10 or ...

RISK is a podcast about "true stories you never thought you'd dare to share" and it's people and performers share stories from their lives about taboo subjects. A lot of it is sex focused (and kink focused specifically) so heavy R rating but it covers everything from stories from abuse su...

I like the idea of demons having won the battle for who gets earth being the reason for God having functionally vanished for a few reasons. 1. It negates the "stop telling me what to do space dad" problem by having the demons coming from a place of relative power at the start. Instead of r...

It might be interesting in a heavenly war game, to focus on the reason why modern day god is so much more hands off than old testament god. No one's been turned into a pillar of salt lately, or swallowed by a whale, or had all their firstborns killed. Maybe the game is set after the big fight with g...

Basically christians keep the old testament around because it provides important historical and textual context (a lot of people in the new testament make allusions to the old testament so unless you study both you're not going to understant what they're getting at) and because there are bits in tha...

Yep that's the one I'm thinking of. It started out on a fairly interesting note and was pretty normal up until the very end when suddenly sperm bank and stealing other doll's babymaking organs happened.

I remember reading an english transcription of an example game which ended with two lesbian lolis stitching uteruses (Uteri?) up inside themselves so they could knock themselves up with sperm they found in a sperm bank.

It looks like it's just that kind of setting.

There are already multiple videos from around the world of various supernatural phenomena. Including one where a woman seemingly picks up another human being via telekinesis and hurls her across a room in the middle of a cafe. I can't imagine a few hundred more trickling in would do that much damage...

The problem isn't that any individual video could be discredited, it's the difficulty of discrediting the aggregate of all videos that would go up. The ones that come in from all over the world and apparently all have the same special effects direction, as well as rendering so good that pros can't ...

You also need to compensate for the xkcd bigfoot problem. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/settled.png That or go with the lazy route - "There used to be a masquerade; it started disintegrating between '05 and '10 due to the growing number of smartphones, so the monsters came out into the open on t...

One of the common arguements against this sort of thing I've seen though is not that the comics aren't actually that good, but that it's just the company trying to make money. Which is??? What do people think the companies were trying to do when comics were a sea of white dudes? It's always been a m...

So Gaijin are both evil and have access to cool technology.

I don't keep up with the narrative for these things I just go with what's in the core books because ain't nobody got time for that but this is the best kind of dumb I might need to start reading more of the fiction.