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In fact, until races of destiny even came out, humans didn't even have a subtype. [br][br]Depends on what part of the core rules you're reading. Humans are never given a subtype in the MM, but the PHB (as well as the SRD) lists humanoid (human) as a type/subtype combination for ranger favored enemi...

1123054290[/unixtime]] 1123052407[/unixtime]][br]So basically it's like taking XP out of D&D, except that you don't have to worry about fixing all those spell/item XP costs, while also scaling all newly acquired abilities to an appropriate level. I like this idea. It makes it easier for people ...

Basically it's just a matter of preference. So long as everyone gets the same ability and tier, there shouldn't be any problem as far as I can tell. Generally you should also be getting abilities in a 3 tier span. If you've gto tier 5 abilities, the DM shouldn't be handing out tier 1s at all, since...

1123044662[/unixtime]] 1123043469[/unixtime]]Yeah, I basically brought up the whole question to point out how much fun this situation would be for those poor DMs who want to run a by-the-book, "official" game. [br][br]For the most part this rule isn't one that causes you too much trouble....

I agree with Essence. If you have a finite number of defenses, then mechanically you only have that same finite number of categories of offenses. All these differences that make up your potentially infinite number of offenses are just flavor text.[br][br]Also, is there any coherent way for the GM to...

Yeah, I basically brought up the whole question to point out how much fun this situation would be for those poor DMs who want to run a by-the-book, "official" game.

So now the question is, does the inclusion of the old rule in CW mean that (officially) the old rule applies to CW PrCs but not to other 3.5 PrCs? After all, core rules override supplements when the core rules explicitly state something contradicted by a supplement, but what happens when the core ru...

Well, it's kind of hard to convince other people to vote 3rd party/no confidence if you're not going to do it yourself. There is that whole thing about walking the walk as well as talking the talk.

I am about as liberal as you can get, but you (not I, you) will be damned if you think that the introduction of television has nothing to do with the rise of violent crime. [br][br]Actually, this belief puts you squarely in the mainstream of modern liberal thinking. One difference between conservat...

So how does physical combat in DnD differ from a stat vs stat system? Strength vs Dexterity sounds pretty much like stat vs stat to me. [br][br]She may be referring to Frank's stat vs. identical stat of target system. But you're right; D&D physical combat is a stat vs. stat system of a kind--a ...

There's a difference between classical liberals and modern liberals. The liberal position Frank outlined is classical liberalism, the language of which has been hijacked by many modern conservatives to advocate plutocracy*. Sometime around the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while con...

Then there's the fact that every "mechanic" ever proposed (at least since OD&D) for players ascending to godhood consists of "Get x number of levels, go on a quest, and the DM will make you a god if he feels like it." Or something to that effect.

My point was that, regardless of whatever the Other eventually does, Lovecraft and his characters seem to fear them at first sight. By the time the horrible stuff happens, you've been so beaten to death by purple hyperbolic prose about how strange, different, and therefore intrinsically evil the Oth...

I was never particularly impressed by Lovecraft. But then, I never read any of the Cthulu mythos stories. The only ones I read were "At the Mountains of Madness" and "The Color out Of Space." I always thought somebody should write a thesis about what a wuss Lovecraft was. I mean,...

They're talking about a thread that used to be on Nifty in which people linked the dumbest WotC threads.

It doesn't explicitly say warforged die at -10, but it strongly implies it. The warforged description says they are disabled at 0 h.p. and "inert" when their h.p. are "less than 0 and greater than -10." This means that some change of state happens at -10 h.p. Unless you think the...

I forgot how many different versions of BD&D there were. Who knows how many times they changed it. I only know the one I played, and they were my cousin's sets, so I don't have them to refer to the printing date. I'm pretty sure he bought it sometime in the mid-80s, though.

All Abilities Use Consistent Bonus Chart: Existed at least since Ars Magica (actually, in Ars Magica, your abilities are the bonus or penalty associated with them). [br][br]Basic D&D (the colored boxes/Rules Cyclopedia rules) used the same bonus chart for all abilities. It wasn't completely lin...

1093415164[/unixtime]] 1093405354[/unixtime]]Apparently Ed Stark developed the design principle of sticking a razor cock in the mouth of anyone who wanted to pplay a monster. And he also wrote the new druid and the new Shapechange in order to "power them up". [br][br]Was that first part a...

So I was sitting around talking with my dad about D&D and stuff, and he went off on a really interesting tirade. Essentially, he said, there shouldn't be "Rogues". At all.[br] [br][br]Ironically, there were no rogues/thieves in the White Box. Apparently, someone figured out that it wa...

I think he's saying that this character is the closest thing to average that he's done because he didn't go for maximum power.

But I could be wrong.

You can find it in this thread.

But trying to act like they have this super original universe going when about the only original thing is the Rift itself (which I believe was lifted from an apocalypse myth from Eastern mythology anyway) is just kind of insulting. [br][br]I wasn't aware that they were claiming to have a totally or...

How blatant? I mean, I probably expect less from game flavor text than from a novel or TV show.

I was talking about making an alternate XP system based on adventure objectives/roleplaying. If you go with an XP-less advance-when-the-DM-says system, you don't even need a benchmark. You can just advance everybody at a rate that's comfortable for the DM and players. You can even be inconsistent, w...