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Concussive Breath, Scales II, and Shadow breath appear to have the wrong levels in their description. Is the range for the line breath supposed to be different from the range of the cone breath? Which things scale with class level and which scale with character level? Finally, the first 3 or 6 level...

So, a hypothetical dying religion or current faction. The Tetracty (name could use some work) The Tetracty believe that the Multiverse is an illusion to keep irrational elements out of the Transcendent Eternal. As evidence, they point to the upper planes (where violence and strife exist) and to the ...

Can't the portals themselves be on a set schedule? That's a pretty classic plot conceit used even by Time Bandits . Efficient gate chains exist where 'the stars are right' for all the gates in the chain at about the same time; the maximum length of an efficient two-way chain would depend on how long...

I'm reading The Algebraist now and it works a lot like that, except basically everybody can make wormholes. The thing is you still have to drag them around at lightspeed to set them up, so if you have a wormhole spanning four hundred light-years and one end gets blown up, it takes you four hundred ...

For me, the concept of KOM and KDM really are anathema. Those are two numbers that should probably just some arcane transformation of 'level'. If you want paladins to be charismatic and strong, you can build a strength and charisma boost into the class. Using dexterity for initiative, however, is a ...

Legend attempts to do that with "full buy in", although I don't know if it's especially balanced.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

I never get why guys expose their genitals to women. I wouldn't think it ever happened, but every woman I have been friends with said it happened to them at some point. I also don't understand why they didn't break their spines because the women I'm friends with tend to be badass, lesbians, or bada...

To make combat really feel like Fallout, it should be done with miniatures on a hex grid.

Could we get a new 'Meta-Gaming Den' area for people to navel-gaze and circle jerk in?

I'm getting really fucking tired of this 'what is the true meaning of giving newbies a bag of dicks?'-type shit.

Muscle/Strength/Fortitude/Endurance, Grace/Agility, Perception, and Willpower are the basic heroic attributes of most characters. Heroes tend to be described in terms of all four, but also tend to have a couple of foci. These attributes are also all things that you might have contests with, which ma...

There are real-life martial arts that basically have levels from 1 to 20 or -5 to 9 and so forth. And those levels are often referred to as 'rank X'. So there's nothing particularly odd in-game about saying something like 'That barbarian has greater rage, which means that she's at least level 8'. It...

So this teleport momentum thing . . . What frame of reference do you retain physical properties to? If you fall a few thousand feet and then teleport a quarter of the way around the globe, do you end up shooting along parallel to the ground, on you back? Can you use this to teleport-dropkick-ambush ...

So then, what was the deal with him not freeing Sally, his children, or for that matter his slaves, even in his will? And why did he write shit like " Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason ...

the only reason for me being, it seems, pretty good at english - despite me being german - is that my english teacher in school way back then decided to say "fuck it" to the teaching plan handed to him and had us read steven king instead . . seeing how i loved reading even back then, it w...

So why is Jefferson labeled "slave relations" rather than "racist rapist"? Well... his slave that he was fucking was also his girlfriend. He like took her to France where she acted like his mistress because it was totes OK there to have a Black mistress. And she didn't leave eve...

I'm still wondering what any of this (except the broccoli) has to do with fractals.

So why is Jefferson labeled "slave relations" rather than "racist rapist"?

Koumei wrote:And don't worry about taking OHKOs from x4 effectivenss Fighting attacks: your Defence and HP are so low you're taking OHKOs from most things.

I was wondering about that.

Apparently I'm a Sneasel.

endersdouble wrote:wound penalties -- should apply to Resistance rolls/defense pools or just active actions?

Wound penalties should apply to any actions that you take, including resistance and avoison.

Just for reference, here's what I'm looking at: Astral Projection Necromancy Level: Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9, Travel 9 Components: V, S, M Casting Time: 30 minutes Range: Touch Targets: You plus one additional willing creature touched per two caster levels Duration: See text Saving Throw: None Spell Resista...

Never thought I'd see K so egregiously invoking the Oberoni Fallacy.

As Avora... says, in a tome game, it really really depends on what you want to do. For me the quintessential 'tome fighter/mage' is the boneblade reaper, since that has been doable since the Tome of Necromancy (though improved by both Dungeonomicon and Races of War). The basic chassis is X 1 or 2/ne...

Barrister's bookcase? Good idea . . .