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It's good to know that I was apparently hallucinating all those campaigns I played in. Because according to the responses I've gotten, it's impossible to use the same system for low and high levels, and it's impossible to use D&D for anything. Again, this is the "non-tailored clothes are us...

You know, I never claimed D&D handles all fantasy settings well - it doesn't. I claimed it handled significantly different power levels within one set of rules, which it does. That said, even a tiny subset of an infinite spectrum is still an infinite amount. Which is to say, even if D&D only...

If the rules are changing, then we have a different game. There might be familiar things from the other game, more than a few if we're lucky. But that doesn't change the fact we would need to have the two different games. Hmm, that's funny, because I remember playing a game that, to a large extent,...

As written, it strikes out the option of being able to take out a full-on mob of anything even slightly greater than a human if you don't have a choke point, and only the really good ones can take on a mob of peasants when the pitchforks come out. And yet, the mobs still need protection from the mo...

How the fvck did this become an 8-page long debate? Fine, Centaurs are impractical - let's get rid of them, and replace them with Céntaurs (note the accent). Céntaurs are visually very similar to Centaurs, but have a different internal anatomy. For one thing, their proportions are a bit different - ...

Well, the idea is that everybody would use Raw Mojo - non-casters especially. Probably everyone should get a bonus Raw Mojo feat to start with. Using Mojo for spells is stronger than Raw Mojo, but it takes an action, so the Raw Mojo user is getting the Mojo benefits plus whatever else they can alrea...

Possible system I was thinking about, somewhat like slots but a bit more flexible. System: Everybody gets a pool of Mojo. The amount doesn't vary by class, it's just based on character level and maybe stats. But there are different ways to spend it. Raw Mojo: The easiest way to spend it. You take a ...

It partly depends on whether you're going with broad or narrow classes. With broad classes, it might be possible to design the kung-fu feats and Wizard class in such a way that taking those feats basically turns you into a gish - maybe not completely optimal, but still useful. With narrow classes, t...

Mooning seems to be picking up support! :tongue: (In regards to Hicks, "mooning" can be any possible yet totally useless option. For instance, moving across the room, then back, in a situation where that accomplishes nothing.). I've noticed a some sentiment for "character creation sho...

I was going to say that Elennsar's failure is in the fact he's arguing on two points, one of a race being being better/worse at a certain task, and another of a race being better/worse at a certain class. While related, they are most assuredly different points. The former is fine, the latter is not...

If you start with at least a 15 Int, you'll be guaranteed to have a high enough Int for spellcasting just from your natural increases. With items, you could start lower. While a penalty to Int hurts certain casters (Enchanters, for instance) significantly, someone who mainly uses non-attack or no-sa...

I've recently seen the sentiment expressed that at a given level, all PCs should be equally effective. Fair enough, that's what you'd expect. But this was stated to the extent that no race should be better or worse for a given class than any other. And it raises the question - where would you draw t...

Ok, this should really be a poll, but pick one: A) Choice of race makes an actual mechanical difference. B) All races are equally useful in all possible classes and builds. This discussion is going is circles, because some people want A, and some people want B, and some are claiming you can have bot...

Oh come on - I think people internalize the potential of casters to be gods so much that they forget just how bad a caster with the wrong spells and tactics can be. I've seen Wizards played by people with no knowledge of how to play them, and a Monk - even a PHB Monk, would have been a hell of a lot...

Two things: It's okay to create races with entirely non-numerical special abilities Non-numerical doesn't mean they aren't better for one class than another. If you give Elves an ability like "hide in foliage", it's better for a stealthy sniper than a mounted knight. You can have classes b...

Possible idea for secrets: By stealing the notes, you can learn their secrets, but with significant difficulty - maybe each spell takes a level to learn (not removes a level, but you have to be studying it for the majority of that level). So even having dozen of other alchemists' notes, you're not m...

Ok, so far the only actual example of racial abilities that matter without favoring some classes over others is Judging__Eagle's, and that's by giving every race an ability for every class. Not only is this a lot of abilties to write up and balance (80+ for just the 3E PHB), but it means that introd...

That's an interesting system, Heath - it might even work, as far as stat mods are concerned. It does seem a bit complicated though, and there's the possibility of having "orphan" points - like one or two points left over when even your lowest stat takes 3 points to raise. It doesn't really...

Ok, but how exactly are you going to avoid that? Any kind of meaningful ability you give a race is going to benefit some types of characters more than others. So what exactly are you giving to an Orc that doesn't do that? Seriously, I'm curious, because even if you give them an ability like: Burst o...

Yeah, the applying a template isn't bad, if you do it ahead of time - at least it doesn't change the base stats. The real problem is that most summoned creatures, especially the animals, have multiple attacks - claw/claw/bite, for instance. I once played a summoner Druid and had to start exclusively...

Actually, with Spiritworm, the most you'd have to recalcuate HP is three times - still annoying though. Primatic Spray, when it hits a large number of targets, can be pretty annoying as well. Roll for the effect on each target, then each target rolls the relevant saves, and make sure they aren't imm...

that is, if I want an actual complete representation of all of time under your rules--you can't draw me a time line, you have to draw me a time plane, with two dimensions. Well that's part of it right there. If you're going by the "speed of time" model, there is no absolute timeline, just...

Yeah, this kind of stupidity is why we have less rights by the minute. Harrassment charges didn't stick? I know, let's make signing up to a website with a fake name a federal crime with huge penalties! Sure, we may be fucking things up for everyone who uses the internet, but it's more important that...

Any kind of ability you give to a race is going to be more useful for some purposes than others. Let's say you give Elves something like "Hide in Shrubbery". That's still going to help a sniper Rogue out more than, say, a Knight who must issue a challenge before attacking. So Elf Knight is...

Because, as you wrote, at 12:01 and 40 seconds, the time wave reaches Bob. IF the narrator happens to start the story at 12:00. If the camera starts focused on Bob in the cave at 11:00, then the time wave hits him at 11:01 and 39.9-something seconds. Which directly contradicts the fact that it hasn...