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Clearly using the wrong system, says the person who's been working on a Maid -> Pony system conversion way too slow...

How did D&D Miniatures work? Did they just have "good" and "evil" factions, or what? Lawful Good, Chaotic Good, Lawful Evil, and Chaotic Evil. I used to follow the tournament meta even though I never participated, simply because I really liked the minis and followed the WotC...

Or more specifically, instead of being able to choose between 30 feats at level 1 for a fighter, and have some of those feats be "You get +1 to hit", which is boring and stupid, you give the fighter five different maneuvers to choose from at level 1, which are interesting and neat. Tighter...

Likewise, I am also VERY impressed with WoW design, and think that D&D needs to be more like WoW, not less - there's a lot to learn there. Can you explain what exactly you think WoW does right? So OK, I'm going to talk about Cata (the current expansion that is just about over), and Mists (the n...

This is essentially a tautology. E.g. my perfect system involves a system that's perfect. Except for the fact that the most popular tabletop RPG right now has knowingly included terrible options that are "supposed to suck". So at least applied to TT RPGs, it's not all that weird. I guess ...

You're right. I should have said "prevents players from NEEDING to completely plan their characters". Now, as I said, you obviously don't want to let people respec everything whenever in a tabletop RPG. But SOME amount of "Ok, I screwed up there" is needed. 4e does it, and some D...

More importantly I think worth noting is - letting people have some semblance of a respec options prevents complete character planning at creation . This is something I've been claiming for some time for TT RPGs, and diablo 3 shows it perfectly. In diablo 3, you can switch your skills around any tim...

Is the idea that options should be balanced against each other all that profound? How many games get made where the developers knowingly seed choice traps? How many of those games were made after ~1990/1995ish? This is essentially a tautology. E.g. my perfect system involves a system that's perfect...

As someone who uses OpenRPG constantly, it's a stupid piece of shit. It constantly deletes nodes, crashes often, often needs reinstalling for no goddamn reason, and is currently developed by a crazed lunatic. Even as someone who hates voice chat on online games, I'd be interested in seeing what othe...

Count me as a former maptools, and current OpenRPG user who's certainly interested in this.

imperialspectre, thanks for coming to answer stuff. Looking it over, I just had one concern that leaped out at me: You have a lot of races that are +2 to two stats, and classes that seem to require two stats primarily (unless I'm wrong, here?). 4e did the same, and ran into a major issue where if yo...

I browsed it, once. It seemed rather generic and nothing really struck with me - IIRC, there's a free, artwork and settingless version given out by the designers?

So it was for the PHB2 release adventure, I think. We were on a skill challenge that was essentially a raft ride down a river. We get to a part where the DM describes the water raging and sounding like angry spirits, blah blah. The cleric player, having like a grand total of three skills; diplomacy,...

At it's most basic, Skill Challenges were originally printed like this: So let's say you want to do something "big", like charm the King into giving you his army. This would be a skill challenge, rather than just one role. The intent is for everyone at the table to roll skills, counting ei...

As for the gp cost of resurrecting, well, there are ways around that, as you guys all well know, so I didn't feel like I needed to go over them. Weren't you the one who invented the wish economy? But naturally that's the typical denner argument. If I leave stuff out that you already know, you'll cl...

Gx1080 wrote:My bullshit detector says that "unmatched design pedigree" means: He asked less money, but, what are the details of his "pedigree"?

He was also one of the big three authors who originally wrote 3.0.

Deus Machina Demonbane. (Edit: They made a non-eroge game of it later, and also an awesome anime as well... though the latter two dropped all the pornz from them which is fine with me. Not a fan of hentai either way) For the dumbest of reasons, the bad ending caught my curiosity... The non-porn ani...

If you really want that to be the Giant's schtick, let them use Intimidate to cause a fear effect, with a bonus to intimidate and intimidate always as a class skill. I believe Josh is counting this as a "fear effect" : http://www.d20srd.org/srd/skills/intimidate.htm Demoralize Opponent Yo...

Maybe a more fundamental question is why do games even need levels? ARghraghragagh. No seriously - this is game design 101. It is honestly frustrating to see people "not get it". Classical "Class and Level" games have these advantages: -Stronger flavor rails -Easier to write and...

http://karriusrpg.blogspot.com/2010/07/ ... e-rpg.html

My previous essay on this trainwreck.

So it looks like Paizo put their Ultimate Magic stuff into their SRD. That's interesting. If you're talking about the d20PFSRD, Paizo doesn't actually run it. They do, however, let all their books go into it, with an agreed-upon two week delay. So expect to see Ultimate Combat in there soon. No, he...

So it looks like Paizo put their Ultimate Magic stuff into their SRD. That's interesting. If you're talking about the d20PFSRD, Paizo doesn't actually run it. They do, however, let all their books go into it, with an agreed-upon two week delay. So expect to see Ultimate Combat in there soon. There ...

How would nationalising Facebook work? I mean, what for? What would the point be, exactly? the argument goes that social media such as facebook have become a cornerstone of democratic movements and a key part of our lives now. facebook's ability to suppress speech as a private entity make them an e...

http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/2011_Winners.pdf Looks like Pathfinder outdid D&D at the Ennie awards too. The Ennies have never been relevant. One of the judges up for nomination this year (who didn't get in) has an easily-researched history of helping people steal ...