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I guess that I expect too much from the Tomes. Like D&D, I'll just have to play it and have fun instead of nit-picking at everything.

Oh man, you guys are awesome. Thank you.

Frank & K's Tomes are intended to be fixes for the glaring shortfalls of the system, not as be-all solutions for roleplaying. I would hardly call something that doesn't fix everything to be utterly useless, the way you seem to be implying, especially since this is just a hobby for the lot of us...

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Although the RPGPundit is probably crazy, I have heard that he made his own RPG.

I have not heard much about it, and want to know if it is any good.

How can you make a Tome game "Low-Magic?" Are the Tome classes balanced without/under supplied in magic items?

So, does 4th Edition have any redeeming qualities? Umm...if you like...well there's...shit...there is something, I will get back to you on that...oh the...no it's not DnD. It's DnD fast play rules made full scale. I picked up the MM in my FLGS, and noticed that the monsters had levels. Are they ope...

Leress wrote:Jerry you broke the board.
Umm...okay you can do that, just don't expect the other poster to accommodate for your short attention span.

To the first: fixed.

To the second: I know. I rarely contribute anything useful here, anyway. Mostly just quick remarks.

So, does 4th Edition have any redeeming qualities? I picked up the MM in my FLGS, and noticed that the monsters had levels. Are they operating on the HD=CR=ECL now? Could a 10th level Ogre Brute be effectively on par in a group of 10th level adventurers? If so, then it would probably be enough incen...

I have a mix of players, some "casual" and some "hard-core." The casual guys did not notice the difference, and still have just as much fun with normal D&D. So what is the main selling point of Tome D&D? To make the non-full-casters pwn at tasks, too, because that is what...

I don't obsess about the flaws, I obsess about finding the solution. That is how some people post, it's the way of the world. To the first, Frank's games haven't really solved all of my problems with D&D; the big ones have been tackled, but there are still choices that are clearly better than o...

Even in Tome D&D, there are still powerful options to take, up to the point that you're shooting yourself in the foot to not make said decision. Not to mention that I don't always want to adopt a new variant wholesale into my games; I just want to change the parts about the game that I don't lik...

Want to know what grinds my gears? 1.) RPGs that bill themselves as being more character-centric or role-playing-centric than other RPGs. It depends upon the group; why would gamer X who does not care about in-character monologue, but is all about in-game bonuses and buffs, suddenly want to start gi...

Koumei wrote: Frank: You have a demotivator or lolcats picture for any occasion, don't you? I'm just trying to remember what it was that you first decided would be represented by lolcats as the best explanation.

I have reason to believe that Frank's a 4chan fan.

Whenever one of the players wants to be evil, I always tell him that there will be consequences for his actions if he screws up. Normally, this was not a problem, except that one player always enjoyed playing Christian Priest stereotypes, so getting the group to work together may impact somebody's c...

Of all of them, I was most looking forward to playable monster types.

*Sigh*

I could always do Frank's CR+1=level method for some monsters.

Never played GURPS, like Shadowrun, heard that Spycraft is a good system.

How are these three games in your opinion hold up?

K wrote: Here's a thought exercise: how many people here are organ donors?

I am. My organs can be put to better use when I die, like someone who needs a heart or kidney.

I guess that you've got a good point.

But when I look at other RPG games compared to 3rd Edition, D&D seems to be on the right track overall. The RPG is just not hopelessly broken, like FATAL.

I'm surprised that people always point to Child Necromancer as an example of a powerful feat. It's a +4 caster level to necromancy spells, reduced size, and you get to cherry pick necromancy spells for your spells known at the price of having to RP a child. I can count on one hand the number of nec...

You're welcome to hang around, but you need way thicker skin than you apparently have in order to post here. Work on that for us.[/TGFBS] I can understand how that can be a problem, but there are some posters here that take things a little too personally, but still provide thoughtful contributions....

So let's assume that you are playing a Tome series game as the way that it was written. Is there any way that one can still break the game? I've also noticed that some feats are so good for one character type that you'd be a fool not to take it. Say for example, Child Necromancer for a Necromancer, ...

K wrote: From a design standpoint, there really aren't that many good third party sourcebooks.

Why do you think that that is?

K wrote:Degradation and exploitation are evil, regardless of how you try to dress it up because good and evil are the subjective values of society and not objective values that can be relatively balanced.

No, you're applying real-world morality and values to the world of D&D! Nooo!!!

Hey, what if somebody wants to be animated? The idea that a soldier's body can be of use in battles that he is not present at can be appealing to some.

I agree with them too, I'm sure quite a lot of others do as well. You'd be a moron or a masochist to fully plot out an adventure and then just throw it away because the PCs don't want to swallow your hooks. And I'm sure Jotoco will fit in just as well as you do, Jerry. I'm did not say that I disagr...