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This discussion is mostly meaningless. If we are to make a D&D style levelled game in which you can fight outdoors and indoors, you must have balanced rules for both. Each and every PC character must be able to fight the level-appropriate enemies everywhere where he can go. A Mongol rider can be...

No, they retired the post-apocalyptic and science-fantasy SETTINGS. Meta-setting is finding fun stuff in ruins and taking it from monsters. 4ed keeps going about "point of lights" and "fallen empires" such as Nerath, Arkhosia, Bael Turath etc http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread....

One question: do you want to make the game for yourself (ie - Frank for Frank, Judging Eagle for Judging Eagle etc), or for wider distribution? If the first - the best thing will be to do what you want to do. But if you want to have some wider audience, I suggest there is one game which has a nearly...

The problem is that if having magic items is not ultimately an advantage, there's no reason to go looting through deadly ruins to find them. Now maybe those kind of plots aren't a part of your personal campaign, but with some of the systems proposed they pretty much chop that option off at the root...

The details of your articulated plan don't actually work out, though. You'd need a floor on item power as well as a ceiling, and getting a bonus without an item is better than getting a bonus from an item if your total number of items is limited (or if there's any way to be disarmed of your items t...

Could you explain what is the use of those rules, except as mental gymnastics (which is valuable by itself, of course)? There is certainly a need for good rules compatible with D&D - Frank's Tome is a good start. Many people would like to play D&D with better rules, and Paizo seems to have f...

"You can have any two, but not all three, of the following: * Your magic sword is meaningfully better than a non-magic sword. * You can get a magic sword without paying limited character resources to do so. * Level is an accurate measure of power." You can get all of those, and quite easil...

We already have a mechanic for differentiating more or less poweful characters. It is called "level". If elven rangers are better, elves should have more high-level rangers. Of course there can be some minor differences in power between characters of equal level (it is impossible to balanc...

The Chinese Empire... wasn't. Also, it didn't last. I don't have time to quibble with every half-truth about China. Here you can find a good history of China: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~kaplan/ Edward Kaplan History of China I will only note that the Chinese Empire definitely did and does exist, and wa...

... He just seriously played the trump card of claiming that diversity had no intrinsic value. That's... moronic. Diversity is literally the only strength there is. The human race doesn't get a finish line, it just goes until it ends. And it ends when all options are exhausted. Less options doesn't...

The setting is a joke - and a good one. Do you know what are the military rations called in Warhammer - "soylent viridiens".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

Remember another thing: Imperium may be horrible, but most people have no contact with it. Whether Inquisitors kill innocent people or not is not so important when you consider that most planet do not see an Inquisitor for centuries. At most they are visited by a Black Ship gathering its dismal carg...

Elennesar, you are overlooking the fact that there is no Imperium, only a bunch of books, which are designedly inconsistent. If you want an Imperium, you have to invent one. A few arguments for your side: Saying that Eldar have a method for dealing with Chaos is hilarious. There is no Eldar civilisa...

As for Librarians, they're tainted by the Warp - they're psykers after all - but not necessarily *corrupted* by it. It generally doesn't cause them to mutate (besides "being a psyker"), and for that matter I'm not sure they don't purge the Librarians that physically mutate from Warp conta...

Actually, Frank, if you estimate badness by the headcount, USSR killed slightly less people than Hitler, Japanese killed more than Hitler, and Mao most of all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism # 20 million in the Soviet Union # 65 million in the People's Republic of China # 1...

Ethereals are not a rank, they are a different genetically modified subspecies. They command other Tau because they exude pheromones making all others obey them. Tau are a caste society rather similar to the India, with alien species as Untouchables. If you like such things it is okay. Both Ethereal...

And here you can read about an earlier "version" of WH40K universe, the game called "Imperial Commander"

http://www.btinternet.com/~vulture.suc4 ... ander.html

Here is an interesting history of Warhammer fiction, by Stephen Baxter: http://web.archive.org/web/20070220235355/http://www.vectormagazine.co.uk/article.asp?articleID=42 A quote: "Given my hard-sf credentials, David had asked me to pitch ideas for this space-operatic universe. But I had found ...

Some people can't take a hint. Why do you think that the supposedly good guys (ie the Imperium) are a mixture of Nazis, communist Russia, Byzantium and Inquisition, with the army resembling the First World War. But you can be optimistic in 41 Millenium. In fact, there are entire powerful factions of...

It would be actually quite easy to write up D&D 2e in 3e style. I would do it that way: 1) You take Osric as the starting point, so you have most of the rules etc written down already. 2) Use the BAB system and invert ACs. 3) Use the 4e style simplified system of bonus stacking and armor class d...

Vance had written many fantasy books, with two main systems of magic: one of controlling magical creatures who create the effect and the second of memorizing magical spells who can "bend space", as he calls it. Neither of those systems is very similar to the standard D&D magic. There a...

So, lets create the Automatic list of abilities. Those are the things that each characters has to get - no choice about it, but they are generally weaker than the freely chosen powers. It will use the Damage Roll system: http://www.eternalspires.net/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Thresholds Damage Roll=Atta...

... Strengths & Weaknesses Every class has a defined strength--something like "mobility" or "battlefield control" that they're especially good at--and a two weaknesses, which are essentially the opposite. A few classes may have two strengths and four weaknesses. ... Strength...

My proposition: Universal source should include powers for all levels and for all specialities, but all on Weak level. Moreover, each character should automatically receive ALL universal powers. This will ensure that each character, no matter what the player chooses, will have minimal competence to ...

Celts certainly had armies. But they were not standing armies, but masses of peasants led by a small cadre of noble horsemen. As they were a very hero-worshipping, "elitist" people, only nobles counted as serious combatants. If a commoner would dare to attack a king, he could be killed by ...