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I am not describing SRCD, because that's a stupid term that I don't think describes Frank's thing. I'm not describing Frank's thing because it doesn't exist in sufficient detail to discuss if you're not Frank writing it down so that it can be discussed. Nor am I describing Virgil's system, which doe...

I already forestalled this trite apologia by parenthetically stating "or the guy guarding him." No, you didn't. Because I said "team". If his minion or boss or partner or whatever is not joining in good faith the attempt fails outright (which also prevents players from forcing d...

Since you're doing duration tweaks on other things, did you miss one for deeper darkness or did you want day/level?

but more of a debuff state that limits player action choices to some non-obviously hostile subset. Casting sanctuary or solid fog or whatever doesn't mean that you get what you want, it just means you've used a combat action to buy space to talk without being stabbed in the face. Yes, and not stabb...

As they're basically offensive spell scrolls in arrow form, using the more clear scroll writeup is probably your best bet (it also squares with Red Rob's consumable nova concerns). So you'd just need an empty item slot, and then have to wait 1d4 minutes for it to clear up if you were out of slots an...

It's been said, but this class is almost 1 level long. The minor improvements on swap time do not really help with that. If you want to make a requip user, why are you not making custom requip sets (possible with minimum level prereqs) and then letting people acquire them for free as part of the cla...

I'd really like to see things like [fear] to impart penalties to the PCs for certain actions, rather than force particular actions. If something is scary, players should probably run away. If the opponent is 'level-appropriate' and they're forced to take something like a -8 on EVERYTHING (what that...

Because the other thread is toxic, I'll join this one I think. PCs will yell and bawl if "not completely magical bullshit" abilities are used to fuck with their characters' actions. "He'd never willingly do that! You can't magically come up with the argument or rhetoric that makes him...

Not as ridiculously uncharitable as MGuy and Phonelobster, but bad enough that I almost put you on ignore too. Really? I've posted in this thread all of 5 times, 6 if this one counts. I don't know whether to be feel good or bad about being almost put on ignore for that amount of effort. Dude. You c...

Koumei wrote:After that it looks like it's going to be werewolves. And then sky pirates.

40+ levels to get to sky pirates? Meh.

So yeah, I sort of abandoned this project for a while, which was a travesty because I had yet to review Epic Spellcasting. Let's make this take place. Damnit LM. This sort of thing will convince me to go back to DMO:High Level Campaigns, if only for the Epic Spell precursors. I hate you and your re...

This is two pages and a day and a half late, but shit came up and the time to post hasn't really been present. Since it's so late, I'm not going to bother with a lot of the actual reply this would have generated where I go through words and other blah blah bullshit to argue really technical and prob...

This seems like a healthy bit of conflating. If they have an ambush setup, you get ambushed when you walk into it. Maybe it involves drop bears or being shot in the face and maybe it involves an elf materializing out of the leaves to demand your business, but you pretty clearly get ambushed if you ...

Without people playing for time, there just isn't enough enough time for meaningful diplomacy. Even if you drastically shorten the amount of time required for diplomacy to function to Loony Tunes levels. Sure, you could do simple intimidations or feints ("Drop your weapons!" or "Look...

I'd be interested in that key Starmaker.

You missed another (recentish) magic styles book up there:

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Bad Ubernoob . That's the really old pre-split wiki, and there are lots of reasons you shouldn't be linking to it. You want either dnd-wiki.org or dndwiki.com (note the lack of 'a' in the URL).
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While it's been fun watching people talk past each other for pages now, I think it would be even more fun to join in! So I'll do that. Content Generation Look, content generation happens in both the RR and anti-RR camps. The orcs of Whocaresistan have a long standing blood feud with the elves of Bet...

A question for the pro-reaction roll crowd: why a passive reaction roll and not a used ability that paused the battle music for x rounds or save ends or whatever?

Going down the Shadowrun route of getting a bunch of knowledge points to distribute seems like it'd satisfy all parties. You get to write down character background on your sheet, and it doesn't get in the way of mechanically useful abilities. As I'm guessing is evidenced by whatever Shad wrote (and...

One of the problems with knowledge is that it is inconsistently broad within itself. While it's probably acceptable for knowledge (arcana) to let you ID arcane effects or arcane based creatures anywhere in the multiverse, it's doing something very different than using knowledge (nobility) to tell wh...

Technical point, your page title needs to either be (TC)^2 or T^2C^2, not the current TC^2. Because exponents. And I should actually be around a bit more in a couple of days. RL stuff is settling out and I'll have a bunch more free time to get back to do stuff. Up next is the spell formatting code I...

I rather like Sanctum 2, but I can't tell if I like it because it's a solid game or because of who I play it with. It's a first person shooter where you get to also make a maze and stick some towers up on it to assist you. Towers, perks, and secondary weapons are unlocked as you level up, and it get...

Grek, are you posting that list of tweak in the GitP thread or anywhere else the author might see it and decide to consider it?