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We keep getting all these fallacies. We need more. Page 42 Fallacy: You can't criticize the game for not having the option to do something because you can make up a rule for the game to do something. That's not particularly catchy, but I think it works. Any suggestions? Geez, now there is an import...

XP costs are balls. 300 XP for Limited Wish? So that I can lag behind the rest of my party for a battle and then overtake them ? Sure, that's fine. Anyway, who's got some ideas for alternate costs that are less dumb than XP costs? Some possibilities: 1) Follow the XP=GP guidelines, converting each 1...

I have a major affinity for super moves, which I cannot fully explain. You spend several turns trading blows back and forth, but then you come down and explain to the enemy, in no uncertain terms, " This is why I'm a badass. Hadoken! " I mean, the idea of a critical situation and a person ...

Blood Filtration
You ignore all
<i>poison</i> damage.
4$

I wasn't sure how many lines you wanted the text to take up. If it's that many (4), it's fine. Aside from that, the rest of the augmentations look clean.

The skill checks look clean to me. Also, I remember a while back some folks on some SR forums came up with a bunch of Johnson-like names that would apply to people from different nationalities - the German equivalent, the French equivalent, etc. So if you wanted to do some further differentiation li...

Whatever the opposite of Net Neutrality is - Net Partiality? - is actually economically sound. When there are multiple qualities of a good, the people who want high quality can pay for it, and the people who want low quality can save money, and everybody's better off. It also increases the ability o...

It depresses me somewhat to look at those abjuration spells and realize that there's not a single one I really care about being an immediate action.

My advice all concurs with those above. Best of luck, Count.

"Blood Magic" and "The Vampires" are both boring names. I suggest: [other things] Blood Magic and Vampires are both big established SR tropes. I haven't been keeping up with SR like I should, but Blood Magic is an actual in-game thing and known for being big, bad, and broken (I ...

Concur with JE, that the scroll on the gang war card looks more "medieval fantasy" and less "futuristic dystopia". Maybe Matrix-style green on black, or something. EDIT: Also, thanks for the clarification on the Threat question. Never having played Arkham Horror, I didn't realize...

I don't know about the rest of the stuff, but that black funky SR-ish text looks godawful. The "a" looks like an "o", and really the overall style doesn't work for me.

Also, question: Shadowrun has actual Horrors. So why is the BBEG Winternight?

Fuchs wrote:Sublime Chord looks really nice.

Sublime Chord looks cool and all because the basic bard is so bad, but remember, there are people who get access to 9th level spells without needing to jump through hoops and suck ass first.

LAGO wrote:Okay, first things first, hands up everyone whose DM will let them sneak attack with acid flasks or anything that grants touch attacks.

As a DM, I would totally allow sneak attacks with acid, and I'd fully expect whoever DMs for me to do the same.

Re: Improved/Lowered I would use "reduced", myself. I tend to think of that as a reduction in absolute value. Still somewhat ambiguous, sure, but possibly less so. "If you discard the Suitcase Nuke while it is in your possession, add advance the Doom and Terror track by 1." Huh? ...

Grppling Hook
<b>Any Phase:</b> Exhaust to reroll a die on a Sneak, Caution, or Speed test.
3$

Should be Grappling hook.

The rest looks solid, although other people should double check.

Ah, so we are, in fact, talking about normal acid. Alright then. Hey, question, do things that get hit with the splash damage also take sneak attack damage? It sounds ridiculous, but we're always bending the rules over around here, so I thought there might be a way.

Where would one find these bullshit acids that Frank spoke of? Edit: Also, following Google here , it mentions something about the halfling hurler taking perfect TWF at level 10? Surgo or anyone want to explain that? I thought it was an epic feat, which you can't take until level 21. (Besides which,...

Bingo. Which is why you should reserve playing NPCs up like PCs for only the important people who are potentially deserving of multiple scenes. Like Magneto. For all of the other people who live in Genosha who are just there to get killed in the massive sentinel raid, you use different rules. Yeah,...

Scrubs has a lot of episodes that are misses, it's true, but there are some gems mixed in there. As a rule of thumb, find an episode where at least one patient dies, and there you've got a reasonably good chance of a good show.

Assuming that we wanted to do the rotating-by-week system, what of the fact that both DMs probably have some knowledge of where the storyline is supposed to go, or even challenges planned in advance?

"If you do these stupid and arbitrary things, we might give you this prize at the end. Only we might not, because we reserve the right to jerk you around if we feel like it."

And they said fourth edition was looking like WoW. Can I boot this up on my Xbox or what?

I have a D&D (3.5) group of about 7-8 people - kind of large by most standards, I'd say. Of this group, about half have knowledge of the rules approximating what is necessary to DM. The three of us who are competent at the job tend to rotate each adventure, but really, we just want to play PCs. ...

Order of the Stick has just now gotten to the point where I'd want to mention it in this thread. Genocide? Really, Rich? Alrighty then.

I have changed my mind with regard to the profanity filter: I don't think there should be one here. Not because I think it'd be evil censorship or any such nonsense, but simply because there's already a bunch of other message boards one can go to if one wants discussion with these filters. There is,...

Man, Frank, how long has this been in the works? Hundreds of cards popping into existence seems like you must have been working on this for a while.