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Maybe it would be better to just stick the status effect conditional save modifiers in the spell/maneuver descriptions rather than trying to think up some general mechanism?

I think it's far better to just use situational skill modifiers in diplomacy/intimidate and call it something else than try to make the tie to CAN.

CAN is for the save subsystem, diplomacy/intimidate can have it's own system entirely ... naming them similarly won't accomplish anything but confusion.

What I meant is that the fact that the hammer blows came from the caster or his allies shouldn't really matter ... his resilience is weakened, that's what matters. I just worded it poorly.

The concept of a Bloodied character in 4e is possibly one of the few good parts to come of the game. In fact I estimate it would work nicely with Save or Suck effects, maybe even Save or Dies, in 3e. Using bloodied for this solves the SoD problem, but it leaves padded sumo on the table ... yes, the...

You could try to replace the scifi with steampunk ... still not fantasy proper, but closer.

IMO damage should affect saves ... it's the easiest way to bring some balance to the damage/status effect equation.

The die mechanics are definitely needlessly obtuse.

Lago PARANOIA wrote:[*] Minions are definitely staying in. I hate them as a mechanic because they smack of laziness, but in almost all 4E D&D games I've run the players loved the fucking shit out of them.

That would probably single handedly make it impossible for them to get the players they lost to PF back.

- increase the importance of damage through synergy with status effect attacks, rather than just nerfing status effect attacks - reduce the effectiveness of focus fire - more interesting magic items at all levels, but with less magic item slots - less chosen actions/attacks a round at higher levels,...

I think that most martial/rogue/face players wouldn't really care that the caster had the best solution for 75% of situations ... as long as they didn't intrude on their niches or make their niches irrelevant.

People really want the game to look and feel the same. It's not even enough that you try to keep the iconic spells, they pretty much want the systems to be similar. Vancian casting, +X swords, hit points and the 3-18 ability score systems are all things that the majority of D&D players want and...

Evasion is magic, plain and simple ... the problem is trying to create mundane explanations for it. Same issue as say trapfinding, clearly magic. In fact as an (Ex) ability it is explicitly non-magical . Non magical in a rules sense, but if it breaks the laws of physics we can safely call it magica...

Evasion is magic, plain and simple ... the problem is trying to create mundane explanations for it. Same issue as say trapfinding, clearly magic.

FrankTrollman wrote:They have a huge manufacturing base and a stable budget.

A stable deficit above inflation rate makes for an unsustainable debt.

Because it won't matter? Because the dollar losing reserve currency status means that exports will go up, unless your productivity is so shitty that even a devaluation of currency won't lift you out of the hole. That wasn't your argument, you said other countries would sustain the trade into the US...

Irish manufacturing wages look like this Ireland is a completely different case than the rest of the PIGS, I should have mentioned that (in my defence I have said it countless times before). They have a highly competitive economy, they have just been sold into slavery by their government. If Irelan...

1.) The chickens have to come home to roost on the trade deficit. Is there any reason to believe that this will happen? I don't see why not; there's no reason to believe that when India, Brazil, and China finishes industrializing that someone else is going to take up the manufacturing mantle. I mea...

Rapid recovery is a pipe dream whatever we do. The PIGS are fundamentally uncompetitive, the skills of their population, infrastructure and natural resources fundamentally can not sustain their current standard of living. They have to get more productive, and that will take half a generation and not...

Capital gains taxes will increase? Property taxes on large businesses will increase? Corporate taxes will increase? Taxes increasing on the American consumption class won't really help in balancing current accounts if the US gets positioned into Ireland's role ... now the US is of course far away fr...

You can have an all knowing god and a non-deterministic universe, though. The key is to throw out the concept of linear time. If we assume a deity that is spatially omnipresent, that is one that experiences all points in space at all once, then we might as well assume temporal omnipresence, as well...

If you don't have a job, you're not just working poor: you're lumpenproletariat. Why is that preferable? I dunno, why is it? It's not my assertion after all. As for wage deflation being necessary in the US ... I'm not saying it isn't, I'm just saying that shifting away from subsidized consumption (...

30 of which the US had oil and 40 of which it got it at discounted prices ... it works as long as it works, but it's not entirely in the hands of the US government whether it keeps working.

Basically if governments had not bailed out the financial industry they would have needed to take over all the important tasks of finance (so a couple percent of it, since most of it is outright speculation and bubble building). In the US the Fed would have had to basically taken over the bond marke...

I don't know how or why you think it is "dangerously" unstable. If the world loses faith in dollars, they will try to buy US stuff with them at the reduced value that necessarily came just before they decided to stop hording dollars. Which would mean high price inflation and corresponding...

Long crafting quests, for when keeping the narrative going in pen and paper is too easy ... stupid idea.