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first; are you saying that the only interesting use for magic would be to kill things? No he is saying its easier in an quasi-realistic system second, we are talking about magic, everything about it would be arbitrary, saying that you can turn air into chlorine is arbitrary, saying that you can rem...

Similarly if you declare that hitting a moving target with magic is too hard then magic is pretty much useless in the majority of situations. There are other situations besides combat you know. And for that matter, are guns useless because you can't always get a perfect headshot? The difficulty doe...

Principle I The precision and power of an effect are added together to determine the difficulty of casting it. Doing something which affects a single grain of sand and leaves the ones next to it untouched is of massive difficulty, even if all you do is make it one degree hotter. The bigger the thin...

ckafrica wrote:I might concede that nudity is inappropriate for young children, but guns?

Why on hell is nudity a problem?
Guns and violence I could see, but why on hell nudity (or are we talking about sex?)?

But I am from Europe...

Argh no! No Alignment debate. I'm out

"Realistic" magic doesn't work in a game because it isn't balanced. Most effects require the ability to produce force or energy at a distance. With this ability you could easily kill everyone with little or no effort by pinching a blood vessel in their brain or severing the nerve that pac...

The whole issue of population outstripping the possible food supply only happens if you're the only food supply. But... you're making the population of people explode so why wouldn't you make the population of spellcasters explode, too? You assume the potential wizard supply is as great as the norm...

Regardless, anyone who even just takes a glance at the D&D rules knows that the game borrows more from Lord of the Rings than any other source. I mean, seriously, Halfing/Elf/Orc/Dwarf/Troll. With D&D's depth of LotR-borrowing it is completely appropriate--even mandatory--to analyze just ho...

RC2: I instead propose the high powered awesome one be called D&D, and your one be called "Oh god not another LotR game". How many games are molded after LotR? LG's examples dont cut it for me. At least 3 of his 4 arent LotR clones/based (too much magic). Dont know about Fantasycraft....

I can see a market for LotR games, but honestly there are way too much such games out there already. Even discounting j/cRPGs, everyone and their mother has one. We have Fantasycraft, we have the Dark Eye, we have that... that FanPro RPG setting that's like Shadowrun but really not, we have that fa...

Masters of Magic 2 . . . . that would be: "A dream come true" *sniff*

--> still playing Masters of Magic

Magic types and non-magic types dont play the same game.

You nerf the casters or you uplift the non-casters.

Frank and K's Tome uplifts the non-casters.

Lago PARANOIA wrote: Economics is an extremely low-budget field so a few well-funded cranks can completely change the discourse; Austrian and Chicago schools are a complete joke but they still win Nobels.

Austrian schools gets nobel prices?
Didnt know that...

Nitpicking: Nails are a blessing if you are crucifixed, because you die earlier.
Its not an real-life example, but an in-depht use of it as an terror tactic:
http://www.webscription.net/p-661-carnifex.aspx
somewhere in there...

The 3e method of “a small greatsword is a greatsword but smaller” irritated me because a greatsword for a gnome is probably just a longsword. I think thats the 3.5 rule. 3.0 was actually a greatsword for a gnome is just a longsword [edit] Clicked on your link. Sadly the spoken words dont match the ...

Damn that book is out of stock by Amazon (de and com). Got the mail today from amazon.de that they couldnt get it anymore.
Hope I get the Pocket version...

Thanks, need to do some rebuilding.
HeroLab did let me use Permanent Powers as Alternativ Powers...

Is it Possible to change the durataion of a Power to Permanent if the Power is an Alternate Power?
Seems a little strange, since that permanent power isnt permanent anymore.
Still you cant boost the power anymore so it may be possible/balanced to do that.

Korwin wrote:Hmm, need to reread the continous description, I was shure there was something like "The power function even if you change to another AP in the same array".

Ah, I read the description of the Continous Lasting duration.


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Hmm, Slow Fade and Total Fade?

Hmm, need to reread the continous description, I was shure there was something like "The power function even if you change to another AP in the same array".

If I'm not mistaken, your Stepford Witch still has to deal with the fact that a power is deactivated in an AP array when you use a different one in the set, so her dupliate disappears if she ever summons minions or attempts to use Black Science; Am I right in this: If the Duplicate got an duration ...

Since this thread is very usefull, I use it for my question.
What the difference between Artificer and Ritualist?

The Ritualist user need only one skill.
The Artificer need two.

Is it because the Artificer can use the Device discount?

The first link I had known (I think it was the reason to buy M&M )
The second was very informative. Thanks.


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BESM stinks - it's a poor man's Mutants and Masterminds. MnM could do it, and so could HERO, but MnM is generally faster-resolving. So I got Mutants & Masterminds, I like it. Have some reading to do, to finish the book... but so far I like it. So much, I ordered the Wild Cards Setting and I am ...

Hmm, my reaction in such a case would probably be: an minimized Charakter.
Make an Char. who looks good on paper, but cant do anything worthwile.
Optional make who could pull his weight with little changes.