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But 5th Edition D&D doesn't have any high level monsters. We ran the numbers of how many peasant archers it would take to slay a Pit Fiend and the answer was only a couple dozen. Hmmm. I ran this and got the following... shooters 24 36 48 60 dex bonus 1 1 1 1 prof bonus 2 2 2 2 to-hit 16 16 16 ...

Chekov - Disclaimer: I don't participate in US elections. My political views are my own and do not always align (nor differ) with others that post here. I very (very) rarely post in MPSIMS at all. Seriously man, read this board a bit. Coming here to effectively shit in someone else's bed is bad form...

Thanks for the advice, Frank. A couple of quick points: The Skills you provided sum to 30, not 24. Even so, given that defaulting sucks, I went with the 30 you suggested, deciding Skills > Attributes. Mages cannot bolster their elementals in core 2E, which makes getting the "elemental loop"...

So one of my regular groups has settled on SR 2E for our next several months of gaming. I played 3E for a time and ran 4E once or twice, but could use some help in building a character that fits in well with the group. As it stands I built a human gang member, but after looking over the rest of the ...

Sorry for the necro, somehow I missed this thread when it was posted. There is a 175pg hardbound/PDF setting book called Sundered Skies for the Savage Worlds engine. Think steampunk Spelljammer meets islands in the sky with airships full of of Firefly reavers driven "glowmad" in between. A...

I see that Ars Magica is doing what it is intended to do: draw people with varying knowedge of obscurities and slightly differing definitions of words like "importance" into endless, circular debates.

Game on, Ars, game on...

Still, space is a useless setting for shadowrunners . . WHY do you need to get to that dude who is in orbit WHILE he is in orbit? Orbit is expensive, he WILL have to come down at some point, and if you can pass him off then, that's so much easier, less dangerous and cheaper as well. It's the same p...

Setting aside the obvious issues with the spontanious casting rules, can we get back to discussing the rest of the system? Where can I get some reasonable non-wanky reviews of the system that might intrigue me to give it a try? Is there anything else a burned out d20 player should know before delvin...

[Not at all intended to be a threadshit. This is a serious question] Beyond the cyperpunk genre mandating it via author fiat, why would any futuristic company even connect anything truly valuable to any external network? Companies don't do this now . Surely in futureworld or whatever, they will have...

The problem is that "mindless undead" is a super short list. Basically, it has "basic animate dead skeletons zombies" on and it and maybe one or two more. Even your average ghoul is someone you can have deep intellectual conversations with (and enjoy those conversations because ...

Off topic but this gets to a fundamental question I have been wrestling with: why have XP-per-action at all ? By action, I mean killing or otherwise defeating a monster, making a check of some kind, swinging well with a weapon or whatever. In the past few years in 3E, Pathfinder and SW, I have moved...

Why not just say the character's can't die unless the player allows it. I have done this in the past with a different group and it actually works out pretty well. It is certainly a simplification; there's no need for managing yet another resource at the table. The issue with this approach is that i...

In an internet argument there are some things that just should not fly and one of them them is rewriting peoples posts. Playing internet psychologist or accusing someone you disagree with of having a mental disability are also off limits. When you engage in this sort of behavior you are no longer a...

Based on the above, I dusted off my SR4 core book and re-read the Edge rules. While superficially the Edge rules seem to offer the same as other point systems (re-rolls, modifiers in the form of larger dice pool or even Cheat Death in its most powerful form),I do see how the the differences between ...

So it appears that necessity is driving me to give up on a homebrew campaign and move instead to a Pathfinder AP, specifically Paizo's Second Darkness . My experience with these APs (beyond all the things you are already thinking) is that the encounters are either too easy for a reasonably optimized...

Holy shit. I mean holy shit . I haven't seen the Den get trolled this hard in ... forever. Where is the Den gang-rape squad demanding math, facts and figures as they always have? Why is Fuchs (seemingly) battling this moron alone? Replace GC's bullshit about "winning" with a 4urry's typica...

Great work, Frank. For the first time in my life, I am actually interested in WoD!

Has anyone played the adventurepaths they put out before Pathfinder? I seem to recall hearing that Shackled City, Age of Worms, and Savage Tide weren't all that bad. I am getting ready to finish up the Age of Worms (AoW). I run weekly for 4-5 hours with a group of 6 players, 4 of which are core cas...

In my game, I encourage Take 10 and 20 for all the reasons above. My players use it regularly. I also use it both with NPCs ( Just how much attention is the guard paying right now? If he has no reason to be suspicious, give him a Take 10 ) and with players when they do anything where a skill check m...

Now that'd be interesting... You get a single attack as part of a full move action, and your full attack is a standard action. Jesus that would increase a Fighter's damage output like crazy. I have been running with the following house rule for fighters for the last two years in a campaign that has...

TOZ wrote:They also have a DBZ option somewhere in there. But it requires a LG alignment.

Er, you get a monkey tail and and can go all apeshit or somethin'?

(e.g. Care to elaborate?)

RobbyPants wrote:Do you mean the Magic Rating variant? I have not. I've only tried Spell Points and Recharge.

Can you discuss your experience with either or both of these systems, please? Perhaps a new thread is in order, but I would like to hear how these systems fared in-game.

Josh_Kablack wrote:If you find that with the first couple sessions, you're having fun or getting free beer stick around

If they're all a bunch a morons who just sponge your beer bail after a couple weeks.

Hmmm so who is the moron if deathdealingjawa is getting free beer?

Here is another question regarding WoF and spellcaster effects. Ganbare's chart on the previous page mentions a defensive action of "inertial barrier" which seems reasonable enough. The thing I have been struggling with regarding the WoF and what we traditionally think of spellcasters is t...

Lucid and extremely useful information; this is exactly the kind of advice I was looking for.

Many thanks.