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Of course, that potentially opens up another can of worms in that people start asking questions about why the mind flayers and ogres and bearded devils don't have class levels. "They have more than 4 HD to begin with, and class levels are an abstraction I'm using to make peons not fear houseca...

OgreBattle wrote:do the orcs and kobolds also have class levels?

Same question for all the other 1 HD "intelligent" races.

I would guess yes, for the ones that get their intelligence taken seriously, and no if you want to run the race as anthropomorphic pests at risk of offending everybody ever.

Can you elaborate? Underpowered compared to what metric, the Tome classes, an optimised Rogue, or what? The classes presented are strictly superior to a single class Fighter, but that's... kind of difficult to *not* achieve. I know for a fact the archetypes aren't all well balanced against eachother...

Re: Quantumboost's White Mage: I have played one, ran a game with one and been in a third game with someone else playing one. I really, really like the White Mage. I don't have quite as much experience with it as Josh does, but our WHM was a pretty awesome party member in the Tome E8 RHoD campaign ...

well I figured if terminal velocity is an instakill to one, it's an instakill to all. An insta-drop-you-to-bleeding is functionally an instakill to people without quick healing or very well prepared friends, while still being able to implement the exact scenario you proposed. I did something to thi...

See, with this kind of system, a dude can't hit the ground at terminal velocity, and then stand up and walk away. It's just not as cool. So in a fantasy game, I don't think this is a good thing. But somebody like Captain America actually seems to run on high to-hit/defense and low HP. They could wi...

HP for HP, battlefield control and buffs are better than actual healing at preventing HP damage, and more in keeping with the spirit of War. You say they should have buffs? Glad we agree here. Healing is an extra hit point buff. As for which buffs or battlefield control options are better, that tot...

I'm still confused why you think a Priest of Mars should have healing spells. Because surviving battles is important in wars? It's far more sensible than a Priestess of Aphrodite having healing spells anyway. HP for HP, battlefield control and buffs are better than actual healing at preventing HP d...

How is entering combat time a bad thing when the dragon wants to cast 4 buff spells and the PCs want to cast 2 buff spells and then move and interrupt the dragon? Why is entering combat time during the first two rounds a bad thing that ruins the game? It means there's a definite "encounter beg...

Characters should have the agency to start acting in 'combat time' (rounds) at any point they like. It's usually just a formality that can be ignored, but it makes a few game elements just work better, without any real downside. That's not the same as rolling initiative. If the incoming dragon does...

Is this just a joke, or are you actually going to seriously develop this.

I would assume this is due to Book of 9 Swords having at least some moves that aren't total shit, combined with having much less to live up to as a mere sourcebook rather than an entire edition. Sort of like how Pathfinder is less well received than 3.5 despite not being a whole lot worse as a produ...

But if they're supposed to enjoy the anti-heroes exploits, they pretty much have to believe that there is something redeeming about him that makes him 'winning' a better option than 'losing'. Because if he's the BBEG and he's slaughtering virtuous heroes, it gets old after a while, and not very man...

Speaking as a wilfully ignorant fanboy, beyond the mechanics not actually giving much help for social combat, the fact that reading d100 as 2d10 is even more potentially confusing than it sounds, and the limits of d100 roll under, have I missed any gaping holes in Unknown Armies? Well, that and the...

Speaking as a wilfully ignorant fanboy, beyond the mechanics not actually giving much help for social combat, the fact that reading d100 as 2d10 is even more potentially confusing than it sounds, and the limits of d100 roll under, have I missed any gaping holes in Unknown Armies? Well, that and the ...

Shadz - you're thinking of monolatrism, where you believe in the mere existence of multiple gods but feel only one is worthy of your attention.

O...K. you realize that every single thing that takes a long time by definition has been segregated into non combat, right? And that by conceding that anything in the game takes a long time, that you have in fact abandoned the pretense that we don't have to segregate the non-combat powers. No Frank...

Koumei wrote:If you like looking at terrible RPGs, I will suggest "Everything PurpleXVIII has reviewed", as he does it for a hobby.

Link please? Google isn't answering.

Like every single other character that the weapon fetishist supporters have brought up, he is in fact a huge counter example. Shut the fuck up, the "weapon specialist" character does not exist. A character who uses one weapon "the most" is not a weapon fetishist character. A wea...

Is anyone reading my posts? Echo? Of course I am. :cool: Unfortunately, there hasn't been any new angles of argument in a while - AMiB's D&D For Immortals, while at least a new approach to his position, is still a fair bit problematic in that it axes things people want from the game (some peopl...

It sort of depends on how you imagine hit points working. Your original quote was, "Characters generally aren't aware of having luck, so that would be metagame." Ignoring how hit points work, there is no real mechanism for characters being "aware" of exactly what their hit point...

Not sure if this is what you're looking for or not... I'd suggest making your system be incapable of creating something out of nothing. That should get rid of a lot of economy rape that you find in D&D systems. For classic spells you just manipulate things to get the effect. Ex. fireballs aren'...

Offhand, I'd have thought that you couldn't have "beam me up Scotty" style teleportation, where you don't at any point intersect with the points in between start and finish - even if you then have the effects of that, via your summoned Transporter carrying you into its plane before running...

The enemy cleric is an NPC. Maybe I'm speaking from the point of view of the fucking God he worships. How is a cleric's god able to do a damn thing about meta game abilities possessed by the player as opposed to the player character ? It doesn't matter, Fighter abilities do not get to change what t...

Pretty sure what he actually means is replace the chargen system with "You have this much XP, the same stuff that you could get through adventuring after chargen. Spend it by the XP-spending rules and call it chargen."