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Has this devolved into one of those insufferable Knight vs Samurai threads? Because if you look at organized warfare it is about how groups work together, it's never about how one Viking would fight one Ninja. Training and drill made a big difference, without it the man on your right could up and ru...

Darwin noticed that there where many unique species on the Galapagos islands, they evolved in isolation from the mainland. I find the same principle applies to gamers, some will form their own little cliques and being bereft of any new players and new ideas evolve into something weird. They have the...

So I think we can all agree that Savage Worlds systems have relatively small but very annoying die problems. Namely that, because of the "exploding" die system being worse can occasionally mean being a little better. I'm not sure if you're implying that the expected value of an exploding ...

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I'm pretty sure the OGL is pretty much a copy of one of the GPL licenses that Linux is distributed under. There is nothing WotC can do to put the genie back in the bottle, the genie being the 3.5 SRD. Related to that, any one can take and expand upon the 3.5 SRD, but they have to keep it open and fr...

While I haven't heard much explicit support for Pathfinder, it's big enough to have become the defacto successor. For instance on BG I think 45% of posters think Pathfinder made the game worse, 45% think it was a lateral shift and 10% actually like it. But it's the only other system they look at for...

The first might and magic game, which was a pretty shameless ripoff came out in 1986. You have to bear in mind that the very first IBM PCs where so anemic that making a cRPG for them was pretty infeasible, so they pretty much had to wait for technology to catch up. As for D&D essentials, I think...

Let's be honest here, 3.5e isn't a masterpiece of game design. It wouldn't take too much to make an RPG that works better if you aren't afraid of killing some of D&D sacred cows. Making a game that is better doesn't mean that game will be great, I don't see much greatness in Paizo's current staf...

I can't help but feel that if 4th Edition had as robust of an open-gaming license that 3rd Edition did that the edition would've lasted a couple more years longer than it did. I guess we don't give gaming companies like Mongoose enough credit. Is 4e officially over? I just checked the WotC site and...

There should be a class called probability or finite mathematics. That will teach you a lot of the fundamentals people use in game design. Statistics is also a good bet, but check its requirements. At my school you need to have taken at least high school probability to take it.

FatR, your Fireball analogy is good, but it's something that did come up. Apparently there where a few people on the Paizo boards who found that Fireball just couldn't keep up in damage so found that the best Wizard tactics where de/buffing and battlefield control. Pathfinder gave them a 1/2 CL boos...

I had a Gish with trapfinding, apparently taking trapfinding was the munchy part

But if he and others had at least pretended that their results came up through organically playing an adventure, they would have counted for something, I think. I would imagine that had people gone to the trouble of claiming that "Well, in my game the wizard has color spray, wall of smoke, sil...

EDIT: I'm going to blame this doublepost on the forums acting up, sorry for the inconvience.

Some people have posited if Frank was nicer he could have gotten his points across to the Pathfinder crowd. I don't believe it for a second. Myself (and others I'm sure) posted a lot of topics following their exact guidelines on topics including: Making Melee not suck (in general) Making Monks not s...

That's an interesting idea, I'd actually love to see how it works out. You mention that other boards have implemented this, I'm curious how they handled this, could you provide some links to those forums?

I don't want to derail this thread but I'm going to reply to OP. I would imagine any problems with an objectivist player would sort them self out in short order, but apparently not. If the objectivist's character doesn't help the other characters or demands unjust compensation or any other shenaniga...

Funny thing is, all the new Paizo adventure paths stop at level 15, so MT will never get a chance to be awesome. :

I'm assuming once you get everything stated up this will be a Same Game contest. Otherwise how are you going to compare things?

LL are you aware that illegal immigrants: A) Generally pay payroll taxes (or rather, their employer pays them) but aren't entitled to Medicare or Social Security and In Canada to be employed you have to show proof of citizenship, I'm assuming you have to do something similar in the States. So any i...

You need to decide up front how big a scope do you want your system to incorporate. Some systems do human level stuff well, others do superhuman stuff well but I don't know a system that can really handle both without exploding into flames and hilarity. If Joe-Bob shoots lightning out of his hands i...

Exactly Crissa, If the states on the Mexican border wanted to cut down on illegal immigration they'd go after people hiring them. People come to the states to earn a decent living, if you make the only avenue for them to do that be through legal documented immigration then the illegal type would be ...

The big spoiler for Riverworld is: Aliens resurrect humanity; because there was some catastrophe humanity never had the chance to hit its stride or some such. So the aliens bring back humanity on this planet so they can get a second chance, or some shit like that. Good guys win, bad guys lose, but n...

I'm more familiar with Battletech than Shadowrun. Battletech's basic mechanics haven't changed since 1985, its body of rules haven't really changed over the last 25 years, but this is a good thing because those rules have generally worked well. There is also a roadmap of where the fiction needs to g...

FrankTrollman wrote: At the end of the day, you piss all over a Pathfailure Warrior of any type and in turn get pissed on by any full caster. Is that what Pathfailure fans call "balance?"

-Username17

Isn't that where the ToB classes stand? Most people consider them balanced.