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There's another route to take from Impervious Toughness if you're being a jackass: tradeoff in the other direction, but only to -5/+5. Jack your Defense up with a Shield or Dodge Focus or whatever is cheap and use Luck (you should have this anyway) and Ultimate Effort (Toughness) to save your ass if...

Oh Mekton Zeta, why do you suck so fucking hard?

It's like a complicated Champions for mecha: spend an hour tweaking your design and then you have to redo it because its too awesome.

In your PMs, make sure you include exhaustive detail about the mechanics the game uses. The combat system is great - you hack off limbs without the need for Rolemaster-level charting. WHOP! No limb. Whee! Characters CAN actually get competent, but you're on a whole different power scale than DnD. WF...

..and with that, I love WFRP.

Who the fuck ever rolls stats? I don't. Career choice is a choice, too - even in the book they say it doesn't need to be random.

The game is awesome and I encourage you to play and PM PhoneLobster your session reports.

...and mostly split time between AD&D 2E skills and powers (none of us were particularly interested in abusing it). You have missed the point of that glorious, epic book. It is still a small dream of mine to play a totally twinked-out Skills and Powers/Combat and Tactics/whatever 2e game with a...

Fuck you. We play to win, fucker.

...4e is a game designed for sucky players and sucky DMs. I don't know why this didn't occur to me before, but its right. At least partially... I mean, I want players to think intelligently about their character's actions and design, but at the same time if that learning hurdle is too high for a ca...

Started playing in... 3rd grade? That would be 1985 I guess. A friend of my brother's had it and we had a blast doing 1e Oriental Adventures. My dad got my brother and I the Red Box soon after, as well as ADnD, and somehow DC Heroes too. My dad actually ran a game or two for my brother and I and it ...

Pardon me while I contribute nothing to this thread. I think the most damning evidence against Iron Mongler is that he believes Roy is a polite civil productive person and everyone but Roy is a jerk. I think IronMongler is coming around. Hardly anyone fucking cares about playing Murdering Hobos. You...

DeadlyReed wrote:You know, I could really go for Warhammer Quest about now.

If I could only come up with a good way to have WQ-style mob AI for DnD4e I'd be set.

Honestly, the game works best that way.

Is everyone (with the exception of Fuchs) alcoholic? Just well-versed. I go through a six-pack a week, sometimes two. When I was living in Florida with nothing to do I drank a shitload of cognac and smoked a lot of dope - now that I live somewhere entertaining and there's more to do than simply get...

"A Different Mirror" by George Takaki. An examination of neglected multicultural elements of history and probably novel for any population as insular as a military one.

Also if you ever have the chance for just a glass of Louis XIII, please do yourself a favor and have it. Take your time with it and I even suggest having a glass of water handy to cleanse your palate after every sip.

It is the most amazing thing I've ever had and totally worth its exorbitant cost.

A_Cynic wrote:Cutty Sark for my scotch.

Jesus, man, get a job and stop drinking paint thinner.

The MacAllen, 12 years or older.

Okay, I'll try to be more specific. Something about Plain Brown Paper Wrapper games, I believe. The setting takes place in the Iron Age and has a 'twisted world' version of Freedom City. Everyone in the setting has their personalities horribly twisted to be Drawn Together, but for serious. Does tha...

I'd second Chomsky. It'd be an excellent head-rattle for the military crowd. It's a little dense but I love "The Philosopher's Secret Fire" by Patrick Harpur. "Daimonic Reality" would also serve the same purpose. It's basically a dissertation on the role of imagination in one's m...

Lion Stout
Moo Thunder
LongTrail Double Bag

most Imperial Stouts, actually. TenFidy is fucking shit though.

It's pretty much all boutique beer for me ever since graduating to yuppiedom.

Superlink is like the MnM OGL... you're going to have to be more specific than FATAL, which is basically just saying "really fucking horrid".

Wow. Awesome site. I'm working on a RPG system with card-driven mechanics that I will never finish and stuff like that would be awesome to have... if I ever finished it.

Ultimately you can probably do this better with GIMP/Photoshop and card stock though.

Koumei aquired a copy of that game book, as in, like yesterday, which makes your post very coincidental. She said something along the lines of not being fit to wipe her rear with . Correction, it is what comes out of the rear of creatures. I guess that it's close enough for a misunderstanding to oc...

Also, I highly, HIGHLY recommend everyone play a good, long campaign of Street Fighter: the Storytelling Game.

It's my favorite RPG for the reasons the insane GM likes Rifts. Whee!

Here's something in the same vein. This is near the top for TMNT silliness and mines Ninjas and Superspies heavily. ... Wan Lei Yu Ten-thousand-Thunders-Weasel Alignment: Taoist base adj final BONUS IQ 20 -2 18 +5% to skills ME 12 +1 13 MA 10 +1 13 PS 18 +14 32 +17 to damage PP 15 +18 33 +9 ...

I like Mage Slayer. I only rarely take it. I have not bothered to try and reconcile these two statements. Basically, being able to roll up on a caster with a Reach weapon and finally having something to do to them other than get fucked is nice, though that assumes you can hit said caster (of course ...

NineInchNall wrote:I think Roy's ability to communicate effectively has been fully ruined by internet memes. Sad, really.

I completely agree. The Sunder thread was just bizarre.

I am totally cool on disproportionate response in RPGs.