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- Thu Aug 28, 2014 1:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Late to the party: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying ?
- Replies: 96
- Views: 10717
My main complaints were: It was way too easy to roll up a character with no combat usefulness The fact that attack powers did a static amount of damage led to annoying combats (e.g. if your attack power did 30 damage, you could only hurt an enemy with 40 armor on a critical hit or by spending XP). ...
- Wed Aug 27, 2014 1:05 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Late to the party: Marvel Heroic Roleplaying ?
- Replies: 96
- Views: 10717
On FASERIP: its been up for ages online - I'd assume the rights to MSH went to WOTC when they acquired TSR but they likely can't continue publishing it since the license would belong to Marvel. http://www.classicmarvelforever.com/cms/advanced-game-and-modules.html I've GM'd it about four times. Gene...
- Tue Aug 19, 2014 5:56 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Poison: Acceptable Rules?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2766
Its weird that poison bypass the HP system when swords don't, and causes problems when multiple doses start being stacked. Maybe a system where a character saves vs. damage when they're exposed, with accumulated poison 'damage' compared vs. hit points to get different effects at 25% HP, 50% HP, 75% ...
- Mon Aug 11, 2014 3:53 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Tabletop gaming guilty pleasures: what are yours?
- Replies: 102
- Views: 12051
- Fri Jul 18, 2014 12:58 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Now that it's over, deconstructing 4E
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9874
A few things on its flaws as a game: *At release it also needed someone to have already gone through and actually looked for lethal combos; people figured out holes with for instance Orb of Imposition/Sleep and Blade Cascade and ganked Orcus before the book was officially released. The rapier was an...
- Sat Jul 12, 2014 6:30 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Zero Buzz on 5E...Is It Dead Out The Gate?
- Replies: 2279
- Views: 303018
They have a gigantic coiling heavily-muscled tail that must be their strongest limb and it does nothing. Not a free skill, not a combat option, ... oh, wait, there'll be tiefling feats, never mind, and the DM can fix it anyway. Maybe it cancels out the Balance penalty for the cloven hooves? (OK, I ...
- Sat Jul 05, 2014 2:14 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Handwaving and falling off the RNG
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2890
- Fri Jul 04, 2014 3:09 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: So what's next for Mike Mearls?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 19949
- Wed Jul 02, 2014 12:49 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder might become less bad
- Replies: 101
- Views: 17635
- Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:41 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The different ways to do multiple attacks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2072
Sure, I'd agree with that pretty much. I'm listing them for the sake of completeness - I'm not going to claim any any of these are usually good (at least, not without a lot of work ). On SPD stat based # attack systems: I haven't seen any particularly good versions of these either. Extra attacks gen...
- Sat Jun 21, 2014 1:20 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The different ways to do multiple attacks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2072
In other options, there are *systems where you can have multiple attacks, without it being level-based (for instance off a score like SPD in HERO). *systems where number of attacks is based off your initiative roll e.g. 1E Shadowrun (I'm not sure about later editions), or IIRC Feng Shui. *systems wi...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:07 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Help me get the 'spirit' of DnD?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6427
Okay, so I think I'm getting the hang of the mechanics of third edition DnD and derivatives, but I've realized I don't know much about the stuff most DnD worlds usually involve, e.g. afterlives, planes, fiends, the usual monsters, etc (yeah, I know that stuff isn't necessary for a DnD setting, but ...
- Sun Jun 15, 2014 12:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why didn't 5E D&D just switch to dicepools?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 8111
The core idea of bounded accuracy seems like you keep your same chance to hit forever, but get more hit points and do more damage. That depends on the game's damage-resolution system - the ever increasing pool of dice based on sneak attack or martial bonus dice or caster level - to work, not its tas...
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 3:11 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 954756
So it's a combination of how steep the learning curve is and how quickly the class's potential is maximised? Got you. That sounds like a good idea, a tricky thing to balance and a questionable thing for setting verisimilitude. The idea goes back to 1st edition and even before. You had beginner clas...
- Sun Jun 08, 2014 4:53 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [PF] filling a dungeon, take 2
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2452
Background wise 'soulbinding' the dragon I think may work just with animate dead (blocking true res. anyway - if you had the body you could destroy it and so make it eligible for resurrection). Having the dragon skeleton just be really old would block resurrection as well - though you'd then need to...
- Tue May 27, 2014 3:07 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: SKR quotables
- Replies: 265
- Views: 52385
- Sun May 25, 2014 3:33 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Zero Buzz on 5E...Is It Dead Out The Gate?
- Replies: 2279
- Views: 303018
"The Sundering"
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Sundering_(event)
Catastrophe as per usual. They're trying to get players to be involved in rebuilding the setting but I don't see why anyone would give a millifuck at this point.
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Sundering_(event)
Catastrophe as per usual. They're trying to get players to be involved in rebuilding the setting but I don't see why anyone would give a millifuck at this point.
- Sat May 10, 2014 2:14 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Dealing damage
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2188
- Thu May 08, 2014 6:37 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: dual wielding throughout the editions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1125
- Mon May 05, 2014 12:25 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: TOP 3 Badly designed games: Shadowrun and... ?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 10495
I know what the first two are, but what is Synnabar? Can someone give me a quick rundown, or link me to somewhere that explains it? http://www.somethingawful.com/dungeons-and-dragons/synnibarr-raven-mccracken/1/ Its a multigenre RPG set on a spaceship made out of a hollowed-out Mars 50,000 years in...
- Sun May 04, 2014 12:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Derived Stats: how far is too far?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2617
Say for 4th Ed. there's Primary: Constitution Secondary: Hit Points Tertiary: Bloodied Value Here the tertiary layer there is just a rescaling though, it doesn't bring any extra attributes into the picture so may not be exactly what you mean. Also as Gat says if you're only working with the twice-de...
- Wed Apr 30, 2014 12:03 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Zero Buzz on 5E...Is It Dead Out The Gate?
- Replies: 2279
- Views: 303018
- Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: (whatever)-World: Finally read it, here's my veredict
- Replies: 383
- Views: 42765
- Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:09 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Amazing mechanical solutions
- Replies: 122
- Views: 22148
For old ideas, the bit where your success chance and the power of your action are separate things and rolled separately is excellent and in all ways better than when you use one number which decides both your success chance and power in one. Same with defence structures and target numbers. Two axis...
- Fri Apr 04, 2014 12:51 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Replacing attributes with tags like [hulk strength]
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2721