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One thing that tons of fiction with powerful non-human races uses for humans is to make humans the "never say die, always get back up again, too damn stubborn" race that always surprises whatever other race with their refusal to just plain die or give up already. You could use that. http:/...

Jilocasin wrote:Also, know how the numbers actually work, rather than how they say they work.

Care to explain?

There's a reason why many doctors, nurses and health care experts who know our system best consider this approach a vast improvement over the status quo. But if anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medi...

Adventures cannot be a part of the main game design focus.

Wait. Am I correct in thinking I'm reading a guy yelling about how improving on D&D 3e is not a valid argument for the worth of a game because that's the same as saying World of Synnibar improves in some ways on FATAL, or how bad dumpster diving (going through tons of books looking for obscure o...

What, specifically, didn't make sense to you?

When I tried Maptool it was arguably as bad as OpenRPG. Who the fuck designs the user interface for these things? Is it the same guy who designed the Honda Element and the new Subaru Impreza? :bored: If you can do better, then go make one. They're free, and I'm not seeing particularly better option...

Prak_Anima wrote:Well, I knew it was south park... but it's oddly similar to Amnut...
(a chimeric creature with the head of a crocodile, the mane and body of a lion, and the hind quarters of a hippopotamus.)

Wow... you're right... it does look like that.

Piece of crap. Some of the worst user interface design known to man. The map usage is completely obtuse. The character sheet and scripting features are completely obtuse. Incredible bloat. I don't have a single nice thing to say about that program. Of course, I only used it a long time ago too but ...

Really, when you insert things like "should" and similarly opinionated things you are not naming a new logical fallacy. In fact all you're doing is devaluing the term.

Ok... so after hearing lots of remarks imply IHS was completely broken, I finally decided to actually look it up and see what it does. broken? uber? what? ...what am I not thinking about here? The thing about Iron Heart Surge is that it does everything except what you think it should do. It won't, ...

There are basically two aspects to the flavor of any given ability: Its inherent flavor, which is actually mechanically integrated, and all the other fluff, which you can totally change all you like without really impacting the mechanics. Inherent flavor is stuff that derives directly from the game ...

I like the book because it is the only book I have read that conveys an atmosphere of intrigue, of plans within plans. As a bonus the world is consistent within itself - that is rare by itself. Try reading the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R. R. Martin. First one is "A Ga...

The thing about prosthetics is... well, let's just say I expect the Special Olympics to be more interesting than the regular Olympics sooner rather than later ;) [*]4. The protagonists are grim and gritty lowlifes. Even when they are talented, they have never been successful in life. (examples: Deck...

Every other stat is not an automatic dump stat. What does Charisma need to pull it out of that realm? What I did was make it add to (or subtract from) Action Points in my games. Seemed to work well enough. If I were to make more significant changes to the game than my usual patchwork of 3.5 fixes, ...

CatharzGodfoot wrote:Oh, come on. Goosebumps was awesome.

+1

Goosebumps = Good

Twilight = wtf is this shit

Cielingcat wrote:But why is this okay?

It's not.

CatharzGodfoot wrote:Episode 1) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
Episode 2) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-
Episode 3) HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Episode 4) BOOM!

AKA the Dragon Ball Z formula.

Fixed.

Unlike some folks, I am not an animu connoisseur. My palate is unrefined, so to speak, and I do not frequently watch animu, so my experience is limited. However, I have noticed a trend in animu for the "boss" battles to be extremely imbalanced. It seems that many of them--not all of them,...

Lancelot has a shield of super-strength. Thor has super strength and a belt of more super strength. And Popeye has Spinich of Super Strength. It's not that nobody buys their strength through items - it's that only some of them do. And yet in the D&D rules, you can only get super strength throug...

One of the points is that it's a series of optional addons that may or may not be used together. Each book is truly a book and intended to be stand alone. If I was going to pull a pathfinder and actually write a whole stand-alone ruleset for 3.x D&D I would do so with that explicit goal and wit...

I gotta agree with Tequila Sunrise here LAGO. 3e's wealth system was... bleh. Ya know, you do give some good advice here. But as usual, your hard-on for 3e leads you to one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard: 4E could have gone a long way towards mitigating this effect if they had implemented a sa...

So no, everyone is NOT magic. Oddly dwarves are resistant to or immune to magic...so how could you resist or be immune to something you are? Wow, you really take the cake this time. Are you just completely retarded? Really, simple ignorance is forgivable, but what you do, Shadzar, goes far beyond t...

So... you can be sued for saying you don't like hamburgers on TV?

Ugh. Twilight. Rrgh. Heck, a comedic *spinoff* of Nosferatu has better vampires. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DLJN7i2UHc&feature=fvw (In context of scene, the men are convinced that the vampire is actually a really good method actor hired to play in the movie nosferatu, not a real vampire. Th...