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Ow, my brain is full of fuck. Why oh why did I read and answer a post by that crazy Grogtard? Probably because the Gaming Den is a place where people angrily disagree with each other in the hopes of making theirselves and each other less ignorant. It's hard to curb that reflex for specific lost cau...

Monster and race fluff can be very handy for getting a rough understanding of the basic psychology of such creatures, and some idea of their role in their native habitat. I would like the fluff a lot more if it explained the actual consequences of the feat/item/spell/monster/whatever's existence in ...

Here's another one for you: Mana System by Virgil . Lower level spells are at-will until you start nova-ing. I think someone else made a system where some spells cost 1 while others cost all your mana (independent of how much you have), but I can't remember the magic words necessary to get Google to...

No, a bow is a twig tosser. It is not rifled. Your dragon rifles are squirtguns: they squirt little gobs or streams of acid or fire long distances. I grudgingly acknowledge that rogues and such would actually have to consider the pros and cons of dragon rifles versus flasks, especially in campaigns ...

When building high-level casters, I usually wish that was the rule.

You could have the low slots be at-will, middle be encounter, and high be daily, if you wanted. It would probably work better with jumps in spell level larger than 1, though.

So... something like this?

Level:	6 slots of this level	4 slots of this level	2 slots of this level
1	-	0th	1st
3	0th	1st	2nd
5	1st	2nd	3rd
7	2nd	3rd	4th
9	3rd	4th	5th
11	4th	5th	6th
13	5th	6th	7th
15	6th	7th	8th
17	7th	8th	9th

Prak Anima's version lets you kill basically anyone for 150 gp, provided you have a henchman stupid enough. All Parthenon has is a squirtgun of death which does damage that you then stack with Sneak Attack or Death Attack dice. Oh, and you keep some Red Rifles in your pocket for when you need to bur...

sigma999: The spell points system you're thinking of reminds me of the Mana-Based Spellcasting variant rule that I can't link you to because the wiki is down. I believe the pattern was something like: You get a number of mana points per day equal to an ability score + half your level. Your highest-l...

@Frank: I'm going to side with Hogarth here on the anecdotal evidence: I'm pretty sure that the sum total of the rants I've heard in person about spell preparation being too complicated adds up to about two sentences.

However, I've seen people forget to do it properly all the time.

The fighter can run 200' into the air. Whoo. At that level, Medium range is longer. Also, Mighty Leap is a bag of rats ability. A reasonably intelligent person who is forced to be in combat in order to gain a non-combat bonus is just going to be "in combat" all the time. This looks more or...

For the DM fiat rules you desire, don't you want to simply change the random item charts to mostly contain tiger transformation items and artifact swords, and make sure that any real opponent comes with minion(s) that love to grind away at fighters? Animate Dead helps a bit with the latter: most of ...

The DCs stuff is just a more granular version of craft slots, with rolling; the FMA class converts DCs to Strain. You don't have the option to make up spells in combat if you play a Word Wizard. It may resemble an attempt to adapt the Epic rules for spell seeds to lower level casters, and I definite...

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It doesn't slow down combats as much as you might think, since generally players pick a few favorite spells and tweak them to fit the situation.

You're complaining about Elves spending a month, once, doing something? This is the race that reaches adulthood at 110 years, right?

If the party goes to study with the elves, you can choose to have them teach you Tracking, Archery, or Attuning Magic with Nature. If you want to learn Axe-Swinging or Pyromancy instead, the elves will be very upset with you. You could certainly make a game where you had a massive selection of items...

Well, if your enemies abuse Sunder to its fullest potential (and it remains accessible while in wildshape), and it takes at least a standard action to put on your spare, then sure, sounds fun.

Yeah... it's probably way too expensive and way too ineffective to equip every one of your 1st/2nd level Warriors with a magic item, unless there's enough loot lying around to do so without wishing for it. Scrolls of sending would probably be your most cost-efficient military item, especially if you...

Who says they have to be cheaper? A wand of 9th level Magic Missile can have 8250 gp of curses on it.

fectin wrote:It's really hard to make padded sumo terrifying.

True, but it gives you time to instill a slow, festering horror at the dawning realization that they're not going to win this fight.

DSMatticus wrote:nobody has rights or significant protection

Isn't a team of well-informed teleporting vigilantes who are each as strong as a tank and a fighter jet combined enough?

If every civilization has food dispensers, DSMattIcus, who's left that needs them?

Which people are left who would think stealing food dispensers was a worthwhile use of time?

Some people seem to be opposed to this theory because it makes being a dirt farmer not horrible enough. To that, I present you: What people need and what makes them happy don't have to coincide. You know what's great about labor-saving devices? They don't necessarily mean that the people using them ...

Do you favor some sort of Zimbabwean economic model, Swordslinger?

Gold is basically the only thing a Wish can be used to obtain that an intelligent and benevolent person shouldn't share.

Ah gotcha. Your solution is "the DM should be a Gygaxian dick" which was already stigmatized as being stupid and bullshit. The problem here is that there's a world with mass charm and there's no counter that's roughly on par with mass charm. That's a design/author fuckup not an "in w...

Er, I think you have the wrong quote, Lago PARANOIA. My point was that Scrooge McDuck, undisputed dictator-for-life of Duckberg who controls ALL ZEE MONEYS, will no longer be undisputed dictator-for life once he's dead.