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maglag has as their sig a quote from FrankTrollman: "Actually, our blood banking system is set up exactly the way you'd want it to be if you were a secret vampire conspiracy." Where was this discussion? I searched but couldn't find it. I've been trying to come up with a plausible backstory...

ckafrica, your selected quotes don't give an accurate portrayal of Einstein's religious beliefs (at least at the end of his life). While he sometimes used "God" in a way that doesn't have much in common with the way any religious people use it, he didn't believe in a personal deity, souls,...

They aren't someone's class features either, they're actual people. You can walk around with whoever you want, but that's a matter of roleplaying, and it's quite ridiculous to claim "yeah, the drow's totally part of my battle performance". So, the dumb stuff's equipment or feats (and thus...

I think that hits on a point. In DnD, the best defense is a good offense. You're much better off disabling your enemies than you are boosting your allies. Now, if the Cleric or the Paladin had spells/abilities like make the target take half-damage for a set period of time, or spells that temporaril...

Does anyone have any idea why it keeps breaking? Any news on when it can go back up?

If I were doing it, I'd divide it based on one of the more common distinctions between religious orders in the real world, temporal versus clerical authority, and whether to be in the world or to try to escape from it. Paladins are holy warriors fighting for leaders who rule by divine right; they're...

I've just looked through the rules, and they look really unwieldy from my brief glance. Does anyone have experience with how they play?

I'd seen the issues, and they'd popped up in some other threads on the board--I assumed it was a forgotten closed tag. It sounds like it's something much worse than that. I'd be fine with you just quoting the rest of the posts and assembling it that way--I don't know anything about phpbb I'm afraid,...

Since PMs are broken (see the thread on "mail response codes missing"), I'm posting here. My thread on the World of Darkness in IMHO seems to have gone missing. I'm hoping this is some kind of technical glitch, not a rules violation I wasn't aware of. I'd like to know what's up?

You know, your list of things that you hate about the superhero genre... almost all of those apply equally well to WoD products. Particularly the setting that makes no sense, genre consistency, sexism (especially fetishes! For fuck's sake, WW products were my first exposure to several), and mage is...

I think what was meant was Count Orlok of silent movie fame. Basically, they ripped off the Dracula story and made the vampire into an actual monster. Nosferatu. Classic piece of old-school horror cinema http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Nosferatu_door_in_the_castle.jpg[/i] Oops! Yes, for som...

Like this? Vampirism Like lycanthropy, vampirism is a contagious disease that passes from vampires to their victims; also like lycanthropy, it requires the victim actually die, so the mysterious powers of the Blood can bring them back to undeath as an animate corpse. Unlike lycanthropy, vampirism re...

I think that some of our differences on this come down to semantics: by superheroes, I mean specifically the genre of American superhero comics with all its associated tropes, and you seem to mean something quite a bit broader. Now that you point out the similarities, I definitely agree there's some...

Honestly, I hate Mage. I hate it with a blinding passion and don't want anything to come from it at all. I find the setting annoying and the game unplayable. You sound like you hate Mage with the same passion that I hate Werewolf :). I want to probe a bit more because I'd like to know why we differ...

OK, I can get behind the concept that some concepts might need cohorts, even though I personally disagree (for example, I'd be happy if a mounted character's needs could be adequately supplied by equipment instead of some "named" character that often nobody gives a damn about, the rider b...

More seriously, the thing is: if you care, look at the RoW combat feats; then tell me the leadership ones don't stand head and shoulders above them. And yeah, I did already change classes to remove their cohorts Well, I'll say that I think some classes really want to have cohorts: the two particula...

I've added two new sections to the Mechanics post on the first page, covering the death/dying rules and some issues with skill-based systems. Frank, as always, you have a lot of great ideas. However, you're taking things in a different direction than I envisioned, to be honest. Fundamentally, both V...

Obviously that MT is going to look bad at an odd character level. At level 8, though, you're casting 4th level spells just like everyone else. And yes, let's compare that to a PHB caster class. How about the Sorcerer? Granted, it's not as good as a Wizard or Cleric, but Sorcerers are still plenty g...

Mage Of the games in the oWoD, I like M:tA the most, but I also find it the most problematic. The game has awesome potential, with the ability to bring in real-world mysticism and philosophy, and putting forward something resembling a working system for flexible magic, rather than a codified set of...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly This section is an overview of the WoD games, or rather, selected games I know something about. I start by establishing some general characteristics of the game and what I like about it, or why I don't like at all, and follow by enumerating problems in need of revisi...

Passive Defense Fails In the oWoD, passive defense fails, because of the structure of the combat system itself and because of characteristics of the abilities the rest of the system grants. First, almost all characters in the oWoD, no matter how powerful, have seven health levels--powers that grant...

As I mentioned in my last post containing my remaining material for 3e D&D, I'm not really an enthusiastic D&D player. I started with 3rd edition so I don't have any nostalgia for earlier versions of the game, and the setting does nothing for me: it looks like a set of disparate fantasy trop...

All of the posts are approaching their character limits (or some sort of limit) so it doesn't seem like I can add anything up above, unfortunately. The preview doesn't seem to warn about or respect the limits, so I couldn't tell in advance or else I would have made another post. On the topic of the ...

For some reason it was clipping off the end of hybrid PrCs post and not showing me that in the preview, so there's the rest of the (written) sections on hybrid PrCs. Elf-Fetish PrCs Arcane Archer The arcane archer isn't, strictly speaking, a hybrid, since in itself it's a pure combat class that just...

Catharz, your approach is definitely a lot better in general, and I personally don't feel that interested in writing a PrC that's as bland as the mystic theurge. One of my purposes on the bit with hybrid PrCs was pedagogical, though, to show *how* if one wanted to do such a thing, the best way to do...