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The feelings are fairly typical among creative individuals. You won't make your best work unless you hate yourself a bit.

Also, the Illusionist wizard is crazy-strong in 5E D&D. Malleable Illusions and Phantom Reality are two of the best abilities ever published in D&D, period. If you those features to their full potential, you're basically not playing fair anymore. I don't doubt it. If their spell DC is high ...

The fact that the book covers are designed to look like the various splatbooks for 2e/AD&D screams neckbeard overload. It's also claiming that its mechanics come from Tales from the Loop, as well as Mutant: Year Zero; I'm not really sure which, but I'm not holding my breath that they're great ru...

An other factor is that in D&D's own in-game mechanics and subsequent narrative, "human" (even Olympic/genius level) achievements are about the same as those of a level 5 human character. Once a human reaches level 6+, nothing they're doing is able to pass as "natural." Furth...

An other option: Don't allow supernatural characters below level CR 6. Don't allow mundane characters beyond level 5.

I'm liking the Giger influence here. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKl8azzX0AAZ6Y7.jpg Unsurprising in having similar themes of machines and organics combining. Giger was suggested to Jodorowsky by Jean "Moebius" Giraud as the designer for the Harkonnen for Jodo's Dune production. However, ...

True, if they wanted the tie-in, they could have licensed for 1$. It was most likely to prevent dilution of the branding. Now though, Hobbits seem to be public domain. Which is pretty awesome for other IP creators. Especially now that it's been made clear in other TGD threads that Orc & Drow are...

Heh, Hobbit should've been allowed for D&D after all. Yes, and no. While you can have the name of Hobbits , your intellectual property's contents versions of said Hobbits will have to cleave to the definitions from the Denham Tracts, not Tolkien's work. Alternately, you can use a word Tolkien a...

The example of "zero net hits" makes sense now. You're not counting the "Threshold" or "Hits" going to zero, but rather that there are no hits after reaching the casting threshold was reached; so... no bonus effects for having hits above the minimum threshold. Perhaps a...

It's fine that you can resist a power entirely. What's weird is that powers that target a threshold can activate with 0 net hits, but powers that target a resistance roll can't activate with 0 net hits. They activate with at least 1 net hit, or they don't activate at all. That's what makes them wei...

Problem (maybe): Due to the way that Resistance Tests work, it's impossible to activate a power and end up with exactly zero net hits. For most powers at least. Unlike with skill checks and attacks, the resistance test doesn't set the threshold, it reduces the hits, and then the threshold is almost...

* how about contemporary settings? or sci-fi settings, both space-faring and terrestrial (i imagine shadowrun 4e is the choice for at least some settings here) For 1990's-era contemporarism, After Sundown played with "Origin Story" style mundane human characters will have a fairly complet...

Bob Marley as Hermit sound like a great fit. John Lennon using two wands (symbolizing their career during, and after, the Beatles) seems like a great fit. Jimmy Paige in as the Page of pentacles sounds like a good fit as well. First his name fits the minor arcana's name, and I recall a story from th...

Any reason why Lennon shows up twice ? First as the Hermit; then among The Beatles in The World? (the Tetragrammaton/Evangelists isn't on every Tarot decks "World" card, but I hardly doubt a set of playing cards whose beginings are in Dark Ages Europe wouldn't include Judeo-Christian icono...

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It's a White Wolf book. White Southern Baptist xenophobia should be expected as the norm after decades of such examples.

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That was great. I've often felt that the text of The Silmarillion; in whole, or in parts; is not an enjoyable read.

How do I get to see the application's data on smaller kingdoms? Whenever I clicked on the red-bordered & red-filled squares I see an indicator of what I assume is a population breakdown by factions (e.g. Imperial, Colonist). The colour-coded alignments are also an interesting technique. Although...

Just as an example; the proposed US ABL (Airborne Missle) system uses what looks like a jet liner with a nose mounted capsule. Field Operation example: https://www.youtube.com/embed/v5SDo0rH1Xo Sales Pitch on R&D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfZxrBoIkRg Examples of ground-based anti-missile l...

I was pointing out that Hiram McDaniels idea of "consolidating" skill groups won't solve any of the "unpopular skills don't get picked" problems in 3e until unpopular skills like "Appraise" are placed into groups that also contain popular skills like "Spot" or...

Are you hammering this into your 3E game or using it for a 3e inspired design? If the latter, why not just consolidate it all and make Perception, Knowledge, Skullduggery, Interaction, Physical Fitness, Wilderness and Civilization the skill list? If you're going to consolidate, just do it to the le...

I like the Dominions/Earthdawn themed "Dominion Lords" idea this app uses to establish high-level power centres.

Jon Snow should reflect his Targaryen. Honestly, I don't know why I didn't fucking see more clearly it before, but I guess that I've also always suspected that GoT is centred on the younger characters deaths/developments. It's obvious that the artist is basing their designs off of the actors (A/V me...

How terribad would it be to rename "Universal" powers into "Psychic" powers? With the former, I always get looks of confusion (especially from players who haven't played much WoD), while the latter seems almost instantly grokable. I don't like the word, but I've found it is the e...

I was looking over my google spreadsheet of the powers when I linked its thread for JE and was wondering why the heck Vigor was a temporary strength boost instead of a passive one. It was about 4 years ago, so i dunno where my head was at back then. But hey, I can edit it, so I'll do that. I reckon...

If each level of a discipline grants you +2 to Music Appreciation or whatever, that's easier to note on a character sheet than keeping track of flavor text perks that are otherwise free-floating. Only recently (like, last week) I came up with the solution of writing in the "title" of a so...