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If you can get your hands on a Dungeon Guilds set, you'll find a set of cards that more or less follow this theme, with progression in power level matching progression in silly/moe-ness. The design they use is: rangers (projectiles, mostly bows), "witches" (witch hats and other "I'm a...

Getting players to move around can be seen as a special case of getting them to interact with their environment. A simple idea is to develop a deck of "shit that comes up while you're in a fight/chase" cards that introduce scene elements. The d20 SRD has a ton of terrain rules which an MC ...

How big is it? It used to be that, if you kicked a few bucks their way, you could get a zip file that didn't have any embedded ads and was organized a little more nicely than what you'd get if you spidered the site. The directory tree that I have from decompressing everything is 35 MB in size. (The...

Surgo, it sounded like you were asking about mechanics that would enforce correct "Star Wars feeling" in a game. Is there a game system that you're already using, or an adventure/Star Wars era/subsetting that you're planning to run? The degree of lampshade-hanging or fluff-saving crunch th...

To see how people have emphasized the connections between WWII naval battles and Star Wars space battles, you can consult Youtube . But the basic template is that that relatively small planes, piloted by heroic young hotshots, can project force against lumbering behemoths. Everything else should fol...

First, a general suggestion: there's some number of same-y "bad orc tribe doing a bad thing" that should be tolerable, so you may actually be able to skimp on prepwork for outlying or interstitial tiles. Coming up with a dozen intricate, sufficiently distinct gimmicks may be overkill. Anot...

Finding rules in 5th edition is, as mentioned earlier, very difficult. We set a dude on fire and several people ran through the indices and flipped through the PHB and the DMG and we simply could not find the rules for being on fire. We eventually just used the 3rd edition rules of taking 1d6 per r...

If you want to have some fun at religion, summoning a dozen parallel, alternate versions of the same god would be interesting. One deity's heresy is another's heroic reformation, that sort of thing. This could provide an opportunity for a pastiche religion that borrows aspects of real-life practices...

I've been using Tome of Prowess in a Tome-heavy game. As a DM, I've found the Tome of Prowess revisions to be a positive contribution to our game. The revised movement skill rules are a particularly good improvement over the SRD. Here are some questions that came up as I ingested its contents into a...

So, is there any reason why you should keep a stat + skill system instead of just having a skill system? It seems like it would simplify things quite a bit to only have the one. Why do you have a skill system at all? All games have some sort of state. This can be crunchy and full of numbers like HP...

Ideally races should be differed by actual abilities. For example, you could preserve the martial feel of orcs by giving them a rage ability that was as useful to spellcasters as it would be to rogues and warriors. Ideally races should be differed by actual abilities. For example, you could preserv...

Thanks to all for the input. It sounds like it might be worth picking up one or both of these core rulebooks, if for no other reason than the high production values and to pick them over for good ideas. The price of both has dropped recently, and it would be fun to come out of lurking mode and write...

I leafed through Yggdrasill and Qin at a Cubicle 7 convention booth a couple of years ago, and I've remained curious about them since. Does anyone have actual experience with or more concrete opinions of either game? Both games appeared to bake the flavor of their setting into their mechanics, and I...

I am largely in agreement with MisterDee. At present, the tone, theme, and setting elements mentioned are light on the Sentai, heavy on the Fhtagn. Given that the game is set in the Mythos, this is warranted. But players coming to the table may be more familiar with the tropes and setting elements t...

If you're talking about a fully-fledged stealth subsystem, suitable for infiltration and escaping unnoticed, being hidden during an encounter entails that PCs fulfill the objectives of: Obscuring knowledge of the party's presence: when you're in someone's secret base, it's better if they don't know ...

1. One attack per limb 2. Attacks are a function of level 3. Extra attacks come from abilities 4. You only get one attack per turn, but it might represent several. (1) sounds like modeling (more pointy bits = better ability to do harm). (2) and (3) sound like modeling (more badass/greater SPD attri...