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Level 3 Same Game Test Hallway with 6 CR 1/2 tiny animated objects: As ambush monsters, they ambush the EC and get partial charges in the surprise round. They half beat him to death in the surprise round even with their shitty d3-1 damage, and with the ability to provoke attacks of opportunity while...

The Eye Caster There is a lot of superstition about the human eye and its role in mysticism or spirituality that has been created over the years, so it's only fitting that fiction nowadays sometimes feature people who have incredible powers contained in their eyes. Practically speaking the human ey...

Uh, do you mean any spells that falvor-wise stick out for that campaign? Because I'm pretty sure that the spells that clerics normally win with are going to also win in that module, assuming your DM doesn't play it straight and kill you all.

Just to be clear, you're arguing that a succubus with a young black dragon, chimera, dracolisk, greater barghest, hill giant, invisible stalker, medusa, and a remorhaz all dominated at the start of the fight is a CR 7 fight because all of these minions were gained with the succubus' dominate monste...

The minion will damn well have its own CR to be taken into account. It doesn't go on the Succubus's CR. Having Charm Monster or Dominate Monster only impacts the CR in its ability to use that during the actual fight; potential free minions only mean it's unlikely to be encountered solo. There are a...

Your premise doesn't favor a utopian post-scarcity society, but one where traditional labor is merely replaced by permanent self-optimization for the sake of mana mining. People aren't freed from a struggle for ressources, they literally become the ressource even in your "utopian" societi...

This is hopefully the start of a campaign world that I'm working on, which is basically Dungeons and Dragons but with way less shit-covered farmers and way more awesomeness. With that said, let's get on with the setting concepts: Mana In order to make permanent magic items you need mana. You can fir...

So Tome TWF lets you do with your offhand what you can do with your main hand, which means attacking twice with a standard action our having two full attacks with each hand. How would it interact with Rapid Shot? Do I get to rapid shot from each hand, or does rapid shot just add one extra attack re...

Any particular reason for cards over Crusader style recharging, or Green Arrow roll a row style? I just personally find it easier and more appealing. You could certainly do it by just generating a list of five by rolling a d20 five times and it would do the same thing. But I'd imagine you could mak...

So there was talk on the Exalted thread of what the game would need to do in order to actually live up to its claims of being a kung fu anime game, and that is to make kung fu integral to the system and much better implemented. So, after thinking about it, I've come up with a system that might make ...

Also, quite obviously, making resetting traps or wondrous items of create food and water solves all problems of supply instantly. So... there's that.

You don't even need to abuse the wishes or make them infinite for them to be the best choice. They are three time use items that grant you other magic items or, more importantly, a fat stack of gold when you use them. So with a ring of three wishes , a luckblade , and something like a +5 tome for in...

Well, you just made the Mutants and Masterminds game in a different setting, with all the benefits and problems that entails. Namely you have to sit down with your MC and talk out how powerful he's going to let you be in certain areas before bringing down the banhammer, and what powers/combos he has...

In most systems you have plenty things to do on other people's turns, whether that includes attacks of opportunity, activating defenses or rolling soak. You really have to just roll that shit for someone else if you're doing a post, and in the case of activatable defenses ask the player when they wo...

Is there any mathematical or game-balance reason why you can't set the default size of dicepools to, say, 3 and just have negative integers? I know about the interface reasons, but what about the game balance ones? You'd pretty much have to do that if you didn't default to stats. And no, there's no...

Whipstich: Rock climbers and cyclists can both validly claim to be strong as fuck, but if you think their massive muscles are gonna give them any edge in the other arena, you're wrong. And while there is a level of abstraction to be had here, my argument (don't wanna speak for spongeknight here) at...

The most common and basic dicepool system is the long standing "stat + skill" style, with all of White Wolf and many smaller games using that system. Honestly it's pretty good. It's easy for people to understand the divide between natural talent and training, and it's easy to fall back on ...

Well, the Force did seem to have biological basis. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Skippy_the_Jedi_Droid http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Knight Literally two seconds on google shows us two EU canon droid force users. No, midichlorians were not hinted at in the EU at any point, they were a shitty...

Looking forward to this. I'm very curious to see if they "fixed" the monk in this edition like I've heard people claim.

3. Why flasks, rather than a shortbow or somesuch? The point of combining thrown grenade-like weapons (acid flask, alchemical fire, ect.) with a blink effect is to make all of your attacks ranged touch against flat-footed targets. So you'll be looking at an AC of 10 or less for most things unless t...

1) I still don't like the bloodied/doom spiral angle being used. Be careful with the doom spiral stuff, it can get doom spirally. At least it isn't an attack penalty though. I'm not sure if it counts as a doom spiral if only your defenses go down- you're easier to kill, but just as threatening to o...

People have brought up the good point that I should really present something much more concrete if I'm to continue trying to show why my idea might be good, so I'm going to whip something up and present something along the lines that I'm talking about. Obviously this is being pulled out of my ass an...

Wow, people have really started to jump on the utterly bizarre "unification of mechanics is something that is not good, prove why you want it!" argument. Like, what the fuck? In almost all cases you want things to work the way other shit does in your system. Like, obviously. But I guess I ...

So I repeat myself: how much hit point damage do you think you should inflict on an enemy siege rhino when you cast levitate on yourself ? If you can accept that the answer is "zero" then you have figured out why this proposal is bad. -Username17 Okay, let's just answer this straight: I d...

Or, you know, you build the wall under the archer's feet so that he's standing on top of it and can rain arrows down all he wants. That's synergy. Yeah, well, I don't want to basket-weave like that to protect the ego of the party archer. Giving the wall to the archer to grant him a minor attack bon...