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I'm looking forward to Exalted 3e being an even bigger trainwreck than the leak.

Well, for example, if in this system, The World gives you the power to freeze time for everyone but you, and The Chariot gives you the power to use a sword really well, The World users have a lot more solutions to a given problem. Now, say Judgment gave you the power to transmute large quantities of...

I would use HERO, with strict point limitations on the teenagers themselves, but they all get a free summon on the scale of a real super. And the Social Links... ? In a tabletop game? I wouldn't want to try it, it seems seems inferior to magic tea party outside of the visual novel style systems of ...

I would use HERO, with strict point limitations on the teenagers themselves, but they all get a free summon on the scale of a real super.

I would probably just use an amalgamation of JoJo's and Persona instead of trying to force everyone to RP a specific setting that has no TTRPG sourcebook.

Well that's another thing that has to be fixed too. High level Gnome Wrestlers shouldn't have to be Elothared in order to throw ogres into the sun. Probably goes hand in hand with making racial perks into flavor.

Make it their backstory. Nomadic minotaurs lack magical colleges, so the special snowflake minotaur has to leave the herd, and prove himself to the college. He finds himself in a Kung Fu Panda situation, he's oafish and stubborn and that makes him a difficult student. But maybe he demonstrates why a...

I tend to roll basketweavers, either because I found some sort of funny synergy between character options that does something "interesting" rather than "good", or I make an expy of whatever character I have on the mind at the time. I should know better from my time lurking the De...

There are two things a jury-rigging expert is going to need in particular. 1) Guaranteed access to a place to salvage stuff on his sheet, like a junkyard. 2) Guarantee that his junkyard can NOT be arbitrarily taken over by bears or bandits whenever he rolls a 9-. If you want to present a better play...

I love wizard hats and cool rituals and fancy-looking gibberish alchemical formulas and master sparks. Not even because I think the fluff behind it is oh-so-deep or whatever. It's just a cultural icon at this point that I have wholly embraced. Plus, when magic is established as a thing, you can have...

Earthbound got me hooked on the idea of Psi as a self-contained term. At that age I was only vaguely aware of D&D Psionicists, mostly so I could figure out how the mechanics on that cute little evil platypus skeleton worked.

I'm young enough that "metagaming" to me usually means that, in IRC / MUSH / Second Life RP, you don't use sock puppet characters (alts) to gather IC information, and then use what you learned on a different character who doesn't have the same strategic affiliations. The idea that you're s...

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?758701-Sell-me-Unsell-me-Mutant-Year-Zero/page4 I expected his "heads up" to be copy pasted from there where he actually received "nice" "helpful" replies, but no. I guess it's part of the "social experiment" to post it here...

Rules light is fine for Maid or Teenagers from Outer Space or Over the Edge. Those games have basic things on your sheet that you can extrapolate ideas on how your character interacts with the world, before the dice are ever touched. Where AW spits on your freedom is that it calls for rolls for acti...

Some GMs really like to murder pets. If I can get a thing on my sheet that says if he slakes his bloodlust on Fido, Fido II will come along after the next short rest, and my build revolves around pets, I'll probably take it. EDIT: I guess that's not a argument for the power level of a pet option, bu...

GURPS. The setting is basically Lego the RPG, at least the aspect of Lego where you can mix up your pirate set and space set and knights set and urban contemporary set and get something cool. But then you introduce players who want to kill things and a GM who wants to make it a challenge to affect t...

http://dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Tome_of_Prowess_%283.5e_Sourcebook%29 (credit to TarkisFlux) has some examples on how to make d20 skills work kinda like Charms. They might need a bit more "oomph" to create a level 11 sweet spot game, but it's a start with some good ideas, like Stealth granting re...

Shaft and Austin Powers just need a city as outrageous as they are within the gazetting of the Contemporary juncture. I could see Austin (Pugilist/Diplomancer), The Bride (Swords/Chi Poisoning), and The Bowler (Thrown/Necromancy) getting together without a time machine or cryogenics, if they were in...

Seems like you could lay out what tech levels exist, and distinguish which year the juncture actually lead to in your campaign based on what characters the players roll up with. Your 1800s juncture definitely leads to Cowboy Land if osmeone wants to play a cowboy, but if someone wants to play a Jona...

Hmm. Here's an idea. Items aren't class features, classes are item features. So you become a Wizard by putting on a Wizard Hat. Some Final Fantasy games work on this principle. Could be fun, if people can get over the lack of internal plebotinum. Or it's like FFTA and you absorb superpowers from yo...

silva wrote:

Everyone here gets that you are intentionally being an asshole, you don't have to keep posting the fucking troll face to prove it.

silva wrote:

Not exactly a bastion of intellectual honesty.

Artifacts could be a class feature you can Elothar your way into. A Level 1 Tony Stark should, by rolling a Level 1 Tony Stark, possess power armor, which scales up to have more (Su)s and better munitions as he puts ranks in Profession (Tony Stark).

Exalted is neither the phone book-sized list of maneuvers you'd need to build your own Street Fighter character completely from scratch, nor the efficient, streamlined rules you'd want for having Jackie Chan defeat a werewolf via stunting bonuses, and contains insufficient phlebotinum to build Guilt...

"Metagame" and "the fiction" (EDIT: the way they're being used here, "metagame" is a useful term in chatroom RP) are bad terms because they can be adapted to whatever narrative you're trying to push. I'd prefer to just use "IC" and "OOC" when dealing...

It sounds like Prime Time Adventures is simply a better game. The characters in PTA are actually being observed, as part of the metaphysics, and what the observers do matter. Just like how John Cena's story changes due to the resentment and chagrin of longtime fans, and the adoration of new ones. No...

Frank once before suggested a Cape class, that starts out like a Powerpuff GIrl and pokevolves into a kryptonian. Maybe some sort of Crusader system where they have randomly refreshing eyebeams and frost breath and literal drill kicks. Green Arrow's quiver or Batman's belt could be an item that give...