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Maybe some sort of Perfect Defense limited by charges, for PCs, and NPCs who aren't a hundred Welshmen or Captain Hobo, so if you matter, you can't die or otherwise get fucked over in the span of a single ZA WARUDO. Nobilis has Miraculous HP for soaking a big spell effect, Miraculous effects of equa...

No "claws" for alarm, here folks. silva laid a "honey trap" for Mistborn with the thread title. It was no "Boo-boo" that he came in here and began making puns - it was exactly what silva was "bearing" in mind when he wrote the title! Do not feed the trolls? Tr...

I can bearly contain my excitement.

Blazon of Moving Walk sounds like a Linguistics charm.

SKR's whole thing with comparing people who take trap options to trying to fight a balor with water balloons was above and beyond the call of duty. He could have just said trap options flavor the game, and reward system mastery, and can be fun for Timmy. Saying Timmy can go shove his water balloon f...

Being a monster in fantasyland is cool when you can basically be a hero despite villainous breeding, like Drizzt, Thrall, Dante, etc. Or you're a former monster given free will and the capacity for good, like Dorfl the golem, or IF Prototype LQ-84i "Blade Wolf".

In a railroad you know the bear is always behind door #2 and never #1 or #3. Well, you don't ALWAYS know, but if you can find out, the the bear can't suddenly change places Maybe we're using a different definition of railroad, because I'm using the term to refer to the phenomenon where the bear is ...

In a railroad you know the bear is always behind door #2 and never #1 or #3. Well, you don't ALWAYS know, but if you can find out, the the bear can't suddenly change places (unless its one of those Blink Bears I keep hearing about that evolved after the bombs fell). I play mostly sandboxes, and what...

Open season has been declared on discussing the leak in Purpleland http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?757335-NAA-reviews-Exalted-3rd-leak-outdated-version Took all of one page before a mod started threatening to close the thread over "quibbling". There's been another leak? The last one I...

Open season has been declared on discussing the leak in Purpleland

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?757 ... ed-version

Took all of one page before a mod started threatening to close the thread over "quibbling".

Yeah, bad IoM analogy was bad, I apologize for that part.

How important will be the powers of friendship/love/hope/hotbloodness? Do characters mechas/familars get stronger by believing in each other who believes in them? This struck me too. As it is, its hard to sympathize with the Union, sorta like how it's hard t sympathize with the Imperium of Mankind,...

Savage Worlds is a generic ruleset and the only sort of "feel" it's trying to recreate is pulp adventure. As death races are a feature of pulp adventure it seemed appropriate enough. The rules are advertised as "fast" and "furious" though dealing a card to every actor a...

You could build some pretty crazy vehicles in HERO. You could build cool vehicular antagonists suitable for post-apoc too, like an OGRE tank. Savage Worlds has speed and maneuverability stats for a number of vehicles,. Savage Worlds is of debatable quality but I don't think its unplayable if you jus...

Ok. Let's throw out some statements and see what people think, because there are like four different threads of discussion here. #1: Captain Hobo is fine in a party of Captain Hobos. Captain Hobo would fit right in at a FATE table where everyone agreed to play comical VAHs. You could have a scenari...

The rape analogy is like Ebola, the thread seemed fine when it first contracted it, a few days later the symptoms became revolting, and now its dying a horrible, incurable death.

Far as I know, most of the actual dragon climbers are grognards posting on grognard forums. What might be played Devil's Advocate for is having to use rule zero to deal with the fact that dragons take a huge dragon dump on non-fullcasters. And thanks to the fans crying "NOOOO! WEEABOO FIGHTAN!&...

Sword & board sounds like it could be a lot of fun here. Take a ready penalty on your mainhand weapon because you got parried, so you shield bash instead. A much cleaner action economy than shield bashing granting extra attacks.

What ARE some good phlebotinum-powered, full BAB dragon slayers? Once you've accepted that you can't be Conan, how do you actually get to building your guy that Hulk Jumps at the dragon's blindside and rips out its spine with a zandatsu, without getting hit by the anti-weeaboo nerf stick? EDIT: It w...

Monster Hunter 4 seems to handle DMFs jumping onto the backs of monsters well. It isn't Shadow of the Colossus either, where jumping on their back is the solution to the puzzle monster. It's just something you can do by combining the "jump from a height" verb with the "push attack but...

Roll20 has been the standard for my online group for a few years, aside from some short lived attempts to play over Mumble.

A lot of my buddies are 4rries and ex-SA posters, and even they don't deny it bombed. They just blame Paizo and "grognards", instead of blaming 4e.

I like the mechanics of FATE, but the characters it generates bore me. Trying to create a list of stunts that's comprehensive enough to inform the setting you want to run is exhausting and makes me give up and play Exalted instead.

Nobilis. You have these godlike powers, but you don't really have any motivation to use them, any more than you do to sit in your pocket dimension and drink tea. Also, the artwork in Nobilis 3e looks like fanart of Kingdoms heart heartless, and has been called out on being tracings of stuff from Pix...

The Savage Species review delved pretty well into the suck, I feel http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=54069 That careless mistake gets the reader's asshole nice and lubed up for the true cornholing: Level Adjustments. And let me tell you, they had something custom-made by Bad Dragon for you in thi...