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So you're saying that a "legitimate" government can just declare billions of their own citizens guilty, sentence them to death and carry out their execution at the drop of a hat? That's beyond retarded, even by your standards. Please explain to me, how this has any effect on the legitimac...

I also don't mind things like stacking debuffs (a better implementation of ability damage, IMO). That's easy to translate into damage and defense equivalents. They effect hit probability. But really, you just need to understand the number scaling of the player characters, and then you can plot that...

So what would you say a better creature design system would look like? I feel like (were I designing such a system from scratch) it would center on coming up with a way of measuring everything in terms of HP and Damage Per Round, possibly with a Kills Per Round & Rounds Per Kill (as relative nu...

In a world where characters have daily magic reserves, you need to know where troops have marched or could march on a daily basis. A hex base that is substantially larger than the distance infantry can travel even on a forced march is simply without value. Would it be entirely unreasonable to shift...

Thanks for the reply, maglag. So I guess the big rodblock is storing enough power. Then again, we're talking about a world in which cyberware that severly exceeds human limitations can be powered de facto endlessly.

As Frank pointed out, a laser isn't that complicated of a system when you get down to it plus you don't need any moving parts so less wear and tear. With no smoke/residues being produced, there is no need to open it up for cleaning after a day's work either. A Gauss would be less robust and reliabl...

The other important thing is that old-school military firearms are obsolete . Militaries of the future would rather equip their soldiers with Lasers or Gauss Weapons than things that fire 5.56 NATO rounds at things. Wouldn't that require lasers and gauss rifles to be just as robust and reliable as ...

What does a standard military fireteam look like in this setting of cyborgs and wizards? Very likely enhanced infantry, able to carry more/heavier equipment over longer distances (including heavier ordonance). Also, drones. As far as mages are concerned, I would not expect them to be embedded perso...

Not that I am aware of, but I don't really see much of a complication with it to begin with. What ere you inparticular looking for that is so drastically different?

Secret rolls are a consequence of mechanical design, specifically opposed rolls. I think the only solution around that "problem" is to change the nature of "opposed rolls" to a roll by the acting party against a fixed average of the passive party (think stealth rolls vs. passive ...

So... resulting (in) the real case of the party initiating combat and getting attacked before they can act? If they roll the higher initiative, yes. Both parties were suspicious of each other, both parties expected combat but wanted to avoid it. The monent the monsters see the archer draw they act....

If you want to have mechs launched out of space stations, you're going to need ranges that are measured in thousands of miles rather than hundreds of miles. That. Also you'd need to escape the gravity well of whatever celestial body you are trying to leave to get there. Compared to actually leaving...

Kitsune. Also, from a casual read of Wikipedia and previous original research, it's the correlation of toothy/harmless to male/female which appears to be relatively new. There are plenty of swan dudes and wolf ladies in myths. I meant Dracula as a vampire associated with his enourmous array of shap...

Stahlseele wrote:Tell that to old Drac turning into vermin, bats and insects . . yes, in addition to a man sized batmonster and a wolf.

To be fair, that's a relatively new fiction (1890s).

Your eight point list fails at being a list of only eight races. No shit, sherlock! Could that possibly be because they ARE placeholders for whatever race(s) you wish to put in that category? Because you used generic place holders for multiple possible options/permutations to describe 6 out of your...

In my own anecdotal experience no player actually cares about the second. I would also like to note I also am not writing something for mass consumption so... that. I think this is the crux of the entire argument. One side argues for the "experienced" roleplayer (not as a qualitative stat...

Theoretically, no spell written down should ever work for any other magician, because technically everybody makes up their very own tradition of magic. Magic works HOW YOU THINK IT SHOULD WORK. Take a look at how many people today think they are working actual magic, following ancient tomes and lor...

Like my planetouched, why not just make a sort of build your own furry race? Call them beastfolk or something and have a list of traits that they can pick from? How do you make sure they still follow the same relative culture? Why are herbivores getting along with carnivores? What are the consequen...

But if you have a flexible system that allows the generation of custom "races" from a range of individual mechanical components you have designed an actual fucking permutation generator. Every bit of content you insert into it at a game mechanical level produces vast multiples of potentia...

I don't think Warham Fantasy uses any term other than Dark Elf They use "Druchii". That kind of flies in the face of the "Everything that was a previous option should still be an option" statement. You could have a general rule for Halfbreeds and not require a Half-Anything race...

I'd say rather than listing individual races you're better served looking at the categories of races that Players are interested in: 1) Humans . Easily relateable, conforming to most fantasy protagonists that players might want to copy and the de facto baseline of any fantasy setting for the very sa...

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

I think Harshax hit the nail on the head. Unless (by some miracle) playing with the vehicle rules is just as much fun as playing actual D&D, you're better off just hand-waving it as much as possible. My main beef with ship combat rules is that it tends to turn into one player piloting the ship ...

But it's by no means four times as much work when the PCs are split to four separate combat encounters. There is a massive difference between having multiple parallel combat encounters and having multiple parallel combat- and non-combat encounters, though. Citing an edge case isn't really lending a...

Wow you fuckin' idiot. You haven't read a fucking word I have written on this have you? So. Protip. I have suggested that exactly this is a problem and you know, for relevance to the topic, suggested this is WHY you don't write separate incompatible minigames like a moron would then give people rol...