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1202892963[/unixtime]]When you put it like that, K, I agree with you. So it isn't "Bob could seriously kill me. If there's six of him and only four of us, then he (they) will win.", it's "If I pick a fight with Bob, he can still hit me. He might even hurt me a bit. I'll probably win ...

1202892875[/unixtime]]Given your desires about fighting enemies, I think AC/BAB fights is exactly what you want. It allows you to take less damage from groups of mooks on average , but the potential threat of an individual intact.[br][br]The county sheriff is well below you in power, but if he happ...

1202889120[/unixtime]][br]Except, given nearly everyone at the table wants that, it's generally more socially acceptable. And people have always fought level-appropriate foes anyway - it's unlikely to really come up in-game, and simply deprives PCs of knowing they actually are better than Bob the f...

Have you ever played the game Arkham Horror?[br][br]In my mind, its almost the perfect RPG. The weird thing is that its a tabletop boardgame.[br][br]It works like this: heroes run around having adventures trying to slow down the advance of an evil beyond time. Failing that, you try to gain the power...

1202859657[/unixtime]]But giving higher level guys more HP means that higher level attacks have to do more damage, and that escalates really quickly.[br][br]It's also pretty lame to have the boss fight be "miss miss miss miss hit! miss miss hit! Okay, he's down". Using DR and damage keeps...

1202818120[/unixtime]] Arms races are just over. That being said, I'm trying to figure out why they are even needed [br][br]To keep high level people from getting pasted in large melees by flubbing their initiative check. Sure we're all on the same page that having people get their Spell Focus and ...

1202772721[/unixtime]]K, let me see if I follow your reasoning.[br][br]By high levels, the way to win a battle isn't by "rolling higher numbers" but by dictating the terms of the encounter. Thus, it is pointless to implement a system where you're slowly creating differentials in the "...

There's a feat that lets your familiar do the Concentrating on a spell. I don't remember where its from but its a short list of books to check.

1202758106[/unixtime]]Giving out increases in Attack and Armor Class is a decent way to cause power discrepancies between strong and weak opponents. Simply increasing hit points and damage output needs to scale up exponentially and that gets pretty ugly pretty fast.[br][br]But shifting attack matri...

1202714356[/unixtime]] If there are twenty or thirty levels, and we want a doubling of power every two levels, how do the damage dice and hp scale? (A serious question) [br][br]Damage dice and HPs won't scale at the "doubling" rate past a certain point because abilities will. They are bas...

1202704128[/unixtime]]As I understand it, you're proposing removing level-based BAB and AC simultaneously in favor of more emphasis on # of attacks and damage dealt?[br][br]This option certainly lets you stay on the RNG more easily. Although it seems to me that it would leave heroes more vulnerable...

OK, as a character levels in DnD, they get more BAB. They also tend to get more Str or Dex, bigger magic weapon bonuses, and even get odder bonuses to hit like "+1 if you and opponent are standing on ground".[br][br]While this is happening, AC is also going up with bigger bonuses to magic ...

1202680907[/unixtime]]I like how 95% of the time, this rule change makes no difference to anyone whatsoever. [br][br]Well, I generally find that every rule change actually makes it easier for someone to adopt a homebrew rule.[br][br]I mean, now that diagonal movement counts as one, its not even har...

1202676527[/unixtime]]What are you talking about? It takes the same amount of time to measure out your movement distance than it does to count squares. Hell, less, since you just have to move the ruler a little to try a different path, but you have to count the squares again if you want to with squ...

1202647121[/unixtime]] ---[br][br]A possibility would be to allow people to conduct "Legendary Combat" and "Epic Combat" at any time, where squares get "really big" and stupid big . The problem being that people who aren't themselves Legendary or Epic generally don't h...

I'm not busting out tape. Combat takes long enough already even though its lasts 3-6 rounds. Doubling that time by making people measure is not a solution in any situation.

1202599446[/unixtime]]The 1.5 was just annoying, honestly. It was a bad move to retain maps on grids when you could just move to hexes if you want that granularity.[br][br]The hypotenuse of a right triangle with sides on the right being equal to one isn't one point five. (It's 1.41)[br][br]Besides,...

Summoning hasn't really been juiced much in the last few years. Here are the killer apps:[br][br]--Summon Monster I-V aren't used. You use Summon Ice Beast I-V which makes wicked awesome versions of the same monsters, and more kinds of monsters. [br][br]-Alienist: You get more summon spells(dependin...

I think the problem that most people have with dying is that they want to be THE HERO rather than A HERO .[br][br] THE HERO is the hero of most novels and video games. He may have companions or not, but the story begins and ends with him. The Wishsong of Shannara is not a story if the girl with the ...

1202021954[/unixtime]]A) the sorcerer doesn't suck - it rides on wizardly spellcasting, and that's enough to ensure someone actually able to handle the latter knows how to use the former devastatingly if interested. [br][br]Basically, yeh. Sorcerer is a "master-level class". I've had DMs ...

1202156835[/unixtime]]K, that's a very good point and I definitely agree. My argument is now extended to include severe character-warping events, not just death. I've never level-drained anyone in my RPGs because I don't know anyone that find that fun.[br][br] Sphere said: [br]"I am stating th...

The most DnD show on TV that I can think of is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and that chick dies like three times.[br][br]Stargate is very DnD, and just about every character has died at least once.[br][br]Here's the thing: death is not the worse thing that can happen.[br][br]Maybe you get turned into a...

Also, RPGs seem to always assume that players must "win."[br][br]I've always been of the opinion that characters should just be assumed to be immortal (and in a world of Raise Dead , a real afterlife, and meddlesome gods, this is reasonable). [br][br]My opinion is that advancement should b...

I think the most important thing to encourage about wealth is its relative value.[br][br]I mean, a castle is essentially free if you design it yourself, have a good source of stone and wood nearby, and semi-skilled laborers who work for things like food, shelter, and the protection and future patron...

1201758163[/unixtime]]Are we talking "IDDQD" immortality? You know, where you cannot die *at all* and can't be hurt? That'd be pretty cool.[br][br]"Hey, local government, I can't be killed or hurt. How much are you willing to pay me to dispose of the countries' supply of cocaine and ...