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This class could use a rename. First of all, one of your stated design principles is that a class name should not imply a low-level concept. "throwing things" is not a high level ability. Second, there is actually no level at which throwing cocks is their best or most frequently used actio...

basically a skill tax for monsters with certain builds. Describing it as a "skill tax" would be accurate for many games, but in this case it actually misses the point. Skills are plentiful in Sundown and people can just pay skill taxes without any trouble. The problem is not that "Ta...

It can also be improved with improved nomenclature on Spells. When certain things are spells and other things are not, then we can determine what can and cannot be dowsed. Are you saying that non-Spell powers will no longer be detectable? I'm in favor of that change, but it is a change, since AS 1 ...

I live in America but I have a flexible schedule and a large supply of amphetamine. IM is a very real possibility for me. I also think I'm already pretty good at imitating your authorial voice, so I think that if the goal were essentially for me to ghostwrite for you that would honestly not be diffi...

Dowsing Results Are Stupid (Because Dowsing Works Too Much Like Detect Magic) There are two really important tropes that After Sundown's detection system should facilitate. Some creatures, especially otherwordly ones, are so inherently unnatural that spiritually-aware people can sense their presenc...

Frank, Before I dive in with some more specific comments, I want to back up and ask some things about the project as a whole. Specifically, is there a way I can contribute more to this project than just posting comments on the public threads? Would you be interested in having me edit/proof/mark up y...

What would you try to fetch with emissary, how do you make it consistently useful, and how do you live long enough to use it? Why not use Aiela or the other mana accelrator creature instead?

So I joined up, got most crafts to level 20 and have gotten 5 ranked wins on several. Closing in on the 40 or 50 take two wins. Run out of free tickets but I'm going about 3.75-1.25 so that's nice. Draft preference havencraft>dragoncraft>shadowcraft. I haven't crafted anything, but from liquefying e...

It's pretty clear to me that in After Sundown , if you rename Intuition it should be called "Instinct." That likely means Intelligence is off the table, but Logic and Reason are both still open. If we're going to rename "skills" in such as way as to make them sound less important...

Charisma: It's Garbage After Sundown characters have 6 ability scores. 4 of them passively contribute to keeping your character alive. Everyone would like to have more Intuition, Willpower, Agility, or even Strength than they currently do, because these stats help you resist magic, dodge attacks, s...

Tempo Blood has a buch of things that trade well, gain life, or give incremental advantage when you sit there trading off with your opponent. The classic is a 1/3 for 2 creature that faces your opponent for 1 every time they put a creature in play. . . -Username17 Yurius is a 3x in every aggro bloo...

Magic Dice Pools Have Mechanical, Thematic, and QoL problems. Magic Always Works : When you throw spells at people, you roll (Stat + Skill) against (Stat + Edge). Although this does avoid giving one side more sources of dice than the other, it's still not remotely fair. Skills can and will be maxed...

I have some comments and some ciriticsms for Frank's actual review of V:tM. I also have critiques of After Sundown. Both are quite lengthy. Should we split the AS-analysis into another thread? Anyway, a few many things in after sundown bug the hell out of me. Magic Dice Pools Have Mechanical, Themat...

When you promote minor characters, they presumably already have jobs. When you promote the mechanic who repairs your helicopter to a player character, they should be automatically assigned some kind of "mechanic" package that comes with the Repair and Sabotage skills that they need. Instea...

Why do the GM-side plot twists need any mechanical substance to them at all?

Constructive tips first: --Maybe instead of talking about "hybrid procreation" you should be talking about "conversion" (hybrid conversion, fiendish conversion, whatever). Or possibly "augmentation." --Why perpetuate this 3-18 charade? Why not just let abilities run fro...

Naoto is the one I was thinking of. And if their Shadow is trans, wouldn't that strongly imply that they are trans? What with Shadow-selves typically being used to depict suppressed or repressed aspects of identity?

I do think Shen deserved a remake. Laning as or again current Shen is among the most boring experiences I've ever had in league. When he's overbuffed or just ahead in lane there's basically no way to make plays, and when he's behind or nerfed you just throw daggers at minions all day and hit W somet...

I thought I heard a major character in Persona 4 was a trans man, possibly one of the squadmates.

I dun get it.

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The biggest thing I'm looking at doing is revamping dice pools. Just for starters, normal stats are going from 4 to 9. It really helps at the low end to have "normal people" have numbers available to the system that are worse than them. Good, I like this. I might have started at 3 so that...

I made a factual error. I don't believe a starting character can get more than +15 to Strength. I don't know anything about "Endala" spider vampires and this thread is one of the top Google hits, and I'm too rushed to dig deeper. Without knowing the lore, i'm inclined to think that Strigoi...

I tried messing with VLC a bit. Compared to Windows Media Player I found playlists frustrating. And I didn't notice a shuffle function in the 5 minutes I was messing around.

Adept Jedi could work but even to do Eps. 4-6 would require a lot of new powers and/or for existing utility powers to not be terrible. Jedi probably need to get sorcery off a very restricted spell list.