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I thought the other concern for Doubt was whether the PCs should be able to prove to themselves beyond reasonable, well, doubt (or at least have clear and convincing evidence) that they have superpowers. This could be partly solved by either saying that the powers in question only work if you suspe...

I can see "stranger with burning eyes" Tome class as a starting point for a sentient weapon class. The thing is, Mjolnir is not sentient. Think about it this way: your level 12 Wizard got killed or retired or whatever, and your new character picked up his spellbook and vowed to carry on t...

Yeah, Thor has this thing where there's a guy from Asgard named Thor Odinson, who has an iconic hammer. But in a very real way the heroic identity (and much of the power) of Thor is bound to the hammer and whoever currently wields it is Thor - the Asgardian is merely the iconic wielder. I don't know...

No, you'll just get more paradox if observed by muggles (and less if observed by muggles who believe in your magic) but even when casting rituals in the safety of your basement you need to worry about how covert your spells are.

What you're describing right now is the normal way of doing it, which is to leverage circumstaces and abilities at your disposal (sending fake orders) to accomplish your goals. But you are proposing a system where the abilities aren't concrete and circumstances don't matter, only whether you can per...

Having "win combat" and "win adventure/campaign" not only be actions that exist, but forming the basis of resolution is completely unacceptable. We're talking about the entire game being an overlay on acquiring the points you need to pay for winning the encounter/adventure/campai...

Could we do away with the roll entirely? It doesn't seem very useful. Only if you want players to always know exactly what they can get away with in every stealth encounter with a known enemy and pretty much never get caught, and to have every encounter with enemies of similar perception level go a...

That's not making sense of Mage so much as writing rules that Mage lacks, and then being incredulous that others did not already write the same rules themselves. Also, "Result-Based Determinism" is insanity.

So does Thor's 15th level powers totally obviate all the powers he chose at 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th level or what? Does he get to rechoose them? Because if Thors ability list still has the bludgeoning powers he took over the last 14 levels then he still wants a hammer in his hands. Him being 1...

Dean wrote: Edit: Also don't use Zhe or any of that garbage. It doesn't expand my ideas of gender identity it makes me think I'm reading a product by a pretentious asshole that can't use their own language properly.

Singular they isn't bad tho.

RadiantPhoenix wrote:
So, "no" to this?

Not in class.

The core attribute of the vampire is blood drinking, preferably through fangs. The next attributes are nocturnal behaviour and immortality. The next big thing is that you kill them by shiving them in the heart with a sharp stick. One of the common complaints about Twilight (after the abusive relati...

Narnia has intelligent, talking animals. Which definitely includes horses . Which basically jumps the main hurdle that crossovers have. I don't know how much fanfiction Frank reads, but when someone crosses Harry Potter with Twilight, the characters just go to Britain/America and then stumble acros...

Sure, but why would you want to do that?

Twilight and Harry Potter are both about teenagers from Earth discovering and participating in a secret world of people with powers hidden from normals while going to high school, and their target audiences both include teenage girls and young women. The fact that there is very little about vampires...

Anyways, I gather from his comments that: The perceived problem with the overhaul is that it could be a D&D 3 moment, where it invigorates the game and is a great thing. Or, it could be a D&D 4 moment where it backfires spectacularly and creates two segregated fanbases that hate each other ...

You people can see this? All I'm getting is a 403 Forbidden.

The dodge roll is part of determining if the attack hits, and thus redundant if there already is an attack roll. There is no damage roll, so removing soak removes accuracy-independent randomization of damage.

Yeah, if someone forced me to run Schoolgirls and Sorcery with d20, I would just say that adults are level 5 or so. Hell, I might make adults "epic" if I wanted a full 20 level game. Of course, it occurs to me that this gives us high schoolers with the ability to shape mountains... which ...

What I want to know is what is supposed to be lawful about Snape and why Umbridge is not the face of Lawful Evil. I agree about the fourth book. Darth, the Order doesn't want the prophecy. Voldemort and Harry want the prophecy because Voldemort knows the first half and Harry knows nada, the Order is...

Would it have made more sense, then, if they were set on the staggered release thing for them to have published the DMG first along with the basic rules online, and then follow up with MM and finally PHB? That way people buy the DMG, decide to run, gather a group, get more converts, can buy the MM ...

Shrapnel wrote:My computer doesn't have the standard Microsoft card games (Solitaire, FreeCell, and Spider Solitaire). Where can I go to get those?

They're on the Store as "Miicrosoft Solitaire Collection".

Can someone explain the entire Ninja Emperor thing to me again, slowly? From the butthurt it causes certain fans (not just Frank, I've seen it happen to other people on the Nifty and other places) it seems to be a lot more stupid than just declaring that the Emperor is a Cowboy Emperor or a Pirate ...

How is that materially different to divinations occasionally being wrong in the first place? The difference is that the divination didn't provide useful information in the first place, because you only really know what event the prophecy was predicting after it happened. Either because before the p...

I'll trade you a paper airplane is about a basic inequality in haggling where one party (the side with the carrot) gets to up their price from a few cp to the destruction of a neighboring city, while the other party (superman) doesn't get to raise his price in exchange. Remember, the cost for a ser...