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So far every example I've seen in an rpg treats combat as a kind of wargame-ish thing. Does it seem feasible to just make combat something completely different, like puzzle quest does? Hell, this could even work for roleplay encounters. We have plenty of boardgames all over the place that using non ...

Any volunteers for an editor? I desperately need one.

Also any problems apparent, seemingly broken things and such, or general thoughts?

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?im3sduv3pjuxcn4

This should be the right link.

I've been updating the links in the main post too.

There you go.

I'm happy that anyone is reading this

Here is the next version with some updates.

Anyone want to volunteer as an editor?
http://www.mediafire.com/?myfiles

Thanks a ton, I really appreciate it. Also your right, I really, really need an editor. I'm looking for one, but I don't really know how to go about finding one. I like that you love the pacts section. Also glad there are no egregious flaws. I'm mathematically minded, math formulas don't scare me, a...

Any views, or reads?

Have you found any horrible flaws, have any ideas?

I did it btw, like the emperor told me to.

Well here's my heart breaker.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?7p7ynf6sd3tduay

It's still a work in progress. I need to clarify terrain, add items, classes, talents and more monster races, and add huge multi character monsters. Still the base game is obvious.

Main post is edited to include this.

Max skill and max attribute bonus is 5. I'm calculating defense as 2*combat skill + attribute + 3 (I'm making the change) At level 1 the max is 3 skill/3 attribute, for a defense of 12 lvl 2 is 4/3 defense 14 lvl 3 is 4/4 defense 15 lvl 4 is 5/4 defense 17 lvl 5 is 5/5 defense 18 Past level 5 the ma...

Oops. 4d6 drop lowest. I'll fix that, big typo there. The dragon doesn't get knocked out if the head is taken out. Imagine it just getting wounded enough that it can't use it's breath weapon or spit fireballs, but can still make wounded bite attacks. After seeing that calculator I'm considering uppi...

Oh, further detail I guess. Not sure how my dragon is a chicken though (knocking out it's head doesn't mean cutting it off, just wounding it severely). At level 1 a character will roll 3d6 + 3 for their best skill innately. At level 5 it will be 4d6 drop lowest + 6. This doesn't improve from levels ...

The point of bonuses is to be meaningful.

A bellcurve allows the bonuses to stay small, allowing the character to have meaningful bonuses yet stay on the range.

Also I play a wargame where people roll 2d6 or 3d6 regularly. They add up surprisingly quick.

Yah. This system uses gains traits every other level. Traits can be used to take an ability from other classes and other effects (kind of like feats, only hopefully with less suck). Monsters are simply built as characters using their traits to gain monster abilities. The exception are large monsters...

I'm finishing my rpg and am curious if any would be interested in me posting it. I also enjoy how critical this site is, so would enjoy some hard hitting feedback. I'm basically gathering things I like from many game systems and adding in a few things of my own. It's low fantasy, not epic, and only ...

I know people don't heal for shit in 3.5.

I meant this for a system conversion or a new system, just as a general idea.

Also, in this case out of combat is easy, heal hp would convert to real hp after a few minutes.

Well, the idea that out of combat healing would be real hp.

By less reliance on healers, I meant that with this system healing would still be good, but nerfed, so a party without healers could get by.

Ignore this, wrong thread.

What if during battle we distinguished between real hp (is not replenished), and healed hp(doesn't go away like temp hp, becomes real hp outside of battle). The difference is that healed hp is limited to the half of real hp you have left, and capped at the real hp max. So above 75% hp the healer can...

Here are my 2 ideas for a apocalypticesque scenario. I'll post the first now: The Dyson Sphere This scenario takes place on the inside of a Dyson sphere. Some ancient race automates the building of a Dyson sphere around a sun, accidentally grabbing an advanced planet in the process. To try to surviv...

Yes, the 3e developers were insane with fighter vs. spellcaster balance. The point of the descending attack bonuses was lost though but the original point wasn't that terrible. The idea was that the fighter would hit with his first attack on practically a 2+ and it would go down from there. The idea...

The problem here is that M:TG is produced with a quality far above 4e.

With this in mind, I kind of doubt they would want to taint M:TG by relating it to 4e.

Seriously you guys aren't looking at the current state of the game, and I'm not sure where your getting this infinite fury from. In Mk1 beasts being better than jacks means nothing because no one took the basic jacks. They all took broken infantry. The only jacks that were taken had a stupid amount ...

Seriously Phone Lobster you don't get the balance in the game it seems. In Mk1 it was unbalanced, I won't question that. However you seemed to get the exact opposite of what the unbalance was. It wasn't that hordes was too strong but rather that they were too weak. It was really hard to take anythin...

Honestly DM of the Rings is kind of an example of everything done wrong.

I always run custom campaign settings. Mostly because I craft the setting to go with the game.