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Roy wrote:I don't see any rage yet.

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Oh my god Jester. :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: THUNDER RYU [/size] Chaotic Neutral Tiefling Ninja 3/Swashbuckler 2 ( Royalty of a Fallen Nation Black Sheep Noble) Size/Type: Medium Outsider [Human][Native] Hit Dice: 3d6+2d8+10 (32 HP) Initiative: +6 (+5 Speed of Thought +1 Dex) Saves: Fort 3 (1+2), Ref 7...

I think if shad posted furry raep, he would for now and forever win the TGDMB Successful Troll is Successful award.

DO IT [EDITED]!

+1 on what we do about ability scores as well. I'll probably go D-con Monk or Koumei's Swashbuckler/Ninja

On the morale front, why not have a separate mental damage track/will gauge? The gauge takes damage like health and once it's filled up, the character begs off/runs/loses the will to fight. It takes damage from their comrades dying, them getting hurt, the general slog of combat, etc. We could also t...

Weeaboo Fightan Magic is a criticism of the book that handing out (or attempting to hand out) powers that can keep up with actual magic makes the game 'too anime'. So you get to deftly avoid the issue of you being a douchebag who wants to keep your boot on the neck of weak classes by calling anyone...

since he bailed on "Klingon" as his origin archetype for "Starfleet Officer" he no longer gets the bullshit powers of being a Klingon Is that why his only special ability seems to be the punching bag to make the new guy looks good? Oh-HO! Zing! awesome.jpg So Frank, when you spe...

P&P: Classroom Deathmatch DnD 3.5/3Tome SR4 MnM Wushu Feng Shui Spirit of the Century Tabletop/Card: Apples to Apples Munchkin The Amazing Labyrinth Yomi Vidya: Super Robot Wars series Disgaea series No More Heroes Street Fighter IIT Guilty Gear XX Forza Motorsport 2 Super Smash Brothers Melee/B...

You do realize that a solid generic mechanical system would cover conciseness just as well as banning things and making the world localized right? Especially since we're making everything from the ground up and apparently our skills/powers are going to be somewhat modular, then bloat should not be a...

The biggest thing I can think of would be Molotovs, although those are more firestarters than actual concussive explosives.

That brings up another question. How are you going to handle improvised weapons for those who aren't hopped up on Potence?

I disagree with your reasoning. Social skills have very clear uses. They are only largely useless in combat. Whether they are imbalanced or not isn't a reason to get rid of them. In DnD you start off "decent" at them (only suffering a -1 from lack of charisma but otherwise being average) ...

Draco_Argentum wrote:

Koumei wrote:*Revised Diplomancy Rules (my thoughts: put in limitations, example situations and uses, the ability to actually resist it, and possibly a feat or two that make use of it in lots-of-debate scenarios.)

The concepts from aWoD can probably be stolen and fitted into d20 mechanics.

Seconded.

Charisma on the other hand I do disagree with. The social aspects of the game are distinct enough from the combat portions to deserve a governing stat and a subset of skills (if only because of the way DnD works). If it were another system I was playing that used abilities to determine what charact...

If you have a game where you have a lot of protected schticks but characters are also expected to have more than one major schtick (like Naruto) would it be okay to handwave some overlap as long as it doesn't get out of hand? It seems like it would be way too much to, say, make a fire + water class...

Fix your tags souran.

Hey J_E, wasn't that basically the point of 4uccess? Have you been doing any work on it lately?

Can the cover be used to enter stealth? Because that might be worth something. I believe so. To RC/Frank: Eh, the skill rolls are for specific maneuvers, not all attack rolls. And there seem to be a lot less ways to send a skill check into crazytown with FC. I agree though, having a more mathematic...

So with a basically non-functional magic system and apparently no monster book or usable word, what exactly is the point? -Username17 The point is to give a game for the people who have never heard of Balor Mining, Chain Binding, or even Cleric Archers that isn't made of suck and fail. It does it's...

VitM, fix your tags please. Thread's gone pear-shaped. That, and before it dropped off, the 4uccess! thread had a workaround to what Tavish is saying: your abilities worked off of three tiers. You had your basic attacks, which led up to your specials, which led to your supers. Make the "lolimhe...

I'm really surprised actually with all the bullshit d20 products they produced that they didn't try this split. I mean if you're going to make D20 modern, d20 future, d20 Call of Cthulhu and tons of other d20 crap, I don't know why they didn't just start out by forking the D&D product line. Hel...

Man, people don't like it when you point out critical flaws in their system du jour, huh? That was a deluge of butthurt and differing opinions, as discussions like that tend to be.

The problem is that D&D in name generally evokes feelings of LotR for most people. Not to me, and I am 100% of the people who I actually care about the opinions of in this matter. Those fringe games came out simply because people were dissatisfied with how D&D wasn't the game that they thou...

That thing where everyone was astonished that old folks were playing Wii Sports? That would have been way more awesome if they were playing GTA, DoA, or Gears of War. l And while we're at it, wouldn't it just be awesome if Star Trek had a resurgence in popularity among pre-teen girls and the 18-25 ...

There's also a Frank version of the Spirit Shaman. Mine is there too, but it's unfinished.

The ideal would be "high variety, low complexity"; however, I'm not sure if its an attainable goal. I'm a bit late for this but there is a high variety, low complexity game. It's called Risus. The game is a bone-simple dice pool RPG, but you can make up the adjectives assigned to your dic...

The eternal design aspiration is "easy to learn, difficult to master", like Chess or Go or something. As long as there are tactically interesting actions you can take with your simple system, then KISS is viable. This is the basic idea behind some of the rules light systems, the tactical i...