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Speaking of Giant Frogs who explode for no reason... I was translating the Detanátor, and it turns out that they seriously explode for no reason . The actual sentences in question translates to: You might think this is some sort of defense mechanism, but you would be wrong. The truth is that the De...

Again though... wouldn't that same logic allow a genius player make an otherwise normal character punch far above its weight class, and hence earn the title "Badass Normal"? Yes, but apparently most of the people in this thread can't stand the idea of player skill being involved in how we...

Lago PARANOIA wrote:See monks and torches.

Enlighten me.

Real estate. Trading in demiplanes and such. Prime Material land being some of the most valuable.

But wait, isn't necromancy EVIL?

Really, hiding is pretty borked in DnD anyway, so I'm not too concerned that giants cannot hide well and other critters can hide from them pretty well. That seems pretty up to par for giant tropes anyway. I wasn't really talking about D&D. Looking back, the examples I used may have given that i...

It is a common conceit that when something is larger, it is easier to see and hit. However, some but not all games (such as 3.X that I know of) allow a bonus to attacks on the grounds of relative size: so a halfling gets a +1 when he attacks humans, because from his perspective, they are larger. Pro...

In Ninja Burger, you go around the table, with the honor of sitting on to the left of the GM (called the "Seat of Lightning Swiftness"; to the right is called the "Seat of Fatty Goodness). Who gets to sit there is determined by who has the highest Extraneous attribute, but since revea...

[*]I forget the name of the system, but there was a flash-in-the pan mecha game in the 90s that used what I'm gonna call volleyball initiative. The idea was that one side in a battle had Advantage. If you had Advantage, you could make attacks, assaults and other offensive maneuvers. If you did not,...

In an ideal world, all possible characters would be, when played effectively, equal to one another in power, and differ only in what they were good at.

I tend to handle them with renaming Law "Order" and having them be physical forces. Both necessary for everything to run, but both some seriously bad stuff in large amounts. Being hit with a burst of Chaos will change the afflicted area of your body into...pineapple pudding, or chalk, or ...

Yes! Except it's sort of like every spell is the equivalent of stunting that you come up with on the spot from an available list of options with no initial requisites. So, more specifically, like playing an M&M game where everyone just has points in the Variable power, distributed at will/accor...

So, a magic system that works in a manner akin to the power systems found in HERO and M&M? Could work, depending on how well you define/price what effects you can use.

I wouldn't be surprised if you could convince Lego to let you sell an officially-sanctioned game that uses their pieces as minis. They get to sell more pieces, branching out into tabletop gaming isn't their thing, and you're doing all the work. I'm not sure how the IP laws cover this, but I bet it'...

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The Badass Normal, as you describe him, is nonsensical rubbish. Not at all. The badass normal is an accepted trope. Batman is a badass normal. He fights against people with all kinds of crazy schtick, and all he's got are some gadgets and his martial arts training. Yet he's somehow on par with supe...

Lago, you need to chill the fuck out. Then you need to read this so you can understand what I'm talking about. Yes, once the fighter gets so good at swordfighting that he can slice through the demon's steel-strong skin, he's beyond that of a mortal fighter. However, he doesn't rely on supernatural ...

The second is Wuxia. In China if you see a character flying around in a movie they're probably not a Wizard, but some fighter so bad-assed he gets to tell gravity to go fuck itself. The fighters in the Street Fighter games can throw fireballs, teleport, fly to an extent and do other bullshit. I thi...

Why must level 20 give characters a ridiculous amount of power? The things you describe characters doing seem more like plot effects than abilities that characters should be capable of doing. Summoning Yggdrasil in the middle of a fighter is something that the BBEG generally does, not Team Good. Ba...

Then you'll love this fix: Ban that lazy, weakass piece of shit fighter, rogue, marshal, scout, and all of their other worthless anus-sucking friends after level 8. You either upgrade to one of those Bleach shinigami or Naruto ninjas you disparaged or you play another game. There. Problem solved. A...

I tend not to include acts in the Bible as examples of magic, as it can be hand-waved as miracles by the faithful. Fairy Tales however are universally accepted and lauded, but don't have the same "holy" origins. The Witch of Endor summons the soul of Samuel in a distinctly pagan manner. I...

um, sure? I hadn't actually checked that one yet because I didn't expect any to be in there. It's the same sort of things as Magical Location, but now non-magical. The benefits are generally last a year, with a few exceptions (AKA the good ones) such as the Otyugh Hole, which permanently gives you ...

Prak_Anima wrote:Off the top of my head, I'd say it'd be good to make some Puissant Locations, or something for martial and skill characters who don't want to muck about with gods.

You mean Legendary Sites from Complete Scoundrel?

Lava Effects Lava or magma deals 2d6 points of damage per round of exposure, except in the case of total immersion (such as when a character falls into the crater of an active volcano), which deals 20d6 points of damage per round. Damage from magma continues for 1d3 rounds after exposure ceases, bu...