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Aid Another works alright in Shadowrun. You make your own test, and your hits add bonus dice to the next guy in the chain. It's good enough to do, but not so good that it explodes the RNG. But then, Dicepool systems are inherently better about adding "one more bonus" without all the way c...

How does one make it exist in the space between "suck" and "overpowered"? Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but are there any games that do this well? I ask because I was working on a system of treating mooks as groups, but at small numbers, they would be better off if they ...

You could even use some unholy combination of the two, and have very fine-grained control over when it makes sense for character to use their at-will super moves and when it makes sense to use their at-will normal moves. The advantage of the Wheel of Fortune, however, is that you don't need to spen...

EDIT: Double post due to bad connection.

I'm guessing that this relates to your concept of assumed/enforced dual-classing. However, when speaking of character creation, any two choices will impact the character as a whole, so one must consider both before choosing either. So although it does save write-up effort and page space, it isn't a...

And when everyone is super...

Orthogonal Idea: Choices can be cordoned off from one another and made independently. Making a choice from 100 possibilities is going to take a long time. But making a choice from 10 can be done in a short time. If you make two independent choices from 10 each time, you will have in total generated...

And as an additional note, you should remember that his most famous duel was won with an oar. I'm sure he would find your arguments silly. This, among other things, is why I think that differentiating between swords as much as this thread seems to be trying to do is both pointless and not even actu...

Koumei wrote: Dibs on Blue.

Curse you!

I call Green Ranger, then.

If I'm understanding the question properly, I don't think that there is any sort of rules fix for this. The only solution is learning to detach one's own opinions when approaching what they have said, and approaching it from the perspective of the NPCs listening. A medieval lord has vastly different...

Many of the life forms, both human and non-human, possess psionic powers. Psionics or psychic abilities are still paranormal phenomena which can not be fully explained by science. the powers seem to come from the individual rather than being drawn from a forgein energy source such as magic. however...

Juton wrote:In your scenario, if you are not very careful magic and psychic will meld into one thing.

Well, this is Rifts we're talking about, so they kind of already are. They're both powered by Potential Psychic Energy.

Whether or not WoW is creative is immaterial, because the salient point is that it is boring . I cannot fathom how one could become "addicted" to it without having serious mental issues to begin with. It is the same basic tripe dispensed by every MMO out there: Grind rats -> Grind dragons,...

The Fighter abilities do a good job of each being useful in its own right; but I wonder if Steady Strike isn't a bit too good. It seems as though that would be the first choice anyone would make.

I don't think "gritty" implies "grey morality and rape". Gritty is often used to essentially mean "realistic". As in, wounds hurt, not everything is shiny, and corruption happens. Yep. How'd you describe what I've done so far though? Not terrible. For the most part, mo...

I don't think "gritty" implies "grey morality and rape". Gritty is often used to essentially mean "realistic". As in, wounds hurt, not everything is shiny, and corruption happens.

There's a link to an article on the addictiveness of online gaming that floats around these boards, and it's really quite good. This might be it: B̵̭͖̼̼́͑̂͛̍̂͜ȅ̶̤&a...

Red 3, standing by.

At least it's a rather interesting new mechanic.

I don't mind there being a cost....but there still should be a residue. For your lich, he can't learn new spells, but he still knows his old spells, spells that came from before he was a lich. Similarly, a ninja who became a lich probably won't be so good at disguise anymore (undead horror, after a...

This has three ramifications. For one, the martial classes should go extinct after a certain point. Fuck no. We're talking about a whole different game than 3e D&D. When you say "martial classes" in this context, you are dismissing the Hero, the Monk, and the Rogue based on how they g...

Alfred Pennyworth lives in the superhero genre. He cannot fly, shoot energy blasts, read minds, bounce bullets, or lift a car. He's not even a specialist, he's a slightly surprisingly competent background NPC. On the list of "normals you have to save," Alfred is among the more likely to b...

Doc Savage is a generalist. Renny and Ham are specialists. But Doc Savage is a mary sue ultimate badass who is much much better than any of the rest of the team members. He is... not a playable character in any scenario where Ham would be a plausible character. So, again, can you name one "gen...

This is not, in fact, true. In fact: name one "generalis" from any literature who is not a special snowflake who is better than everyone else because he's a main character. Go ahead. Name. One. -Username17 "Not a main character" is a completely arbitrary restriction. Characters ...

some people are going to create characters with a wide variety of seemingly unrelated abilities, like Superman Generalists need to die. As much as that would make game design easier, the generalist is a character concept deeply embedded in literature. You can't just dismiss it because it's hard to ...