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Aren't there a few Middle Earth RPGs out there? I have no idea how good they are, but I'm interested in knowing why your DM wants to use PF. Middle Earth Roleplay and The Lord of the Rings RPG (a CODA derived game) off the top of my head. For what it's worth, the CODA game did a good job of listing...

hermit wrote: Now, this may be different in America, but that is middle school knowledge here.

It's middle school knowledge in America, too. (as a side note, where is "here" for you? "The skull throne"?

When making a melee attack, you get a +2 flanking bonus if your opponent is threatened by a character or creature friendly to you on the opponent’s opposite border or opposite corner. This produces a few problems: 1. "Friendly"? Are we going to get into a similar problem 4e Dark Sun had w...

Lokathor wrote:Unless you wear heavy armor, then your stat isn't added into your AC, but it's still added into your reflex... just cause.

Almost anything a Ref save should apply to an AC or touch AC type defense could, if the distinction is between mundane and non mundane attacks that it would This happens to be the single thing in 4e that I like; your Reflex defense (née save) is conflated with your touch AC (Reflex Defense is 10+ha...

Since every NPC needs a name. I disagree, sir. Proper names are largely superfluous in RPGs (at least in the games I play; YMMV). Players rarely remember or care about the names of even their fellow party members, much less of NPCs. Instead, characters are recalled by their function or notable trai...

virgil wrote:Now, at the lower levels, there

Very clever, Mr. Virgil.

JE wrote:Invisibility (+20 to hide checks, +40 if moving) all the time.

The Angels can also move silently, even at great speed. Should this be considered part of their Quantum Lock quality?


EDIT: Wow, I didn't know I had that kind of power.

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Something about your post seems wrong, JE...

Only 2 pages in, and things have already gone from "Angry" to "Wierd".

Next up, WHFRP. In this game of vampire knights on undead dragons that kill entire armies on their own, giant daemons that rise up and need valiant heroic knights and sorcerers to slay them and the exotic lands of the lizardmen where some of them are 15' tall and go around punting hordes of rat-men...

deanruel87 wrote:"Stop, walking over that square caused an arrow to shoot from the wall, 1d6 damage!". It's like a tax. They just mark it off and move on with their lives.

Funny that you would put it that way.

CCarter wrote:Just out of curiousity, which one was that?

I just looked it up, and as it turns out, it was Buffalo Castle.

Though that would generally involve ditching the battle map for something more abstract. It'd have to look more like final fantasy where your guys just kinda take off and somehow get away, as opposed to turning the game into a contest of whoever has the best movement score. Tunnels & Trolls mor...

But, Batman DID beat Superman in the Miller comics...was rather an important commentary. Batman did beat Superman in the Dark Knight Returns, he used a super-suit if I remember correctly. Superscience seems like it's a power source acceptable for normals to have (Lex Luthor, Tony Stark, Rusty Ventu...

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 superheroes with actual powers. Except that he isn't. He cannot beat Superman or Superman's villains. He mostly sticks t...

Archmage: the thing is? D&D is about the only system that DOES the high-power Greek Epics/Gurren Lagann/Slayers thing. There are a million systems out there for being Bored of the Rings, so people who like that shit should feel free to fuck off and play those games. That way, their precious fee...

Yes, the real problem is that your old school grognards don't want any of that animu shit because it's not "classic fantasy," because "classic fantasy" is Tolkien. Who are these grognards that you are referring too? It would seem that you are imagining them. OD&D describes i...

The only time it really becomes important to model the lethality of a blaster versus other weapons is when other weapons actually exist. But really I haven't seen anything use gunpowder in star wars, so a blaster pistol can be just as deadly as an Ares Predator and you can just call it a day. Oh, l...

I dunno, you'd also have to completely rewrite the armor/defense rules to bias towards light/no armor (if you want to maintain the SAGA/theatrical heroes don't wear armor vibe). Darth Vader, Boba Fett, Clone Troopers, Storm Troopers, Boushh, Dengar, Zuckuss, Clone Wars era Jedi, the Yuuzhan Vong, D...

Hidden rolls should be used to prevent metagaming. In the bonus strips for Order of the Stick "Dungeon Crawlin' Fools", there's a scene where the party attacks the beast guarding the Tower of Dorukan. The monster flicks Roy while saying "2". At which point the party runs off. Hi...

But this is so completely fucking awesome, that I cannot fight the urge anymore: http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=529011 Out of curiosity, speaking as one who is unfamiliar with much of the setting, why do people hate on Autocthon? From a quick look up, all I can tell about him is: >Creates cr...

If you want characters to sleep each day, put in rules for not doing so. If you want them only using certain powers once a day, do that. Don't try and conflate the two goals. If you're talking to Gary Gygax, you're about 30 years too late. Like it or not, the D&D wizard's bullshit Vancian syste...

I'm playing a 3.5 game as a Druid (currently 2nd level), but am not entirely up on the rules, having not played 3e for most of my gaming career. I am bent on taking the [Aberrant] feats. I have 3 questions: 1. Is it viable to hold off on taking Natural Spell in order to take Aberrant Wildshape? 2. H...

You can give people more subsystems to play with by making ones that are not directly tied to them (the difference between taking a feat that allows you to use a certain maneuver, and a stunt system that is open to anyone). Lago's thread dealt with this sort of thing. One advantage of this is that y...

There are a bunch of second generation and even more forward thinking concepts. Melee weapons get a to-hit table based on the weapon and the armor of the target. So maces are better against plate armor, while falchions are better against naked folk. Isn't that merely an incorporation of the Chainma...