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The part I have trouble accepting is fitting the ponies into the general Tradition of Silence of the modern-Earth After Sundown setting, and I myself would have opted to try to do the setting as a post-apocalyptic Earth that reverts to the ancient Tradition of Misdirection. It's not that hard to fi...

Here's the thread, as promised. I hope it holds up to scrutiny half as well as I'm expecting it to.

Applejack Applejack was born and raised on the Sweet Apple Acres farm. As a filly, she yearned for a change of pace, and moved to Manehattan with some family members living there, Aunt and Uncle Orange. As the saying goes, however, you can take the pony out of the country, but you can't take the co...

Ponies: Friendship is Supernatural "And that's how Equestria was made." Ponies are magical creatures from the land of Equestria. They are roughly the same size and shape as a shetland pony. Their fur and manes can be any color you might find in an average Crayola box. Everypony develops a...

So, a few pages ago, someone mentioned writing up the ponies in After Sundown. This sounded interesting, so I took it upon myself to make this a thing. I worked on it off and on for a while now, and I'm mostly done. The meat of the project is finished, but I'm having incredible difficulty finishing ...

I thought this campaign was dead in the water until a couple months ago, which is why I haven't given much of an update. The MC told me he was still interested in running the campaign, and since interest picked up again semi-recently, the campaign got revived and will actually start up soon. I manag...

In the end, I like to think of HP as an abstraction and not as, "You shrug off the sword in your gut." because it gives me some extra room to describe the combat and I don't have to remember a bunch of wounds that have no mechanical effect on my character. Well, It's Cold Outside has this...

Oh and nice job on Incompetent. Now the GM is basically obligated to throw in the occasional broken-down car, archery contest, teachable moment, etc. :p I'm OK with this. At best it adds levity to the session, at worst it makes her look like a bumbling fool. Either way, it's (probably) not going to...

I merely said... that there are NO mages ON Pandora currently. [...] I am saying that Mages don't mesh too well with pandora... they tend to go slightly insane and die. So, Pandora was here, mages are babbys. Here are some interesting snippets from the conversation: The MC: Its related to Pandora i...

Making a full-blown medic is pretty easy and low-cost. You get a Rating 6 medkit (the best in the book, and VERY cheap), drop points to get either First Aid and Medicine or the Biotech group up to 4, and have a half-decent logic. That's pretty much all there is to it, though having the Heal spell o...

Well, I hadn't bothered with gear yet, mainly because I just wanted to post what I had so far. I'm glad I did, because I seriously hadn't thought to request power armor for my character. A new problem came up, though. I finally got in touch with the other players, and apparently my MC didn't tell me...

Good to know I was more or less on the right track. I was going mundane, but I don't have any qualms with magic so long as I can afford it BP-wise. I doubt I'll get any better advice without supplying a character sheet for critique, so here's what I have so far: Points spent: 459/500 Metatype: Elf (...

So, I finally decided I wanted to try Shadowrun, and as it happens, someone was actually going to start a campaign of it just as soon as all interested submitted a character sheet. I'm trying to make a sort of party face, but I don't have a good idea of how to go about that except for being awesome ...

The only problem with taking 20 is that retards think it's reasonable to take 20 on every single Search check. There's no way a group of adventurers is going to sit there quietly for two minutes while the rogue searches a ten-by-ten section of hallway. QFT. Hell, my group finds it unreasonable for ...

I never said "take 20" as a concept is completely without use and should never be used, not sure why this keeps coming up. No, you just said it should be handwaved. From what I understand, one of the following cases is your platform. If the players want to take 20: Case 0. The players wil...

Why is chess being used as an example for Take 20? Taking 20 in an opposed check is rarely allowed. I... Wish I had noticed that earlier. I feel dumb. Case (1) What can happen is completely determined by character ability. [...] Case (2) What can happen is completely determined by the structure of ...

I concede the kicking thing doesn't work, my bad...trying to so hard to get the simple idea across that I went a direction that doesn't work. Anyway, when the guy takes 20 to pick a lock, he tries 20 times, and the only picking that counts is the 20. The other 19 don't count for anything. Correct. ...

Getting back on track... I'm actually in a group that frowns upon taking 10. After doing it a few times in one game, the DM chided me for not wanting to roll my die. Apparently, wanting to take 10 on a task where I can succeed more often than not is badwrongfun. Taking 20 is fine so long as it doesn...

Doom wrote:

Zeezy wrote:I don't understand at all

No problem, really not that big a deal.

OK. Burden of proof: what's wrong with my reasoning?

I don't understand what "take 20" means. I sincerely hope you're trolling, because it's insulting how ignorant your recent argument is. Taking 20 doesn't mean you spend 20 times as long to line up the perfect whatever. It means you do the same thing 20 fucking times. The chess player isn'...

If both players take 2 minutes for each move, the same guy should win every time under the no dice rolling rules. I personally find this slightly unrealistic, and prefer simple dice rolls rather than just assume every game turns out exactly the same way. A poor example. You can't take 20 here; you ...

Well, I never said it was on a door, it was a lock set into a wall...and not really the point, the issue is taking 20 and understanding what 'skills' are. A skill modifier is an abstraction of your cumulative training in that area of expertise. The d20 roll is an abstraction of your performance rel...

Here's how I see it: Failing an Open Lock check doesn't mean you didn't have the right tool for the job; it just means you failed to employ the tools you have skillfully enough. If the DC is 21+ higher than your skill bonus, then yes, the lock does require a skill you lack. If it's precisely 20 high...

May be she had D-size? It'll explain almost everything. I... Honestly can't remember what she looks like off the top of my head. It's been a few weeks. I doubt she's a D-cup, though. forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't a 9c be a 9" ribcage with a bustline of 12" ? No. A 9C would have a 6&q...

ubernoob wrote:Instead of running the numbers again, can we pretend the factotum had some least augment crystals of returning? It's 300 gp per weapon and WBL at 8 is like 27k.

Well, I was thinking 10, but sure. All that changes from 8 to 10 is the factotum's attack bonus goes down by 1.