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Sticking with the Star Trek example:[br][br]Picard is lawful, but he breaks the prime directive *all the time* because he seems to thrive on extenuating circumstances. Likewise, Janeway isn't lawful, but she does every damn thing she promises, even if they are contradictory. Doing what you say you a...

If you follow your own, personal code of honor, and never waver, then you are chaotic. Even if you live in a society that mostly agrees with your code, whenever you find yourself at odds with a person (or a society), you won't hesitate to tell them how and why they are wrong (regardless of centuries...

You can't forget the unit on nefarious moustache twisting.

But neither stealing, nor narcing on your nieghbor are evil acts. They are purely a law/chaos thing. The acts may also be good/evil depending on motive, but are probably neutral in those regards. Law/chaos determines your view of society, while good/evil is your motive behind said views. Halflings a...

That's exactly why I implemented the 'devotion' mechanic. It seperates the jerks who get by at other people's expense from the people from people who thrive on it. Turning in your nieghbor, or calling the cops on him is a lawful, and not an evil act by the way. Even stealing is usualy a law/chaos th...

Everyone has an alignment, and judging from the description given, I would say chaotic neutral is a fairly accurate assumption having never seen him in play.

1154022682[/unixtime]][T]ake for instance an evil warrior - he's literally out for evil, sort of. He wants to massacre the town that shunned him out. On his journeys he acquires alot of gold, but he doesn't care about the gold - so he pays overly handsomely for everything, including the insanely la...

I didn't really change it, so much as properly defined it, and removed the ambiguity between what traits define what alignment. I did, however, add another axis called 'devotion', which is represented by using capital and lowercases. For instance, if you are 'Evil', then you believe in the philosoph...

I don't think my theory is incompatible with Frank's, but as it stands, I have already established the nature of the undead and negative energy in my campaign's canon. I took most of established RAW, removed crap that I didn't like, and clarfied exactly what kind of acts turned you in to what types ...

Just because someone *is* evil doesn't make everything he *does* evil, it just makes doing evil things part of his nature, and make doing good things not rank particularily high on his 'to do' list. 'Normal' actions that aren't an evil act don't suddenly become 'bad' if the person doing them is evil...

I don't have any real problems with d20 Modern, but it involves some heavy houseruling. Basicaly, I tell my players to pick any core or advanced class that they like, and then I make whatever they pick not suck.

I don't even make vampires *need* blood, they just crave it, and don't fight the craving because they are all jerks (because in my homebrew campaign setting, negative energy *is* evil, in a literal sense, so there are no good undead. Ever).

1153893707[/unixtime]]What's wrong with wood? It's not exactly a common weapon, yet every lynch mob is fully equipped. [br][br]I just don't think such an iconic monster should have such a boring weakness. Rakshasas no longer have an 'instant fuck' weakness, and nobody wants to play a game where you...

I was never a fan of the 'wood kills vampires' thing. It's too common sense of a weakness, and has the mythology removed from it. If a player wants to stake a vampire, I make him use a stake that has been used in a cemetary to mark a dig site for a grave.

But to puncure your sternum with a concial wooden spike would have taken far more effort. Hell, if I was to take a stake and try to stab my leg with it, I doubt it would even get past my jeans. These are tarp-pitching tools designed to be driven in to soft earth that we're talking about here, not we...

1153755977[/unixtime]]Actually, he can't. Critical hits are defined as effectively hitting a target in a vulnerable spot, and if a vampire cannot be critically hit then he doesn't have any vulnerable spots, thus his heart is meaningless. [br][br]A vampire does have a 'weak spot', but it's so overly...

Heh, displacer beasts.[br][br]A player in my group had his first three or four characters killed by displacer beasts. It started a rather amusing running gag that has continued to this day (even after the player in question left the group) where every new campaign would at some point involve an enco...

A vampire can be vulnerable to a staking and still be immune to critical hits. If you can drive a wooden stake in to a vampire with a mallet, he's already helpless anyways, so adding a clause that lets you coup de gras him regardless of his immunities (if you have the proper tools) seems the easier ...

1153674432[/unixtime]] Crazy Good Skills: A Half-Fiend Dire Tiger is a fvcking Rogue. A crazy-high level Rogue at that. Why? [br][br]I may be missing something here, but why does it really matter? So it can jump further and walk quieter than most tigers, isn't that the point? This isn't a problem u...

1153248821[/unixtime]][br]Going solo is not the best way for advancement and mass murdering psychopaths tend not to have many friends. If you just go killing people randomly, why would anyone trust you? [br][br]The problem is that grouping together makes you a much larger target for mass-murdering ...

I do think that its a little broken to be pulling Save or Dies or 40d6 damage out of your pants with impunity. I mean, Save or Die is the Wizard's forte, and this Monk definately does it much better than a spellcaster ever can, especialy since the target still gets clobbered by the slam attack anywa...

What if Fighters got an array of special abilities giving dynamic bonuses based on the Fighter's level? He could pick one every other level, or trade one in for a Fighter bonus feat, like the Lore Master prestige class, but more ass-kickage. That way the Fighter is still the same class mechinically,...

Well then there aren't very many viable Fighter builds that don't invlove Prestige Classing. You can do wonders with throwing weapons, but you need far to much cash to make it a viable build before epic levels (and by then Rogues have enough feats to do it better anyways).[br][br]My suggestion would...

1152621589[/unixtime]]Well, to misguidedly try and get this show back on track I'll offer the following interpretation of the example of the friend-buffed, super statted, ultra-rich 7F/3Kensai fighter. [br][br]For the record, I simply assumed that the party has enough Item Creation feats to get the...

1152634156[/unixtime]]But real people really do ignore genuine opportunities to improve on their current lot, all the time. They refuse to leave their job for a better-paying one or one that carries a promotion. They don't divorce their spouse for one younger and better-looking. They don't commit c...