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How is entering combat time a bad thing when the dragon wants to cast 4 buff spells and the PCs want to cast 2 buff spells and then move and interrupt the dragon? Why is entering combat time during the first two rounds a bad thing that ruins the game? It means there's a definite "encounter beg...

Characters should have the agency to start acting in 'combat time' (rounds) at any point they like. It's usually just a formality that can be ignored, but it makes a few game elements just work better, without any real downside. That's not the same as rolling initiative. If the incoming dragon does...

Is this just a joke, or are you actually going to seriously develop this.

I would assume this is due to Book of 9 Swords having at least some moves that aren't total shit, combined with having much less to live up to as a mere sourcebook rather than an entire edition. Sort of like how Pathfinder is less well received than 3.5 despite not being a whole lot worse as a produ...

But if they're supposed to enjoy the anti-heroes exploits, they pretty much have to believe that there is something redeeming about him that makes him 'winning' a better option than 'losing'. Because if he's the BBEG and he's slaughtering virtuous heroes, it gets old after a while, and not very man...

Speaking as a wilfully ignorant fanboy, beyond the mechanics not actually giving much help for social combat, the fact that reading d100 as 2d10 is even more potentially confusing than it sounds, and the limits of d100 roll under, have I missed any gaping holes in Unknown Armies? Well, that and the...

Speaking as a wilfully ignorant fanboy, beyond the mechanics not actually giving much help for social combat, the fact that reading d100 as 2d10 is even more potentially confusing than it sounds, and the limits of d100 roll under, have I missed any gaping holes in Unknown Armies? Well, that and the ...

Shadz - you're thinking of monolatrism, where you believe in the mere existence of multiple gods but feel only one is worthy of your attention.

O...K. you realize that every single thing that takes a long time by definition has been segregated into non combat, right? And that by conceding that anything in the game takes a long time, that you have in fact abandoned the pretense that we don't have to segregate the non-combat powers. No Frank...

Koumei wrote:If you like looking at terrible RPGs, I will suggest "Everything PurpleXVIII has reviewed", as he does it for a hobby.

Link please? Google isn't answering.

Like every single other character that the weapon fetishist supporters have brought up, he is in fact a huge counter example. Shut the fuck up, the "weapon specialist" character does not exist. A character who uses one weapon "the most" is not a weapon fetishist character. A wea...

Is anyone reading my posts? Echo? Of course I am. :cool: Unfortunately, there hasn't been any new angles of argument in a while - AMiB's D&D For Immortals, while at least a new approach to his position, is still a fair bit problematic in that it axes things people want from the game (some peopl...

It sort of depends on how you imagine hit points working. Your original quote was, "Characters generally aren't aware of having luck, so that would be metagame." Ignoring how hit points work, there is no real mechanism for characters being "aware" of exactly what their hit point...

Not sure if this is what you're looking for or not... I'd suggest making your system be incapable of creating something out of nothing. That should get rid of a lot of economy rape that you find in D&D systems. For classic spells you just manipulate things to get the effect. Ex. fireballs aren'...

Offhand, I'd have thought that you couldn't have "beam me up Scotty" style teleportation, where you don't at any point intersect with the points in between start and finish - even if you then have the effects of that, via your summoned Transporter carrying you into its plane before running...

The enemy cleric is an NPC. Maybe I'm speaking from the point of view of the fucking God he worships. How is a cleric's god able to do a damn thing about meta game abilities possessed by the player as opposed to the player character ? It doesn't matter, Fighter abilities do not get to change what t...

Pretty sure what he actually means is replace the chargen system with "You have this much XP, the same stuff that you could get through adventuring after chargen. Spend it by the XP-spending rules and call it chargen."

Fixed that for ya. Go play any super-hero RPG, even if you're using lethal weapons, the guys are assumed to be alive even after you win, and you have to do something differently in order to kill them off. Ever wonder why Leonardo never cut through Shredder's mid-section and spilled out his guts? Th...

Argument from realism Realism is not an innately valid goal for game mechanics. Especially given there are fireballs flying, you should feel free to sacrifice realism on the altar of fun gameplay if it comes to a choice between the two. The difference between D&D where the monster races are pur...

Insect Spirits, Imps , Shedim, the Scourge, and the Blood Mage Gestalt are Shadowrun IP and have to be dropped. Emphasis mine. There must be something about the Shadowrun setting I'm missing here. How the death do you copyright Imps? Not actually a Shadowrun player, but worth mentioning the name Sh...

Far as I know what was being advocated was a Vampire Random Villager not a Vampire Wizard on the basis that people should only have to keep track of one phlebotinum source. If told to write such a thing for a generic fantasy campaign, or even a D&D campaign where I was allowed to outright houser...

Sorcerer would have been my first thought, too.

I'm guessing the idea of a Wizard who has only studied magic, and/or has no idea what life is like outside the local Wizard's Tower/College/Something, is out of the question? Such a person would definitely need to ask questions.

every game is MTP which is why the use of it as a negative is so amusing coming from you people As a negative? How so? MTP is the default for all RPGs. We fall back on it again and again. But, as has been pointed out numerous times, MTP sucks at resolving player conflicts and at being fair. The who...

EL 1 force being the enemy or the party? Given that a level 0 wand costs more at market price than starting wealth for a 1st level character, the players shouldn't be starting with that shit. Offhand, worst case plausible scenario is someone point-buying up to 18 then playing a +2 Charisma race for ...

...Never seen a damn thing in 3.5, or in 4E, that states any sort of assumption that your levelling up requires anything more or less than that you go out and kill things. And if you do need to train to get the XP working, then so what? You just add that to the training regime of the NPCs, they are ...