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1197100661[/unixtime]] 1196995377[/unixtime]]Also each color has a personality. [br][br]So alignments would be booted in favour of "Detect Blue" and "Smite Green"? That is awesome.[br][br]Regarding unkillable NPCs: Fucking Halastar the Insane Bastard. [br]But detect blue would b...

RandomCasualty at [unixtime wrote:1197118737[/unixtime]]A level based system with hitpoints tends to really suck for doing futuristic gun based settings.

Thankfully Trued20 has no HP.

Flavor-wise, not for balance (there's been good discussion of that already). I means for a purely attribute based game, where any roll you make will be based on your attributes alone (although level or equipment bonuses are fair game).[br][br]To cover the bases for a modern/future game, I think Shad...

Mearls is right. Sundering does fuck up the game, assuming the DM puts treasure on NPCs such that corpse-looting PCs will have exactly the right amount of crud per level if they take everything. And that's how the game is apparently intended to be played.[br][br][br]Ideally, sundering should be poss...

1197074479[/unixtime]][br]Since armour spikes are illogical to remove, since you know, it makes sense to cover yourself in weapons to keep monsters from bear-hugging you... [br][br]Heh. You're joking, right? Armor spikes would have to be carefully placed at some subset of {elbows, hands, head, and ...

1197039171[/unixtime]][br]Though I still disagree with the whole 'shiny kitty + angry snake' shotgun issue of stats versus skills. It's not even a problem; just keep the points from skills and stats separate and refuse to let people exchange them.[br][br]I agree it is a problem in most point-based ...

1197062724[/unixtime]]Okay, where the heck is this legendary Kusari-gama found? It is the perfect weapon for the occasion, and I've google-searched several times with little to no success. I thought I found it in Oriental Adventures, but I suppose not. Please, tell me where it is, I beg you. [br]3....

angelfromanotherpin at [unixtime wrote:1197059910[/unixtime]]That's why there's only four Shakers in the world...

I thought that was because Shakers didn't have children.

1197039400[/unixtime]][br]So this really got me thinking...Some people don't like Frank and K's stuff because they claim it's broken/too powerful/etc.[br][br]What's the right answer to that, in a way that will let me continue talking to this guy on friendly terms? [br][br]There's often an assumptio...

1196995503[/unixtime]][br]I've been tempted to do a Penny Arcade thing where I just write content for DnD or a system of my own design and accept donations and advertising and make T-shirts and cups that say clever DnD type stuff. The only problem is that I've got this whole law school thing and Fr...

Warmaster:[br]The 3.5e "kusari-gama" is a light slashing weapon (1d6 damage) with reach. You seem to be using the older (Oriental Adventures) version, which IIRC is a large reach OR double 1d6s/1d4b weapon.[br][br]There are certainly advantages to both (e.g. TWFing with just your ancestral...

Just run it in your regular house-ruled 3e and pretend it all makes sense. As others have said, Dragonlance isn't internally consistent enough to worry yourself over little things like the wish economy.[br][br]The best system would probably be some D20 -based thing you spent 900 hours to create, but...

Lago_AM3P at [unixtime wrote:1196990001[/unixtime]]
So how would a skill-only system handle this?

Probably as an increase in the Athletics or Acrobatics skill, of which parkour is a specialization.

Black -> marsh
Blue -> oceanic
Green -> woods
Red -> mountains
White -> plains

Apparently inhospitable regions have no 'mana'.

You could come up with generic groupings of like creatures, and call the the same (a la the "beast-headed giants" of Dark Sun).[br][br]I was also wondering whether color should be based on habitat. You've said that loci are Green. Does this mean that swamp loci are Green? If they are, you'...

1196668692[/unixtime]][br]...[br]There are lots of perfectly valid methods to handle any particular situation which you want to model.[br][br]-Username17 [br]Yeah, the cap system seems to work well for that, provided that caps are only for total bonus. Depending on attribute and skill cost some cha...

If I was Mearls, I'd be scared. Fans like those are the type to kidnap you, or kill people to 'impress you'.

It's not the disgruntled rules lawyers he has to worry about...

Yeah, it's not a good fit. And it's needlessly complex and unbalanced from the offset, which is never a good idea when the entire point of the system is to be simple and balanced.

It probably wouldn't be worth trying (assuming it's fleshed out) even with a d20-versed, SR ignorant group.

It doesn't seem quite visceral enough. Acid splash, for example, could involve the character vomiting up the acid. You could make this a core ability, adding additional effects like nausea, poison, and disease to anyone hit by it.[br][br]There should probably be some type of mind affecting ability, ...

I thought this was a fun villain:[br][br]"The sweetest meat lies closest to the bone."[br]"It's best to eat your food fresh before the chi dissipates."[br]Ghoul [ToN] human[br] [br]Jester [Dun] 6/Thief of Souls [ToN] 9/Conduit of the Lower Planes 3[br]1:Jst 1 |--------------| 0| ...

If you're TWFing anyway, use a kusarigama in one hand and a heavy pick in the other. The base damage isn't especially high (IIRC only 1d6/id6), but for a crit/AoO fiend it's badass.

You can even pretend it's that weapon used by the Guns & Roses guy in Guilty Gear.

1196860722[/unixtime]] 1196789806[/unixtime]]If you really think those two scenarios are lame, then the 'charge up' period would basically be painting a target long enough for the air strike to get them. [br][br]That really is the idea. Charge up on a target so you can kick that targets ass. No tra...

Prak_Anima at [unixtime wrote:1196819933[/unixtime]]how do the gauntlets and belt stack? they're both enhancement bonuses...

Because that's the special ability of an artifact.

The feats should be skill feats keyed to Intimidate.

1196771571[/unixtime]]Okay, you went for the extreme example. Heres something that might happen in a game.[br][br]You are beating on mooks for three rounds then the BBEG rocks up. You unload with your now charged maneuvers and he gets owned. That is probably not a desirable scenario. Importantly, t...