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Sarandosil wrote:Seriously, where are the geek lesbians? It's like a wasteland out here.

I have to raise my hand again here; and I know a couple others.

Cynic wrote: Also, aside from Maj, who else is a girl on this forum? Crissa seems to have disappeared into the ether. So has cielingcat. Anyone else?

Me, but that was already obvious from my previous post.

I hate to make unfair generalizations, so make of this what you will. My expert testimony is that I and many other women I know like the interpersonal aspect of RPGs. That is, not only talking to NPCs but importantly having relationships with other player characters, who are usually more fleshed out...

I agree, and have a whole shelf-full of GURPS source books. I'm more wondering about the rules themselves for GURPS vs. D20. What do you find disagreeable about the rules? I didn't meant to imply that I find the rules entirely disagreeable. There are a number of major problems, though. Skills are p...

That's the kind of in-universe logic that makes perfect sense, but is tricky for a game because allowing characters to pick up any amount of character upgrades just by paying for them is easily broken. That's why levels and character points exist. I'm not saying I don't like the idea, just that I'm ...

The real strength of GURPS is the encyclopedic sourcebooks for everything. The level of detail and accuracy, while not always the best thing for games, is fascinating. GURPS sourcebooks work great as generic supplements if you ignore the rules.

Bobikus wrote:Maybe I'll have to try that out too sometime, since apparently I auto-matically win the game when I hit level 20.

That comes standard with Tome classes. Don't leave home without it.

EDIT: Huh, two other posts in between when I loaded the page to read it and when I made my post.

Let's put this thread in a slightly different and better direction (imho). Do we really want to deny the players and the base game system story powers? By that I mean fun stuff we hear others do in stories: Raise armies of the dead, create abberant clones of our enemies in underground pits, enchant...

I'm totally on board with making AoOs a special defender ability. It makes defenders feel special while not forcing everyone to stand still during combat.

Then there were prestige classes and talents or feats or Darkside traits or some crap I can't remember that would let you enhance force powers like getting an extra swift action force power a turn, or better yet extending the range on your force powers I am pretty sure that one of those upgrades co...

I found SAGA pretty hilarious. The one time I played it, I was invited specifically to show the other players that their characters were not hot shit (I'd never touched the system, but he wanted them to not run around expecting to be able to kill everything). I ended literally every encounter with ...

Not important unless your game is intentionally silly. Critical hits can be used in decent ways if their effects aren't extreme, but very few games use them in a way that isn't stupid. Stuff like "Drop your sword on a fumble" or "Auto-success regardless of the DC on a critical success...

This series just keeps getting better. Bravo, Japan.

I'm actually in a 2E game currently (the DM is a reasonably cool guy, so it's not too bad), and we use 3d6 down the line, with the ability to swap one pair of attribute scores. If you want to play a special class like Paladin or Bard, you can set your scores at the minima for the class and roll the ...

Neither are shows that I'm very familiar with, but a quick internet search to verify my memory showed that both Barnabus from Dark Shadows and Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer drank pig's blood to avoid hurting humans.

Did you analyze Battleship Earth for deep meaning? No, the guy is a total hack. If I read Tolstoy or Hesse or Nathaniel Hawthorne, yeah, I'll look deeper because I feel they are worthy of study- JKR is not. It's simple as that. I have not found a fantasy or even Sci-Fi author that I found worthy of...

Dungeons and Dragons. At least back in 1974, if you weren't using the alternate combat rules instead.

I just realized that CAN is kind of like a more generalized version of this: http://www.dnd-wiki.org/wiki/UA:Injury I'm not sure if I'm the only one who didn't realize that until just now. It's also kind of like the damage system used in Mutants and Masterminds. Is there any way to do this in which...

It really depends on what genre you're looking at. I've not got much experience with Dice Pool systems but I like Wushu. It's extremely Rules Lite, but it can be flavored for any genre. You increase your dicepool, literally, by adding more cool flourishes to your action. The only draw back is that ...

RobbyPants wrote:I was responding to Spike's question.

Ah, I see. My mistake.

I wasn't asking for what it is; I said that I've read the threads. What I'm asking about is if anyone is actually doing anything with it, or if it's just something that very occasionally gets mentioned. I was interested in possibly using a version of it in the game I'm working on, so I'm curious if ...

Exactly what it says in the title. I really liked the idea, but I don't see it discussed anymore.

Did it just die with TNE? I wasn't around for the original discussions (although I've read them), and "CAN" is a hard term to search for.

Alignment shouldn't exist separate from patron deity, or the deity system in general; otherwise, the entirely separate moral compass of alignment needs some kind of reconciliation with the gods that ostensibly carry those torches. If there's three LG gods with entirely different MOs, then alignment...

Polite Jerk Good Finn Jake Princess Bubblegum Tree Trunks The Duke of Nuts Marcelline the Vampire Queen Donny the Grass Ogre Lumpy Space Princess Evil The Business Men The Why-Wolves Ricardio Ice King Marcelline's Dad Penny the Thief I could replace "Polite" and "Jerk" with &quo...

What do you mean on the same tier? And what do you mean by area? I am confused as to what exactly you mean by these two things. By area do you mean power source? I was referring to tiers in the way 3.X classes are divided into Wizard Tier, Rogue Tier, etc. As in, getting specialists and Red Mage ty...