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RPG ignorance question: What do the terms "heartbreaker" and "kitchen sink" refer too? "Heartbreaker" is a an RPG made of some game G who wants to make G but all fixed. Original usage was "fantasy heartbreaker" referring to such games derived from D&D. &q...

If the last one was a qualifier of high fantasy, low fantasy would be impossible.

Wulfbane, what you're thinking of is called an 'effects based system' and HERO is the best known example. However, it's not in any way a real solution because the appeal of 'free-form magic' is exactly getting results from MTP. Another solution that misses the appeal is when your system is made of M...

In this particular context, these particular Great Old Ones are extradimensional and summoned by advanced mathematics with some ritual flavoring. In flexible reality areas the required calculations are less advanced, up to "could be done accidentally". Also there's infovores.

Bypassing does count as defeating the challenge.

According to the Disengaging section, the vampire would have an even easier time if they started next to the werewolf. They're explicitly Adjacent for the whole round, so the vampire can melee kill the werewolf from 40ft. away without moving and with a threshold of 0.

Noooooo you summoned HIM whyyyy Don't worry, we're inoculated. Maxus put "Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!" in h...

Flipside: people who engage in cooperative storytelling quite often really want to engage in cooperative fanfiction, particularly when the particular game is explicitly inspired by character driven fiction like the superhero genre. The fact that Spider-Man is a highly popular member of the Avengers ...

angelfromanotherpin wrote:That would seem to be really obviously some person's otherkin fantasy.

Doesn't WoD already have a pattern of magic souls fusing with normal people? That's the core conceit of otherkinism(?) right there.

How is it supposed to go away when it is your basis of comparison to all the monsters? If everyone is a class level 1 Stone Giant then you start with CR 1 monsters? Eh? Relentless Imp has never particularly impressed me with his rules chops, so since no quote is provided, I will defer to "he p...

I don't think fans writing fanon have much respect or interest in other fans writing fanon that could conflict with their fanon, so what the Dominion Tank Police RPG did with only representing what was in the series is fine with me. My experience is that 1. People's headcanons can contradict more o...

The observable universe is finite. It will always be finite. There is no time t among the real numbers at which the size of the observable universe will be infinite. But the observable universe is expanding, and not only that the expansion is accelerating. That is not how the observable universe wo...

1. What's important is to get something that is adapted to the mood you want. Using playing card or mahjong tiles instead of dices can interesting for the atmosphere. If you want a realistic system, you might prefer a system where a pro can't be beaten by an amateur in his field, no matter how luck...

The most basic way is that when you get 3 wishes out of an Efreet, you use one or more of them to emulate a Planar Binding, summoning another one. Thus, an unlimited chain of wish-emulated Planar Bindings. The scenario assumes you have a repeatable way of getting Efreet to grant you Wishes, such as ...

Ancient History wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Int ... l_Posadist

This is amazing.

Some detractors have made allegations that the Posadists believe in a New Age doctrine based upon a millenarian belief in UFOs coming from a socialist future or alien socialist planet

Emphasis not mine.

icyshadowlord wrote:Would Merlin count? He was a cambion born of an incubus and a nun, if I recall right?

I think you misunderstand the question. It would count if the incubus was getting power out of this.

Come to think of it, a D&D publisher could actually do worse than to write a whole Furry Compendium of hand-crafted animal people. Cat people, dog people, frog people, armadillo people... Only if it's a compilation of already extant D&D furry races with maybe a couple new ones. Telling some...

The mageism in modern society runs deep. Just look at K.

OgreBattle wrote:Does this mean wizards who use colorspray need to wear tye dye clothing and live in towers with hypnotic patterns painted on the walls

That actually sounds pretty cool.

So there is a very important difference between Eldar and Elves because it's a different word, but the difference between Liches and Archliches/Baelnorns is not important? Now if I'm encountering a necromancer in a vibrant garden I would rather expect the garden to be creepy in some way. The presenc...

Some of the bonus explosion can be attributed to bonuses serving multiple purposes. (Then much is due to the authors treating the bonus categories as flavor text, as is obvious from the fact that there's a sacred and a profane bonus, or an alchemical bonus). The stated goal is to keep them from stac...

Really? What pony?

Third edition invented CR. Previous editions, there was no measure of monster power. The fact that the story does not seem to be following the rules of any edition makes that sort of tactical analysis kind of moot. At any rate, note that the owlbear appears in the middle of a fight with multiple opp...

13th age does not use the term "Challenge Rating". Is there an edition where owlbears have a CR of 4 and do over 25 damage with an attack?

That's quite possibly the worst solution. If you make it so a Paragon character is supposed to be using both their Heroic and Paragon abilities at the same time, you'll maximize the synergy and anti-synergy between various class matchups, guaranteeing that there will be right and wrong Heroic-Parago...