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Very nice setting concept. What kind of system do you have in mind, though?

What about the second part of what I mentioned in the OP? Not just the idea of streamlining things, but actually making the experience of DMing more rewarding in a more game-like sense?

A really good list of character names that I can pick off of. Oh hell yes. The most useful 3rd party gaming supplement I have ever owned was just a set of name lists from a bunch of cultures. It was incredibly useful . Since every NPC needs a name. -Username17 Might I ask which supplement that is? ...

I think in 3E you can only ease Mr Caverns workload so much Well, suggestions need not just be for 3e. This topic has given me an idea. Probably a retarded one, but we'll see where it goes Mind sharing what the idea is? The biggest aid for Mr. Cavern is monster books. As long as I have a stack of M...

As a bit of an aside to the thread about Cavernicide, how would you make the role of Mr. Cavern more rewarding and, thus, more attractive to more mainstream players? In my mind, one of the biggest obstacles is that of preparation time. Even for a DM who is creatively capable of improvising a sandbox...

Wealth Level systems always mean that getting the same treasures in different orders end up with you getting different amounts of wealth at the end. That's weird, and I'm unconvinced that it's desirable. What would probably be better is having a lifestyle level where you had a certain amount of dis...

If you are making randomizers, tables, and scripts, there really is no reason you shouldn't be making a damn videogame.

Stop thinking "randomizers, tables, and scripts" and start thinking "pass the story stick." It worked for the native americans.

Wealth Level systems always mean that getting the same treasures in different orders end up with you getting different amounts of wealth at the end. That's weird, and I'm unconvinced that it's desirable. What would probably be better is having a lifestyle level where you had a certain amount of dis...

You know, I'll just go ahead and say it: I am not okay with even joking about killing off old people in a particularly horrible way just to get rid of a small, psychotic subset of them.

I don't think this general idea is innately horrible in theory but all the specific examples of it sure are. I'll grant at least that. It is conceivable that there would be a good version appropriate for certain audiences. Not me, probably, but I'm not going to call other people's fun badwrongfun.

Seriously? Wow. Clubs. What clubs? I looked at the list of clubs at my local college, and surprisingly they don't have a gaming club (be it pen and paper or video games), or actually any really decent ones. I guess that's just my luck. Dodgeball. Martial Arts. Eh? nearbygamers.com and penandpaperga...

Since moving relatively recently, I haven't had much luck finding new friends. I have been unable to locate handy clubs where people with similar interests gather. I had some degree of hope when a new hobby shop opened, but the warhammer wargamers there turned out to be rather snobby jerks who seeme...

As I've done before, I have another question about a list of anime/animation that a 4-5 year old can watch. As a reference point, she's seen all the Miyazaki films (Kiki's delivery service, Howl's moving castle, Castle in the sky), quite a few of the Disney movies (Aladdin, Little Mermaid, Sword in...

Sashi wrote:The only reason it works for Mario RPG is that it's a single person learning and doing the twitch minigames.

It's also a videogame.

What works in one format does not necessarily work in another.

Despite the fact that the Mario RPGs represent a pinnacle of awesomeness...

This sounds like a really bad idea for pen and paper games. Really bad.

Lago PARANOIA wrote:

This.

Kill the cows! Slay the cows! Destroy the cows!

Plussed magic items honestly don't make a lot of sense. I haven't seen a convincing system on how characters, in-universe, describe a +1 sword. Or the difference between a +1 and +2 sword. I've managed to do it in my games. People just have trouble with needing to add their own fluff text because t...

In a D&D-like game, you could even just base the abilities of the sword on character level. When a weaker character picks up a flaming sword, it just sets stuff on fire. A more powerful character's flames are more powerful, dealing fire damage instead of slashing (while still setting stuff alig...

See, I would trade in +X for synergy abilities. You don't quite get "Flaming x3," you get a scaling fire damage bonus right off the bat. Then you can pick up extra abilities like "Flame Burst" that makes area explosions or "Flame Blade" that makes a blade completely out...

I think something that that would help is if warriors were actually good with all weapons. Now I know what you're thinking - "Warriors already kill things fast, that isn't the problem!" But usually, they do it by using force-multipliers and melee-specific stuff, so when they can't use the...

A way to contribute when not throwing punches. When batman and Superman team up Batman is able to figure out Lex Luthers evil plans before Superman can change out of his reporters outfit. Fixed. Also, this. And the reason this doesn't work as a solution in D&D is because the Smart Guy is suppos...

Prak_Anima wrote:However, I agree that we need to add a lot of actual powers that are flavoured correctly, like barbarians tracking by scent, but that's specifically, what, a third level power?

In 3.5e, it's a first level maneuver.

Fighters also ought to have potent ways to affect the plot itself, and there are a number of ways you can go about that while staying outside of the realm of having them shoot lasers out of their eyes (punching lasers so that they fly way over there and blow up yon cliffside, however, is totally oka...

I actually made a little subsystem to encourage and reward diverse and resourceful improvisation so players could play more like Jason Bourne (while still having good reasons to use non-improvised weapons as well. On the same character).

I still don't get why people have a problem thinking that a Barbarian or Fighter should do this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PCDxS8uJFQ