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Differences between characters? Why do you want any character capacity to vary? Also, don't you see the ability to form 2 different parties with 2 different knowledge sets to be useful? No. I don't. I see the ability to form parties with two different ability sets as useful, but actual knowledge is...

And not everything should have any chance of being known without resource expenditure. Um… why? Either you want the main dudes to know it or you don't. Yeah, there's the gray area wherein you say, "Oh, that's background information, I guess," and you huck it at people, but beyond that, wh...

To quote: Spycraft 2.0 features no Knowledge skill. Any character may make a Knowledge check at any time about any topic. Knowledge checks are made to determine if a character knows something that the player doesn’t (though the GC is within his rights to call for a Knowledge check even if a player d...

Spycraft 2.0 Skills: Acrobatics (Dex-based stuff) Analysis (appraising and deciphering stuff) Athletics (Str-based stuff) Blend (passive I-was-never-here stuff) Bluff (lying) Bureaucracy (bribery) Computers (hacking and overclocking) Cultures (familiarity with... um... cultures, including languages...

Here's one: 12. MORBID : UNFAVORABLE A. reputable:favorable B. maternal:unfavorable C. disputatious:favorable D. vigilant:unfavorable E. lax:favorable First, this is stupid. A good test writer doesn't reuse his distractors unless there's a purpose behind it, and there's no purpose behind this one e...

While it's possible, Bigode, that Koumei is talking about first edition Spycraft , even 1E doesn't fit with what Koumei describes. Guns aren't stupid powerful, you can adapt any D&D spell and monster, and psionics and ritual magic are all in one book. This takes a total of 3 books. Koumei must h...

Koumei,

I'm at a loss. That assessment of Spycraft is so fucked-up wrong that I'm not even going to address it.

Everything you've said about the game is stupid. You're just doing this for the lulz. I'm not gonna clutter this thread responding to your trolling.

But Spycraft isn't D&D. No, shut up, it's not. It only does one thing well, but luckily, that's what it was made to do: Modern-day, magic-free*, deadly "Who you are seriously doesn't matter when combat breaks out, not even your stats. Simply the size of your penis extension gun." game...

No, WOTC are trying to corner their market share. Dude, yes. 3(.whatever)E remains a solid, tested system with vast support and, I'm guessing, thousands of books available, now, often, at cut-rate prices. 3(.whatever)E is viable and playable --4E is a tactical wargame with a nod at role-playing, whi...

Actually, 5th level has a fair number of iconic spells, but, you're right, most are in the lower-level-spell-but-better categories. But there's no lesser versions of fabricate (unless you count make whole , which it ain't), wall of force , or sending . More recent additions like prying eyes (which i...

Every time you don't gain a point of Base Attack Bonus in a class that isn't a full caster, you gain +1 to your spellcasting level.

Elegant and easy.

I'm aware they didn't get spells every time they leveled up. I'm pretty sure they got one spell of the appropriate level when they gained a new spell level, though. I remember that because one big balancing factor for bards as spellcasters was supposed to be that they never got to learn new spells ...

In the aforementioned 2E game I went for about a year preparing fourth-level spells as fifth-level spells because the one fifth level spell I'd encountered I blew the chance-to-know roll.

No shit.

8 years in, and still going. The ceremony is for you, the rest of the wedding is for everyone else and you get to play super host. Yes! Fucking right. In fact, I'd go further, it's all about everyone else. The wife and I were married at the local Dave and Busters (which has a nice meeting room that ...

I whipped out my 2E books. Mages require a 9 Int for 4th-level spells, a 10 for 5th, a 14 for 7th, a 16 for 8th, and an 18 for 9th. _____ Having played in a 2E game for a decade, my mage made it from 5th to 11th level. I estimated it would have taken another 3 years of weekly play to reach 12th. The...

24. The next level.

Really? In a way that they're balanced and can all be useful in the same team? If so, I might need to look into it. Maybe. It depends on what you as the GM allow everyone to do. You're golden if the full conversion cyborg has super strength, virtual invulnerability, and some built in guns; the drag...

And here I thought it was Str that was undercosted. Every 5 points gets you a 1d6 attack power (3-5 points), movement (1" of horizontal leaping--1 point), 1/5 point of PD, 1/5 of a point of Rec, and some weird fraction of STUN. The ability to combine your offense, defense, and movement into one...

Um... Spycraft 2.0 gives out what is considered a character's most powerful ability at level 14. Additional abilities beyond that are simply force multipliers.

So, yeah, you actually get to play with Teh Awesome for a while.

"Only Elminster can fist-fuck reality back to how it's supposed to be! But he's busy, so it's all up to you! Good luck, heroes!"

You can wander around modern times and refuse to use the internet. You can make your own suits. You can carry a revolver. And you can try to solve crimes. But this doesn't make you a 1920s gumshoe. It makes you a dumbass who doesn't use the internet while tracking down information. OMG, I'm a subop...

It's a grey area but I find it hard to look at a rules toolkit and call using it to achieve your goals the Oberoni Fallacy. By that rationalization any game that doesn't use ALL the rules as presented, like say underwater combat rules because no one ever got around to fighting underwater, is guilty...

don't see how having your "Egyptian" setting and your "Viking" setting be separate games is essentially different than having them in the same world but saying "this is going to be a viking campaign". One of them relies on the Oberoni fallacy. Maybe. There's a differen...

Granted, Greenwood is no ERB, but what kind of folks are you playing with that it becomes so wankish that it deserves hate? You've a Trazan setting, with lost civilizations, scary monsters, foreign invaders, and lots and lots of druids--you don't actually need to huck Tarzan in there as a cameo to s...

Given I think FR sucks anyway as a campaign setting... that's hilarious. I'm glad to see it crash and burn, maybe people will want to play more interesting stuff now. But… but… Forgotten Realms isn't a setting. It's every setting. You want to play pirates? That's there. You want Tarzan? That's ther...