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That being said, I don't much care for the sample ruleset posted a few posts back. If you're going to have the difference between a strong guy and a weak guy be only 2 points on 3d6, you might as well dump the stats altogether. Yeah, I came to the same conclusion. Right now I'm leaning towards the ...

Leverage has some interesting dynamics, and is worth looking at to help with out-of-the-box thinking as regards action declaration and resolution in an RPG. ... The game's definition of a task and action resolution system can allow one player to play a gun toting badass while another players a scra...

Second and final session of the playtest: [19:01] * Now talking in #Doubt [19:14] <echoVanguard> *** SCENE BEGIN *** [19:14] <echoVanguard> The drive back from Red House is uneventful, if unsettling. You're still coming to grips with your most recent discovery. [19:15] <SeanHarrison> (you can also p...

Omegonthesane wrote:ok sounds good as long as such encounters are not common

That's my thought as well.

echo

Well, the fact that guns do not work on most of the bad guys directly isn't really negotiable, but that's actually ok. You can't shoot the Metatron not matter what you do, but you could shoot their pawn just fine, and you could shoot non-supernatural thugs trying to take your cheeseburgers with no p...

So what you're saying is that you want 100% of Doubters to carry a silver machete, a shotgun, and a bottle of crazy pills. Because the expectation is that PC monster hunters are loaded for bear at all times ever. That's actually the exact opposite of what I want. What I want is for people to be pre...

No, stop. Look, this is not hard. There is a stark and obvious difference between having weird adventures and later being unsure whether those adventures were real, and being unsure whether you are actually having adventures while you are having them . One of these is a game that might actually be f...

Doubt “ I'm not sure which is worse...that I might be crazy, or that I might not be. ” Doubt is a tabletop role-playing game system and setting in which the player characters can control reality and are tasked with protecting humanity from monsters and villains that can protect themselves from disc...

Some things I'm thinking about for the rules: (link) 1. I'm not happy with advancement in the skill system. At all. The current system has a tremendously huge breakpoint between unspecialized and specialized, which works out really well at creation, but gives you no room to grow - additional rerolls...

Well, the book would probably have a lot of fluff pieces.

echo

Playtest log follows. For clarification, "Edubb" is our dicebot. [22:50] <echoVanguard> Darkness. Sweltering heat. And a headache the likes of which you've never imagined before. As you slowly regain consciousness, you wonder what on earth you could possibly have done to deserve such suffe...

I don't think it's really feasible to have hard-core, serious ambiguity occur about the basic assumptions of the game [/b]. Players are going to experience extremely weird shit like having a Hollow Man pull a knife out of his kidney indifferently or pumping shotgun rounds into the face of a screechi...

Quite frankly, the primary concern is giving the player characters a reason to play the game instead of deciding to brush this weird shit off and go back to their jobs. I want the players to feel stranded in a situation where they're basically forced to scrounge for resources, keep moving, and be le...

In the current playtest game all the characters started with amnesia, so that could be a global thing that happens. Or not.

Also, the fact that these people don't remember you and you think you remember them is in no way proof that you aren't just batshit crazy.

echo

This is a master consolidation thread for Doubt stuff. [/td][td]Original / Inspirational Content [/td][/tr] Original Thread Villains Mechanics Protagonists Herrings Initial Light Ruleset Playtest Game Design Flowchart [/td][td]Current Rules and Content [/td][/tr] Premise, Resolution Mechanics, and C...

So, I am running a game of Doubt with some modified background elements and a set of simple rules (that suck) designed to make the game playable in the short-term and suss out some of the potential options and avenues for making the game interesting. The log of the first session will be appended to ...

FrankTrollman wrote:Anyway, simple moisturizing creams work for some people, as does getting more sunlight exposure.

How much sunlight exposure does one need? My baby daughter has the worst atopic dermatitis and we're about ready to sacrifice goats and chickens for relief.

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I'm not sure if these count as modern, but here are my standbys: 1. The Black Company series by Glen Cook. 2. The Black Company series by Glen Cook, again, because it's that good. 3. All books written by Joe Abercrombie, beginning with "The Blade Itself". 4. The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers....

For people who are familiar with AD&D, it's literally exactly the same thing as Magic Resistance except ... with the system cleaned up and normalized so that it's easier to use and brooks less argument. -Username17 This is not 100% true; 2E Magic Resistance had a few more ways it could be used ...

For a first-time OSSR, this is quite good. Top marks.

echo

I'd really enjoy a Frank & AH tag-team review of the 3.5 Tome of Magic. I think it'd dovetail nicely with the recent review of Magic of Incarnum.

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The Loremaster prestige class, which I have asked you assholes to look at several times now No. I asked you to provide an example of any character option providing an increase to "level in a spellcasting class" without providing an increase in "your level for purposes of spells per d...

When something adds to your level in a spellcasting class, it adds to your caster level and your caster level alone unless it also says that it adds to your level for purposes of spells per day, hit dice, skill maximums, or whatever else. -Username17 Can you produce a citation of a class feature, a...

Well, "levels in a spellcasting class" is the actual literal wording in the fucking glossary entry of "caster level" in the Player's Handbook. You can fuck all the way off. -Username17 Actually, it says (emphasis mine): caster level: A measure of power with which a spellcaster c...

They can't because those are the same thing. Getting a 6th level spell slot isn't a feature of your level in spellcasting (which is your caster level), it's a class feature of your class level in Wizard. Except that Ur-Priest does not refer to"your levels in spellcasting", it refers to &q...