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Arch Mastery where the book flat out says that eve the authors don't know what you can do. [br]They're trying to avoid screwing the pooch like they did with Archmastery the first time around. Tome of the Mysteries has significant information on how an ST can run Archmaster NPCs, but the long and sh...

Defense is essentially meaningless, because all it does is marginally [decrease] the number of dice pointed at you before you drop [br]On its own, that's true. The key is that you can stack defense and other modifiers to completely wipe out an opponents' dice pool.[br][br]A typical Mage has an Armo...

I have little to no experience with Vampire.[br][br]Mage: Mage's have an exponential power curve. The difference between Starting Level Character and Master of An Arcana is about 54 experience. Cockblock starting characters' Gnosis to help stave off that problem. Beg, borrow, or steal a copy of Tome...

You know, for all this talk of super-optimization with the cleric archers and the what not, I've never really played a game where it's been terribly apparent Mage> Fighter. [br]I will describe for you a 3.0 Ravenloft campaign I played in. The game went from...I believe it was from 4 to 11. In that ...

We really ought to do a Worst Feat EVER competition. Everyone goes through their WotC books to find the worst feats EVER. Going through 3rd party books is really just too easy. We should probably categorize them, maybe something like:[br][br]1. Worst Prereq[br]2. Worst Feat That Does Nothing[br]3. W...

<r><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>WotC has the Ravenloft liscence back. I expect the rules to somehow get worse (S&S dosen't do the best here, but better than Heros of Horror) while simultaneously making the setting crap.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE><BR>[br]</BR>BULLSHIT.<BR>[br]</BR><BR>[br]</BR>Here's an over...

Heh, that can be rectified, but only by someone more motivated to do so than I.

Done.

As a Swift action, he may choose any feat he meets the prerequisites for use it for a number of rounds equal to his base attack bonus. This ability may be used once per hour. [br]The word 'and' should be in between thw phrases 'prerequisites for' and 'use it'.[br] Array of Stunts (Ex): A 13th level...

Knocking out/unconscious/sleeping, perhaps? It's a word that's literally not mechanically defined anywhere, TTBOMK. [br]Funnily enough, SWd20 did define 'knocked out' and 'Unconscious'. Of course, they defined them as DIFFERENT THINGS. 'Knocked out' meant you couldn't take any actions, but you were...

Progenitor of the Gith - Sometimes it's called 'Escaped Thrall' class and there's an unnecessary ] in the Movement of the Mind description.[br][br]Arcane Magical Writings - Second paragraph, "And while there are certainly some gems on the Cleric list as far as spells go, chances are if you want...

Bard: The Bard could be a dedicated magical buffer/debuffer. I'm thinking along the lines of 'The Bard sings. Enemies all get -4 to strength, everyone in the party gets +4 strength'.[br][br]Fighter: Give the fighter Spell Resistance and other ways to resist magic. He also needs some good way to draw...

So the primaries are a vote about who is a candidate in the actual election? [br]Yes.[br] What about the people who don't have a party btw? [br]Depends on your state. Some states don't let you vote in any primary other than the ones for your particular party. Others let anyone vote in any primary. ...

Before I start, let me make sure I understand what you're arguing. If I'm wrong here, please disregard the rest of my post: You are arguing that most major settings, including the World of Darkness setting, do not allow most people to improve their lot in life.[br][br] World of Darkness: I don't thi...

Is there any civilization to these Frankenstein's monster things or what? [br]According to the webcast, they have a very loose society. It's a bunch of people warchalking the world that ocassionally meet. They only cooperate so long as they think the other Prometheans can help them on their quest t...

For those of you that don't keep up with White Wolf, they're putting out a 4th Big Game called Promethean: the Created. They've started posting previews on their website.[br][br]In a nutshell: You are the monster from Frankenstein. You were made by a monster from the remains of others. Your goal, li...

You should really be thanking Wikipedia users. Answers.com is just a usually outdated mirror of Wikipedia with ads and no original content.

Say 'hi' to Bruce at http://MMOGchart.com/ [br]I realize this is off-topic...[br][br]But I must say it. Bruce LIES. A lot.[br][br]I've many friends in the MMOG industry. The numbers they have been able to find out simply do not fit what Bruce claims. Also, Bruce famously invested in WW2OL and would...

That being said, I agree completely that the Technocracy was way more awesome than anything they got going now. In fact, I would say categorically that the Technocracy was more awesome than anything that they had going on in the original Ascension book. [br]In the abstract I completely agree with y...

Summary: Mage: the Awakening is an order of magnitude better than Mage: the Ascension. It's still flawed, but much less so than before. It's worth at least borrowing from a friend.[br][br][br] The Good [br] [br] The New World of Darkness system. It's better than the old one especially with a few min...

I think it's just a lull.[br][br]For one, it used to be summer so the college students that make up part of the userbase here were out of school and could post a lot more.[br][br]For two, we've beaten some of our regular topics into the ground. Some people have even changed their minds on these topi...

The 3.5 weapon sizing rules serve an extremely valid purpose in the D&D ruleset. They're the part of the system you explain when you want to make new GMs and players cry. The terminology is so incredibly confusing and non-intuitive that you have to wonder if WotC included those rules for the sol...

So I'm in an argument with someone about 3.5 weapon sizing. Quoth them: "Originally, all PCs were the same size and used the same weapons. Then 3.0 made a split between what small PCs and medium PCs wielded." I'm almost certain they're wrong, but I can't remember with certainty if that's h...

Katrina: The Gathering is a set of Katrina themed Magic: The Gathering cards. Pick the main server or a mirror and clickity click. The M:tG geeks out there will be laughing hard. Everyone else will at least smile a bit.

Evil Nursing Home Operators was the real winner for me.

Murtak: Yes, the action interrupt wouldn't help much unless combined with a broken down combat round. Example, you can only take a half-action when you interrupt and your second half action later in the round.[br][br]Your post is on the money about the disadvantages of an opposed test, except for th...

Is there any way to resolve this problem caused by the level of abstraction in the rules, and not turn the RPG fight into a difficult to run wargame-style simulation? [br]Maybe. There's some options available to muck around with initiative and the combat round for more realism without over complica...