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I like the concept rather a lot but I believe that you have already outlined the potential problems based on book-keeping.

Psychic Robot wrote:

Kenson's desire to rub his self-insertion homosexual penis on things has ruined more than one project where other authors have tried to have more plot and less gay sex with his self insertion characters. Seriously.

Explanation?

Yes. An explanation is warranted.

Any similarities between Arcanum and Fallout?

My two cents/nuyen/GP/currency of your choice: Class-less systems give the player a greater sense of control over their character and his development. The problem is that they give that same player actual control over the development of his character. This can (and often does) lead to munchkin or su...

NOTE: These comments refer to the FASA version published in 1997. I've played the FASA version and I'm not impressed (but not disappointed) with the mechanics. Each roll is based on a "step" number that can be added to or subtracted from. d4 d6 d8 d10 d12 2d6 d8+d6 etc. Target numbers star...

Personally I prefer the first half of option 1: the faith of the individual makes them immune (at least temporarily) to the influence of the vampire. Simply having a symbol without faith work seems ... off. For the purposes of the game you could define "holy" as a state of being integral o...

Why do we like 3.x? Because 4e is FUBAR which I suppose is SNAFU at WOTC.

That, and, we know and are comfortable with it.

I was hoping for, but not expecting, in depth analysis of every moderately well known system around. Well, glad to see that you didn't expect that as the answer. Although to be honest, I would love to see that analysis as well. From a completely subjective viewpoint, I prefer multiple dice seeking ...

Talisman wrote: Similar, yes. I really like the "aspects" part of FATE.
But I agree with Elennsar that Flaws should be weighted towards the negative...they should hinder more than they help. The are flaws, after all.

Ahh, now I understand. I can get behind that.

Let's say you have the Tragic Flaw of Pride. This means that you can spend "good" Pride Points to gain specified benefits, which give the GM "bad" Pride Points which he can later spend to whack you with. Also, the GM can spend "bad" Pride Points to make your life inter...

Prak_Anima wrote: funny thing is, Batman has a power, and it's that everyone around him suddenly becomes stupid. witness: any team up between batman and superman.

How true!

Having played and GM'd a StarWars d6 game, I will add my two cents. The rules are fine for a generalized adventure game; however, once you start adding complexity the system breaks. The Force powers are just ... just ... wrong. I can only imagine that the fantasy powers (d6 Fantasy) are just as bad....

From a GM POV, you could craft a methodology where time is only variable at certain points - kind of like a gate if you will. Reminds me of the old "pick-your-own-path" books from the 80s. Not full fledged time travel but much easier to adjudicate as the GM. Most movies assume an X:1 propa...

Well, that is one way of looking at it there, Bigode.

It is simply easier from a rules perspective.

If you wanted to have some degree of time travel without all the problems, you could the temporal manipulation to bullet time a la The Matrix and a round or two of time re-wind a la Prince of Persia and other games.

Ice9 has it right. The video was awesome but I can't imagine how that would work with any coherent set of rules.

Don't know how much of a fan of handwavium you are; however, you could use the concept of some moderating force like galactic time police or an alternate person filling the same role. Scenario: The PCs try to knock off Hitler before he can launch WW2. GTP Answer: Aliens, men from the future, angels,...

Query: Why do we need a half-elf? Need? We don't. End of discussion. Why do we still have the half-elf? As Maxus said, Tradition. It doesn't come up much in my games so I have no problem just saying that the baby ends up as one (and only one) of the parent races. Elf + Human = Human OR Elf Human + ...

Hear ye, hear ye, for Judging__Eagle has spoken the truth.

<SNIP> Therefore, there won't be any published alternate rules. Furthermore, unless the eternally forthcoming fan website license allows the posting of houserules, you'll have to keep any modifications to yourself or face WotC's legal brigade. I am far more scared of the Hasbro legal team. WotC pro...

It's just the "start-all" of table top rpgs. Not exactly. The majority, sure. I got my start with TSR products but not D&D. It was a choose-your-own-path style book set in Forgotten Realms. Most of the folks in college gaming group started with something else. WoD, Shadowrun, West End...

Not really savvy of WotC. Are they TRYING to kill their product off? Personally, I think it'd be really funny if 4th Edition went under but 3rd continued to chug along. Who knows, it might even happen by this time next year. I don't think so. I think that they are victim to their own design. They e...

Because if PCs got the idea to actually try to improve the world, they might do something silly, like use their huge amounts of magic to approximate an industrial society instead of kill stuff. <SNIP> Yep. Pretty much. I have a city like this in my world along with the dwarf version using pure tech...

I couldn't help but think of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books when I saw "Taint" with the capital "T". ----- While I'm not hung up on battles being short, I will most heartily agree with the rest of the statements. 8. The PCs are not pawns in the DM's stratagem. I'm not talkin...

You could; however, have you never tripped over your own feet? Have you never dropped a glass? That doesn't mean that you have a negative Athletic score, it just means that you screw up occasionally. I would agree that in non-stressful situations, your idea works just fine. In stressful one, not so ...