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- Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:53 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: News that makes us laugh, cry, or both
- Replies: 3528
- Views: 231835
How are Hatians supposed to have an agrarian society in which they don't own the land and the US tariffs all their products to not compete with other US protectorates? -Crissa If you're asking me about this, the solution is for the US to stop keeping them dependent . The problem isn't the Haitians ...
- Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:44 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: 5th Edition
- Replies: 57
- Views: 10504
As rounds get shorter, the ability to have real world events occur goes away. The police have a response time. The cavalry have a response time. Everything has a response time. Poison has a progression time. Bleeding has a progression time. And so on. A very good point. However, I wonder how moveme...
- Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:28 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Spycraft 2.0 - Failed Design?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 18299
- Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:36 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: My stuff
- Replies: 39
- Views: 9242
Expert Access to a Sphere for the price of a feat is overpowered, since being a 2nd level Conduit gives you a free feat for every Sphere you have Expert access to. If your Expert Access feat is a [Fiend] feat, a 2nd level Conduit gains all spheres it grants access to for free. If it's not, then they...
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Skill Feats
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8452
Personally I can't see the need for (Magic) Feats. The point of (Combat) feats was to give non-casters class features as powerful as spells. Spellcasters already have a class feature as powerful as spells. The Tome additions have just about got non-casters to an equal footing. Give casters another ...
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 8:51 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Top 15 computer RPGs
- Replies: 83
- Views: 13056
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:50 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Dark Sun returns
- Replies: 739
- Views: 109080
Well, technically, it might be a fallacy, but in this case, the intention is really absolutely clear, isn't it? Is it? The wizard just rescued a peasant - is the peasant his ally? If so, can he kill him with this power and still have him count as an ally? Is an unconscious party member an ally? An ...
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:25 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Top 15 computer RPGs
- Replies: 83
- Views: 13056
Good, now find an example where that dwarven miner has a history, relationships to other NPCs, has dialogue, will attack a lone orc on sight or run and alert his settlement at the sight of an orcish army. And while you are at it pick a game with a threedimensional world please. Twodimensional tile-...
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:19 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: News that makes us laugh, cry, or both
- Replies: 3528
- Views: 231835
Haiti would also be in a lot better shape if they had an agricultural economy like they used to before the US crushed it, instead of trying to set up a factory sweatshop economy and overgrowing their cities (seriously, Port-au-Prince's population in 2000 was more than 12 times its 1950 population). ...
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:27 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Divinity of Jesus: The Catholic Argument
- Replies: 64
- Views: 6640
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:30 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: Skill Challenges
- Replies: 267
- Views: 63793
Are you saying that just because something has been debunked, WotC can't rely on it?Josh_Kablack wrote:But Frank, the infinite monkey theorem has been debunkedThey are developing the Skill Challenge rules using the Monkeys with Typewriters model.
- Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Setting Design Flowchart
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11857
- Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:26 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lago's Kickass D&D-Book Marketing Strategy!
- Replies: 604
- Views: 77642
- Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:30 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Wealth By Level
- Replies: 156
- Views: 51452
Interesting idea. I was thinking of items providing talents directly (such as strength or martial skill), increasing your options. I hadn't considered the idea of having items augment the number of uses. If Thor's gloves and belt work together as an IGStr item he would still get benefit from them b...
- Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:44 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Ignore Specific Posts
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2648
Ignore Specific Posts
Since the bug with the quote tags (you know the one) is not going away, can we have a feature where we can ignore a specific post to save the thread's formatting? I've tested and adding the user to your ignore list does work, but it seems like a clumsy solution for this. So I'm suggesting adding a b...
- Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:07 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Wealth By Level
- Replies: 156
- Views: 51452
There are two competing ways to do items. These are more extremes of a spectrum than distinct types, though: 1) Catch-up items. A catch-up item lets you do something that you can't ordinarily do, but someone else can. These items usually don't stack, or don't stack very well, with having that as you...
- Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:46 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: [Combat Feat] Brutality
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1728
It's pure vertical stacking power, and basically lets you add three times your base attack bonus to your damage for free. The knockdown ability on it is good, but it's really the only thing that makes you qualitatively different for having the feat as opposed to not having it. Also, bonus attacks ar...
- Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lago's Kickass D&D-Book Marketing Strategy!
- Replies: 604
- Views: 77642
You don't role protect anything important in an RPG. You might role-protect, for instance, Combat Teleportation. Tanking, though, is something every group needs, and if it's role-protected at all then that means that you have to have one of the classes that it's role-protected for. Better to protect...
- Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:21 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Divinity of Jesus: The Catholic Argument
- Replies: 64
- Views: 6640
I thought that Jews and Muslims, at least in the foundational writings, believed in multiple deities. I mean, I'll believe nowadays that both believe only in Yahweh, but it seems as though Christians were the ones who really kicked off the monotheist movement. This may have been already addressed b...
- Fri Jan 15, 2010 10:26 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: News that makes us laugh, cry, or both
- Replies: 3528
- Views: 231835
- Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:17 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: New Frank & K Tome pdf
- Replies: 668
- Views: 168617
I was going to ask if these descriptions considered that spell which creates demiplanes (which seems infinitely superior), but all I can find is Genesis . Was I imagining it? There's an Arcane version in the Epic rules. Frank, if you don't mind, I'm going to yoink a bunch of the stuff on the Negati...
- Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:33 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Bullshit monsters, and using them in games
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8320
Alternately, just make monster identification automatic for common things that aren't disguised in any way. A knowledge skill tells an albino red dragon from a white dragon, to use the classic dick example, or an Eye of Fear and Flame from a Lich. But even without making the check you can guess that...
- Wed Jan 13, 2010 1:27 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Utilitarianism kicks ass.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4401
Our current best guess says that entropy will eventually increase to the point that the universe will be incompatible with human existence. There is actually a finite end to time. Also, the world is and has always been in flux enough that forecasting more than a few centuries out is hard enough that...
- Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:31 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lago's Kickass D&D-Book Marketing Strategy!
- Replies: 604
- Views: 77642
- Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:51 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: New Frank & K Tome pdf
- Replies: 668
- Views: 168617
I have some of the High Adventure on the Elemental Planes written up for myself, too, although not quite finished anywhere. I've also rewritten the environments for some of them. My Plane of Fire and Frank's, for instance, are completely different. I'll post what I have for Earth. High Adventure in ...