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I started playing choose-your-adventure books in ~86, which lead me to "The Dark Eye" adventure books. Then, at the middle school (junior high?) I met people playing The Dark Eye as a real TTRPG, and entered one of those groups (in ~89). At that time, I still did not ever heard of DnD, we ...

For the Bug people, we have to remember they should be powered by dreams if we don't want to change the power source of the other Leviathan. I'd say something with powers linked to native american dream catchers, maybe half-spiders women that use illusions in order to approch their prey and lay eggs...

CatharzGodfoot wrote:If 4e-style horse archery was available in an MMO, you can bet your ass that people would bee all over it in a second.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiting_(MMORPG_term)

The Black Company, by Glen Cook.

Words are meaningless, only the intent counts.
I don't care about curse words used as punctuation. I do care that wordfilters break the meaning of perfectly non profanity phrases. I do care that wordfilters do nothing to mask the intent of profanity phrases.

I can envision a role-playing game where you play this character. I wouldn't play it, but somebody would. I could believe that this hypothetical person would have fun. That doesn't mean this game should or even could use the rules of the game you play adventurers raiding dungeons. And if they don't...

What about finding the event that made him want to rape slaves, and preventing *that* event ?

That's one thing on "a chance of survival" that "roll a 1, if you roll a 1..." doesn't model. Which is why I can't give a "I want a 50-50 chance of survival" answer...its not just the dice. Its the competence of the opposition and my ability to act and react to what th...

What I want is to be facing risk in combat, where smart decisions may (if things work out) make my character survive. So you want something like "make smart decisions, have 99% chance to survive this encounter, make bad decisions, have 25% chances to survive this encounter". Thus, after 1...

Which is of course the big problem: we have a single strength scale that's supposed to cover cyclops and and cats. And cyclops cats. And Catclops. And that can I think be handled somewhat by having an iterating strength scale. That is, you can keep numbers from getting too far out into crazy town b...

If there is trading you lose all players who want an even playing ground. Trading does not cause losing the even ground. Only trading perversion does. You lose players that don't want to reward wasteful time grinding in the game with an advantage. One can imagine an economy where there is trading b...

Crissa wrote:The fact that you guys don't seem to understand that just being able to make a Hanzo sword is a salable ability, even if no swords are even made, depresses me.

It's because you can sell the ability "being able to make a Hanzo sword", even if you can't make a Hanzo sword.

French song about a Troll, an Elf, and an ... apple.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yJHZp3iHcpg

In the Dragonlance Core book, they described Silvanesti racists being "good taken to extremes." Since when is racism good?! And I don't mean "I think that Asian people study hard" racism, I mean the "all other races are scum and deserve to be stripped of their rights" ...

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Bigode wrote:Catharz: who had a literal chainsaw glued?

That would be Ash Williams from the Evil Dead series.

And he also fights with a shotgun (often point blank).

I'm also in favor of 'Remove the Magic Mart' plus 'Raw Power', with maybe a twist of 'Non Convertible Currency' for high level favors (Recruiting standard armsmen costs gold, Creating magic item costs raw ingredients, Asking a djinn to construct a castle in one night costs a Perfect Soul).

1204641984[/unixtime]]I mean sure, Elric only wants to fuck his sister. But he can get women out of their panties right quick if he pulls out the sword and tells everyone who he is. [br][br]True Heroes only create extreme emotions around them, either you love them or you hate them (or both). And it...

So a kind of 'Magic Jar: The Possession' ?

If the "kobold killing is not epic" statement is aimed at my sample adventure, know that while killing the kobold was a solution to the adventure, it was not the epic one. The epic solution was to succeed restoring the peace between the two tribes. And they were kobold only because of two ...

Low level adventure:[br]Retrieval of an item stored in a Kobold temple (in fact a frozen grotto). The entrance of this temple is sealed with a magical word (response of an hard enigma written in draconic), and blocked by a goblin tribe, at war with the kobold tribe since they kidnaped the son of the...

For Duration of Pugnation , going for hours or days is not enough, the strategies and special effects should change with time. Having a 3 hours battle where the two opponents only throw fireballs at each other without moving is not epic, its boring .[br][br]Thus, in long battles, different moves sho...

One solution to have elections where every candidate can participate without being detrimental to similar candidates is to give a note to every candidate instead of choosing the one you want.[br]Then, the candidate with the best average won.[br][br]Thus you don't need primaries, if people really lik...

I think that's why we talk about it so much.

1199987115[/unixtime]][br]I was speaking specificially to the idea that helpless targets should just die when people feel like killing them (it breaks verisimilitude for a lot of people when you can't cut someone's throat while they sleep). So, if you can sneak into the king's bedroom without wakin...

1199908431[/unixtime]]Well, if we had to choose between "buckets-o-dice" and "static" in our damage dealing, I'd rather the game move closer to the 'static' side as levels go higher. Randomness is already present with the attack roll, so having the bonus exceed the die rolls in ...