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"You roll a d20. You succeed on a task if your roll is above a certain number. The only bonuses you get are to damage, and there are a very few things that can increase your range."

Sounds a little like OD&D. Was that intentional?

Talisman more or less has the right of it about Birthright. The Birthright mass combat mini-game is entirely unintegrated with anything else in the box. Instead it's an abstract battlefield (15 areas of nebulous size) and a bunch of cards each representing terrain types or units of about ~100HD of c...

The Rambling Bumblers blog has an interesting article here on HP as abstraction for 'state of combat readiness' which seems more than a little influenced by the Wound/Vitality variant . Relevant portion quoted below: ...in general Hit Points represent that state of combat readiness that makes the ve...

Boolean wrote:What would you say is the difference between a prank and art?

The validity of art endures; that of a prank does not. A Rickroll != art. (YMMV)

http://jrients.blogspot.com/2006/02/i-g ... -here.html

And that's all I have to say about GNS.

The Justice League should have two members. Superman, who fights the bad guys, and Batman, whose only job is to point Superman in the right direction. That'd be Apollo and Midnighter then. "Ah, Warren Ellis, you crazy Hunter Thompson wannabe you. Is there any sacred cow you won't grind up for ...

The mechanic suggested for the Possible Sword artefact (mentioned in Dragon #352) is one possible way of doing this. For every 20 mooks you could abstract it that they roll every possible number on the RNG during their mass attack, and that those effects that hit damage the high-level character. In ...

@CatharzGodfoot: your 4-fold division of items (basic, minor, moderate, major) is more than a little reminiscent of the four encountered NPC equipment tables in one of the 1E DMG appendices. That system of expected items/level was based on multiple rolls on four discrete (no "roll on the next ...

Psychic Robot wrote:Epic fucking win is fucking epic.

F'in saved (under "That's not critique, this is critique.")

Complete Commoner + Children Characters - because the CWar Samurai wasn't gimp enough for some tastes :bored: Both the noble and commoner class are only ten levels; the remaining levels are taken through Job Classes. Job Classes provide bonuses to the occupation or station of that character. An exa...

Expansion of Craft to include both fakery and appraisal - interesting and logical. Does this restrict characters to appraising in fields they've studied (Bowyer, Gemcutter, etc.), or is it a general 'spot value' skill? I combined the point sink skills of Rope Use, Sleight of Hand and Escape Artist i...

Lago PARANOIA wrote:I seriously want to know that. Like, I thought Gimli was supposed to be some sort of hyper badass but he was just some midgety comic relief who wasn't allowed to be cool.

He was being played by Sallah from the Indiana Jones movies. Hardly a recipe for badass.

Warfare and Economics in E6 D&D http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97710 I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. Includes this on where money comes from in D&D world: It doesn't materialize, you're supposed to get it from the monsters. Also, this is one of the few rules which clea...

Regarding Monks and GitP, there was a thread somewhere where someone jokingly explained how Monks are so good because "you can choose any equipment - it doesn't even matter!", "It doesn't matter what you do with your ability scores - you need them all so it's all good!" and &quo...

Dark Heresy
Mutant Chronicles
Fading Suns
SLA Industries
HOL

All work as a basis for GRIMDARK scifi settings.

I usually thing of Law and Chaos in Moorcockian terms too: pure Law is excessively structured and unchanging stasis, pure Chaos undirected ferment without any regard for consistent meaning and/or cause-and-effect.

Both have their role to play; but too much of either is bad for business.

http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=32755.

You could just re-skin some of the alchemical items from Adventurer's Vault as magic arrows...

sigma999 wrote:

K wrote:Face it, the man sells soaps with d20s embedded in them. You can't expect actual design from him.

Hey, I don't see any Tome soaps yet. Where's the Tome soaps?

"Agh! My new Tome soap just stabbed me in the face!"

Well if I can auto deal with spells in a few rounds, it will actually be worth my resources to get a high modifier for Disable Device instead of dismissing traps as irrelevant. Epic Fail is Epic. Oh wow, the OP's post should be preserved for all time as a test piece for critical thinking classes: &...

20. The lulz.

Srsly: 1-4,7,8.

Now, at first glance you think that Planescape is about joining a factor and getting involved in a cosmic war, but that's boring as fuck since you don't accomplish anything. So then you realize that Planescape is about the individual. Fuck the blood war, you're out to make your own fortune on the p...

Frank : the Paizo forums :: Hiroshima : contemporary Japan - a powerful formative experience that - even if never repeated - will haunt the dreams of the bein pensant Paizonians with apocalyptic imagery and inform their future thinking for generations to come. "But...but...but how is this even ...

Probable repost (surely the Denizens didn't miss this one): James Wyatt trolls the Gleemax boards over "4E = WoW".

New for 4E: alchemical items!
And there are people looking at this drivel and going "Cool. That's cheap for what it is."

"Hong Kong Action Theatre" and, believe it or not, Cyberpunk 2020's "Pacific Rim Sourcebook" both fulfil your criteria with various different weightings. The former can be typified as 'Your characters live out an OTT action movie. FIGHT!', the latter has all the detail fetishism ...