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- Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:02 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: TNE: "Broad Classes"
- Replies: 76
- Views: 14443
- Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:13 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Class Names, and some possibilities.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4567
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:20 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Attributes
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7665
Tavish's system could be made (somewhat more) workable, if attributes applied only to defenses; if your Red defense is equal to the number of Red attacks that you know, and your Blue defense is equal to the number of Blue attacks that you know, then, at the very least, you have a reason why you migh...
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:55 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: TNE: "Broad Classes"
- Replies: 76
- Views: 14443
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:42 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Attributes
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7665
Maybe if, the more points you put into a defense, the cheaper it got to raise; so that, if you're raising Fort at the expense of Will, -1 Will buys you +2 fort, or even +1 ref/+1 fort, if your stats are baseline; lower Will and higher Fort might go 1 for 3, 4, or 5 (although you might be off RNG by ...
- Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:11 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Attributes
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7665
- Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:25 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Attributes
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7665
On a side note, how do we handle superhuman characters? Is that an option, or should it even be one? Do we want six-foot chalk-white guys to be able to break the grip of minotaurs and Colossal-sized golems? Is there really an alternative? If the minotaur can grab you in its fist, you need to be abl...
- Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:23 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: No rolling HD: Creating HP disparities and dealing w/ SoDs
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3178
One option could be to allow SoD only to work against a creature with X hp or less. That way they become more of a finishing move rather than a rocket launcher from the get go. this would prevent people from killing the BBEG in one round, or having the reverse happening True. That was the intent be...
- Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:07 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Still more Threads that make us Laugh, Cry, or Both
- Replies: 1500
- Views: 134638
Rob: We had a few design elements in 4th Edition that took shape early and maintained that shape. Death and dying wasn't one of those elements. We tried at least four different death systems with vastly different consequences. Enough disagreement arose about the goals of a death-and-dying system th...
- Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:57 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Out-leveling the base setting?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 6755
- Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:38 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why is D&D against people actually doing heroic things?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2425
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. A mid-to-high (we'll say 12th) level wizard can, in core: Make a Decanter of Endless Water . Putting this ...
- Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:54 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Out-leveling the base setting?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 6755
Oberoni Fallacy. Just because the DM can hand you castles and peasants and land and all that stuff doesn't mean that the rules give you those, it means your DM does. 3rd edition has rules by which you can get something not entirely unlike those (Landlord feat in the SBG gives you a castle; Leadershi...
- Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:03 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: No rolling HD: Creating HP disparities and dealing w/ SoDs
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3178
- Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Still more Threads that make us Laugh, Cry, or Both
- Replies: 1500
- Views: 134638
Shows up fine for me.Talisman wrote:Yeah, error messages sure are funny.fliprushman wrote:http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drdd/20081010
Just a little focus on their design of 4e's Death mechanics. If it doesn't make you laugh, I don't know what will.
- Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:12 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Out-leveling the base setting?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 6755
(e: Response to A_Cynic) I was thinking more along the lines of: Low-Level Adventures: The baron/mayor/chief/wizard/guild contact/magistrate summons you to speak with him. You get there and he asks you to. . . - Slay the wererat that has been sending sewer rats to assault the city. - Investigate the...
- Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Out-leveling the base setting?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 6755
If the setting has some one-sentence (or two, or even three-sentence) adventures given for all level brackets of play, or some short descriptions of the kinds of adventures people at each level could do, prominently displayed for DMs, it might work better. Similar to what Frank and K did in the Tome...
- Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:30 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What Power Sources do we Believe in?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 18626
What do Light and Darkness have to do with planar power anyway? I've never hear of a 'plane of light' or 'plane of darkness'. I mean, presumably the plane of earth is pretty dark in most places and radiance is pretty bright, but I'm really not getting this ' searing light and deeper darkness are Pl...
- Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What Power Sources do we Believe in?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 18626
- Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:55 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: I'm Stumped: Scaling AC, Armor, and the RNG?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4179
You could, of course, split DR into two numbers, one is a cap per attack and one a cap per round; each attack has an amount taken off equal to the per attack cap, but your DR can only absorb up to the per round cap. Damage reduction 5 (30) would hold against 6 attacks each doing at least 5 damage, o...
- Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:54 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why does 4th Edition have classes anyway?
- Replies: 317
- Views: 27544
It also seems like while a given campaign might be better served by a fairly small number of power sources, the system could have dozens. When making a campaign setting, you simply pick which power sources exist, and which of those are common or rare. Not really any different than the fact that tho...