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Superman could easily effect Socio-Political things if he wanted to. He's a BoyScout who only worries about 1 city. Even though he has the power and ability to change things if he wants. There are several alternate time line Red Shift Blue Dimension version of Superman where he does in fact /take ov...

Diplomacy only takes you so far. Dwarves vs Drow Elves. If you're a Dwarf character with diplomacy you have a /very/ slim chance of shifting the Drow Elves from Hostile to Neutral, much less friendly. A good diplomacy system would have: 1) internal attitude 2) external attitude 3) skill test to chan...

Well to be fair, I don't play any D&D anymore.

I went back to Shadowrun and Earthdawn. Even though Earthdawn got buggered by the people who got the license from FASA.

Don't lump 3E in with 4E, 4E is some horrid "lets take wow and turn it into a pen and paper game.." 3E brought me back to D&D after I ran away screaming during the 2E days. My favorite go to 2E character was a Wizard/Cleric 9/9 of the God of Magic. Using the optional Magic Point system...

He should use Pathfinder (sigh)
Get rid of all the classes with spells.

There's a ranger character class in Iron Kingdoms which should work rather well.
For bards, get rid of their spells, and just keep their Bardic Knowledge/Songs.

I have a question, because I skipped all of SR3. Who wrote it? FASA? or FANPRO? Or someone else? I've been rereading my sr1/2 stuff and I have to say. It's still pretty awesome. FASA knew how to build a fun game. Sure there's some rules that make you scratch your head, and some design decisions that...

Yes, because Germans are traditionally well known for their level headedness

I like Arsenal, only in that it has modification rules. They're not good modification rules, but they aren't terrible. As long as you're not trying to break the game. Runner's companion is just pain. The stupid dual natured rules, the messed up Karma Gen (*points at AH), the Ghouls, the Vampires. Th...

Wait, post-2nd edition?

The skill system in 3rd edition was /way/ better than the weir-ass proficiency system from 2nd edition. At least 3rd edition let you have skills with ranks, that let you do things outside of combat. 2nd Edition had this weird, "yes/no checkbit proficiency thing"

I found my copy of Shadow Companion last night. I had a warm happy glow reading it. They had the section on the RAD. The OMEGA clearance, the special files with IC that triggered electronic feedback that fried a cyberdeck if it didn't have the special chips. So much goodness.

Are you guys really arguing that D&D in any of the versions isn't about killing stuff and taking their loot? This is the game that invented Dungeon Crawls. Random Encounter Tables Random Loot tables I mean, D&D was never high roleplaying. It was get together and play homocidal maniacs who pr...

I read your end of Matrix stuff. I liked big chunks of it. And I liked the writing style. naturally haven't gotten to play a character with it, or play test it.. so it's hard to know how well it flows. My first blush fix to the matrix involved changing everything back to stat+skill, and programs lim...

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the words Good and D20 being in the same sentence, without the word riddance in between.

Actually I have no problem with a sort of marriage of biology and technology that allows for people to interface with the Matrix without a deck (though I do feel like there ought to be a datajack.) I can sort of live with the bio-node, I can sense and interpret nova hot wireless signals with absolut...

Why would you want to use D20 for a modern game.

Ick

I hate Technomancers with a passion. They take my favorite CP/SR character type and shit on it. And from my point of view, they break the Technology/Magic barrier wide open. Hermit, can you add this guy as a ShadowTalker.. Sum Bo De | Troll Martial Artist. | Hong Kong | Punching People in the Face |...

It's pretty simple really. In a world where Spell Casters end up with the power to destroy entire armies. The guy who gets to be in said army, is going to look a little silly. At high-levels, mundane fighters become leaders of men, generals, faces. The know people, have contacts, and have access to ...

I dunno I'm still bitter about Karma Gen and Zhe Ghouls!

But at least we got an unofficial errata for Karma Gen from AH.

I believe Here for him.. is the education system that brought us Mengele in the first place

We were going to try and add the 5 Kingdoms War into the same book as SE Asia.. but now.. I wonder if we wouldn't be better doing China/Mongola/Korea/Japanese Imperial State power grab in Northern Asia as a seperate book. The Book ideas we have right now are: Issue 1 AZT/AMZ Issue 2 SE Asia (includi...

Hey Frank, I have a question about Africa. My understanding of Africa is this: Northern Africa is mostly the same. Subsaharan Africa is basically: Lagos and the Kingdoms of Nigeria is inhabited (sorta) and everything else is given back to Paracritter infested Parajungle. Savanah Africa has the Kingd...

I always felt like Torg was a much better game that Rifts.

Palladium Fantasy was fun.. but the magic classes were seriously over powered.

(in 1 game, I almost accidentally TPWed everyone with a 1st level spell "Wind Gust" )

I'm just looking at the kind of things Amazonia should have access to. Free Spirits Wyverns Drakes Sapient Birds Harpy Naga Centaur Pixies para anacondas Sapient Cats Adepts Mages Supposedly Aztlan is winning by using tanks? /tanks/? In the mountains of Columbia and the Amazon Basin? This should be ...