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No, but at least I get the reference now. Thanks.

The Pleasure Prison of the B’thuvian Demon Whore? Do I even want to know what kind of a "1-on-1 adventure" that is?

If you couldn't do any of the above, you'd be a Fighter. It may be hard to imagine, but fighters in 1E were even worse than fighters in 3E. 3E Fighters don't get much in the way of class features; 1E fighters didn't get any class features at all. You got hit dice and saving throws and a good attack...

Is this a serious discussion about actual morality, or how morality actually functions in D&D? I'll move over and let the big dogs crap where they want if it's the former--my semester of Intro to Philosophy and semester of Ethics only go so far. If it's the latter, then I'm in the right place, a...

That's intensely stupid. What, so if I want to be the Sheriff of Nottingham and just cheat my peasants out of their gold so they're living in poverty, that makes me not-evil?! If I want to be Magneto and kill everyone not in my chosen race and then spend the rest of my life treating my chosen ones ...

The conversation after gaming a few weeks ago ran like this:[br][br]DUDE: I'm seriously considering going blackguard.[br]ME: Why?[br]DUDE: Because I can't handle this being-good-all-the-time stuff.[br]ME: But then you'd have to be evil all the time.[br]DUDE: Really?[br]ME: Yeah. That means every tim...

Elusive Atack is shit. It's just a feat (+2 AC while Full Attacking), except that it has a stiff prereq (must take 6 levels of Fighter) and a harsh disadvantage (no iterative attacks). If someone wrote that feat up without the Fighter level prereqs, it would get laughed out of the room. Why are we ...

Game store aren't even going to want to carry your Engineer RPG or your extremely balanced RPG at $1000 a pop for the core rule book. [br][br]Why not?[br][br]See, for $1,000 a pop, the game is going to be superhuman in its production values, playtested like mad, and be, generally, quite spiffy.[br]...

While I agree the feat list looks kinda dumb, I am more struck by (what a surprise) more polymorph dumbness, such as this from the Polymorph preview … In all other ways, the target's normal game statistics are effectively replaced by those of the new form. The target loses all of the special abiliti...

Like the people who write school text books. No one says "well gee they aren't earning rock star money so we won't edit the books or complain when they screw up all the values for the constants in the physics texts." [br][br]Yeah, this is supremely bad comparison. In California public sch...

Thing about the Realms is that, were it not bound up mechanically with D&D, it'd be a decent setting. Like you said, Dbb, the Realms has its fair share of cool places and ideas. Yes, there are way too many Ohmigod-I'm-an-evil-monster-race-who-wants-to-destroy-the-world-arrgh! kinds of races (I b...

Jeez, Crissa, when I asked for horror stories, I meant, like, "Dude, one of the PCs totally cast magic missile when he should've cast grease … what a lamer."[br][br]I honestly wasn't expecting true horror .[br][br]How is this even possible? I can't understand how that would be an offscreen...

Oh, I've got horror stories.

Start a new thread and let's hear 'em.

These are among my favorites…[br] Luck blade (0 wishes): Just buy as many of them as you can afford and carry. 22,060 gp and you can reroll any roll you just made as an extraordinary ability. Who cares about wish es anyway?[br] Daern's instant fortress: Yeah, it was better in 2.0 and 1.0 when 10d10 ...

It's simpler and better if you just limit it to classes that operate on the normal progression. There's no reason to let people ransack the Assassin or Adept list for power. [br][br]Okay. I don't buy it as a core class using core rules that this is unbalancing, but I guess if people were actually g...

Meaningful is good, but I think this is a little too high, as written. Remember, you essentially need a caster level of 25 to even have a chance at affecting a 20th level bard with spells that aren't the suck (i.e., not evocation). You'd need a 35th level caster to be even 50/50. Granted, my object...

Frank's first-- 'cause they're more explosive.[br][br] That is a mechanic that is bad. If you aren't willing to have your ability damage treated like ability damage, you shouldn't have it be called ability damage. The fact is that Ability Damage is healable between combats and even reducable to zero...

That's a really solid assessment. Let me address this as best I can…[br][br] My first impression is that this is an extremely flexible and powerful class that is superior to just about all of the base core classes, with the exception of the Big Three; and it will be at least competitive against thos...

Why no (traditional-style) bardic knowledge? [br][br]A couple of reasons, really. Traditional bardic knowledge is entirely DM-dependent. Your DM, in theory, has to wonder when characters are already going to make Knowledge checks and plan to give them that information. This means he has to prepare ...

This is my entry for Nifty's bard contest . FBMF asked that I cross-post it here for commentary, and when the Great Fence Builder speaks, I post.[br]--------------------------------------------------[br] Crafty Bard [br] Note: The greatest permutation of the d20 system is Spycraft 2.0 , and the desi...

Because there's only one Dark Lord and you might not ever encounter him. [br][br]Oh, but you will . You have to because you have a metric assload of mitoclorians (i.e. an Unusual Background) and that means being able to deflect force lightning is a big deal.[br][br] Deflect Force Lightning is a pre...

The question of whether someone is balanced if they get more screen time and are less likely to have success with that screen time is an opne one. I personally would say that they are not. For one thing, in a cooperative storytelling game you don't get screen time in proportion to how weird your ch...

The fact is that having an unusual power is by itself an irrelevent piece of information in determining how powerful or spotlight stealing your character is, and thus has no place in a fair point value system. [br][br]Oh, God, do I hate to say this, but I disagree.[br][br]The thing about GURPS is t...

I can sell you on GURPS , but you're not going to like my methods.[br][br] GURPS is perfect for a low-powered game wherein you want only a handful of funky stuff to occur. Say you want to run a game wherein real-world-style secret agents oppose monkeys from space. GURPS has you covered. Say you want...

Or do your players not choose their campaign at all? The DM does in our group. Then why do you belly up to his table? [br][br]Crissa, the best advice I ever got as a DM is to DM the campaign I want to DM. That means if I want to be in it, my enthusiasm will carry over to the players, my plots will ...