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May be a little late, but if you want a quick reference guide to a decent bard that focuses on casting, this is a start: http://www.dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Sublime_Singer_%283.5e_Optimized_Character_Build%29 (The reason for half-elf is that you get Calm Emotions with a DC equal to your perform check.) Alt...

Eh, a 21.4% increase in damage from an at-will (and you're also dealing damage) doesn't seem that minuscule to me considering 4e's combat paradigm.

Is anyone familiar with Don't Rest Your Head? Another player mentioned that, with the stats slightly changed, as a decent way to run darker games, so that's been added into the potential systems pool.

I've never played Shadowrun, but from what I understood, isn't aWoD something like the perfect combination of Shadowrun and WoD as far as the base system goes? Or did I misunderstand something there?

Again, because of the way skills, health, attacks, rounds, tactics, damage, and more work in D&D, I just don't see it being a good system for dark fantasy.

For high fantasy? Sure, I think it works pretty damn well. For dark fantasy though, not so much.

Which brings me back to my original question... would a modified aWoD be the best way to RP the Band of the Hawk portion, and the dark fantasy genre in general? Or is there a system that does it better?

Right; so that series has the camera constantly on Guts rather than the rest of the Band of the Hawk. What's a good RPG for RPing in such a world with similar characters? Heck, you could have a party made of Guts (the big guy), Griffith (the hero), Caska (heart of the group), Corkus (the lancer), Ju...

I haven't watched it in a while, but from what I remember... Guts was good with a sword. He joined the Hawks. He won some battles. He helped Griffith get rid of some political opponents. He did some dirty work for him. He decided to leave. Griffith got mad and did something irrational like sleeping ...

Ignore the flashbacks and the phallic imagery for a moment; play pretend with me here, and pretend that the whole flashback is everything we're looking to recreate, as though it was--remember, pretend--cognizant and logical and such. Forget all the crap. Just concentrate on the time from when Guts j...

The main point was less behelits and apostles and more a bunch of above-average people adventuring in a dark fantasy low magic campaign that's filled with intrigue, interesting characters, potential for politics, etc. Think the first arc when Guts and Griffith were together, rather than everything t...

I don't think D&D is the way to go with this one--characters gain power on a scale that doesn't jive with the general dark fantasy archetypes, doesn't have good rules for diplomacy-type stuff, has Hollywood healing, etc. Would a slightly changed aWoD be the best bet then? Edit: Alternatively, my...

Fail troll is fail.

Edit: Preemptively, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is also dumb.

Does anyone have any suggestions for RP in the Berserk universe? Just to be clear, someone like Guts (the protagonist) would be just about at the highest level of what PCs can achieve in this kind of world. A friend suggested going with aWoD and sticking to just mortal types along with changing the ...

Usually the players won't need to gate things in; sometimes they will, and when they do, and their gate spell is now on recharge, they will not want to adventure until it comes back, because something similar might on one of those adventures, when it does, they won't have their trusty gate ready to...

Only if your players feel as though you're such a bastard that they MUST to gate in half a dozen ancient celestial wyrm dragons to succeed in every combat. It changes Gate and the like from a first and last line of defense to a last resort like the bombs in those shooter games. (Replace Gate with wh...

One solution is to simply cutting the number of slots a wizard gets to 1/3rd the normal amount if you're going to assume he is going to rest after each fight. I'm just saying you need some kind of solution to try to keep spellcasters in check. Another solution might be using the recharge magic vari...

@OP: This might interest you.
Here's an example of an MLET monster.

So... let's go with an extreme example. Pun-Pun. As long as he doesn't use his infinite-everything, he's not "broken" by your measurement ruler? (Yes, yes, I know that many people think that Pun-Pun isn't rules legal. Whatever, this is just for an example. Replace with The Wish and the Wor...

Aharon: Are you taking into account that most infusions require one *minute* to cast?

You can burn an action point to reduce it to a more manageable activation time, but... you don't get many of those and there are many games that don't use them.

Hicks: Let's ignore for a moment the problems with skill challenges that have been posted for a moment to address a math issue--I think that's what you're going for with the OP. The problem is that the math doesn't work. Let me explain. Let's say you had a "hard challenge" which you wanted...

*blinks* Wow, this is incredibly similar to a system I've been bouncing around in my mind for the last 2-3 weeks as far as the numbers go.

I wonder if it might have any potential if they went away from the "real-time" aspect of the game and went back to a Pools of Radiance- or ToEE-style gameplay where each person takes a turn, etc. Kinda like Final Fantasy Tactics, I guess. Obviously you'd need to have it a lot more streamli...

NWN 1 was awesome because of all the cool persistant world games that came out of it. I don't think I ever actually played the actual story. I was referring exclusively to the single player game where the combat got repetitive quickly, the story was uninspired, there was a lot of endless, pointless...

From what I hear, they're making the next Neverwinter Nights 4e-based. From my experiences with the two predecessors of this game and the fact that Cryptic is working on it, I predict much fail.

Stuff I randomly looked at the response to Midnight_v's post. Then I regretted it. The intermittent occurrence of spelling mistakes/typos made my brain warp slightly and caused a feeling of vertigo before I was able to even reach the content of the post. (Though this might be contributed to by my l...