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Assuming two equally good rule sets, I prefer non-setting specific. In your choice, agnostic setting with so-so or specific setting and great rules.I go with specific and great. I then set about removing as much of the setting as possible before I run anything in it. If playing in it, I don't make a...

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I approve of the corporation structure for getting things done. I did not realize you actually intendEd to pay people and charge for the product. I think if you do that it's going to be next to impossible to convince anyone to invest and those who do invest will want a fairly hefty say based on the ...

Hicks. 2 things. 1- Finish avatar. It looks sweet, and I want to play it. 2- A "corperation" is a great idea and the enforced leadership would really make it happen. If there is anything I can do to help on that front let me know. (Obviously you see my RPG design experience/internet creds,...

Why the hell in a thread about improving the Tomes, is 5e a good thing, and Tome 2.0 a bad thing? Go post in one of the four hundred 5e threads that will never amount to anything, instead of posting that no one should improve the Tomes in a thread about improving the Tomes. Read the first sentence ...

Also, do you actually have to rewrite everything in a section all at once? Using the spell section as an example, do you actually have to worry about any spell that doesn't grind the game to a halt? Sure, magic missle may suck, but it's resolved with the same speed as a regular attack for the most ...

I don't agree. The powers format is a good idea, and having everything standardized in format and easy to print out is a good thing. The problem with 4e is that the powers are too similar and often boring and the fiddly details, not the idea of standardized powers in a easy-to-use format. Even if t...

I wouldn't go a TOB or 4e route with powers. People threw shit fits when TOB came out, and you still find loads of groups that ban it because it breaks the standard 3e mold and is "WOW" or "Anime". Same for 4e with the powers argument. (Whether valid or not, people don't like it ...

Thanks. CAN is a really neat idea. Problems I can see with using a system that uses it. You have to track the differences between people's CAN. I feel like the end result of this is an awkward "I have a 5 combat ranking, you have a 4 lets go to the chart to see what you need to hit me and how m...

Before I go further. CAN someone help me with CAN? A quick for dummies version could work, or a link to a thousand page thread explaining it. Either way. To fix a lot of this, all that has to be done is go through the spells with a fine tooth comb. Every spell. Thats a big all , but its also somethi...

I have played a LOT of 4e. I will weigh in with the official End All Arguments Ever Post. Complete with anecdotal evidence showing that these issues are real issues people actually have. I ran the pre-release adventure H1 with preview characters the day it came out. Encounter 1 the party tries to lo...

Greece... is a bunch of places. I guess I wasn't clear then. My bad. (Serious, not sarcasm) You didn't include a single toga wearing democratic city state sea trading region. Thats why I said Greece/Rome and not "Athens or Sparta" or whatever. If you do the roman group drop sea trading in...

Cool/important races off the top of my head. Africa - Throw in some dutch settlers (Technologically advanced people who are totally not local. May or may not get along depending on the book you read) Asia - Mongols, Tibetan Mountain Folk, Tailand gives you opportunity to include elephants all over t...

Yeah, he is generally a lousy MC. I do think that the game is ending and will cycle to Dark Heresy soon. I keep hearing murmurs of that. I expect it is the exact same game only without the implications that our PC's might matter. At least with a refresh on the game I can make a new character who kno...

We spent all 2 sessions back talking about how we were gonna go to the forbidden planet and fight demons and monsters and shit. We even decided it would be so awesome that we would wait till the RT's player was back so he didn't miss out. Cut to this last session. Apparently this planet is forbidden...

Last post. Fuck Eldar. We found them, and the GM wank was unbelievable.

Also the RT came back and mentioned chaos dwarves. The GM remembered he loved chaos dwarves.

*Forgive me, I don't read TV tropes much, and might totally miss an obvious instance to call something a "Magical Girl".* I don't think I like the cast being "Pretty", I like the cast being mostly humans, with 2 "Others" thrown in. The "Others" should be 1 sup...

Updated, after a session for anyone interested. Our rogue trader player couldn't make it, and my PC is official second in command. Holy crap did we get stuff done. Up until this point we 1- Defended some shithole ice planet we owned from space zombies, and 2- Put down a crazy sex cult on that same i...

Obviously it will be super hard/impossible. I also fully expect the other players to "Oh no thats impossible" and the DM to basically say "seriously don't do that, you will die". Thats why its a long reaching character goal. My actions simply have to lead me in that direction, su...

Since your dude isn't the Rogue Trader himself, technically you don't have the remit to do that per se... but you can still have a say in a group goal, or you can set a personal (game wrecking?) goal of proving your worth to get your own Charter, or take his. (Seriously: The GM should have pushed t...

And now you've begun to encounter the problem with the system. Yeah, I don't know how the others didn't see this upon reading the book. I had a full auto gun that I used for a while but I got tired of auto killing the entire enemy force. So I stopped, and then everyone else bought one. Now we have ...

Session 4, we just hit rank 2. Survivability- Most of the other PCs didn't invest in toughness. I bought "Space marine armor" that reduces 9, have subdermal implants and bionic limbs giving +2 or 3 depending where shot, and a toughness of 60~. and have like 19 wounds. Everyone else has tou...

EDIT: all that only applies when you have a Navigator. You do have one, right? Heh. The DM mandated that we have one, and then basically said "I don't know the rules, and they are really complex. We will MTP this." And I said "So long as I am not the navigator I don't care". Spe...

So I was reading it mostly right.. Awesome... The harem ship will definitely be my characters next goal, and probably be obtainable during our current quest. Current quest consisted of us saying "Well what now...?" and looking at the DM. He showed us a map, and asked where we wanted to go....