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I have a Heartbreaker I spent a bunch of time on a few years ago but has been laying untouched since I got to the point where I've got 60+ hours a week of work+travel. Basic elevator pitch: Merge D&D3 and Shadowrun mechanics while drawing inspiration from some of the nicer ideas of 4e. Mechanica...

Each book spends more and more time poking around with inane bullshit and less and less time advancing the A-plot. There is a book called "Winter's Heart" where the main conceit is that the C-team of protagonists are traveling from one place they have already been to another place that th...

I don't know how many low level casters are throwing moons at people, but if they are out there I want to play in those games. I was just being ironic. The name "Pug" always irked me but I can appreciate how he becomes hardcore and gets a cooler name later. It's been 20+ years since I rea...

infected slut princess wrote:If your name is "Pug" you are not high level. That's just a brutal fact of life.

I don't know how many low level casters are throwing moons at people, but if they are out there I want to play in those games.

Wait what? All Concrete in the 2070s is actually metallic Ferrocrete? Well... so just about every large building wall ever is composed almost entirely of metal-type materials? Sounds sweet. So I guess if you had Shape Metal, Shape Plastic, and Shape Glass then you could shape like 80% of all the st...

The thing is about the Pathfinder Weaboo Fightan Magic guys is that they do at least listen to the players and actually take criticism unlike the Paizo guys. If you go to either 4chan on the Pathfinder General thread (there's almost always one up), or one of their playtest threads on Giant in the P...

Best thing out of Path of War is the Myrmidon (Fighter Archetype) from Path of War 2. Specifically Myrmidon combined with Martial Master (gives the Brawler floating feat ability). Myrmidon normally gives you maneuvers picked from 5 of the 'mundane' disciplines up to 6th level (plus Grit just as a b...

Best thing out of Path of War is the Myrmidon (Fighter Archetype) from Path of War 2. Specifically Myrmidon combined with Martial Master (gives the Brawler floating feat ability). Myrmidon normally gives you maneuvers picked from 5 of the 'mundane' disciplines up to 6th level (plus Grit just as a bo...

So you're aiming for one PRC to cover both Allomancy and Feruchemy? Are you planning on accounting for compounding? Because that seems like it'd end up as a ridiculously powerful class Anyway, as far as powers people would care about in D&D go, you have: Pewter: Increase physical abilities. Stra...

OgreBattle wrote:Is D&D? "Bluff/Diplomacy/Intimidate" even a good trinity to go with?

I tend to lean towards Influence/Deception rather than the trinity. Basically it boils down to "Are you lying to gain something? Deception. Are you being honest and want to gain something? Influence".

In any case, the claim that the fact that city growth rules exist necessarily means that cities would blob up and fill planets is completely insane and we shouldn't bother talking about it any more. -Username17 This isn't the claim as I understood it at all. The point is that there should be mechan...

I'm having trouble understanding the Town development levels and how that affects costs. Is the development level just the track from Village to Metropolis, and each step up modifies the income? If so does that mean that there's no granularity between each town size and any two small cities have the...

Yep, you've got it. I was aiming for less Dorf Fortress "you have 16 urists of Dwarf Ale remaining" and more like farms in Warcraft, where you have supplies for XX units and you are currently using YY/XX. Storage and the like are very much abstracted. I'd want to go at least a little more...

Didn't PF unchained have a poison/disease progression system that is independent of ability damage?

In Stormlight Archives most overt magic in the world went away because humans betrayed the spirits that would bond with them to grant the magic, and are now returning because of some imminent world threatening catastrophe. It's not taking place in our world, but the concept could be ported over if y...

Occluded Sun[/s] maglag] In addition, it tries to force-feed you SJW propaganda (one of those three NPC is a transsexual, married to a girl. Whatever, but not what I expect or want from an AP that is sold as "High fantasy war against demons.") I've never read or played Rise of the Runelor...

I was also a player in a campaign of Rise of the Runelords, but I was only there for the last two books. Well... can't say I really recommend it. It was ok, but nothing special. That's kind of disappointing. I've heard it was one of the better APs and was considering diving into that once my group ...

I hear Kingmaker is the most outdoor oriented of all the paths, so I assume that Mounted Combat is probably at its best there. Even in Kingmaker there's at least one dungeon you're expected to go clear out per adventure module. But I have no idea how that compares to other APs (Kingmaker is the fir...

Random hypothetical question. I read the Unchained variant rule about how to resolve multiple hits (basically, you deal half damage if you miss by 5 or less and get 1 extra hit for every 5 you beat the AC up to your maximum). Still takes a full round action to do a full attack. Let's say I run a ga...

So what I'm getting out of this is when they said "the math just works" in 4e, it was actually because they started with a system as dumb as or dumber than this, and decided that in comparison 4e was perfectly logical?

Stubba he's going to keep talking. Remember he only hopped in the conversation because of his love of rape analogies. So you're only wasting your time. Of course I'm going to keep talking. I haven't run out of jokes yet. And let's be honest, even these jokes beat the fuck out of his argument like t...

I also played a Raptoran in a pair of campaigns that ran simultaneously, where we were good in one, and evil in the other. The tribe that both of my raptorans were from were attacked, and one turned to dark gods and used their power for revenge, while the other just went insane and took levels of b...

Well, they are called Raptorans, and raptors are a sort of classification of birds, like, a bald eagle is a raptor, but I kind of thought that they would look like velociraptors. Yet every picture is kind of crummy and shows them looking like a bird, like a really bad run of Hawkman comics. I think...

There seems to be random xp, but very little random loot. like "this is backwater shit, no one has shit" Yeah, part of the problem with Kingmaker Random Encounter is that many of them have no actual treasure, while others are "run away or die." It's entirely possible that, in th...

Arrange sales to foreign nobles with too much money, and skim a little off the top of those sales to start working on your own little projects. So the PCs are encouraged to be corrupt governmental officials? The module gives you crap for treasure, and seems to demand withdrawal + item creation to s...