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Card games have a much lower barrier to entry than TTRPGs. The rules are simpler, the per-unit cost is lower, you don't have to play with the same people every time, and you don't have to play regularly. So of course they're going to be more popular. So what about a 2 to 5 page booklet outlining a ...

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Bump. I'm interested in thoughts on this. Despite everyone hating it, the crew here still manages to have some phenomenal insight.

Card games have a much lower barrier to entry than TTRPGs. The rules are simpler, the per-unit cost is lower, you don't have to play with the same people every time, and you don't have to play regularly. So of course they're going to be more popular. So what about a 2 to 5 page booklet outlining a ...

I have a group that is... extraordinarily silly (mute bards that emulate sexy sax man, clerics that hit people to heal them, rogues that pull levers "because it was there", etc...).

This would be absolutely perfect for them.

Thing is, in point-buy, you can have a lot of points and spend all of them on things which are not punching dudes, or you can spend them all on punching dudes. In a class-based system, your level will correlate to your combat power. It won't inherently do so between classes, but higher-level people...

I've wondered if any game going forward should be designed/weighted by some.sort of rough point-buy guidelines. Then "simplified " outward as you get closer to product release. Meaning the core would be designed using points and point-like packages by official writers/designers. Codified i...

I believe that avoiding at least half of these wouldn't actually be that hard. Obscurity and how well written each 'variant' is written can be avoided just by not doing write ups for each variant [Halfling]. Instead, just make the [Halfling] race, give them a general description, a single trait sha...

Haha, not enough rage.

hyzmarca wrote:[...]A whisperer who can show up anywhere at any time and offer you exactly what you need to solve your problem in exchange for a very tiny price, on the other hand, is interesting.

Desparation walking (jumping/ travelling)?

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Ancient History wrote:
No, seriously, this is in the anime.

I remember the balls, but not the spires.

They must have airbrushed the broadcast version.

WTF were those even USED for?

Even though it hasn't sparked much discussion I'd imagine there are still plenty of people like me reading it. As much as I like some righteous indignation I'm enjoying the exploration of mid-90s licensed mediocrity. And I'm pretty sure that is because of the writing and not just the entirely relev...

I have the attention span of a goldfish and often have about 6 "projects" boiling at any given time. So I'm probably the wrong person for this... But what I've always really thought would be nice/beneficial is a clear, concise, breakdown of upgrades that occur in the Tomes rule set vs 3.X....

I just played Starcraft 2, Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm. I got them for like $10 each on a special one-day Amazon sale. Why is this setting not in other games? It's such a great setting, and it's a shame that the only place where I get to see it is in Campaign missions for an otherwise t...

It doesn't have to be just 10, as kaelik said you can make up your own and the 10 or so are just example ideas. I felt kind of embarrassed about participating in this thread once it got going. A lot of these ain't backgrounds at all, just stuff the character has. Well, then, now that the problem ha...

angelfromanotherpin wrote:[...] Nitpicking a casual statement is just a fundamentally unconvincing action.

You're primarily debating a lawyer.

I wrote a form to style the entries for you guys. Here it is , if you want to use it. Examples (Just re-formatting Insomniac's post :) ) Fruit Salad: " Military... fruit? " Start with snazzy military duds of the highest quality. Effect: Bluff, Diplomacy and Perform( Oratory ) are class ski...

To me, what makes Tome so great is the snark, and the embracing of the fantastic, and the blue anime bullshit. [...] Tome is best when it embraces the fact that E6 was actually mostly right: A 6th level character is a mighty foe to be feared, on par with many comic book characters. And they come in...

What about Edge to Initiative?
Or Advantage to Initiative... if you are a higher level than your opponent, you get to reroll a bad init.

Here are some quotes from lulu.com: 600 page Hardcover book; letter-size, black-and-white, with dust-cover: $31.65 600 page Hardcover book; letter-size, black-and-white, and casewrap: $28.65 600 page Softcover book; perfect-bound and black-and-white: $10.75 Yea, you can go to local printers and hav...

If I understand correctly, the 3 npc levels are custom/adjusted. Not stock DMG NPC classes.

There is potentially another solution. Tiddlywiki The new tiddlywiki is node-based and is a self contained wiki app that is platform independent. It has support for it's own wikitext, markdown, HTML and can be styled with css and extended with JavaScript. It does support other markup if I remember c...

Ancient History wrote:[...]and at the local Blockbusters you fretted between renting a Sega Genesis game or renting a Japanese cartoon that might contain a tit shot. I won't say that there wasn't more to appreciate in Japanse anime than that - [...]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

Grek wrote:Magic comes from writing out a rune poem that describes the magic you want. Individual runes do nothing.

That's not how it's portrayed in a lot of fantasy, though.

I'd wager most people think of rune magic being singular runes. More complex ones equating to more powerful/esoteric spells.

@Codeglaze: I wanted to use the NPC levels to address starting characters fragility and lack of feats. You could just give everyone +1 BAB, +10hp and a feat if you wanted the same rough effect with no levels. My point was just that once you clear hurdle into PC (or hero), NPC levels merge into your...