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How about L5R/Rokugan?

Does Spelljammer in any way address how enormous its setting is? You're flying around dealing with multiple Crystal Spheres, aka planets, each of which is at least a whole D&D setting unto itself, and often multiple (Krynn, Toril etc. both have multiple continents on them each of which is a sett...

I'm looking for an old post (I think it was about SAME) where Username17 maths out why a certain margin of Soak bulge makes you take half as much damage, compared to a mirror match, in his homebrew combat mechanic. I thought it was linked in one of the IMOI community materials threads, but now I can...

@FatR, that would be well and good if that's how it was presented, but the books all make the Cataclysm out to be a just and proportionate response that the Gods of Good stand wholeheartedly behind, to the point that when mortals turned away from the gods after the Cataclysm, the narrative made them...

One of these things is not like the others. The Cataclysm is bound up in the extremely idiotic Rise and Fall of Istar, and the equally nonsensical Dragonlance take on alignment. The basic concept of a cataclysm sent by the gods to punish mankind is perfectly fine but the whys and wherefores of The C...

Did you say the ghost ship is called the "Ultros"?

I went and saw Birds of Prey on opening night, and I loved it. It's like it retroactively justifies the existence of Suicide Squad and Jared Leto Do you say that just because this is a good movie that wouldn't have been made without the bad movie, or is there actually something in BoP that recontex...

deaddmwalking wrote:The Haugbi is a ghoul that casts spells as a 4th level sorcerer.

A ghoul with sorcerer casting seems reasonable for the stats, but this is some sloppy editing on their part, because that's definitely supposed to be a Haugbui - "mound-dweller", an undead creature from Norse sagas.

So it's part of the RoW setting assumptions that hereditary aristocracies in D&D maintain their power by mentoring their heirs (either personally or by apprenticing them with experienced adventurers) so they grow up to be 5th level wizards and samurai rather than 1st level aristocrats - but how ...

Planar Agricultural products could easily be a new tier good to support the special units or other outputs from.heaven. Liquid pain farms, Bottles of hope, raw chaos, planar pearls, etc etc. This kind of ties into a question about the Wish economy that's been on my mind. In the Wish economy, the ul...

Right, thank you all.

It's definitely more of a "Greyhawk" Underdark. That gives me a lot to go on.

(...) The bottom line is that the Underdark is like fighting in the desert, where individual oases of decent food output are a really big deal that people are willing to do big military campaigns to acquire. This all makes sense, thank you! But it's not great for me because "pretty much arbitr...

So I've been following the Domain rules thread, which in turn brought me to the old Converting ACKS Domains to 3E thread from 2015 , which even though it was never finished as a domain game has still been a useful demographic resource for me, because I'm the kind of GM who gets a bit obsessive about...

Yeah @Iduno, that seems like a stretch, when the fact that not everyone was fine with the staus quo is the stated reason for finally making the change. Whether the changes will actually rehabilitate the game remains to be seen... the existence of the CSA wasn't the issue after all, rather it was the...

This is a far cry from actually taking responsibility and reckoning with the history of Deadlands as a game and brand, but for what it is, it's still a welcome change, and something I honestly didn't think would ever happen.

So... baby steps?

I've been poking around the old game design threads about the SAME damage system, but there are some questions I couldn't find conclusive answers to: 1. Is it or is it not a problem in SAME to decouple the accuracy stats from the damage stats? Each stat needs to oppose itself, but does an attack tha...

Wow, that wraps around straight back to profound.

I'm a little surprised looking at the rest of you, that I didn't get Wikipedia hits for either on the first page. I use Wikipedia quite a lot, and Twitch hardly at all.

Hunter: a music video, and accessories for dogs.
Ranger: Ford cars, and a Twitch streamer.

You should endeavor not to put things in your game that give cover to shitty people and their views. Especially when you're explicitly and spesifically doing it frivolously.

So yes, for Space Madness and for any game.

I totally agree, which is why in my own settings I prefer to have the alternatives to humans be clockwork robots and bird people and similarly exotic stuff rather than elves and dwarves. But for traditional D&D you're going to want elves and dwarves, and it's a reasonable thing to want, so we're...

Okay, so what non-racist traits do the various core D&D species have that are iconic enough to be recognizably them and make them distinct enough to be worth keeping around? Orc: Nocturnal (I like this one) Halfling: Really small (Kind of weak, but has some creative potential, plus halflings are...

Polymorph needs some sort of rewrite for clarity and usability in any event, because it's an inscrutable mess, but I think the best approach to making it more balanced would be to make it an Alternate Form spell rather than an open-ended shapechanging spell. As in, when you learn Polymorph, you pick...

What are the inventory/carrying capacity rules like?

Are they remotely portable to other games or would they take up too much time and effort to use, since they're so central to Ryuutama?

A good inventory system is sort of a holy grail of dungeon fantasy.