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by the_taken
Wed Nov 09, 2016 2:01 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Making lair/domain effects work
Replies: 10
Views: 2712

That means the Pit Fiend doesn't just laugh at the puny mortals and instead sighs and engages. "So we're doing this now. FIREBALL !" I can get behind that. Does this make armies relevant in the setting? Can a platoon of pikeman and archers actually deter a dragon from attacking their castl...
by the_taken
Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:46 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Treating Available Feats like Spell slots
Replies: 33
Views: 6829

Error... I implied that I'm bad at running sessions and putting together campaigns, but if you want to poke at my game design skills you can go eat a creamy sausage. --- The problem I see with being able to swap out feats is that it can break immersion, especially with character concept feats like ...
by the_taken
Wed Nov 02, 2016 6:03 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Treating Available Feats like Spell slots
Replies: 33
Views: 6829

I came up with the concept of giving people a feat slot progression like a wizard's spell slot progression, and then assigned levels to the feats to fit in feat level slots. Does that work? Again, what the fuck do feats do in that system? Same as before, you just get more of them but also indirectl...
by the_taken
Wed Nov 02, 2016 4:56 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Treating Available Feats like Spell slots
Replies: 33
Views: 6829

I came up with the concept of giving people a feat slot progression like a wizard's spell slot progression, and then assigned levels to the feats to fit in feat level slots. Does that work?
by the_taken
Thu May 26, 2016 4:46 am
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: XXXzone - Extraterrestrial Elimination and Experimentation
Replies: 11
Views: 7077

Base Management and Building Base management requires building facilities in a limited area. Facilities cost funding and manpower days to construct. Bases have a limited area to construct in, and though excavations can increase the area by adding more floors, digging deeper and deeper become progre...
by the_taken
Thu May 26, 2016 12:56 am
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: XXXzone - Extraterrestrial Elimination and Experimentation
Replies: 11
Views: 7077

Creating and Improving Operatives When you best isn't good enough, get better. To generate a new operative, assign to each of the Seven Base Attributes a roll of 1d4+1 in order, then compute the Derived Stats. Follow up by giving the new rookie a suit of Last Chance Body Armour and an eight item ut...
by the_taken
Sun May 08, 2016 12:41 am
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: XXXzone - Extraterrestrial Elimination and Experimentation
Replies: 11
Views: 7077

Mirroring my posting in another forum. -------xXx------- Had a play test with my regular D&D group. They kinda like the game, though the regular DM insisted on making a non-standard character. This led to adding a new weapon to the game. A couple of rule changes are in order, and I need to quick...
by the_taken
Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:16 pm
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: Trapmaking AKA Un-fucking D&D Traps
Replies: 6
Views: 3503

koz wrote:Inb4 "you activated my trap card" jokes.
It's not a joke. It's a feature!
by the_taken
Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:23 pm
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: XXXzone - Extraterrestrial Elimination and Experimentation
Replies: 11
Views: 7077

Prak wrote:Are the Zzhetan basically Irks?
Basically? I was going for something more advanced.
by the_taken
Mon Mar 28, 2016 8:05 pm
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: XXXzone - Extraterrestrial Elimination and Experimentation
Replies: 11
Views: 7077

There are two standard Zzhetan invasion procedures when attacking inhabited planets. The first involves having the Armada repeatedly and strategically bombarding hard targets from orbit with precision to disable a society’s military, government and law enforcement before dropping pods full of combat...
by the_taken
Sun Mar 27, 2016 5:57 pm
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: XXXzone - Extraterrestrial Elimination and Experimentation
Replies: 11
Views: 7077

Zzhetanz, as described by Mizrin. “I will insist you put those extra ‘Z’s in the written form. You sound more respectful when you pronounce all the ‘Z’s. “So, my race,” he says with a bit of trepidation. “Perhaps I should start with what creature we evolved from. I believe your planet has a similar ...
by the_taken
Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:56 pm
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: XXXzone - Extraterrestrial Elimination and Experimentation
Replies: 11
Views: 7077

So we playtested!

I made this map for the first playtest. It's a thin corridor that starts at the bottom in the forest and flows up into and through a facility. http://www.ulmf.org/bbs/picture.php?albumid=263&pictureid=16947 Faceless Goons Str 2, Per 2, End 2, Cha 2, Int 2, Agi 2 Acc 95, AP 7, Enc "null"...
by the_taken
Tue Mar 22, 2016 1:20 am
Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
Topic: Are there any good games with enemy morale/surrender mechani
Replies: 11
Views: 5595

Assassin's Creed IV - Black Flag Most enemies are suicidally-aggressive, unless scripted to surrender or something during a cutscene, except those bastards lucky enough to encounter you while you are sailing. If you initiate a boarding action on an enemy vessel and kill a minimum number of grunts, o...
by the_taken
Sun Mar 20, 2016 3:52 am
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: XXXzone - Extraterrestrial Elimination and Experimentation
Replies: 11
Views: 7077

And now here some pre-generated Characters as examples. I'm not entirely certain how I want to have characters level up, but I do want it more free-form than the class based system from Xcom. I'm also having trouble figuring out enough special abilities to fill out a chart like fallout 4 has so I'm ...
by the_taken
Fri Mar 18, 2016 12:24 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Setting: The Monsters You Actually Want to Play
Replies: 22
Views: 6632

You need Demon-peoples of all sorts and Robot-people. And cat-folk. And rabbit-folk, and Alien-peoples...

Know what. It's fine.
by the_taken
Wed Mar 16, 2016 3:08 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Spells Sans Somatics (Just a List)
Replies: 5
Views: 1757

I appreciate your help.
by the_taken
Tue Mar 15, 2016 11:15 pm
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: XXXzone - Extraterrestrial Elimination and Experimentation
Replies: 11
Views: 7077

XXXzone - Extraterrestrial Elimination and Experimentation

I've been exposed to too much Fallout and Xcom recently. ------- xXx ------- You enter the dim office for your interview. You aren't sure what your new job will involve, but a rookie fresh from boot camp like you know that when you a general tells you you've been selected for an experimental program...
by the_taken
Tue Aug 19, 2014 6:43 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Did Eastern Europeans wear full plate armor?
Replies: 16
Views: 5066

If you've got forty-six minutes: MEDIEVAL WEAPONS & COMBAT: Heavy Armour
by the_taken
Mon Mar 24, 2014 8:37 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: How many monster girls are there in D&D?
Replies: 33
Views: 15442

Prak_Anima wrote:Also, Frank, fucking a Petal would be difficult. Unless you're female with a very specific fetish, or you find an Enlarge Fae spell and then cast Reduce Person on yourself.
Do a rule34 search for Tinkerbell.
by the_taken
Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:31 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: A game where returning from the dead is automatic
Replies: 20
Views: 6020

Eclipse Phase is an RPG where your mind has been digitized, and you periodically back it up. When you die, your backup is installed into a new body. But it doesn't send you back in time before your death to try again. - I'm trying to wrap my head around making several time looping event segments to...
by the_taken
Sun Feb 23, 2014 3:15 pm
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: Seinfeld=Cthulu mythos in the 90's
Replies: 16
Views: 2409

This is kinda like a childhood killing story/comic/joke (except Seindfeld wasn't a children's show), or comedy gold in the making. And for some reason I'm associating this with Diet Pepsi.
by the_taken
Mon Sep 23, 2013 8:18 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Disregard the Constabulary
Replies: 90
Views: 14498

Most of my D&D games, most guards of human(oid) cities are 1st level, with a few more experienced members being of 2nd and rarely 3rd level. By the times they have enough XP to reach 4th, they've been retired or promoted to palace duty. 5th level constabulary are usually those with the unfortuna...
by the_taken
Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:20 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Help me pick good class names!
Replies: 66
Views: 15245

FrankTrollman wrote:The Cock Hurler
"You can't escape my cock!
Um, wow... that's unexpected. Is this class in anyway balanced? What if I had an Ogre take this class?
by the_taken
Wed Feb 13, 2013 1:59 am
Forum: It's My Own Invention...
Topic: [Game] Bakuhatsu High
Replies: 195
Views: 73713

OK, so I used the thread to make a character last night, and then I read the rules in the PDF and noticed some major differences. First off is that HP is calculated differently in this thread than it is the first time it is mentioned in the book on page 10, and then the same calculation that is in t...
by the_taken
Mon Feb 11, 2013 2:38 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: OSSR Request Thread
Replies: 657
Views: 167367

I'd like to put in another vote for d20 Modern and Urban Arcana.