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Natural cave systems are also used as dungeons a whole lot. They can accumulate loot if monsters live there, assuming the monsters drag bag humans to eat and leave the metal crap they're carrying alone to sit in a pile on the floor.

Looking at a few pictures, it seems to have minis for the players and tokens for monsters and environmental effects. If you want to use a sweet dragon mini for any dragon-related scenerios you will have to provide it yourself. I have the (Huge? Gargantuan?) Black Dragon from the D&D minis thing...

The exploration and stronghold rules might be worth looking into, but everything else seems like neckbeard trash. "Dangerous magic" is almost always a pseudonym for "fuck the players," and waxing on about how great RPGs were in the fucking 70s is usually the result of not underst...

By "fixing 3e", I assume you mean "using the 3e monster manual with new rules for PCs". To avoid re-writing the entire monster manual, because that is BIG JOBS. No no, the Monster Manual is getting a complete rewrite. Like I said, many of us are making entire homebrew systems th...

This thread exists to identify and hopefully correct all of the failure points, insane design decisions and generally fuckery of the 3rd/3.5 game system in an attempt to design a system from the ground up that avoids all those pitfalls while keeping all the amazing parts of the system. There are qui...

But if the X-Wing can reasonably damage the Star Destroyer then having a Star Destroyer feels a little bit like having a battleship in 1942 (or 2002 for that matter): an ineffectual waste of money. One of the X-wing books (forgot which one, I read it in high school) solved this problem pretty neatl...

So it's a CR 3 monster that ambushes the party, does... one point of ability damage, and then either dies to ready action attacks or walks away?

Why would you ever run this monster?

Can this stack from multiple uses? Can three level 5 fighters combine to give a fourth fighter a 6 die step increases on damage and +3 to hit? You might run into the Knights of the Round problem where having one fighter is kinda useless but you can build a party of fighters to murder people super ha...

GMs who roll everything behind their screen are almost certainly cheating all the time. We have an "open roll policy" at our table, where everything always has to be visible to everyone else. It works out fine. Sure, after a few rolls players can determine how good the monster is at saves/...

I personally start all games at level 3 and play to, like, level 10 or something, assuming the game lasts that long. Levels 5-8 are probably the best, but start requiring some real gentleman's agreements on what kind of caster shit you're allowing.

Ok, it can be done, the question would rather be... is it worth the hassle? Game-wise. in a successful crossover, no concept would be obviated/invalidated, and every concept must be valid the majority of time (because otherwise we go back to the crap of the party finding a hall full of traps and th...

Sea Change by S.M. Wheeler is a bizarre but rather well done novel. Read it recently, would recommend.

Well, firstly, do you want the pact costs to be one time deals or per usage of the power? Take Hellfire Blast for instance. You could model it so that just gaining usage of the ability required "investing" 2 Constitution to the relevant demon that's granting you the ability, trading some o...

I feel like Project Orcus had the greatest potential to be the bestest edition of D&D but for whatever reason we got 4e instead. On the one hand, martials would have been Bo9S classes and casters would have been limited. On the other hand, we might have had Incarnates and Binders and Truenamers...

People want playable races for the same reason they want monsters in their game- because it's more interesting that way. Sure, you could have a D&D game where there were only humans... but why would you? It's far more entertaining to fight an owlbear, a band of gobling raiders on hypogriffs, a f...

DSMatticus, I am just going to quote this post the next time any Ass World shill comes by, because it is brilliant.

This is a question that will probably receive entirely anecdotal answers, but what are the ten most commonly desired to play races in a fantasy RPG? Assuming, for example, there existed an RPG that had every race and they were all just as flavorful and mechanically viable as each other- what ten do ...

Pixels puts it correctly- enemies have arbitrary power, and what a hit does against an opponent is determined 100% by the GM and not at all by any sane amount of numbers. So if the GM determines that psychic bodyguards are an insurmountable foe, no amount of successful attacks will defeat them. Your...

If this is true, how can the players get worried by the appearance of super-powered psychic bodyguards? If the opposition is just an amorphous jelly with a paper thin-skin under the DM's whims, then it doesn't matter if you're going against a host of psychic bodyguards or "just Tum Tum". ...

Is the goal of this campaign to come up with new tricks and therefore join the pantheon?

There is simply no way to get around the basic requirement that every single member of every single RPG adventuring party has to be able to sneak. No way at all. -Username17 What the actual fuck? The most popular RPG has spent thirty years and more than five editions not allowing the majority of it...

Society strongly downplays the notion that you can rape men. Actually, a woman can't rape a man in America. I mean that literally: the law does not define a woman forcefully putting a man's penis into her vagina, or inserting the penis of a man unable to consent, as rape. It's just not in the rape ...

Society strongly downplays the notion that you can rape men. Actually, a woman can't rape a man in America. I mean that literally: the law does not define a woman forcefully putting a man's penis into her vagina, or inserting the penis of a man unable to consent, as rape. It's just not in the rape ...

A friend of mine is considering fleeing to Australia, that got me thinking about where good places to run away to would be and what the requirements are. I'll take a stab at your requirements. You're looking for a majority white, liberal, western democracy. That rules out South Africa, Zimbabwe or ...

Hey, America will always be the best country! There is literally nothing you could possibly do to make Americans stop thinking that. It's impossible.

USA! USA! USA!