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Yeah, seen too many PbP games where the DM doesn't give the players any direction because he doesn't want to railroad. I've had this problem in my DMing past, how does one avoid, or otherwise circumvent this issue? My guess is to flat out mention some options for them when/if they're feeling lackin...

Josh_Kablack wrote: Hence my above call to coin a new word out of his name for describing positions of approximately equal stupidity. "SKRewed " does seem like a good fit.

I second this motion.

All in favor?

@ mlangsdorf
Would you please be so kind as to unfuck your tags?
I think you have one too many close-quotes.

The quote there's from Reynolds? SKR is credited in the 3.0 PHB, but the lead designers were Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook and Skip Williams. Oh, you're right. I think I was confusing SKR with SW. But the point still stands (just not quite as strong as before). I think ACOS was saying SKR listed the s...

Gnorman wrote: In the case of corporate authorship, the works are generally works-for-hire. Duration for those is 95 years from publication date or 120 years from creation date, whichever is shorter.

A time frame that curiously keeps getting extended every time Mickey Mouse is about to expire.

I'd never heard of the guy before. This line alone convinced me that he's never actually played an RPG. :rofl: He was one of the "Big 3" co-authors/designers for D&D 3.0; and even a significant contributor to 3.5 (and now PF, apparently). Which makes your observation VERY telling of h...

I found this one . I'm sad that AMIB backed down so easily. SKR invokes bluff as an argument; but that actually didn't have anything at all to do with the examples in play. Also, I can't believe that everybody let him get away with his strawman/red herring b.s. on Sneak Attack - people get away wit...

Magic items should be special, and nothing is less "special" than having a bonus you're supposed to have anyway. Grrr.... Every time I hear a GM say "magic items should be special", it turns out to be code for "my players should be falling over themselves with gratitude eve...

Yeah, the Born Under Sun/Moon feats are the stuff of ceremonies. The star-touched chain can easily be combined in to a single feat, and still be not quite worth it (seriously? 3 f'n feats? WTF? the follow-on prestige class is really only worth 3 feats or so). So, combine the 3 in to 1 single feat, a...

Those are all pretty standard arrays for "background feats"; which, yeah, are way too small to be wasting feats on. I've even been known to just throw those around for free at character creation as just "backgrounds", as part of a comprehensive character-generation process. If yo...

The 3E combat options are maneuvers not stunts. A stunt is something improvised that you spend no character resources in. The moment you require a feat/proficiency/skill/whatever to do it well, then it becomes a maneuver. I think that this is what Skill Tricks were supposed to be. Not actually a ba...

I know. My point is that making poor choices should be just as laudable (or censurable) no matter what it says on your character sheet. But if a player has spent character-building resources on "gets away with *thing* when no one else can", then no, he shouldn't necessarily be punished li...

I know. My point is that making poor choices should be just as laudable (or censurable) no matter what it says on your character sheet. But if a player has spent character-building resources on "gets away with *thing* when no one else can", then no, he shouldn't necessarily be punished li...

Stahlseele wrote: Yeah, that totally works with several of my buddies
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Now with people such as Frank and other Denizens . . nope, that so won't fly.

Okay. But is that a function of just some OCD need; or are there actual principles involved?

Wait, so now I don't need any of the Core books to actually play the game?

That's ... telling.

The big issue of course is that the math for figuring out probability is extremely non-trivial. People who make Cthulhutech or One Roll Engine or L5R or Deadlands or any of that shit seriously have no fucking clue what the chances of success or failure are on any particular roll. That ends up with ...

Kegogi.
Uncommon? Check. Enjoyed? Mostly only for the novelty factor.

I worked at AMD from 1998 until 2011 and did engineering work on software for multi-core. I'm not aware of any legal issues over the multi-core processors, and I'd be surprised, since technical stuff like that is heavily cross licensed between the two companies. AMD did renegotiate parts of the cro...

It seems that silva has gone from pimping AW to trying to bury SR.
I'm not quite sure how I feel about that.

So, $30 for less than 100 pages. And a canned adventure, no less.


But that's okay, because apparently you don't need the MM or DMG to play the game.

TiaC wrote:So, do you think patent law will ever get bad enough that someone will be able to patent the process of acquiring a patent?

I think that the gov't already did that.

It's likely that in the next adventure if I want the characters to pick up on something, they'll need to put two skills together ...skills possessed by separate characters. What's a good mechanic for representing one character using their specialized knowledge to help another character use their sk...

Hmm. Okay, I'm going to free-flow some thoughts here: Processes are patented. The major point of reverse-engineering a patented product is to figure out if/how said product can be replicated via a different process. Kodak fought over this with their Polaroid camera, and lost. AMD and Intel have foug...

So what happens if someone 'accidentally' does whatever secret thing you did? Can you sue over that? I'm pretty sure you can. Patents are part of the public record, and there's even a form you can fill out for the USPO to see if what you made already has a patent. Basically, you have a duty to make...

Longes wrote:

angelfromanotherpin wrote:They are shit, and the reasons they are shit have been covered extensively, which was worthwhile

Can someone point me to the relevant thread, or make a TL;DR?

Much of it has been spread around several threads; but THIS is probably the best one.