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A character in a JRPG can plausibly have "hard to kill" as their primary combat schtick, where they do nothing but make standard attacks Certain JRPGs also have other gimmicks In your typical jrpg, the " mundane fighter"'s auto-attack Would it be safe to assume, given these answ...

You could roll nothing but ones and you're still doing 88% of your average damage. So in JRPGs, in my experience, a given character's damage output is relatively stable - there is some amount of variation, but not a lot, for a given set of level/gear/whatever. Ignoring the precise math at play, why...

Frank wrote:rolling a d8 +25 is lame sauce

Is there a more solid explanation behind this thought?

You seem to be hinting at the idea that, as the party's position on the great chain of being rises, their relative chances of succeeding at level-appropriate tasks should change. If that's what you're trying to get at, can you make your position more explicit? Explicitly and specifically in the cas...

Do we consider a level 1 anything to be a "competent specialist"? Relative to other level 1 characters attempting a challenge appropriate to a level 1 character: certainly. Compared to characters attempting a challenge appropriate to a level 20 character: certainly not. You might think th...

Do we consider a level 1 anything to be a "competent specialist"?

Couple examples of how this is supposed to work might help. I've read it a couple times, and I'm still not sure I follow.

FrankTrollman wrote:True story: Hayek was and is totally wrong and anyone who takes that shit seriously is a fucking moron.

...in hindsight, I really should've seen this response coming.

This guy has a bunch of stuff on trying to build a realistic economy. As I recall he gets pretty in-depth.

What did disappoint and anger me though ist that awful Discovery system. Apparently Pathfinder wan't complex enough and also needed more MMO mechanics, so now you can add a new meta-currency point system where PCs accumulate Discovery points by finding way signs and beating stupid skill checks. Tho...

FrankTrollman wrote:Many spell casters gt access to abilities that invalidate armies at shockingly low levels

Could you elaborate on what this list of problem spells looks like?

Unfuck your tags!

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The pool of talent doing tabletop RPG stuff is just really weak nowadays (with very little new blood). This is a cultural thing, I think, on the part of the gaming companies themselves. I applied for a job at WotC years ago, and actually got pretty far along. It was early in 4e, though, and I was s...

A syllabary is not the same as an alphabet.

Judging__Eagle wrote:(which I'm reluctant to label an alphabet, since it's not initiated with characters named Aleph and Bet)

...that's quite possibly the stupidest thing I've read all week.

"Alphabet" is, at this point, an acknowledged linguistics term, used to describe a particular type of writing system.

Judging__Eagle wrote:Frank's ACKs-based Hexcrawl Terrain Types.

Can I get a link to that?

Slade wrote:Why enlighten me, how does one do Hiding wrong?

Apparently it just doesn't work.

According to momothefiddler in this thread (http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?p=476483), the 5E DMG does contain a lot of optional rules that at least approximate the "modular experience" claim of pre-release. The way I recall it, we were pretty much told that Bob could sit down and make...

I found this thread awhile ago, and found it a pretty interesting read.

Has anybody actually tried to implement any of the ideas there? If so, how'd it go?

Smirnoffico wrote:Who is shitmuffin again?

To post his name is to summon him.

Maybe play off the theme of each tribe, and use that to put extra details in their region that are also interesting bits to explore? For instance, "orcs who worship fire" might do so because their tribe is sitting on top of the ruins of a temple to some forgotten fire deity, so they get po...

A better model is the spell model of progression. Not surprising since casters are known to be more fun and playable. You get level gated abilities each level which don't require prerequisites and require actions and slots (which cuts ways down on synergy problems). Giving everyone their own full s...

XP per action encourages you to grind. That is literally one hundred percent of what it does. It gives a concrete mechanical benefit for rolling dice more than you strictly have to. It rewards players for having their characters do things that are strictly speaking more difficult than they have to ...

deaddmwalking wrote:XP per action is dumb for many, many reasons. But mostly because it doesn't do anything you want it to.

Can you give me a stronger reason than "it's dumb"? I mean, if there are "many, many reasons," surely you can provide a few, or at least links to these arguments/discussions?

OgreBattle wrote:That does seem like it can get tedious or mistakes get made with the counting process.

Maybe I'm just tired, but I don't follow what you mean; in general it seems pretty clear to me when you're able to take 10 or not.

Do you want to try clarifying what you meant?