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Not weighing in on the debate proper but I'm a little confused. The first and so far only game using this system that I've played did outline specific things the player picked from on a 'partial success' roll. Like "On ten you do this thing. On 9-7 you do this thing, but pick an additional thin...

Nope. The invisibility spell does*. But pixies have a special snowflake superior invisibility which is limited only by concentration- it's closer to but better than greater invisibility , because it lacks a duration. Well that's just ridiculous. Also yeah the 'literally anything' was hyperbole on m...

4 of each are 'supposedly' a match for 3rd level party, are 127 bloody HP to chew through, and feature invisible flying fucks creating restrained rabbit choke-play deathmatches out of the party, while the satyrs just fucking tank. Small point of order but Invisibility ends when the character does l...

okay yeah i get that dnd 5e suffers from "let's put the onus on the GM to mind caulk our thin system" but is there a more detailed explanation somewhere? the thinness of dnd 5e means that i don't really have to learn that much to get a game going; 3.5e has a higher ceiling for sure but it...

That's fair, though I do want to point out that a lot of those metas would be functionally identical to normies. "I can shoot lasers from my eyes" is one thing but 90% of the population has things like "I can take my tongue out of my mouth" or "I can taste colors."

Given that this guy is chief of police?

Yes I absolutely could see that.

I like how several lowkey possibilities were given out to get around joker immunity and you jump right to "I know lets make everyone's head a mini nuke." Points for creativity. I mean doesn't the convention essentially come from "it's illegal to murder guys without due process and vig...

It's this edition's version of the 4e character builder app + encounter builder + DM tool. It's only half finished at the moment.

Yeah I was thinking something like sense motive would tell you either one of their positive approaches or one of their negative approaches with the former having a slightly higher threshold to discover. For results I'm currently leaning towards a hit counting system. So something like this. Player m...

Alright so I'm trying to do a thing and I need to know if it's shit or not. A PC and an NPC have reached an impasse. The PC has decided they would like to try and negotiate with the NPC and wishes to roll a persuasion attempt. The PC only has 1 diplomacy skill but can choose from 5 different approac...

Population density required for optimal vampire saturation is always a fun thing to calculate out. Lets say a newbie vampire needs a pint a week to stay in the "clear" zone or one every 2 weeks but it puts them in danger of a hunger frenzy. A pint is about what a human can safely donate an...

If I ask to play as an Illusionist Wizard, I can accept "Well someone else is already playing an Illusionist Wizard, you'd kind of be stepping on each others' toes a bit there." On the other hand, if they told me "Well someone else is playing a Bard , so we have a Controller just fin...

4e has a few ideas I liked that i wish someone else would do better so I guess that's kind of close to "what did it do right?" In that the execution is not great but the idea had merit. Good idea: Give every class a clear role in combat. The idea is to make it easy to say "If you want...

You're not likely to have to consider taste in any particular stealth scenario you're likely to see. You're hiding in a bowl of candies on a giant's table, with the intention of leaping down his gullet and killing him from the inside. If he tastes you you've gotten down his throat, he'll be able to...

Ultimately your system has to tell people what they get to and have to roll whatever it is they are doing whenever they are called upon to roll. This can be done by being extremely reductionist and having all actions in the game be categorized into one of the categories on the character sheet, or i...

Are their any systems that forgo attributes entirely and only have skills? I feel like at least one of the versions of FATE does this but I'm not sure. Fate Core does this. However, in Fate Core it is perfectly possibly to only have six skills, and to call them Strength, Dexterity etc. That's what ...

So kind of related to the d20 skill failure thread but now I'm curious. Are their any systems that emphasize what characters do rather than how they're built? I feel like literally every system has the main five or six (charisma stength dex etc) followed by like 20 different skills and how they inte...

Establishing the illusion of set physical laws is the baseline of what (at least some) skills need to do, but preferably they would be used in decent Chase mechanics or Stealth mechanics or what-have-you that are actually fun to do. D&D resolves chases and stealth and anything besides combat in...

The usual formula I see for "blade on a stick" vs "blade all the way down" is that stick blade usually gets a 5ft reach and some kind of penalty in close quarters.

I think it's a 4e/Forgotten Realms thing where fey were.... I forget if they were actual outsiders or sort of pseudo outsiders but the point is they existed in their own little fairy realm and only interacted with the real world through portals and summoners. Granted I really liked the concept of th...

Aberrations, celestials, elementals, fey, fiends and undead. What this has to do with evil and good I'm not sure, but it is way, way better. I think those are all the "outsider" monster races or at least most of them. So it's less "protection from evil/good" and more "prote...

That doesn't really match my experiences. Tactics contributes to appeal to authority, several spells and the number of dudes allowed to contribute in a teamwork test. It's not a great skill for everyone but the coterie is better off if there's a character who can dust off their leadership skills fo...

Bureaucracy, Empathy, Expression, Intimidation, Persuasion, Tactics seems like a of social skills. Has anyone had problems with differentiating some of them from each other, or finding all of them useful? I figure some could be combined and turned into a focus you can take. Feeling someone out- emp...

Lestat being an instant rock sensation was also deeply deeply silly but I could roll with feature not a bug.

The chart helps with player expectation and navigating the soft classes. It doesn't really address the inherent silliness of your powerful great elder deep one NPC/Antagonist also being a stellar electrician.