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A Master of Craft is simply getting four/six/ten hits outta his two dice, 'cos he's that badass. Not seeing how that part works. He gets four hits almost all the time, because 4-6 all count double and he gets to reroll the failed dice twice. But he never can get more than four hits, because double ...

If I have 5 Reflexes and 4 Athletics in Shadowrun I can tell you straight away I will on average get 5+4/3 = 3 hits. If a task is difficulty 3 hits or less I have a better than average chance of succeeding, if it is more than 3 hits I have a higher chance of failing. This kind of clear guess-timati...

There's also Demons, Hunters, Mummies, and Mages, all of whom are basically regular people with an extra bonus soul shard stuck in wherever a bonus soul shard goes. -Username17 Right, I was talking about nWoD, in which Demons are the Matrix Programs, Hunters are just dudes, Mummies don't exist (I t...

For me the "game" is the mechanics but of course there are plenty of settings I enjoy, at least conceptually, but I never use their mechanics. Like Bodshivita I enjoy Eclipse Phase. I read the books, however I quickly started skipping straight over anything mechanical. Chargen was so awfu...

One Punch Man
Mob Psycho (Same writer as the previous)
Super Hell Martial-arts Private High school
Attack on Titan
Koe no Katatchi
Ookii Onnanoko Wa Sunil Desu Ka

FrankTrollman wrote:
What advantage is there in "playing Scion" rather than playing any other game and calling all the player characters Percy Jackson expies?

-Username17

In my experience, this is what most people do. Using either Fate, or M&M.

Honestly... ? I adore games such as Scion & Exalted, simply because they allowed you to portray larger than life characters, with fucked-tons of power. They're the kind of settings you can read through and dream up epic stories for afterwards. And, I'm familiar enough with said games to know whe...

Prak wrote:Sounds kind of like After Sundown Leviathans, just with an inevitably terrible execution.

OPP was bound to IP scrub sometime to make another cash cow they won't support.

Every year, they shovelin'~

G'day, Denners! Long-ass time lurker, first time poster 'ere. I've been thinking of approaching the well known issue of manageable dice pool sizes, and system scaling for awhile now, and I wanna share an unconventional design concept for constructive critique... Mainly for an 'do Exalted right, damn...