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Is there any awesome trick a warrior can pull off by landing three or four attacks on one target in one round, like something with tripping or grappling or stunning fist There's like Anvil of Thunder Style and shit. Hit with an ax and a hammer in the same turn and your target needs to save or be da...

His bbcode is fine, it's just the board protecting itself from stupid compounding stupid.

Beats being ignored

There's decades of bad blood that has to spew all over some thread, might as well be one that was headed to lockville by post 3.

Absurdly literal interpretation is probably the culprit. I'm pretty sure when Frank says "roll the dice" he means the dm making stuff up portion of the game is over and we're into agreed upon mechanical systems resolving the game situation. Kaelik's post should be put into some kind of hal...

Grek's previous post, that's not really what the "skills" are for. More societal norms: creation and opposition to them...I think.

Alright, my example isn't an intended use. (I was thinking low level without punpun/omnificier level gouda by the by, should have specified.)

It is info we needed up front. Probably something that needs to fall outside the normal skill system, that's not exactly equal access.

Probably need to deal with the scope problem next, so Kaelik will have to read more than the first few lines to declare it's shit. Get that hammered out then worry about the results of success/failure and the numbers involved in the rolls. What is it appropriate to use these rules for? It's very dif...

Same response as last trainwreck thread on a simlar topic: http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=56445

Which system/version? In any case, state what you want the rules to accomplish first then build the mechanics. Unless of course there's a paycheck, then you can make them as crappily as you want.

So, having watching that video... both combatant's defenses failed almost immediately almost every time and the one who survived did so by a matter of seconds. Bucklers were fit to purpose for civilian defense certainly but that is because they're light and small enough that they're easy to carry. ...

Hah, misread. Isn't too much in the monster manual a couple Allips can't take down when you provide them with tactics though.

Fort save and doesn't affect objects, Allip is still the apex predator. Might fall under elemental immunities too, forget. Tangleroot bag worth a shot? Always watch what you call things, because if it's an English word, there's probably 5 ways to be entirely immune to it somewhere :) PhoneLobster, y...

Depends on how much suck to awesome or awesome to suck actually happen. If you're playing RaW even core-only, does suck to awesome exist? Magic users get enough encounter over stuff at 1 to only have to worry about blowing a spot/listen and getting their face ripped off, but that can happen even to ...

Hellfire warlock and such make the last idea a bad one, if you're talking DnD3.x. Need to know what game and system to talk about more.

Just wanted to say glad this pile or weird came up. /Subscribe

Don't start with numbers, unless your goal is to make crap and it has to be done 10 minutes ago (just like most of the pros). A sensible mechanical progression can be hammered into anything. Start with how you want the system to work, then work on numbers (with no/some/lots of situational penalties ...

Read the listen skill and the footnote (I didn't include the distance increment but it's only +1 per 10 feet). Presumably they yell things to each other that aren't easily interpretable by the enemy or other hand-wavium things. It can of course be interpreted differently. There's some other situatio...

I was about to say there were mitigations in the SRD but wait, there's not, must have been some other version I read where it required things like talking (dc 25 minimum listen check in combat). Nothing, nada, easy dc everything to friendly and they're stuck there forever. So hints to some language ...

There's lots of other problematic spells and class features for any skill check design. No more than that. Way more than enough to make a die roll pointless (maybe by accident) on the scale above (32+hit dice or that neighborhood) with only a few levels, yet enough for John McLackOfSkillPoints to fa...

I'll admit that I didn't read the examples carefully enough, it might be covered. There's plenty of other ways to break DnD, it's just that wish is core and hopelessly broken and accessible somewhat early (at least level 11 by core spells without chance of being atomized, probably much earlier). Eve...

I guess 3.x tabletop? Ok so my 8 cha level 1 evil commoner with no ranks or items needs how many of my friends with aid another actions to no fail convince a 90th level paladin of Tyr to kill all the babies in the city? I.e. badly needs better explaining of what you want the rules to allow to start ...

Humanity: Paging quickly through whitewolf wikia, I find a 6th gen toreador with 7, a 7th Ventrue with 0 (but 10 will), a 5th with another 7 and a Nos 6th or whatever with 9... Remember white wolf NPCs (which any powerful thing is) have to have their pants specially made. Also, glancing at http://wh...

Make All Natural Attacks (Attack; 3 Acts): (30 words to say everything the action's title says). Has CMD improved at all or is it just a loser unless you have a way to get stupid high stats? More than a few mentions for that. Lots of silly things that shouldn't be part of combat: Call a forgery in ...

Some things are always worth trying http://i.imgur.com/uRgeen1.jpg IIRC, in Supernatural they had most of that pile of crap in baby's trunk since the beginning...was probably dad's anyway. Hard to encapsulate that series' high and low points in just a few words, but plenty of material there worth bo...

That's a bit hard to parse, or I might just be tired Chamomile and it'd be banal to list the contributing problems of why is every encounter to the death and so on. Stakes are insta-gib for vamps on Buffy, while other media and games they range from bad to you ruined my shirt. There's no making ever...

Want to note that Positronic Brain was Asimov using a cool new buzzword and has nothing to do with antimatter. Weaknesses is a tricky thing. Probably important that we're not talking about published schlock, you have the author here to talk about his thought process instead of wondering if he had on...