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But let's say that you did take the rules as presented and tried to run that situation with them. And I do mean YOU take them and try to run the situation. Go on, it's easy. Try to use the rules. Lets see if my reading and your reading match up, and if what a normal player would try to use the rule...

This has been tried before. I know your idea sounds like it would work, but it really doesn't. In particular, you're not going to be able to work out good guidelines for what X points on the good will counter means in terms of actions. Just a simple bonus on social checks on that person, for exampl...

I can't see players engaging in linguistic analysis and epistemological arguments whenever they want their characters to say anything. Rolling dice whenever you want to state a fact seems excessive. The "Knowledge" skill seems particularly iffy: how are you supposed to keep track of facts ...

In combat, flight is really just a way of getting out of attack range by using a third dimension. Its value as an advantage is inversely proportional to the efficacy of ranged weapons. If you want to have level 1 flyers, give everyone a decent ranged weapon that they can actually rely on to take on ...

Shadowrun 4e's basic magic system feels robust enough to be a starting point for Avatar bending I can't agree. Shadowrun has indeed an excellent magic system, but there's a number of characteristics that make it incompatible with Avatar. First, the targeting system is completely different. In Shado...

I'm wondering if a system like this already exists. Bending in the show is very diverse but at its base it often follows two phases: first the bender gathers a certain amount of their element, and then they do something with it. The idea is to model the element-bending from the Avatar franchise by u...

Hello everyone, Just signed up after a couple of weeks of lurking. I fell into the hobby of TTRPGs pretty recently as a natural extension of playing cooperative boardgames with friends, and was hooked the moment I saw my friends morphing into their characters as I GM'ed for them. I discovered the De...

Is Doubt still being discussed as a project? This inspired me so much it motivated me to finally make an account. Here are the powers I've been brewing up for a tentative first game with my players. They veer off a bit from the "luck" theme and approach the "deniable plausibility"...