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The first thing a customer sees when they enter a store is the covers. Do you want to turn half of them off by making the cover scream MATH instead of DRAGON? People don't PRE-ORDER an RPG book based on the cover. I'll tell you the reason my RPG group pre-ordered the 4E core books: it was the "...

That the Iron Kingdoms RPG pops up in the top five is really embarrassing for the industry. It is an amazingly terrible pile of shit. Character creation defines everything, and you can either build for offense, not being hit or survivability. If you don't build for the latter, you can be one shot b...

Tome feats are feats that grant more abilities the higher your level is by being tied to either BAB or ranks in a skill. Battlefield Surgeon [Skill] You like to cut people open with a saw. But it's good for them. Seriously. Benefits: This is a skill feat that scales with your ranks in Heal. 0 ranks:...

JonSetanta wrote:

EightWave wrote:

angelfromanotherpin wrote: Congratulations, you've avoided the design problems by abandoning the design goals.

He also invented feats!

You could take a Track 1/feat and have it advance that way. Boom. Done.


Keep in mind, I'm still pushing for 1 feat per level.

Now you've invented Tome feats! Well done!

angelfromanotherpin wrote:

JonSetanta wrote:How about a utility track that simply doesn't level up?

A level 1 kit that stays the same.

Congratulations, you've avoided the design problems by abandoning the design goals.

He also invented feats!

Chiming in on SFP, re: Max's total lack of intelligence (or creativity) with the power to buff other supernatural characters. Appreciably, the fact that it's possibly a "highest" tier power means that his ability to buff would not only grow with practice, but would develop new powers; pos...