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PhoneLobster wrote: ...doesn't answer the criticism of "I don't want to spend my time constantly doing that".

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is your main criticism of OgreBattle premise just, "I'm not interested in the game you're proposing on a conceptual level"?

Well, in my example my goal was for magic to be dangerous, dramatic and chaotic but as a side effect it also turns miscasting into a resource mechanic.

sorry to break immersion here but does anyone know who the artist for that cover is ? looks very familiar but I can't put my finger on it

Here's an idea for miscasts: You make a spellcasting check when you cast a spell and if you fail the check, the spell is still cast but you're unable to cast it again until a condition is met. Maybe there's an additional miscast effect like taking some damage or a status effect (or even something ki...

Flesh to Gold seems obvious, what with Midas n all

I'm wondering if something like the escalation mechanic from dogs in the vineyard would be applicable to a social combat system for pulp fantasy adventures

I'm with AA here, Unbreakable seems really interesting

I think it would be pretty easy and a lot simpler to do away with D&D types altogether for a bionicles game, even in d20

Oh shit I didn't know this thread existed! I just got into bloodborne earlier this year. I haven't actually played in a while and I'm still on my first play-through, but I just wanted to brag that I beat Ludwig on my first try after stumbling on him by accident and Igot BSB second try while drunk. T...

zinny winny wrote:a bunch of baseless shit about someone that's made 35 posts on this site and joined a year ago

fucking epic

You know zin, I have no idea who you are irl or what you're really like, but you just come off like a raging asshole online. Like, the kind of narcissistic, condescending projecting you're doing is seriously annoying. I am just genuinely asking you to leave because you're spreading the exact kind of...

Damn zinegata, you ever consider that the people on this forum actually enjoy the discussions here and, if that's not you, you are fully capable of leaving? Flailing around insulting everyone here is not going to change anything on this forum or endear anyone to your way of thinking. I'm really not ...

This reminds me of the wounds and vitality system I made as after reading through Unearthed Arcana. The system also incorporated the class defense bonus and armor as DR variant rules, both slightly modified. The idea was that vitality had to be spent to add your class defense bonus to AC and your BA...

Here's my idea for void debt. Feel free to steal, ignore or change whatever you like. 1: Cannot benefit from advantage, vulnerability to radiant damage. 2: Healing is halved. 3: Disadvantage on saving throws and ability checks (including wu wei checks). 4: Lose proficiency on wu wei checks, gain adv...

Thank you, I'm really excited to see more of this. I know the word epic is mostly used ironically nowadays, but it feels epic in a meaningful way. It reminds me of Final Fantasy. I'm very curious about how the beams interact with the setting. Like, how common are people that know of and walk the bea...

GnomeWorks, I actually would be interested in your 5e homebrew since its what everyone I know is playing. Is there a way I could get my hands on it? Promise I won't shit on it, anything I don't like I'll just change myself.

So, I feel like now that I've been provoked into posting in this thread, I should try to contribute to the main topic. My position is that I'm really not here for deep political discussion, but I can't deny that almost everything is inherently political. I think a no politics rule is kind of weird t...

Wow, people are claiming the term "alpha male" is not gendered language despite a gender being half of the entire phrase. Just so you all know, you can actually just say the word "alpha" and it gets the exact same point across, but in a gender neutral way. But sure, go ahead and ...

Just last month I was writing some notes on a V:tM/Shadowrun-inspired heartbreaker where character creation/advancement is entirely based on money. Money is literally the only resource. A starting character is just a specific dollar amount of character options you bought before the game started and ...

Love how this class has a genuine focus on trickery in its abilities. Most rogue classes are generic burst damage skirmishers and being a trickster is just flavor text. Feels completely different from the "lightly-armored fighter" that D&D has, and in the best way.

We've just reached level 4 because the GM made some lucky treasure rolls and we made it back to town with a +3 weapon, which he said people would try to fucking mug us for, so we decided to sell it and he got butthurt and started saying he was going to stop doing Gold for XP. This shit sucks. If yo...

I like Darth Rabbit's assignment

I nominate the the name Dickolaus Von Scrotunheim, Defender-Shaman of the Tribe

They are slowly manifested from the aether via intensive and specialized meditation. Once you learn how to craft an item, you simply plop down a certain amount of gold (or an equivalent value of other substances) in a circle, prepare certain spells to be consumed in the process, and then you meditat...

I think part of it is the dark souls mentality. Like they want the feeling of accomplishment for doing something that feels almost impossible at first. They want to feel like everything is earned. The problem is that people try to conjure that feeling by copying dark souls (metaphorically speaking a...