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DND's rules for magical ammunition always seriously bugged me. Either you buy non-reusable arrows in packs of 50, in which case your high-level character fires off their entire investment in a single engagement, or you buy a single fully reusable arrow, in which case you have to spend some plusses o...

I'm still not sure of a few things though: 2. Should there be some kind of ticking clock towards doomsday other than the fact that more hollows will know to attack the PCs with time, possibly using better tactics? What kind of tone are you going for? This sounds like a great setting for a bleak, un...

codeGlaze wrote:We're not dealing with print runs. xD

Hah, true enough.

If the setting has any high-power magic around, nonstandard gravity is always fun. For example, a cage match in a ten-foot-tall cage where gravity reverses every twenty seconds, or a subjective-gravity obstacle course.

Also, clockwork arenas like at the end of Hellboy II.

The only thing I've produced that made it into the link repository is the Spellherd; feel free to include it. It never seemed quite right, though, so if it does make it in I might go back and tweak it.

One of my two forays into actually doing my own homebrew used swift/immediate actions, five-foot steps, and attacks of opportunity as resources that could be used on other people's turns. For example, one ability the class had let it retarget nearby spell AoEs by spending attacks of opportunity, and...

I once tried putting together a campaign that's vaguely related to this idea. Basically, idea was that the player characters weren't explicit individuals, but rather Heroic Personalities that would hop through history to possess/inhabit/inspire particular individuals, which would turn that NPC into ...

The issue is basically that AAA game studios are attempting to make as much money as possible by making the game appeal to as many players as possible. This is reasonable if all you're trying to do is make money (c.f. the success of the battlefield, call of duty, and warcraft franchises), but it req...

Part of the issue is that all these examples are already violating expectations; anything you do can only expose new manifestations of those violated expectations. For example, an "Architecture Colossus" made out of skyscrapers and with a house as a foot makes perfect sense, but if you too...

For one GURPS campaign, I built the "Pet Rock": an intelligent but inanimate piece of gravel that had bought up clairvoyance, telekinesis, and telepathy spells at high enough level that it could use them constantly and for free. The GM never let that build off the character sheet.

Depending on what you mean by "taking over", economics is a staggeringly inefficient method. Politics are a much better target: "I wish that the Person in charge of Political Entity X followed my orders".

So what can super villains do after they have served their prison sentence to make a living (excluding being a super villain again)? Get creative. The thing that I like about Worm is that, instead of focusing all the attention on the people with cool flashy powers, the author gives the place of hon...

Another attack option is unnecessary mechanically; between using Dispersal to teleport people up into the air for 2d6 falling damage per level and using Warp Rend for 1d8 damage per level, this class has plenty of damage available. Flavor-wise, no idea.

So that is you over there following the project then Vebyast (convenient globe consistency you have going on)... cool. [...] Oh, wait, you're doing that already. Good times. Heh. I'd prefer keeping this handle at least slightly separate (don't want people to be able to put things together without a...

If we do our jobs right, we'll be using github's issue tracker more than we do any forum thread. Except for a few very, very high-level things, like the very initial "what is the scope of this project?" and "what technologies are we using?" discussions, we should be doing all of ...

I kind of like the bidding idea. Thoughts: Do we want players to be able to die, either in or out of combat? If so, what are the details? I think we might want to take advantage of the Gatejammer setting here, actually: "As your mortal shell fails, you feel your soul departing. If you have good...

I think that the plot for the book needs to be mostly self-contained so players don't get frustrated, but Gatejammer gives us plenty of opportunity to leave things open: a book transition is walking through a portal to another planet, system, or cluster, and we're in Finality. It wouldn't hurt at al...

Ooh, this looks interesting. I'm on board. http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/c0/45/bd1b224128a053a1e04fb010.L.jpg I had a few of the Lone Wolf gamebooks and played them pretty well, enough that I could reliably choose squares with better rolls. So I don't think that that's quite "e...

Maybe restrict that ability to "may wield any weapon as a weapon with the same range increment and reach"? Glaive->spear, foot->scythe and throwing knives->throwing axes seems like something that would only take a little offscreen magic, as opposed to food->longbow or eyes->knives. Also, i...

The resources discussion sounds a lot like "casting from hit points". If you run out of ammo, you die instantly; however, using ammo is the only way to kill things. Advancement is nothing more than the process of getting more and more efficient with your last remaining hit points. It'd be ...

Sounds like Guacamelee.

Funnily enough, for the purposes of heat engines, creating cold is just as useful as creating heat. All you need is a heat gradient that you can extract work from. Under certain conditions (for example, if your hot end can only get so hot and you're looking for more power), cold can be even better t...

*awards medal to Shrapnel*

Ah, the fine art of abusing formal systems by constructing Gödel Sentences.

Wikipedia's List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and atomic particles. TVTropes' pages on unobtainium and green rocks may also be useful. Have a field day.