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PF has a fuck load of options and content and advice and all of the other things that come with being an older game from a company that likes splats. Whether this is good or not depends on how much reading you want to do. It has more rules for more things, so you spend time looking things up instead...

It honestly doesn't matter if it's d6, d20, or d1000. Any flat RNG is going to be more swingy than you probably want if you have a built in exponential converter. Why should you have 20 guys voltron up into a unit to fight the dragon if they can just roll their individual attacks and lean on iterati...

7. Have a Time/Scale/Progression chart like in Champions/MnM d20. Can someone familiar with these systems explain please? I want to both: Have the vast majority of combatants not use hitpoints at all be able to have "the dragon is wounded" If you have stacks, then you have fixed HP for yo...

You can refuse to take anything from anyone for any or no reason, and still not be wrong. It doesn't matter if you're offered shit or delicious candy. You wouldn't be wrong if you'd ignored Frank before you started posting because you thought he was a prick already, and you might as well have. Just ...

Also: instructing people to feel bad is in fact an insult. It is in fact the ur-insult from which all insults spring. We do insults here, so that's fine, but don't pretend that it's not. "Your ideas are bad and you should feel bad" is not an ad hominem argument, because you're not relying...

Frank did not insult you. Frank insulted your original objection and then told you that you should feel badly about holding that position. If you can't separate having your ideas insulted from being personally insulted yourself, I suggest you find a nice hugbox to hang out at instead. Just to remind...

Defaults are important. There are measurable psychological effects associated with assigning things to defaults. People are more likely to use them as-is or to use them as a starting point for their own modification because it is less work to use what's there or make minor changes than to start from...

Maxus wrote:I got Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.

Me too, if months later. Climbing on things to stab them repeatedly in the back of the neck/head is good times, and seems like the sort of thing more games should do. Outside of QTEs I mean, because those don't count.

Magic items up to +3 were in the Basic Rules back before the Monster Manual came out, though I can't find them in the PHB. Did people just not see them there?

I worked up some stuff along these lines a while back, as part of a larger "making size changes less work" project that I was never satisfied with. It leaned on the Grab On maneuver and flight/climb/jump/whatever to get into position, as has been suggested here, and then added some additio...

Modern tabletop games seem to rely more on having a generally applicable framework and the DM not being a jerk than on having a rule for every specific, conceivable thing. I think this is a good thing. Since playing some other games, I've become much more relaxed and open-ended in how I DM, and the...

Finally, you get some legitimate crisis by taking 36 millions of people out of misery in 10 years. Housing got awfully expensive, for example. So you have a mass of people whose lives are actually objectively better than 15 years ago, but that can point to some areas that are bad right now. The iro...

I suspect you're underestimating the difficulty of Deadly Space Hobos and making all of those disparate pieces work nicely together and not be either a total cluster fuck or a boring piece of shit. Granted, Banished was built by a single guy in not too long a time, but you want to do a few more piec...

Pit Fiend Excerpt wrote:Pit Fiend
Large fiend (devil), lawful evil
Armor Class 19...

Nope. Noping the fuck out.

Paranoia's oppositional player vs player "the objective is to lose hilariously and be the last asshole standing" thing is brilliant, it IS an RPG... but really it's firmly in it's own Genre. I'd like there to be other RPGs in that Genre... but there basically aren't. How close does Kobold...

Damnit Lokathor, why you got to link to the crappy wiki?

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For the actual thread - Dragonborn, Grippli (or frog people in general, though I suspect most of them would get Water Orc treatment after general frog people is done), or a second vote for Illumians.

No Game No Life was solid, and I look forward to its return. The main characters never lose, but the way in which they win is at least interesting (most of the time, the chess match ending was disappointing). The build up and ending where they let in on the secret works nicely, and I thank the write...

I wouldn't go with splitting the combat/other uses of it. Spells with different possible uses are fun. And sticking the plot away from the combat is one of the places 4E fell down. 4e removed a lot of the plot stuff from pc hands, and I'm not suggesting doing that at all. And this isn't giving a sp...

How much? EDIT: Did some edits myself, toning it down. How about now? My default position on spells is that each spell level can be about 2x better than the level before it (this ties in with power growth of characters, and how every two levels (1 spell level) you're supposed to get about twice as ...

I'm pretty sure sarcasmoverdose is using these balance categories (or the old names for them anyway).

We don't much care for the tiers around here, reasons available upon request. You can sort of map some aspects of them to these categories if your used to thinking in those terms already though.

There's one where you build your own figures with legos. Really . As a bonus, it's CC licensed if you want to look it over without throwing money at it. Not that I know if the game is any good or if you have sufficient legos or people to play it, but I thought it worth mentioning as a model alternat...

They did another round of errata back in May, but they still don't have a monster book. The monster book still has no firm release date or even a preview. So while the basic document is probably tighter now (not that I've read it), you're still rolling all of your own opposition and encounter design...

The Deus Ex box on there looks like the directors cut, and it should be on your list. If you like set piece action movies, Tomb Raider is easy to recommend. It's a series reboot, so not having played it in forever doesn't matter. I liked both of the darksiders, though 2 is probably better done. They...

I liked the idea of it Starmaker... is it any good?

If high level characters are all going to end up on a dragon of some color anyway, why are you concerned with every race getting a 'flying' mount? Every PC likely needs access to one, but it seems odd to say that all of the underground races have flying mounts for burden and war. Wouldn't climbing, ...