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I just finished reading The Book of the New Sun and The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. Mind-blowing books that make me want to RPG the setting till it's intollerable.

@Judging__Eagle: I don't know what it is about you GD regulars and ad hominem attacks, but it's nearly always a huge waste of time. The original designers of D&D weren't "stupid" because they wanted to give you one attack every 6 seconds. They were trying to move from a wargaming strat...

ubernoob wrote:seriously, fractional costs are stupid

I assume you're referring to movement costs, and if so I agree. I rather hate the solution I came up with and I'd love to hear a better idea.

The person who said it took 20 minutes to resolve what was available in a shopping trip was likely not exaggerating. Generating random items takes a lot longer than it should. I totally agree. Over the years I've made a number of Excel-based random generators to speed things up for our games. A ran...

I like the tiered aspect of weapon speeds you have and it might be manageable at low levels, but that's a lot of counting down your remaining points each round once warriors get up to 5+ attacks. I'd try it but expect serious game lag. Well, maybe I should re-state what I've said about numbers. I d...

I really like the way 4e handles magic item distro to the players: let them pick the loot. It's artificial and goofy as all crap, but it's sooooo much more fun than going on shopping trips. In the PF game I'm in right now the GM decided to use those fancy random charts. He rolls a +2 huge throwing s...

Based on what I've written so far, fighting with two weapons is not going to suffer any sort of restriction against using large weapons, natural weapons, or anything else. Basically, if you can hit someone with it, just spend the AP to hit. The TWF feat basically says, "Designate a weapon as of...

I agree with ubernoob about this much accounting being tedious and stupid. But I will still humor your system. Awesome! 1 AP = 2 initiative rank; You can spend leftover AP at the end of your turn to improve your initiative or you can lower your initiative to gain extra AP, both are up to 2 AP per r...

Ok, thinking about it, if all your attacks are at full bonus then you don't need all of them to be at rough parity how a fighter performs in 3.5. You'd probably want around 2.5-3 attacks per round at levels 16+, maybe more advanced characters get more APs (if that's not over complicating things)? T...

I'm not going to address the last post because you've done absolutely nothing to invalidate any part of my argument. You just seem angry because someone on the internet said fuck you. I wasn't trying to invalidate anything. The fact is, you stated you don't want to do math to determine actions, and...

In case I wasn't clear, your system breaks up the chunking already present in the decision to cast a spell or attack. Or move versus attack. You have to make all your decisions in order and that's just going to slow the game down. No, in fact you weren't the least bit clear. You insinuated that wha...

Well, I guess you hate roleplaying games. No, just excess math. Every turn. For every action. Well, the statement "that much accounting is bad" seemed odd to me, because I haven't played an RPG without accounting. And honestly, "subtraction from 10" is just about the easiest mat...

This system also seems to cost higher level fighters more AP for them to do their Full Attack routine, which makes them weaker, which really isn't what they need. Part of the intent behind the design is to get rid of the full attack action altogether, making it possible to attack and move in a more...

ubernoob wrote:Plus, that much accounting is bad.

Well, I guess you hate roleplaying games.

in before, "I'd have a computer handle initiative and action costs at this point." Consider playing a character with a slam attack, a +11 BAB, and the TWF and PA feats. You have a lot of options, most of which change your attack bonus, and you have to keep track of this from one attack to...

10? Jebus.. That's a lot to keep track of. How about 5? Though as I said I haven't tested this, I have gone through a few mock rounds of combat, and 10 isn't much to keep track of once you go through about 3 rounds and get used to it. In part this is because you're burning chunks of AP at a time. W...

Edit: To clarify, this is a concept. It's not fully fleshed-out and it's not meant to be a contained house rule you can stick into your 3.5 or Tome game. In trying to solve a couple of problems from a game I recently played, I took another look at action economy. I came up with something I haven't ...

[quote="Midnight_v]On a related note. . . I'm amazed that people actually have been convinced to keep paying for this when the srd is free...[/quote] Regardless of the merits of their house rules, Paizo has produced without a doubt the best quality books for 3.5 that have ever been printed. The...

Thank you very much for the explanation! I haven't had a desire to use fiends 'n junk for anything, so it's been a while since I revisited the Tome of Fiends. Some of whom, apparently, can Giant Frog.

I get the sense that there is some sort of pop culture reference being used here other than slaad = chaos beast = giant frog = slaad. I wish I was in on the joke.

Some of the basics of this are very 4e-like, which is a good thing.
I concur about d6>d4. I hate handling a d4, they just slow things down.

Man, did I ever enjoy reading this thread. I wouldn't call it "new". I dropped it over a year ago when I realized it wasn't going to work, and that we'd gone in the wrong direction. Respect, RB. It's a huge project and it takes an even bigger man to recognize mistakes and know when to fold...