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Chamomile wrote:I forget the details, but there was a half-white half-black guy, but the medieval monks weren't super clear on how racial mixing worked, so they wrote about him as having splotches of white and black skin at random.

Feirifiz, the half-brother of Parzival.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feirefiz

That's a good point -- there will be a certain size level where it's pointless to abstract a battle with points, etc. because it could be resolved with a (mostly) normal D&D session anyways. The final battle in WotBS has tens (hundreds?) of thousands of participants, so some kind of abstraction ...

But at no point at level 20 should you be bothering with point-based bullshit like RHoD or Savage Tide. If the choices are: (a) play normal D&D and end up with a result like "the good guys lost some soldiers but the bad guys lost more soldiers", or (b) waste several hours playing some...

War of the Burning Sky #12: The Beating of the Aquiline Heart (lvl 19-20) * Suggested listening: Owner Of A Lonely Heart * The leader of the Ragesians (an epic cleric/wizard/mystic theurge) has seen which way the tide is turning in the war, so she starts work on her final project: controlling the co...

War of the Burning Sky #11: Under the Eye of the Tempest (lvl 18-19) * Suggested listening: Fly Like An Eagle * This is easily the worst adventure in the whole series. Nay, it is one of the worst adventures I have ever seen. Clearly it had some production issues, because the description in the Campa...

I just realised I never finished reviewing the last 3 modules. So here goes: War of the Burning Sky #10: Sleep, Ye Cursed Child (lvl 17-18) * Suggested listening: Welcome To My Nightmare * The PCs have liberated their home town of Gate Pass, possibly absorbing part of the Ragesian army into their gr...

It would be a tie between getting the system I want and the schedule I want -- both of those would be dealbreakers.

You're missing the hand to hand damage table, unless it's supposed to be identical with the table before it.

They're called murderhobos because they carry all of their personal possessions around in a magical Bindle of Holding.

That seems to be a bit of a weird mash-up of generic fantasy setting and fall of the Roman Empire (or, alternatively, "Make Eternal League Great Again"), but setting choice is subjective. Indeed, I think that just about every kitchen sink setting (e.g. Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Golarion...

Last I heard, Conan and Moorcock's heroes, like Elric and Corum had pretty famous adventures. Their settings were explicitly built on the concept of the repeating cycle of civilizational decadence and downfall, with Conan coming onto the scene in the early-to-mid decline phase (at least regarding t...

My experience is that Call of Cthulhu campaigns don't work, but one-shots (where the PCs inevitably lose, or have a Pyrrhic victory) can be occasionally entertaining. Entertaining sounds like you had fun? Did you feel sad after the one shot? Depressed? Yes, I have had fun playing Call of Cthulhu, a...

I honestly think an good 'Horror' RPG is not possible. Either the 'horror' is an joke, because you can't relate to it. Or you can relate to it (you had cancer, you where raped) and why the fuck would you want to play such an game? Are you suggesting that nobody reads depressing fiction (say), excep...

I don't know how many low level casters are throwing moons at people, but if they are out there I want to play in those games. To play devil's advocate: the difference between a 3rd level wizard casting Stone Call to kill a number of minions and an EPIC wizard casting EPIC Stone Call to kill an EPI...

All of those add dice instead of a flat bonus. It seems to be faster at my tables because when a roll has guidance or bless or bardic bonus that dice is rolled with the d20. The only "flat" modifier they have is written on their character sheet. All the other numbers are on the dice on th...

1) While advantage/disadvantage are not the panacea to all the d20 system's flaws that Mearl's seems to think it is, it is certainly easier than bonus tracking. But there's also bonus tracking on top of it (in the campaign I'm playing with, Bless, Guidance and Bardic Performance get used fairly fre...

radthemad4 wrote:It's probably for Pathfinder since it has Linguistics and Stealth. Pathfinder has Climb.

And Acrobatics (instead of Jump/Balance/Tumble).

Dhorlot, the Dragon-Father, which is a stupid title for a young adult dragon. He's called Dragon-Father because he likes fucking random creatures and having half-dragon babies; that seems like a pretty "young adult" thing to do. There are a number of half-black dragon creatures in later a...

For such a small list of feats, I'm not sure why you're putting in rarely used feats like "Conductivity", "Live My Nightmare" and "Pierce Illusion". Because I don't have a lot of feats, I should remove some? Hopefully you would replace them with good ones instead of us...

For such a small list of feats, I'm not sure why you're putting in rarely used feats like "Conductivity", "Live My Nightmare" and "Pierce Illusion". The wording of "Shock Trooper" is pretty bad. Does the bonus apply on your next attack? Or the next round? Pres...

Fae are chaotic because they're flaky. If you call up a pixie to meet for lunch, it might show up right on time or it might show up three hours late without even an apology. It drives me nuts.

Last time I played poker, I lost all my hit points. I mean, money. That is a case where gaining more of the thing you lose to play is absolutely the incentive to keep playing (ie, it is the primary reward). So, closer to what he was talking about for sure than collecting hearts in Castlevania. Inde...

That's the whole stupidity the essay : it's not even wrong . It doesn't define "HP" although it doesn't use the word in its usual sense; hence, it says everything and nothing, since everything can be considered as "HP". Last time I played poker, I lost all my hit points. I mean,...

Interesting. There are lots of things super-fans do for free that I wouldn't do if you paid me. But I suppose this is different since Paizo is actually hiring and firing their "volunteers". I imagine some of their current volunteers would be insulted if they were offered minimum wage for t...

erik wrote: Would it be better to just have new characters come in with as much XP as the dead one? Yes. Hell yes.

That raises a question: how much party turnover have you had? E.g., if you had 5 players who each made 4 characters at the very beginning, how many of those 20 are still around?