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Here's an idea:[br][br]You only have two kinds of actions: one activates abilities, the other is for everything else[br][br] Activate: Can activate one power, or make a skill check. Powers and skills don't give free attacks or moves.[br][br] Action: Can make an attack(with weapon or activated power ...

1197580879[/unixtime]]I think the plan here is that Psycic attacks will sometimes target your willpower (Charisma) and sometimes target your fortitude (Constitution), and sometimes target your perception (Wisdom) and sometimes target your tenacity (Strength).[br][br]Since you're generally speaking ...

My question is: why have Str-based Two handed Sword maneuvers at all?[br][br]I mean, what is so special about a Two-handed sword that it does something that a Battleax or a Guisarme can't do, or even a dagger or a punch? [br][br]All it does it make you think the DM is personally trying to screw you ...

I like the "roll 3d6 six times, then take the difference from 70, then add whats left to one stat, or two if it takes a number over 18 or under 3"[br][br]So a 15, 15, 12, 8, 10, 13 is 73 so 70-73 you take 3 from a a stat of your choice.[br][br]Its balanced, and yet makes everyone unique.[b...

I've recently been thinking of dropping stats for the most part.[br][br]Give people stats for out-of-combat skills, but otherwise keep class features based off level. That way you don't have to really worry about stat arrays or good rolls or anything. You can have a well muscled mage and a smart fig...

I think you can have high-level fighters that do interesting things without having them go superhero on you.[br][br]I mean, normal but extraordinary things are things like:[br][br]*go into the town square, talk for a bit to convince guys to join you, then do a training montage for a few days and you...

Yeh, I had a similar idea when working on the Book of Gears.[br][br]Essentially, my idea is "if the spell can't fit on a card and the description can't be done in five short sentences, you shouldn't have it." [br][br]To make things fit on a card you'd also have to collapse the stat part so...

When Frank and I sat down to write the Tomes, our first real ideas were to just fix some things.[br][br]Frank really got into trying out alternate systems, and I mostly wanted to write awesome things for people to play. That's why we started with the Tome of Necromancy. We both knew that both mechan...

Voss wrote:K's explosive spell example is odd. Mostly because it doesn't do that. Targets are moved to the closest area outside the effect, so sideways, a grand total of 5'.

I was imagining a better and more fun version of Explosive Spell, and not the one currently in use which is almost unusable.

The shapeshifters of fiction always looked like this in my "translate-into-game-mechanics-mind-eye":[br][br]You are X level, and have HPs and suchlike based on that level. You have a number of abilities, and to use those abilities, you need to change form. For example, to use your flying a...

There's a Sorcerer spell out of Races of Dragon that lets you do that too, except it blocks LoE.

Basically, immediate actions suck.

Mostly, I'm tired of different kinds of magic. Honestly. [br][br]I already have a basic knowledge of thousands of spells for 3e. Considering that 95% of those aren't spells I'd use, and 4% are spell that are only useful for very specific circumstances (Guards and Wards), the game would be better off...

As far as I can tell, 4e is allow about:[br][br]A. Selling more product. This means encounters are supposed to look like a DnD Minis fight with random match-up monsters with no theme and cardgame-esque rule conventions. This also means that since marketing has told them that the Core books outsold 9...

In a world of magic that brings the dead back, you'd bring anyone even mildly interesting back.[br][br]For example: I'm a 10th level LG cleric, os why am I not bringing back a 3rd level CG Ranger I find dead in the woods? [br][br]Money? Heck, thats easy to get back. [br][br]Alignment? Good guys are ...

1. By the RAW, Swarms take up a much larger space than a pumpkin...that being said, why would you want them to enter a pumpkin radiating (or soon to be radiating) destructive power? Sounds like a way to get some dead undead bees.[br][br]2. Detect Magic takes at least three turns to even have a chanc...

Mmm....well, undead bees live in obsidian hives, so thats right out. Plus, I think trying to combine a pumpkin attack with a swarm summoning is kinda cheesy.[br][br]As to magic jar , its mostly a symbolism reason on the gem thing. In general, you want it to be valuable so that people feel bad when i...

I expect they are going to "create" a class system that looks a lot like Earthdawn. I mean, the basic idea of feats was a straight cut and past from Earthdawn, and now that everyone will have meaningful class-specific feats as their only class features will mean its Earthdawn for really re...

Here is my advice:[br][br]Fix the problems, be open with your balance points, and make it awesome flavorwise. [br][br]Do that, and you might actually get paid to write DnD. Heck, I've known guys who could only do one out of those three things and they ARE writing for DnD.[br][br]But, at the end of t...

The Core Half-dragon template makes dragons out of anything really. I mean, there is no reason at all to tell a player what exact templates or even base creature makes up a monster. [br][br]For example, here is a classic bug dumb dragon. Its an easy one...[br][br]Huge Dragon[br] Hit Dice : 11d10+66 ...

Play a capstone character.

Its a character with a 100% XP penalty. Then you just do adventures at a certain level and keep collecting magic equipment and stuff. Its both kind of insulting and kind of ideal for a long-running character.

Captain Bleach wrote:Sort of off-topic question; what does the "K" stand for, if anything?

My first name is Keith. My last name begins and ends with a "K". Its just a very shortened version of my name.

Why? What did you think?

I could go on about how bone is a brittle material and really only works in certain shapes, but thats BS.[br][br]Basically, I wanted daggers to actually be decent weapons in DnD for anyone at all. Also, thematically its more fun if they they are cutting rather than bashing because of the whole blood...

Neeek wrote:I believe they shot his foot and ran (and got) away.

But they didn't get my money!

They could have had it at that point, because you only have to shoot me once to make your point.

Seriously though, it really sucked.