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So, this is D&D vikings where your longboats are dinosaurs?

It seemed odd to me that Valve thought it would be a good idea at all, considering how much better Mod Organizer or even Nexus's Manager do at handling mods for Skyrim. I mean, if you want half a dozen mods that just add followers or armor then sure, use Steam. But the people who are serious enough ...

Josh_Kablack wrote:suggestions for editing, formatting and clean up welcome before I submit it to the actual contest.

Looks good.

If the shaman deals with spirits, the shaman should use the spirits in everything it does. I like the idea of "binding" spirits to people and things - the shaman is basically a buffer/debuffer. Bind a spirit to someone to make them stronger; bind a spirit to a kobold to make it big and clu...

Druid (and this is @Echoes, too): Spirits come in lesser (1), greater (7), and primordial (13). The abilities within a spirit are also slightly levelled to fill the gap. The current idea is that when you hit greater you can force a reroll (must take the second result), and when you hit primordial y...

This is lovely.

I love the rare insta-win. You pull that one-of-a-kind card and your opponent just throws up hands. The vampire blasts you with lightning bolts until he's spent and you're immune to lightning. Niche options that are totally broken are fun. The common insta-win is a bore. If your declaration of actio...

That whole mass combat subject would make for a good new topic. Just sayin. I hate popularity contests / critiques in RPGs. If my XP/advancement/bonuses are at all influenced by the GM or other players voting on how good a job I did at something then I'm just not willing to play. I don't know if it'...

Besides, does the cosmology or political and socioeconomic makeup of your fictional world actually come up in the game? I've seen that happen just twice in the games I've played, and those were at high levels when players might interact with things of that scale. I find this hard to believe. Every ...

You can't have a fantasy game without a magic system, and what sort of society your fantasy setting has is inherently tied to what that magic system does. Or at least it damn well better be otherwise nothing makes sense. I agree with you insofar as plugging some rules into a setting with no work do...

[*] The biggest thing the game needs right now is a campaign setting. This baffles me. Why do game rules need a campaign setting at all? To me that sounds like saying the game rules need characters you can play. There are dozens of good settings out there and many more that are less good, and hey, ...

Is SKR saying that a D&D character should be realistic? Is he saying I need to stop wanting to play people who are really, really good at things? Or is he saying that the measuring tools in D&D are stupid? Man, if I'm playing a strong, brawny dood then I want him to be able to bench press th...

So maybe there's just a list of abilities everyone picks from? And then it's just refluffed to fit whatever theme your going for? Savage Worlds does something similar, where you have fairly generic, effects based powers like "Armor" which just increases the target's damage absorption, but...

I played in a game once with an ally trait that gets automatically applied to anyone with whom you willingly travel for a full day. Basically, your kidnappers aren't your allies and neither is the hot chick you just saved from the hotter chick's dungeon, but your bard who's trying really hard not to...

...the "solution" I found is to make your AC bonus from armor convert damage from every successful hit into non- lethal damage. I've played with this rule and I second everything you said about it. Incredibly good. The only downside is the extra math every time you take a hit; while you c...

Deathfork wrote:Pray tell then, what is the strength of the Skeleton?

Less miasma.

I'm pretty sure the definition of "Eastern Europe" is "the part of Europe where they didn't use much plate armor." I think I read that on the Internet. This question is also about the kind of environment where plate armor stops being viable. I get the general impression in lookin...

I still like 4e for super simplistic beer & pretzel games. It's terrible for long-term campaigns, but it seems like it was built for tournament play and it works well enough for that that I like it. Star Wars. It's dumb, it really is. But it is one of my favorite settings for an RPG. Probably be...

IIRC Dread has you playing MTP until someone says there's a chance of failure/death, then the person talking/storytelling/narrating/whatever pulls a jenga piece in the dark . It's not so much about trying to pull off a heist as it is making death a constant and likely scenario. You know it's going t...

There are only a handful of points where the player has any impact over the math of the game... Are spells and magic items that improve numbers not in the game? Or are you assuming that using those at all times is a given? Is the "I'm 5% worse but I can freely do this cool thing" tremendo...

Yeah the angels in D&D have little in common with Judao-Christian angels aside from the name. And really, they aren't very interesting. I always thought the spirits in the Hindu/Buddhist tradition would make much more interesting D&D creatures.

8d8, in another thread you referred to Kaelik as "being a bundle of kindling". In this thread you responded to a comment about the game being shitty with the suggestion that it might be because the author likes sucking dick, and it might be "written gay". If those were honest mi...

7 pages later, because honestly this game wasn't interesting enough for me to keep reading about it, I just found out that somehow a comment I made sounded anti-gay to some people. That is frankly shocking, mainly because I didn't think you all were that stupid. Someone said "I'll be damned if ...

Did you read the first post? The very first sentence is that I was watching a lot of a TV Show, and then thought of a thing. Well I got that much of it, yeah. What I don't get is why that's something you want in an RPG. When I play I usually prefer fights to be somewhat realistic, against enemies I...