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WTF D&D summed it up pretty well with regards to awful Palladium rules vs awful White Wolf rules: they both listen only to records, but for different reasons. Kev does it because he's an old man shouting at kids to get off his lawn, WW do it because they're fucking hipsters. This is almost exac...

I forget, do you get more SDC per level in Nightbane? In the other games, you get a pile of it at first level, then everything else comes from skills, and it basically doesn't grow from there. Not that I could see on a first or second reading. I might be wrong, however. I'm not saying it's common, ...

hyzmarca wrote:So, is there any good reason to not just replace the nightbane's SDC with MDC?

If ported to Riftsverse, this is in fact exactly what happens.

This section was delayed a bit - a mixture of PhD report, making materials for next semester's classes and other start-of-semester stuff got in the way. I haven't forgotten though - so here's some more. We still have to finish 'character creation' after all! Step 2: Hit Points and SDC And here we go...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_10_ ... _Creatures

Truly, such ingenuity can only come from censorship.

Good to know that the numbers for throwing are still absurd and contradictory, even despite the relationship being not exactly linear. If I knew more physics, I'd probably fix that, but I don't. Rewrite suggestions will be taken.

The thing on Supernatural PS is... okay, basically, you don't have Supernatural PS unless they say you do. If you are Supernatural in some way but it doesn't say you have Supernatural PS (like the psychic), then no dice. If your telekinesis "has an effective Supernatural PS of X" or your ...

The weight is too high, but the timeframe is reasonable. The Pack Test - a test used to qualify as a wildland firefighter - requires a person to carry a 45 lb. (20 kg) pack 3 miles in 45 minutes. A person in decent shape but not particularly strong can manage it but will feel like absolute shit aft...

Alrighty, I think it's about time I tackled another six thousands words of my OSSR. Although this is yak shaving of a sort, it is enlightening for me, and (hopefully) entertaining for everyone else, so I'll keep doing it all the same. Edit: Thanks to Mechalich for the carrying example - once again p...

Man in Canada facepunches a bear and walks away alive.

That's one seriously hardcore 61-year-old. Also wtf.

OK, this has been an exercise is 'koz learning that you shouldn't write angry non-drunk reviews late and expect them to come out good'. I've cleaned up some of the linebreak formatting issues, spoilered the large images, and fixed a few stupid typos. Koumei also raised a valid point regarding the Sa...

So, I've been asking for this for approximately forever, and every time, I've either gotten no answer, or been told to just do it myself. So... this is me, doing it myself. I'm definitely going to be channeling the anger of Frank and the research of Ancient History as I write this, but I'll probably...

Not what I want, but I realized it and kind of just accepted it. Is it better to just say that ageless races don't get aging bonuses? Explicit is better than 'dumpster-divers and rules lawyers get more than you'. If you're OK with these sorts of stat adjustments, just make it Str +4, all mentals +2...

The 'mental bonuses still accrue' thing basically means that vampire stat modifications are Str + 4, Int +3, Wis +3, Cha +3 from starting out old. Probably not what you wanted.

This actually happens a lot, apparently. Anyways, there are disclosure laws and they will tell no one and there is a 99% chance that a lightbulb is not the dumbest thing the people on shift have pulled out of an ass. That last one is probably false, I can think of almost nothing dumber than a light...

Inb4 "you activated my trap card" jokes.

OgreBattle wrote:Hillary's biggest campaign contributor is Saban, the guy who buys the rights to Japanese shows like Super Sentai n' tokusatsu (Kamen Rider) and butchers them for US consumption.

He is also a rather militant supporter of Israel fucking up Palestinians.

hyzmarca wrote:I'm going to request the D20 Immortals Handbook and its accompanying Bestiary. You know, the one where size categories go up to "bigger than the universe" and are legitimately monsters with 680d1000 Hit Dice.

I too would like to see this.

erik wrote:Terrible as weapons, unless they're Kuroudo Akabane's magic scalpels of course.

Black Jack's also.

Would surgical scalpels make good throwing weapons?

Longes wrote:...Pontifeces ...

That sent me into a fit of giggles for some reason.

As far as Camarilla v. Sabbat- I know it's not what the books posit, but what about a refluff where the Sabbat and Cam. were in a kill on sight feud centuries ago, but have since cooled things to a detached civility. Maybe they basically say "As long as you don't go Grand Hunt in our city/As l...

So, lets say you wanted to run a game of Vampire the Masquerade because the person you're going out with is interested in it. And because you don't want to come off as a condescending jackass by effectively saying "no, no, I know a much better game, we'll use that instead" you want to giv...

vagrant wrote:Out of curiosity, what does Mage blood give?

Knowing WW, herpes.

Doesn't VtM specify that drinking werewolf blood makes you trip serious balls or something?