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I just imagined that Rokea were hunted after re-entering the water. Otherwise becoming a Rokean landwalker bountyhunter who hunts on land would make you a bounty target. Creating an infinite loop toward extinction. Unless the hunters are given special permission, which is even more stupid. Both scen...

How many editions of CoC have been printed without actually changing anything, now?

New cover art and format changes are enough for certain... Niches.

Posting that link probably gave the file more traffic than it's ever seen.

I ain't even mad about re- or un-doing so much of the work that's been done. The idea of the PDF was that at some point it would be "done" and so updates wouldn't matter a whole lot, but in fairness this project was conceived... 8 years ago (?) before gitbook was even possible. My only he...

Have you ever made a cheap-as-dirt-but-effective wet palette for your paints? Kind of. I consume quite a bit of custard and yoghurt, in the plastic tubs. I use the plastic lids of those as pallets, but not the "damp paper" kind. I just put a bit of paint on it, then a little water and mix...

Nothing, I'm a grown-ass man and if I want something I'll buy it myself. Although I did buy a pair of comfy slippers last week. That doesn't stop wives and muddahs from brow beating you into giving them things to procure for you. :p I got the Fallout bomb and pipBoy >_> I lerv them. Santa brought b...

Squads of tiny men have an HP pool Squads act as one creature with many parts Squads have one attack per member when facing PCs One attack per squad when resolving squad v squad, damage increases per living member Y damage will kill off one member Armies of many squads have an HP pool Armies use squ...

I'm going to assume it's actually because most of the people releasing these things don't actually understand a few things about designing a game . They, instead, create their setting and then plop it in rules they remember enjoying "back in the day". Or now, because they fear change. So t...

I kind of dig the AP system.

@Archmage, speed was definitely a reason for the change.

Rule part deux I'm vice-DM for a friend's campaign, to help out because the group is so large. He runs 4e, and I created a few hot-seat callings last night. 1. Is there any drawback to declaring "daily" powers as "scene" powers instead? Scenes being different from encounters in ...

I actually put together my setting in a very similar way to OP. Naturally Primal Energy is sort of like a fog, or static, and actually makes it difficult to cast specific spells (teleport, scrying, etc). But civilized areas built big research towers which act as refinement nodes/ contenders / focuse...

Although historians will probably remind me that you could have cities of hundreds of thousands of people in pre-Modern times, those places were not described as nice . We're talking open sewers, slavery, general lack of access to fresh water, terrible sieges, no such thing as urban planning...anyw...

Aktariel wrote:Sorry for the delay, here's the link to my current repo.

https://github.com/Aktariel/awesometome

Lokathor, got a link to yours?

This is "our" TGD fork of your google repo.

This is Lokathor's SuperTome repo.

K wrote:I've found that getting new abilities is pretty addictive too even if you have no plans to use them.

That's why I like the idea of using XP to buy horizontal power-ups and leave (Power-)Level as a tool to measure a character's vertical power.

Ok, you got me. I've been sucked into this argument. I've been reading this review and it's finally driven me up a wall. The 5th edition D&D rules aren't great, and stealth is a great example of why. But most of the answers are actually in the damn text if anyone read it with the level of dedic...

@Ancient History : Why bother with the 6 attributes? You could honestly probably tie most rolls to their power level. Then you just pick the few things your hero excels at (or is terrible at... for what ever reason). Something like : Strong : +2 to STREMF! challenges Dumb : -1 to Int challenges Eve...

Can you stop this stupid now? I was actually interested in this thread before the circular bullshit started.

According to Lucas, he had established Wookies as being to sophisticated by the time RotJ rolled around, and wanted a primitive tribe to beat the highly mechanized Empire. So he took the word Wookiee, reversed the syllables, and invented Ewoks. Maybe it's my 4 year old nostalgia, but the concept of...

It just dawned on me that the "there are no stealth rules!" comments are, essentially, referring to the absence of example DCs. But the answer also seemed to be "the perception of who you're rolling against". Im guessing example DCs for climbing and such are suppose to be in the ...

There's clearly a market comprised of people who want actual guidelines for making remotely balanced custom content. Almost everyone I've ever played with has bemoaned how difficult it is to make a character that fits their head-space concept. f you're already giving guidelines to a person about cre...

While playing that 2e game I mentioned above, I remembered why low-hp + low/medium risk NPCs in small batches can be fun... and why it sucked to be an MU at the first 5 levels. The "tutorial" I was bringing them all through made sure to have small amounts of loot and plenty of health potio...

I'll admit to only reading the Drow trilogy from all of the Forgotten Realms books, but I don't remember Drizzt ever having to fight all day. (iirc: This is in a drizzt story...) There's the time they had to cross the swamps to get to ... silverymoon? Avoiding the swamp trolls the whole way. Exhaus...

Just wanted to say "good job so far".
You've done a commendable job summarizing the book thus far while still keeping the review enjoyable and even insightful.

Keep it up.

virgil wrote: [*]Thespians Understudies for historical figures who have gotten killed before they're supposed to. It's almost implied that Hitler doesn't actually exist, and is just a series of spanners filling his role because he's become such a fixed point in time.

That's actually kind of cool / amusing.