The Gaming Den

Raben, I'd stress that people shouldn't take the generalizations that are made for rhetorical convenience here too personally. It's a given that when talking about a community that some statements will apply to some members more than others or may not even apply at all to certain individuals, and th...

The regional paths are the only thing that I balk at since virtually by definition they're the sort of things where people start tying abilities directly to what kind of terrain you're on in order to function. Such things are notoriously hard to balance and tend to dissuade people from making fish-o...

I can't decide whether the common thread between those companies is stupidity or a desire to shield themselves from criticism via tampering with the signal-to-noise ratio. It's probably one of those somewhere in between things.

Don't worry. The official board is still full of sycophants and the soulless. Normally, when I see posts like this I file them away to the back of my mind or dismiss them outright because I'd rather form my own opinions when it comes to something I can so easily investigate myself. But in this case...

Yeah, you're really shooting your product in the foot whenever you introduce a new fluffy book and essentially say "It's been like this the whole time" with minimal warning. At best it is grating but only affects minor details but at worst it can force you to choose between taking a hacksa...

Yeah, these days I always roll with houseruled combat skills. At my table, Close Combat and Firearms are single skills and Dodge* and Improved Combat Ability both received the ol' Yeller treatment ages ago. Once upon a time I used to dabble with a slightly restructured Firearms skill "group&quo...

And if everyone is using sufficiently powerful charged abilities then suddenly you're essentially just playing rocket launcher tag as everyone stares at each other all angry like while waiting for their bullshit to detonate.

Not every class is needed for every circumstance though. Agreed, but at worst you can find yourself marginalizing a character as often as not because the party's life is just easier if you don't have Gimpy botching his stealth rolls or pissing off the diplomat or whatever. That's what makes trap op...

I don't think K is referring to the player demanding the lion's share of the loot but rather situations in which a given build needs more gold//karma/nuyen/whatever than the other characters just to maintain parity.

Being a mage in Shadowrun. That's pretty much the whole exploit.

I think you're missing that having a normal Type O clone body lying around is pretty damn worthless.

Kratos isn't a VAH; he's got plenty of non-vanilla divinely inspired powers to maul people with, so at worst he's a mostly melee fighter running off of a divine power source. I'd argue that his archetype isn't really all that limited; as a pseudo-mythological heroic demi-god you've got the room to a...

DSMatticus wrote:Not that I think anyone was seriously considering shadowrun, but it points out some things worth avoiding by example.

Agreed. I was just tossing words out there before anyone else saw Lago's post and just said "Hey, why -not- Shadowrun?"

Both because that niche is unexplored (unless you count Shadowrun, which is a very specific brand of Urban Fantasy) Shadowrun hits me as a bit of a bad fit thematically for WoF anyway. It's got enough going on where combat isn't the crux of what many characters do and what combat there is tends to ...

Actually it was Aztechnology that was described thus since they have control of one of the major shipping lanes and even earlier setting fluff marked them as unusually diversified even for a megacorp. They seem to specialize in final goods and distribution-- a smaller corp might be the one who produ...

Seconding the lightly 'wared up Adept route. Just make sure to concentrate on stuff like Kinesics and Improved Ability: Infiltration instead of paying the premium for combat powers and martial arts. You have your fingers in too many pies as it is to justify their costs and between a high agility and...

The Attention Coprocessor is written up in Augmentation. The beauty of it is that the opportunity cost is so low. It's just cheap piece of cyberware that gives a bonus equal to its rating (maximum of 3) to non-magical non-matrix Perception tests. To give you an idea of how cheap we're talking about,...

Mundanes do fine unless your GM starts the game out with crazy starting conditions and/or hands out karma by bucketful. Mundane archetypes that are highly gear driven like Street Samurai and Drone Riggers stand out in particular as winners. That's because it's hard to beat the sheer cost effectivene...

Agreed. To me, the funniest thing about bio-adept angst is how the same people who want pure adepts to make a comeback are often the same people who were all in favor of hardcapping things like Kinesics and Power Throw ASAP. Honestly, the allure of having a power at a high rating is one of the very ...