Recent content by Malin Genie

Best. Spot. Ever.

I'm about to move house and going to be seriously short on shelf space. I have a reasonable collection of 3.0E material (Core Books, class books, 3.0 PsiHB, ELH) which I don't think I'm really likely to use much anymore - I play pretty much 3.5E now (without comment as to whether it was an...

I think the best SF stories are told 'on the fringes,' where highly-regulated highly technological society exists but there are also regions in which a more frontier feel is retained, due to technological or resource limitations. Nonexistence of convenient FTL would almost certainly lead to...

I was recently playing the cleric of an ocean deity, although in this case she had the Death and Water domains and a large Intimidate bonus.... Aeron Damphair was definitely part of the inspiration there too. I did write up a PrC suggestion, although never actually got around to proposing it to...

I too hope she does well! (Second row from the front, far right)

I feel inspired already. I think I'll allow prospective players to choose either (spontaneous) magic or psionics, and see how each of them fits (or doesn't fit) in practice. I might try posting a Story Hour if the game gets far enough in.

Thanks for the input so far! Please keep it coming! Random individual points: Speed-Stick, offensive/damage-dealing spell-casting won't be as efficient against other 'Wuxia' opponents (although may still be quite good against animals, undead, demons, etc.) but I see that as a feature, not a...

I've decided to start a Monk Gestalt Wuxia-style game (based on an idea I encountered here,) where every character has each level Gestalted with Monk. I've come up with some ideas to set a framework, with the aim of creating a game in the 'Chambara' spirit, with fantasy elements more from Asian...

WotC products provide a common ground for people beginning to game with one another, so that each player/DM knows that what is being used in the game is (1) widely available (2) widely accepted; if not actually 'better' than the alternatives. I don't for one moment think that WotC balances or...

In otherwords, if players have invested ranks in a skill, particularly an 'obscure' skill, do you try to ensure they have an opportunity to use it? For example, would you go out of your way to have an item that initially appeared valueless but gave the character with +10 Appraise a chance to...

Don't you need BAB +7 to qualify for Dwarven Defender?

Nope, not sarcastic, just somewhat stupefied... But encounter and treasure tables don't have means. All I meant by my comment was that I was surprised that people being told the mean of a distribution would then infer that results near the mean are more likely. It could be the case (2d10...

Seriously? Malin "this is doing nothing to reassure me" Genie

I've seen mentioned here on these boards a couple of times the idea of a wuxia campaign, where every character has monk levels or is monk-gestalted, to help create a chambara/ Bruce Lee / Jacky Chan / Ang Lee sort of ambience. I'm thinking of running an adventure along those lines for our...

The mean for a discrete numerical distribution is Sum(x.p(x)) where p(x) is the probablility of result x occurring. Why would each of the p(x) being equal (i.e. 0.05) not allow for a 'meaningful' mean ?? Malin "sad for the lack of statistical education in our youth" Genie