Recent content by NichG

IMC I pretty much require taking average for anything 10d6 and up, as well as any sort of small incidental rolls (e.g if someone is on fire and is taking 1d4 every round, I say 'just take 2' every round). In large die pools, the random aspect is suppressed just by the statistics. Taking a large...

On the subject of the language of magic, here's a story: What if originally magic were something different? A primal magic based not on communication, words, phrases, etc, as those things did not exist in those times. First there was nothing. Then from the nothing came the first wills. These...

If you consider an animistic world, then the symbols/words/etc would be the language of the spirits of nature, or if not a proper language then at least things that they respond to in a predictable way, like a dog can have a trained response. Or they're the words of a compact between the caster...

I've never run a game using VP/WP, but the concept brings forth an interesting idea one could use them for. Maybe the danger of WP is not that certain things bypass VP, but that strikes that affect WP correspond to the cases where the character has actually taken a physical injury, whereas...

I'm currently playing a character who was once a deity but was stripped of his power when his world (and thus worship-base) was utterly destroyed. It was interesting playing him as a 5th level character, since he assumed he was still as powerful as he had once been and got into some messy...

There's two sides to something like a stat: penalties for having it low, and rewards for having it not-low. They'll lead to different behaviors with respect to dump-statting. I would say that low Con is penalized (everyone needs resilience against attack to be functional), but low Str is not...

Well in the case of the +70 Will save it was gestalt but characters capped at 6th level, so we're not talking about anything a 12th level character couldn't also do. As far as core only goes, I guess what I'd say is this: the thread asks 'can Charisma ever be more than a dump stat?' and my...

I'm not intending to debate whether a campaign should be core/non-core/etc, just observing that most games I've seen allow some splat books at least. It may be that I've just played in games with a different culture, but in the last two campaigns I've played in, and the last campaign I've run...

In mid to high level 3.5ed D&D, Charisma is actually overpowered as a stat. No other stat can be used as a modifier for as many things as Charisma can with the right feat and class choices: Divine Grace, Oriental Adventures Shaman class ability, Ruin Delver's Fortune: Charisma to all saves...

Even in an E6 universe, it's possible for mortal mages to get fairly high caster levels if they use the right feats and things like magical locations. You can get +2 or +3 caster level via Elder Giant magic, +1 to spells of certain subtypes with domains or reserve feats, etc. At that point, you...

I'd say one thing you could do to make death still have consequence even in less critical situations is the Planescape: Torment approach, where whenever one of the PCs dies, they steal the life of another to come back. You could do several things with this, anywhere from 'someone somewhere dies'...

Turns out I was incorrect about the party only having the +1 inherent from Wish, thanks to using Wish to generate arbitrarily large amounts of material components that can be used to cast Wish (up to 25000gp a casting). Also, if someone in the group does manage to get Wish and cast it, expect...

The reincarnate spell puts you in a young adult body of whatever you end up as, so if you can get someone to reincarnate you before you die of old age (which it cannot fix), you can keep that up forever until you run out of levels or constitution. 'Last Breath' is the even better version where...

It's a sourcebook by Guardians of Order for BESM d20, but its pretty rare these days. Another version of it is reprinted in the Slayers d20 sourcebook, same company, but you'd have trouble converting the standard spells since I don't think they include those rules (a bunch of modifiers for...