Recent content by nobodez

I still love this SH, just re-read it for the second or third time. I do hope that one day you can finish the middle of the story, because I really want to see how they get to that ending. And Richard Branson as the Patron is just a brilliant move.

Um, isn't this out on the 18th of this month? WotC has it on a September release date, but Amazon.com has it for aug 18th.

My first read-through… It looks good, a lot like how I play my dwarven artificer in my home game. Sure, it's a bit of a letdown from the Bane (whatever I'm fighting) Personal Weapon Augmentation Archercifer of olde, but it seems fairly balanced. I'd like to see a paragon path or two before I...

First off, I love the work y'all are doing. But, I've found a few problems. 1) You can't select to use no implement for a power. I know it sounds odd, but you actually don't need to use an implement for implement powers, but you get a bonus when using magic implements. 2) I can't figure out...

Ban? I don't ban spells. But that's because, of my gaming groups, I've read the books the most, and know the most tricks. If a players delves enough into the books to find a really interesting combo (Aspect of the Earth Hunter, Rapid Burrowing, and Bite of the Werebear for instance), then I let...

you don't change your feats and skills (so ex-humans keep their skills and feats, and ex-elves keep their weapon proficiencies), or your mental ability scores (so dwarves and horcs are hosed, sorry). You then gain all the qualities of your new race (including LA, HD, feats, and skills). For...

Well, True20 uses the term "Damage Track", and when they are injured (failing their toughness save, equivalent to getting hit for massive damage), they go a step down the damage track. They also have a "Fatigue Track". Also, your eliminating the Conditions. Since True20 has a track for Damage...

that would be the armor check penalty from the chain shirt and the light shield.

I'm fairly new to the game (only been playing since 2001), so I can see where both camps are coming from. One camp, let's call them the "Life's a B" camp, wants the first few levels to be mean, gritty, and deadly. The other came, let's call them the "Heroes Inc." camp, wants the first few...

I had a really long post typed up, but then I realized Flynn had already hit everything on the head. Why not just disallow magic as a trained skill? You can still get Skill/Spell Focus, but not training (perhaps as a class feature of the archmage class?). That is, i think, the problem, making...

As much as I'd love to see the 2/4 ability increase, it breaks the idea of backwards compatability, which is, I believe, something you were striving for. And I like the idea of integrating the paragon levels as talents, if that's even on the table, since that's what, I think, you were headed...

I like option 2 better, but I don't think you need to limit to one or the other, just explain the Exceptional, Accustomed, and Conditional skill abilities, and then you'll be fine. I think, if you can, make a two tiered system (even if it's still the same product, or two if need be).

I think a good place to look at this is Iron heroes, where there are basically six craft skills, two each for wood, metal, and rock, and three each for trinkets/tools and objects/structures. You would of course need to add in leather, cloth, and (al)chemistry, or just throw leather and cloth...

I can't believe I'm the only one that sees this. The Epilogue is titles "19 years later", yet, Ted, who was born in 1998, would be 19 years old, two years too old to be snogging Victoire in the back of the train. IF it was 16 years later, I could understand, even 17 years later, with Ted...