Recent content by Phasmus

Yo. I'm one of Isaac's players (the Son of a Lich). Just thought I ought to chime in here with a couple thoughts. I agree/hope that most complaints we might mention stand to be fixed before the final game is released. I'm mostly interested in the story-telling side of RPGs but the combat...

For the folks concerned about elitism, what would you suggest as a non-elitist way to succinctly communicate the concept of verisimilitude, without giving wise-crackers an opening for the old "it's got dragons in it!" line? For the duration of this post, I will refer to this concept with the...

I have a theory about the new alignment system. I think this is primarily an elaboration on what a few other people have already expressed. I propose that the new alignment system is linear in the Good/Evil spectrum and that WotC's mistake was in using law/chaos terminology at all. The...

I feel I should throw my hat into the ring. Dendrite "Can't we all just get along?" the man who would become Dendrite wanted to know, as he watched gang warfare tear his neighborhood apart. Trying to make peace in the middle of a gunfight has never been an especially good idea, but he didn't...

Here are the baseline blurbs on the characters already signed up. Additional details are forthcoming. Modus Operandi: An ex 'big-name' super-hero who lost his powers and now fights for truth and justice using conventional skill, experience and cool gadgets. Void and Copycat. Identical twins...

Greetings. I am looking for two or three players interested in participating in a play by post Mutants & Masterminds 2e game. City of Doom, is set in a moderately optimistic near-future in the city of Portland Oregon, during a "Paranormal Boom" comparable to the 90's dot-com boom. Three players...

Superlatives fail me. ... And does anyone care to speculate on the possibility that The Horror will come into play, after all, in the impending conflict?

Huzzah and many thanks! If you send an e-mail to me at phasmid@yahoo.com I will reply with the relevant contact information. I assume you don't want your primary e-mail address out in public, but if you let me know what your e-mail provider is, it may reduce the risk of someone else posing as...

There once was a goblin from Ratchet Who loved gold and built something to snatch it. The machine picked pockets aplenty But once it had money It ran off and he never did catch it. --- An undead wizard named Clyde Found a banshee to be his bride But she harped day and night 'Till he tried to...

Van Gogh's Ear having been slipped in just before this post, I humbly submit instead: The first book (a Bible, presumably) printed on a Gutenberg printing press. Rockefeller's First Earned Dime. A bone knife, carved from part of one member of the Donner party for butchering other members of...

I haven't tried this myself, but consider giving mind-blasted characters a new save every round like they did for 3.5 hold person. Of course, if people are getting hit by multiple mindblasts, that can lead to a bit of extra book keeping, but making all those saving throws each round gives the...

My take on the matter is that there is a certain mathematical slant to the planes. For example, the spire seems like the place where the multiverse divides by zero. Sigil itself, in my mind, represents the 'average' of the planes as a whole; hence the mixing of every other part of reality, and...

I wonder if Pilus' skill with biomancy lends itself to quick and easy troop acquisition. Might he have a means of 'converting' reasonably large swaths of the incoming army to his own fiendish service? If not by direct magical ability, then through some sort of monstrous servitor that can...

Intriguing... Do they mention any alterations to psi-combat?

Beholder-kin in the core books? Curses! I've been foiled by my own greed-spawned reliance on the SRD... Thanks for the data.