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Thanks, always wanted to try that game

I once had a character by the name of Garith. He was an illusionist and at times my DM freind would let me play him with a party that was much lower level than he was. The way I did it though was that he deliberately used either illusions or low level spells to help the group. Garith was a...

Here is a technique I thought of a few years ago. Decided on a class/race combination. From there you will almost always have a stereotypical set of attributes. Decide to change a few of them. For instance, I did a dwarf fighter and pretty much kept all the stereotypical attributes except that...

As for myself, I don't care for the mish mash games. The ones that try to combine every form of power like Rifts and god forbid one that I came across years ago called World of Synnabar. A generic game is perfectly fine. In fact, I think that GURPS is one of the better systems out there because...

Perhaps then something close to the Palladium experience system will work with some tweaks. Most of the experience are from coming up with ideas, working out solutions etc. There is some combat related parts to it, but on the whole its more roleplaying and idea. I would suggest something like a...

I used to pirate on 2 conditions 1. to check out something before I bought it. If i didn't like it enough to buy, I did not keep the file 2. In rpgs, I was usually the game master, so I needed a lot of rules. I would pirate a book that someone else used, but had no interest in myself. That...

What he said. I was origninally taught it was pronounced as rhyming with cow as well, until I started reading up on Celtic mythology. It was there that I learned differently. Also, banshee is actually pronounced as BANE-she not BAN-she

Like most here I started playing D&D first. I was introduced to the original red book for an idea of the rules, but my first game was AD&D1e. Against the advice of both the DM and other players, my first character was a mage :) I played a number of games, but never really found what i think is...

The only requirement for learning the cast ritual feat is to be trained in either arcana or religion. I can find nothing that says you actually have to be trained in the nature skill for a nature ritual or whatever. You simply wont be as effective. If i am wrong someone please give me a page...

Isnt laying on hands a channel divinity ability. its listed as such. the cleric ability i think is also a channel divinity as well iirc

I kind of like that way of doing it too. It can run some pretty interesting characters that dont seem to be made if you allow a point buy. I mean, not many people will have their fighter have a high charisma if they are given the choice. You can only stand so many wizards with an 8 strength

an idea Since no one has mentioned it, then i will. I have always kinda liked the Earthdawn system for dealing with damaged. You have 3 things based on your constitution : wound threshold, unconcious threshold and death threshold. Any time you take damage, it is added to how much you have...

My problem with the gnome has always been that they really seem paradoxal (sp?). The description on the race talks about them being alchemist, builders and inventor and then all the racial abilities point towards them being illusionist and then the favored class is bard? It always seemed to me...

That would be how the palladium fantasy did it. I always kinda liked it. Each class has its own list of givens and then some extra gold. It makes a lot more sense when you think about it.

I rarely post on the boards, but read them often. I had to chime in my opinion on this discussion though. Each new edition has had its plusses and minuses. There have been changes that I thought "wow, that is a great idea!" and others which were "god, how can they be so stupid!" On the whole...

Im sorry if this has been covered already, but I havent read the entire thread. It seems like what mmadsen is talking about is covered in the damage system of blue rose and true20, both of which are d20 base games. Each damage roll is made by a d20 plus damage modifiers. Then it is compared...

There is something that you seem to have forgotten though. This is not an entirely accurate historical world. There is one thing that they have that we didnt - working magic. Take your example of not knowing as much about raising cattle. I think this isnt right. What if some retired ranger or...

All of that just reinforces my distaste for the sytem as it stands. A sword in this system is simply too valuable to hand away even if it is to your favorite student or son. Each character would have to come from some extremely wealthy begginnings to even start out at all. According to the books...

So even a first level character is a multimillionaire in his or her own culture? According to the system that is exactly the case. They are not the middle class guys who are living fairly well but still have a bit of money trouble. They have enough money even after buying equipment to live at a...

I dont know. Maybe it is the entire terminology that is getting to me. I have always much rather preferred the way gurps handled it for money. With that system, a poor farmhand still has the "money" to eat a meal a day and it all works out. He can even scrape up a little extra here and there for...