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    Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Lite?

    Our group plays Pathfinder without feats, archetypes, rogue talents/rage powers/etc, and 5 foot steps. We limit attacks of opportunity to 2 situations: engaging a creature with reach, and moving away from a creature you had engaged in melee (or had engaged you). We took the conditions and...
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    Why Aren't RPGs in Public Libraries?

    Nice to see a few librarians replying. I"m also a librarian, although it has been a decade since I worked in public libraries. A lot depends on the knowledge of the librarians who do the ordering. Many librarians know nothing about rpgs, or think of them as just a game (which they usually...
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    Homebrew cities

    I'm working on describing a city to use as a ongoing base and source of adventures for our group. Of course, the first step in any creative work is to pillage ideas from others. Does anyone have suggestions of online rpg cities (medieval/fantasy) that they would recommend? I think I know...
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    Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games

    Amazon.com: Evolution of Fantasy Role-playing Games (9780786458950): Michael J. Tresca: Books Has anyone read this book, or know anything about it? According to Amazon it was published Sept 3rd. craftyrat
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    Links to Classes and Races in this forum

    Updated I've updated the first post for classes/races from today back to Jan 1/2009. craftyrat
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    What are you reading (Mar '08)?

    The Logic of Life, by Tim Harford. Tim is an economist who looks for logical patterns in things most people consider to be illogical (or at least not based on logic). craftyrat
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    Movie Challenge - $300 Million USD = A new Epic franchise.

    Eddings The Belgariad/Malloreon would seem to be an obvious candidate. While you can argue about the quality, they were very popular. I just checked on amazon and they have a sales rank of under 10,000 - pretty good for books of that age and type. craftyrat
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    MMO's and their Winter Holiday Events

    Everquest 2 Everquest 2 has Frostfell: http://eq2players.station.sony.com/news_archive_content.vm?id=1478&section=News&locale=en_US craftyrat
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    Which of the A, C, D, G or Q modules have you played or ran?

    I'm running the giant series now, updated to 3.5, raised to 16th level, and fairly heavily modfied - currently part way through G1. We are planning to do all of GDQ. craftyrat
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    Sentient Undead PC Race

    Ancient Dead Here is some of my homebrew stuff (this is not play tested) for an undead race. Like suggested above, I modified the undead type to tone it down a bit. I give races special abilities as they level (this is a low magic item campaign), so ignore that part. I also power up races...
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    Hit point recovery

    I'm working on the rules for a low magic campaign, and how to handle healing. I already have modified the heal skill so that it can be used to restore hit points (with signficant limitations). But I am also thinking of a post fight recovery system. If hit points represent (at least to a...
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    No Iterative Attacks in D&D

    Although it is a bit more math, I was thinking about replacing extra attacks with a % bonus to damage to a single attack on a full attack action. So at BAB +6 a full attack is a single attack with a 50% bonus to damage (+100% at +11, and +150% at +16). As much as possible this would be...
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    LA +1/+2 Core Races

    I'm preparing for a low magic item game (pretty much no magic items, perhaps except potions, and only one class that can cast spells). One way I am going to keep the power level closer to normal is with more powerful races. So I need ideas on how to make the core races a bit better. I want to...
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    Origin of Halflings

    From the OED: Halfling: Sc. and north, also haflin, hawflin, halflin A. sb. 1. One not fully grown, a stripling 2. the half of a silverling or old silver penny B. adj. Not fully grown, about the age of 15 with quotes from 1794 and 1815 however, there is also an entry for Halfling (adv.), Now...
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    Why I don't like Bodaks...

    Save or die I too have a dislike for the save or die, so I am considering a +4 bonus to any save or die spell, effect, or whatever, in the campaign. The possibility, and thus the tension, is still there, but the chance is lessened (for both players and npcs). As it is, we tend to avoid using...
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    Very early Forgotten Realms history

    I'm looking for information on the early history of the forgotten realms - the time before the Crown Wars, before the rise of the elven kingdoms. In particular the time when dragons ruled, but I'll take anything from this era. There is a bit in the FRCS talking about the creator races and...
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    Beef - WTC price gouging Canadians

    A few more thoughts - I used to work in a bookstore, and the price we paid was a percentage of the MSRP (usually +/- 5% from a base of 40% off, depending on how much we ordered). When the Canadian dollar fluctuates, someone in the supply chain is making (or losing) money. In this case, there...
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    M&M Questions

    I have a couple of more questions about M&M (2nd ed): Is this a valid power at PL6? : Telepathy 12 (Subtle) [29] Alternate Powers: Mental Blast 6; Emotion Control 6 (Mind Blank, Area Burst, Selective); Illusion 6 (all senses, Phantasms, Selective, Progression 5); Mind Control 6 (Mental Link...
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    Victoria, BC - Looking for a group

    I'm a late 30s gamer in downtown Victoria looking for an adult gaming group, or gamers who want to form a group. Drop me an email if you are interested. craftyrat - petergou[at]shaw.ca
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    M&M newbie question

    Thanks Gilwen! craftyrat
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