Recent content by arkham618

Thanks for your analysis. I'm not terribly concerned about breaking genre conventions: I am contemplating this substitution for a swashbuckling campaign in which combats will need to be resolved quickly, with maximal style and minimal dice-rolling/bookkeeping. I therefore intend to use Hero...

For those with a good head for the rules, what would be the repercussions of replacing hit points in Pathfinder with a Toughness save and damage track, à la Mutants & Masterminds or True20? Immediately, I can see the need for a Base Defense Bonus (since armor adds to Toughness under the save...

A map created for a fantasy wuxia PBP. Still have to add a location key and decide on the scale.

Email sent a few days back, but have since added content to my deviantart page.

A question for folks: Are the fonts displaying correctly for you in the new preview? The chapter markers at the top and side of the page should look as they do in the jpeg; however, we've had some issues with the font not embedding properly.

I'm currently running a Star Wars True20 play-by-post campaign based on a very similar premise to the one in this thread. Here is an excerpt from a discussion I had with a few of the players while the campaign was still under construction. It describes the background assumptions and some of the...

The Chronicles of Narnia. Addendum: Looks like somebody beat me to it.

I haven't even accused you of anything yet. Now, did you brush your teeth?

I can't muster any great excitement over M&M2e either. The book is bloated with near-duplicate powers, unnecessary distinctions (between equipment and devices, between constructs and vehicles, etc.), and "fixes" to 1e rules that weren't particularly broken. Hero creation has been made tedious...

Thank you for the clarification. The individual who sent me the file all those years ago suggested that the project had been official and that you had contributed in some way. I was never certain, however, which is why I qualified my original post with words like "purported" and "supposedly"...

The Offensive and Defensive options from CoC were used in Gun-Fu (albeit only to 10th level). ENPublishing either found an OGC form of the rules, acquired special permission from WotC to use them, or failed a Knowledge (IP Law) check. I can't tell which from the license page.

Holy cow, why are people agonizing over this? If you don't like the three-way split (Adept/Warrior/Expert), grab the Offensive/Defensive option from CoC and make all feats (including arcana-related) available to both roles. Instant generic character creation, good for all genres, regardless of...

Or go the CoC d20 route and simply have an Offensive and a Defensive role, both of which can acquire Arcana.

Hell, Luke casually used Force Grip on two Gamorrean guards at Jabba's palace in Episode VI, and they had not even attacked him -- only barred his way.

Tuck your genitalia back in your pants and stow the feces, man. The knockback rule wasn't worded as well as it could have been, but it's pretty obvious that the effect isn't cumulative. No one but you is proposing that he meant that a long, ragged machine gun burst is going to send a man flying...