Recent content by davedoty

Thanks for the suggestions! Instead of summarizing them for him, I just gave him a link to this thread.

My friend GMs a long-running Doctor Who rpg, but is about to do his first historical, set in Victorian London, and is somewhat apprehensive about creating an appropriate historical setting. History isn't really his thing, as witness he has a long-running time travel campaign and is doing his...

Thanks for the feedback. Here's the problem with magic weapons in IH: armor doesn't affect AC at all in this ruleset. (They had to rename AC for this reason.) Instead, armor grants dr/magic. As such, even a +1 magic weapon can, at low levels, be almost gamebreakingly powerful. In regular...

I'm an novice GM running an Iron Heroes campaign. One of my players is very set on playing spellcasters, but the IH classes are throwing me for a loop. He chews through creatures that seem well-designed for the rest of the party. He has a history as a powergamer, but I really believe he's...

Thanks again. I was unfamiliar with Unseen Seer. One thing I notice right away is it would be very easy to meet the prereqs after 5 levels, and have more flexibility in how much to take in rogue/wizard. Arcane Trickster wouldn't be available until after 8 levels - 3 rogue for the 2d6 sneak...

Thanks for all the advice, folks! I particularly hadn't considered the cloistered cleric or arcane trickster possibilities. I'm still not sure what I want to do, but at least I have more options (and some other factors like sp I hadn't thought much about) to take into account now.

I know that thread title is horrendous, but I couldn't think of a way to boil my subject down to a few words and still be coherent. I've always loved the rp concept of the bard as a wandering minstrel/ storyteller, but never liked the class design itself (for the usual, well-hashed out...

Thanks for the suggestions, both of you. I'm definitely going to bring this up at character creation, but it will be a while before they actually have to deal with it. They'll be adventuring at home for a few levels, and it will only be as their power and reputation grow that they'll be...

I'm about to try to run my first game, and I think I've worked most of the kinks out, or at least enough to try running the first game. The issue I'm having trouble with is the bonus language issue. Let me begin by saying that I'm running a world on Iron Heroes rules. It's an all-human...