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To see how a party of unbalanced characters functions, you need only look at your own. Your warriors don't shine until the wizard has tapped out. Since you're using Horrid wilting as an example of spell choice, this leads me to believe that your warriors have to wait for a 17th level Wizard to...

So the fighters get to strut their stuff 'when the wizard was tapped out'? I think that says it all about whether your personal experience found that warrior types were of equal efficacy to wizard types. The warrior types were the second string, only getting to strut their stuff when the first...

One last thing Since the nyambe forum has been dormant for six months, I have a nyambe rules question perhaps someone can answer.... And you get a +50 AC bonus? -Now that I have the attention of the power gamers, lets see how... It's about the general magic beads (ancestral vault, P53)...

Nyambe Nyambe is different. The first thing that hit me upon reading Nyambe was that it was a little complicated. And then I realized it was because I was comparing it to Rifts Africa, and Nyambe was *good* whereas Rift Africa was *Bad*. For starters, while lesser supplements would portray...

Trust Every party needs a level of 'trust'. A zero trust game (one where the GM has to defend his calls with rules every time) is simply unplayable. Enough trust *needs* to be there for the players to feel that 'even if I'm not 100% sure what happened, I am 100% sure that the GM is either...

A fundamental rule I use in my gaming is "The PC's are out there solving the problems that The Authorities can't." Placing the party in a power 'sweet spot' where they are just powerful enough to matter but not too powerful to overrule can be a little exacting and possibly heavy-handed...