Recent content by IndyPendant

I was in Isaac's playtest (empathy unique thing). I thought I'd toss in my own quick synopsis of my impressions. --I know nothing about the designers, and frankly don't care. In the end, it's the quality of the product that matters, not who made it. --13th Age has *incredible* potential...

Heh. Wow. That's...way more comprehensive than I was expecting when I put out this request. Thank you very much, heruca! *goes off to read for a while*

Hi all. With OpenRPG no longer supported, I am looking around for a good program to use for online roleplaying. I am hoping someone here can steer me towards something useful. Maptool would potentially be perfect, but for some reason I have been unable to determine, it lags severely on my...

One piece of advice I have that might seem obvious, but I have not seen mentioned yet: If you want a campaign where stealth tactics (skill, magic, or otherwise) are important, and to be used often--make certain to clearly reward the players early and often for successfully completing something...

This is a bit of a long read, but it is a rather amusing story for the most part. Feel free to ignore it if you'd like. I typed this up originally for my players in my campaigns, so I thought I would refine it and share it here on the forums as well. Last Wed evening, my company had a Team...

I think the monkeys are entirely too useful, based on Shayuri's description, and the item should be priced out at roughly 10kgp. Oh. Wait a minute...

For the record, I'm the GM of a Warblade that's been playing it for about half a year now. I went into it very reluctantly. I don't like the Warblade. I felt the class was overpowered. I don't like the mechanics of the Warblade. (If it's magical--and face it, the maneuvers are--then it's...

I'm...not sure I see the problem, here. The complaint is that, by using 1) a powerful (for 2nd level) spell that 2) can only be used a few times per day at that level, 3) allows a will save, 4) uses up 2 entire combat actions, 5) requires a skill check that 6) is little useful otherwise, 7) was...

Hi all. I have three solid, great players for my Ptolus campaign...and I need one more. It plays every Saturday from 5am PST to around 10am PST online in OpenRPG, with the new player starting April 7th. Unlike what the thread linked below states, you *can* have knowledge of Ptolus and still...

Hrm. 17 people even bothered to look at this. No responses. I'm hoping that if the class were "omgwtfbbq borken!!!one" people would post saying so. And that the lack of response means the class is fine as-is. *shrug*

I do the +1 hp/level (minimum +3 hp) option. There is no way to find a fixed number of hp that is balanced for all cases. As to scaling hp per level--that is *exactly* what +1 hp/level does! Consider: +1 hp/level is much more beneficial it total hp gained for the wizard than for the...

I am taking over a PC for a player that can no longer play in my campaign, since I like the flavour she created for her character, and also since the character is the party's healer. However, while keeping the flavour, I have decided to change the mechanics of the character a bit. Since this...

I was--for once--a little more complex in my changes to the half-elf. I wanted something to differentiate them from humans and elves--something that just giving them extra skill points or a bonus feat would not do. So this is what I came up with:

Heh. I may have given the wrong impression here. I don't mean the GM has to be aware of everything ever published for d20. That, I agree, is an absurd stance. And nowhere did I say that the GM has to *allow* anything and everything. Quite the opposite, in fact, as should be blatantly...

I am a firm believer in making sure the players are happy with their PCs. These are characters that (barring total disaster) may very well be with them quite literally for years! If I can't give a player what he wants, then I will work with him to try and find a compromise that meets him...