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Lady Blackbird had a Refresh mechanism where you could do a flashback to learn more about the characters in the middle of some other action, allowing you to refresh your dice pool while you were at it. http://www.onesevendesign.com/ladyblackbird/

I agree that the Charisma should be maintained as a factor. I like how it encourages friendly clerics rather than grumpy ones :) One alternative to 1/2 Clr level would be to use the Cleric's Base Attack Bonus (from their Cleric levels only). So that would mean 1d20 + Cleric's BAB + Cha...

A few things. I have played GURPS with this race, the concept of split strength can work. It currently isn't a concept D&D supports, but I was seeing if I could stretch things. I think one of the problems that D&D has is that none of the races have any penalties. Other than a slower move, I...

What I wish someone, like enworld, would do, is put together and maintain an 'essential' collection. It would be a single webpage that would contain the list of well reviewed products that had been out for a while, that (mostly) everyone agreed was good quality. It would list the name of the...

My campaign world doesn't have monks or psions, so the issue hadn't come up. For monks you could say the lower body isn't as flexible / the attacks are awkward. For psions, I would say you use your torso's lower strength since that is where your head is connected to :) Neither of these are...

It is more of a weight issue. When you charge you get all of your mass behind you, which is better represented by your lower strength.

Exactly. I looked at that, but I am trying to create a race that can be played at first level. If I give them all sorts of feats instead of this split strength, it is much harder to give them some other abilities and stay balanced with the other races. It also greatly encourages the...

I am working on translating a wemic-like race (lion-based centaur) that I have used before in GURPS. One key feature they had was a split strength. There torso was not as strong as their lion body. The reasoning was that while their lower part of their body with four legs was strong, their...

I have been thinking about ways we could go about solving this problem. What I am finding, is that when I am at the gaming store, there are just so many d20 books that I just get overwhelmed. I don't have time to skim them all, and with the price increases I worry about wasting my money by...

What worries me is that sentiment could start a death-spiral for the industry. Publishers are feeling the pinch with reduced sales, so they increase the price. Gamers react to the increased price and buy less. So publishers raise the price again, ... Now as others have said, over time the...

I have two things I want to respond to that: #1: Books can be packaged differently: GURPS Traveller $22.95 GURPS Traveller - Limited Edition Hardcover $49.95 Steve Jackson Games has done this for several of their books. The stores tend to carry the paperback version, and people who really...

I guess my naive question would be why would it cost almost double today? I don't have a copy of the original ghostbusters, but here are some questions: 1) was it hardcover? 2) was it full color throughout? 3) was it 300-500 pages? 4) did it have lots of high quality custom artwork? My guess...

My wife and I do quite well for ourselves financially, so it is not a financial limitation. Instead it is that $50 is way too high for impulse buying of gaming books. Over those same visits I mentioned above, my wife has been buying LOTR cards. She has bought the starter set ($20), two more...

Recently I have been at two different FLGS, browsing to see what it is new. The last several times I have seen things I was interested in, but I ended up walking out without purchasing anything. Why? Because the products were priced higher than I was willing to pay. With marriage and kids...

As part of my merging AU rules into my campaing world, here is my Follower of Unity, which is based on the Greenbond. Comments welcome... Abbreviated ethos is fostering a strong sense of community between the different races, and opposing the encroachment of the taint. Undead are a major foe in...