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If you're thinking HARP might be in a "legacy" status I guess there is some evidence of that.

Cleave says you can make an attack roll, not an Attack action, and it specifies it can only happen once per turn (otherwise it could trigger itself). Attack actions can trigger Cleave, but the extra attack granted by Cleave is not an action of any kind.

On the official forums, they told me Rolemaster Unified looks the way it does because they can't justify an art budget, so "successful" requires some qualification.

Bigotry: I am happy I am harming and/or exploiting you. Unconscious racism: I am not harming and/or exploiting you! Systemic racism: I just work here.

Why do publishers so often fail Bioware-level alignment checks? 1. Yes, I would love to license this property from Sith Publishing, to publish a re-mastered edition of Puppy-Kicking Racists are the Heroes. 2. No, I'm not interested in your license deal, I serve the Jedi and the Republic.

When I was 12, I got a hold of a copy of Edith Hamilton's mythology and devoured it.

It's been forty years. We all know Strahd is John Travolta playing Dracula, ok? There's even a boardgame.

If it only occurred in the last few years, that's kind of an "A guy named Otto Ocatvius ends up with eight arms? What are the odds?" kind of moment.

Well, that definitely describes my feelings about the new PDK.

Sometimes I'm really disappointed by the literal-mindedness of the D&D designers, and really reductive ideas about creating color and themes. Purple Dragon Knights are military order, not a bunch of fighters with pet dragons. This reminds me of when in 3e they took away Heironeous's association...

The desk automatically fails any attempt to create allegory.

It's time to bring back a version of Mystara. Weapon masteries Cloudier alignment and moral issues Bright color palette High medieval + Leonardo da Vinci technology level Furries Nostalgia characters like Bargle the Infamous Lots of weird subclasses Orcs as a player species Fun with alternate...

In fact, Howard makes some comments about Conan's lack of education. In many ways Conan is an anti-Howard. He's like, what if someone was really smart but didn't have a civilized education? Conan is also really brash and violent, whereas Howard was shall we say bookish in real life; I think it's...

Classic thieves aren't just burglars, but also waylayers. There are occasions where D&D has statted gangs of robbers as thieves rather than 1 HD monsters.