Recent content by PoorHobo

Were I ever to GM again, I'd just make it level based. The differences between a level 1 character and a level 20 character are so great that there are no real world analogies, save for Chuck Norris jokes, only those jokes are real. Any type of intimidate system where a level 1 barbarian with...

1. Have an OOC discussion stating your concerns, how its unbalancing the game, tell them you are replacing it with something else more suited to their level. 2. Suck it up and move on. Penalizing players or characters for your own oversight is petty. If the problem is bad enough then it...

Just some comments. It seems like a fighter-ish PrC D10 hitpoints, focused on hitting things with a cloak, and requiring 5 feats, yet it has rogue skill requirements. A human rogue can't get into this until 9, and demi-humans until 12 due to feat requirements, A fighter can't get in until 9...

I was actually replying to myself, where I had suggested wizards casting both see invisibility and permanancy on several of the watch so that a city could have someone watching both the sky and city for invisible intruders. Range personal means that the wizard can't cast it on a member of the...

Bah! See invisibility has a range of personal, your town watch would have to be composed of 10th level wizards :P thats out I guess. See invisibilty doesn't come up till the rocks start falling.

permanancy see invisibility on a few lookouts throughout the city. Maybe 5 or so total so at least one watch with it on at all times. These watch are kept out of combats, there sole job is to look for invisibility. Not just mages, It's something a city might want anyways. Once an invisible...

There are 100's if not 1000's of jobs in the armed forces. Coming up with skill sets in a d20 game for a small percentage is a monumental task as some of the post examples have indicated. While the actual act may be a fun thought excercise for simplicity sakes you might consider a simple...

Having been in a similar situation I'd say no bonuses or negatives for anyone. When two drunks stare each other down and one is talking about pissing on the other a fight is pretty much expected, no one is surprised.

I hate being challenged as a player directly. Seriously, :):):):) puzzles. I'm not good at them and they aren't fun. When they are in games I tend to just treat it like a point and click adventure game and just start trying every possible combination or just wait until someone else figures it...

First off I don't think it's a bad idea to let players try and sell it for profit, spending 1 week of in-game time to get 20 gold is so lackluster and below the capabilities of a even a 1st level character I wouldn't bother. As for my opinion? I dislike it. I like it more than the standard...

I'm with the earlier poster who said you should just ask the player. I think playing the guessing game is going to lead to bad bad things. Or at least an uncomfortable misunderstanding.

And if no evil NPCs come along? In fact I remember reading that the vampire attacked the barbarian for coming too close. Crippling someone for invading your personal space isn't what I would call good. If the next group of people that come along aren't good aligned adventurers then what? The...

Does anyone have or have links to an in game example of using skill challenges to resolve combat? I'm trying to wrap my head around this but am not seeing it working.

Pure sci-fi. Spaceships, FTL travel. Glaxy is being invaded by robotic alien-things. We've ripped out the setting and are only using the system.

When you break open any game that much they all break, why are people in this thread only doing it to Rifts? when a 1 legged half dead commoner with a club can manage to hit my demi-god fighter in dragon armor and shield 1 time out of 20 and still do damage when I'm taking a full defense action...