Recent content by sr123

Re: Everyone on Advanced Math -- Combat rounds have to be paced somewhat reasonably (especially in RP), and taking an average is slow. If you doubt the significance of addition/division time, look at vids of any add-3-dice game (the one of Will Wheaton posted here, for example). Re: Celebrim on...

Ken Hood starts his explanation for penetration rules with: "In the 1850’s, a black-powder rifle ... was capable of firing a 10.5mm ball with such force...". His only mention of earlier weapons: "When creating a musket, halve all range increments and reduce base Accuracy to +0." Basically, 98%...

Whenever I try to equate stats to physical attributes in RP, I want to kill D&D with a chainsaw. A short frail female elf can be as strong as a half-orc hulk with ease -- maybe she just took a lot of judo classes and knows how to leverage weight. Furthermore, sword damage and climbing ability...

If it fits with the thematic nature of what you are getting at, how about something like an enchanted object that holds your age - The Picture of Dorian Gray?

Agreed. As I noted in my earlier loooong post, knight/officer breastplates in the age of muskets were "literally" bulletproof. If anything, because the muzzle velocity is so high, guns should attack vs flatfooted. Rapiers have 10 times the armor-piercing capability of muskets. But I can rant...

Lazer Pony is a (redundant) super hero who fires insanely powerful lasers from his eyes. The lasers destroy everything... including his cornea... hence he is permanently blind. Blindness affords him many advantages. For example, hot women fawn over him because he is the only person who is...

OP, I offer you narrative inspiration for a caged-animal-handling adventure in two words: Noah's Ark. (or Gilgamesh..., or Bill Cosby's version?)

In my perfect version of D&D++, there would be more combat-determining skills. As a fencer, I am offended that anyone limber can pick up a rapier and fight with equal proficiency. It takes about a decade of training to fight at your peak in any combat sport. Of course, this would be part of my...

Diplomacy, one of the first true commercial roleplaying games (in that RP on a big level is required to play), would inspire one easy way to de-turnify movement (module for DDN?): Have the basic outline/direction of each player's move (or move action component of their attack, or readied...

One thing that may have been pointed out earlier: as long as there is a "Heal" skill, there needs to be some reason to use it over magic/potions. Suggested module: "Cure" may invigorate testosterone and stop bleeding in a fight, but you still have gashes, bruises, and fractures when you get...

High skills = versatility up to a point. With a wee bit of intelligence on a Rogue, the Rogue will quickly saturate all the must-have abilities and be left with obscure or redundant ones. For conservative in-house nerfing of the Wizard, Cleric, and Druid, I'd advocate for Concentration checks...

Given that everything else in D&D scales linearly or more with level, why do they suddenly care about keeping skill check DCs reasonable? A 3rd-level adventurer can squish a commoner in a single blow, so why should they not sing or sneak that much better too?.

One thing to look at for inspiration is "Generic Classes" (go to d20srd - Variant Rules). That ported to PF might lend you some guidance, particularly in terms of balance.

"He just read The Game, so this is how he talks to women now." Wonderful. I'm stealing that.

If one rock fails to dent or crack or rumble the foundations of the dome, then ten won't make a difference. A drop that far will have your rocks impacting at about 50 meters/sec. However, 50lbs isn't very heavy, and the dome will be built strong enough to support multiple maintenance workers...