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CATTLE MUTILATORS PT. 3 "PULL OFF THE ROAD!" half the Agents screamed. "STAY ON THE ROAD!" the other half screamed. "HIT THE BRAKES! the other half screamed. "Little late --" Stephen yelled back as the white lights from the UFO flooded the van. A low WHIRIIRIRIRR whined from the van's...

Hey, if it's not too annoying, still playing devil's advocate here. I'm a huge fan of skill-based systems, so I'll nudge on ... But you shouldn't need calculators at a gaming table. you should need characters and imagination. Okay, I fully get the whole fractional armor/damage thing now...

And back at ya ... nice discussion ... Not too confusing -- NEEDLESSLY confusing. AC (or it's b*stard cousin the armor DR) is one number I have to beat, that never (rarely) changes. Let's say I hit a guy in your armor system, shortsword in one hand and a longswod in the other. One's...

Not wanting to quote the long previous discussions, but a quick comment on the "different damage types vs. armor" style, which leads to a larger comment. Alternity used that system. Actually, they let the weapons stats be single values, then gave multiple values for the armor vs. weapon type...

Who says the kid belongs to the bad men? And Fenzer, Jo was writing and posting our Scarred Lands D&D Campaign "Angry Monkey's SL Story", but that got lost in the great board shift. (Famous for the line: "We're surrounded by monkeys. That's rarely good.") She and Ross would swing by...

CATTLE MUTILATORS Pt. 2 The approaching headlights blurred in the distance, they were coming so fast. Stephen looked around them. Nothing but straight highway and empty desert for at least another thirty minutes in every direction. Nowhere to run. As the Agents leapt back in the van, the...

Update's typed. just needs to be transferred hither. Just checking to see if I can post or not ...

Excellent. Back to work: I like it. The mechanic's quite sound, and solves the 1st-level-orc-shoving-Elric-around problem. But it doesn't yet address the hink I have with the trip mechanic -- advantage to the nimble guy. Not a huge advantage, but some advantage. Something for the nimble...

test, test ... am I still trapped in server heck?

Nah, was busy finishing up an assigment or two -- and to tell the truth, world-building is a little less interesting to me than sytem-building. Who cares what my King Fendrick the 3rd is up to? To me Scarred lands is the perfect setting -- detailed enough so that if I want to know what the...

Ah, sorry, should have made that clear. As per the first rule of tweaking, all the standard modifiers -- size, stability, etc. apply to this mechanic. You can only trip opponets up to one size larger than you, I believe. Or that's what it should be. The High level BAB-as-save problem is one...

House Rules? Should have thought of that, sorry. Just stumbled across every "Trip" discussion in this forum, so this is where I brought it. I'll move it over right now. Thanks.

Okay, now: 1.) Is it as simple as or more simple than the existing mechanic? I think so. I make a roll, you beat it. Then you make a roll, and I beat it. One roll accomplishes two things -- checks for the validity of the attack and sets the difficulty of the response. 2.) Does the tweak...

Hey, kids, I think although we may all snipe about degrees, from "completely broken" to "good enough", I don't think anybody is deliriously happy with the trip mechanic. I think I have something here, and I'm looking for feedback. Now, as a guy who's gotten elbow-deep in the mechanics of a...

Assuming you were conscious and a professional fighter, it could probably drag you off with some effort -- that effort being the "pin". Just adding the extra step seems to reasonably cover the "hole" in the rules here. And as for the flying opponent -- hmm, I'd say the analogy is similar...

Don't forget attack bonuses, individual to each creature. They can be very nasty. And considering that once you're past 5th level or so anything big has a brutal, BRUTAL strength bonus ... well, there you go. Not particularly effective, but not totally useless. Considering my DM is...

All Nukem did was clarify the fact that the target doesn't get that second AoO, and I believe "open mouth insert foot" was in reference to his own misunderstanding of the posts. Why the devil does everybody go from zero to snarky in six seconds flat on these boards? And Ki Ryn -- nice write...

I wouldn't worry about spoiling the sample adventure from a discontinued sub-system in a discontinued gaming system ... They did miss the across-the-street-neighbor. They didn't arrive in time to see the "doctor" leave -- who wasn't all that crucial anyway, was he? Hmm, as I was pretty much...

Denis is one of our regular D&D players who'd missed our two other DarkMatter one-offs. He plays Roscoe Tosscobble, the mild-mannered halfling cleric who likes making muffins, but will occasionally flash-fry something when Corean tells him it needs smiting. Then, back to the muffins. And hey...

CATTLE MUTILATORS PT.1 “It’s a milk run, really. Simply show up, do the interviews, take the pictures.” Superintendent Richardson spread the map out in front of his local Agents. “Little place called Fairview, Arizona.” “Don’t we have a field office out there?” Ross flipped through the...