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I don't know how older editions of old WoD worked, but I'm pretty sure that in the last one before nWoD you could split actions - you subtracted a number of dice equal to the number of actions you were taking in a turn from the die pool for the first action, and that number+1 from the second die...

Uh... Again, with the responding to things I didn't actually say. I didn't say splitting your dice pool, I said splitting your action. Different mechanic.

First of all, you didn't say "most horror RPGS" - you decided to make a blanket statement to make your argument look stronger, and now are backpedaling. But ok... Second, all those games you bring up have more differences than commonalities - you have something based on a (slightly goofy)...

Well... Yes, old WoD would often force you to choose between one or the other, but a competent mundane combat-oriented character usually could decide to split his action and do both (with enough dice left over to make it worthwhile). And once you got into the realm of supernatural critters...

Can you give some examples of those RPGs? Because I have an easier time thinking of ones where using an active defense doesn't mean you give up your ability to act for a round. Old WoD, Shadowrun (all editions besides 4th), GURPS, Riddle of Steel, the d6 System... Hehe... It's not a bug, it's...

Oh yeah, one more, but it's a big one - I'm surprised I forgot it. Fighting with two weapons or any other discipline/style/merit that allows multiple attacks in any shape or form is completely broken, despite being relatively pricey to get. Very nearly doubling your attack dice simply can not...

Doesn't dodging mean you use up your action to do it? That effectively makes it worthless for every situation in which you're actually trying to fight, instead of running for your life. Which just reminded me of something else I had an issue with - because active defense is really worthless...

Freakin' Bloodrayne had Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez, Billy Zane, Michael Madsen, Meatloaf, and the T3 chick. None of them heavyweights, aside from Kingsley, but still pretty definitive proof you can get a lot of highly recognizable names dirt cheap. Plus, it looks like a UK production, no...

They range from excellent to pretty good. (rated purely on the strength of the wrting and the story) The first one is best. The second drags on a bit, and the third one seems to introduce an awful lot of new things in a big rush, but is definitely more interesting if not as well written...

How much information do you want? Non-spoiler version: It's about a 12 year old girl living in an alternate Oxford, who sets out on a long journey to save a kidnapped friend of hers, and in the process gets involved in an epic story that will determine the fate of all the parallel Earths, of...

I was going to say, having played in your game, that Eastern-style wire-fu is definitely not your style, at all. (and the Sword Sages you had show up didn't really come across as Oriental, either) Which in a way shows how much of what's in Bo9S is flavor text. Actually, since you're a hard man...

What game are you referring to? AD&D 2E? Because that's certainly not how 3E or 3.5 plays, most of the time. Characters routinely take massive amounts of damage, these days, even if the HP system is specifically designed to slow down the rate at which they get maimed / incapacitated, allowing...

My biggest issue? The fact that many of the conflict resolution mechanics pit the attacker's attribute+skill pool vs. the defender's single skill or attribute. Who went first and how many re-rolls your Willpower allows you to make matters more than relative skill levels. I know this issue...

This looks interesting. It's my honest opinion (not an attempt to troll) that the new WoD game is the worst RPG system I have ever played. I'm fine with rule-light gaming, but as long as you have rules of any sort, they'd better work. I've always been a marginal fan of WoD at best, but the...

Actually, as far as I understand it (well, from what I remember reading, anyway) the religious angle is being almost completely stripped out of the movies. Not sure how they'll manage that if they ever get around to filming the 3rd one, but I think - with some schadenfreude, I have to admit -...

The strength gets sucked into the vacuum created by all the holes popping up in the logic behind it. ;) I think the Roper is a good example of a legitimate problem with the design of many monsters - design that is either sloppy or that intentionally ignores the rules (both official and...

Unfortunately, the people who made the movie did nothing to imply that anything logical happened between the time of the pickup and the final scene, they just went for cheap thrills and a setup for a crappy sequel. Just because any number of things could have happened doesn't make the ending...

None of this makes sense given that we're actually shown the helicopter sitting in the middle of Paris, abandoned. Which, in and of itself, just underlines how sloppy the movie is - France was never affected by the virus, and shouldn't be until the kid gets on the ground, but a helicopter that...

Oh, I was thrilled to hear the guy who did Memento was doing a Batman movie - both because I loved that film, and because what Singer did with the two X-Men movies (the second one in particular) totally sold me on having "unusual" (pun unintended) directors do superhero stuff. Batman Begins...

I had huge misgivings about Heath Ledger in the role - and while this shot of Joker hasn't dispelled them, I think it looks great. I have zero interest in yet another movie born entirely out of the director's nostalgia for reading comics while growing up as a kid in the 60s or 70s - there's a...