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A few Japanese TRPGs use tarot decks. Many of them also use standard 52-card decks, with or without jokers. I believe Tenra Bansho and the rest of the games produced by the same company use standard playing cards.

Wanted: Native Japanese Speaker I want a native Japanese speaker to tell me how bad Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu's Japanese was :)

Umm, all high level spellcasters SHOULD be prepared to deal with challenges involving SR and immunities, just because so many high level monsters have such abilities. If you can't deal with SR and immunity, YOU'RE A BAD WIZARD. Similarly, the current metagame requires combat characters to deal...

I think the operative word is masterpieces. That same Toledo sword maker might have churned out a few other lesser pieces over the course of the same year. Also, such a person would be working with journeymen and apprentices, who would be cranking out the bread and butter munition grade stuff...

This thread has really proved one thing to me: No matter how much you like a product, somone else will have a hate-on for it. And that person will usually sound like a blithering idiot, who mouths (to you, who loves the product) pointless objections. I was that person for Dragonstar after all.

Chris's point is that your OpenDie logo might become the Black Dog Games of the D20 World. He may not wish to have his products associated with such a product identity. Many other publishers will also not be comfortable with that either. The question remains, do you want OpenDie to become the...

On the one hand, I hate GMS. On the other, I do need a set of good rules for a pirate style game. So, I'll probably look it over and see how well it fits with Arcana Unearthed.

I guess my opinion of D&D is slightly colored because we only had one multiclassed cleric in my longest running game, and in the last game I played, I was a the only healer as a bard. Why yes, that would just about increase the lethality of the game many times I find though, that the only...

What you call kludgey, I call interesting :)

None of those games are more lethal than D&D. In Shadowrun, its nigh impossible for someone to get a one-hit kill with a gun. I know, because I always play twinked Street Samurai. Usually, you'd incapacitate them first. With the exception of CoC, there's very little Save or Die in any of...

Fireball/Sorcerous Blast is highly overrated because of its area effect, its save, and its ability to be resisted by spell resistance. Of course, its upgunned a bit in AU simply because Improved Evasion is no longer around. Its also upgunned a bit because the caster can control the damage...

Classes in AU feel like prestige classes because you actually get fun and exciting powers as you level :p

Heh. I find this debate amusing since I absolutely LOVE AU. But then, I don't like D&D's core assumptions. Also, this debate reminds me of my own rants. I've never met a Mongoose product I didn't dislike. I've thought every single Mongoose book I've looked through had bad art, crappy...

I don't see how people can claim the balance in the AU magic system is completely out of whack. Low level AU magic users get an extra die of damage here and there. Boo hoo hoo. High level magisters are going to get, to use the term, pwned by D&D wizards. I find AU is completely lacking all...

Read the rules carefully. Yes, there is a Raise the Dead, which has stricter time limits, and whose level loss cannot be countered in any way. Anyway, D&D is such a lethal game that you DO need Raise the Dead. Whether you think so or not. As for Regeneration, its a Exotic Spell, which needs...

Okay, I know everyone's at least skimmed through the new rules or the SRD. What's the most broken character you can design under the new rules? You have 10 levels.

Nobody posted the Death of Rudolph van Richten? Y'know, the highest rated module on www.kargatane.com for a good long while?

I love the book. I think there are lots of great ideas, and tons of great art. However, I have a few rules questions. I'm sure most of these will be addressed when D20 Mecha comes out, but until then... 1) What does Maneuver do? Does it modify the Dex of the user? The Dex modifier to AC...

Who doesn't? Those flowcharts were interesting, but kinda overly complicated, and well worth mocking!

Hmm. Calculate it from an arcane formula involving square roots, using ALL the stats, of course. And maybe have it all factor into some kind arcane Combat Rating, which is completely inaccurate because non-combat things affect the cost more than Combat things. Can anyone figure out what game...