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Actually, I both agree and disagree. On one hand, I like magic, and in my completely anecdotal evidence, most d20 Modern games I've played in have had some form of FX, be it SF or Fantasy or Horror. So saying "No FX in the campaign settings" strikes me as silly. However, on the flip-side, I do...

Look, I'm sad that it got cancelled, too, believe me. But I'm having trouble seeing the evil of Fox here. They didn't move the show in order to screw it over. They moved it to a less competitive timeslot, or at least, they tried. Perhaps they had research saying that Monday Night Football...

Gray, the problem here is that Prison Break's reruns are doing better than Arrested Development. Baseball did a lot better than Arrested Development. If you're a network, your goal is not to make audiences happy. That's a means to your actual goal -- making advertisers happy. And advertisers...

That's been my argument. People running the game with accruing nonlethal claim that it doesn't make that big a difference -- an armed opponent gets an AoO, and the damage isn't high enough, apparently, to be unbalanced. As I said, that's what people who've run the game with those rules claimed...

I think you can go with either, honestly. It depends on what you want to run, and it also depends on what your gaming group would be comfortable with. For the campaign I am running -- a D&D-like historical fantasy setting -- I know for a fact that I'd be better off with Grim Tales. However, my...

I'd agree with that, I think, with the possible addition of "Size + Proficiency Required" determining the damage ceiling. 3.0 D&D was pretty good at this: Tiny: 1d4 Small: 1d6 Simple, 1d6 and bonus if Martial (19-20 or 20/x3 or bonus on Disarms/Trips) Medium: 1d8 Simple, 1d8 and bonus if...

Ditto the pacing. I got a strong impression of about five minutes being cut from that end part, or, at the very least, a minute or two involving a) the transition to sunrise or b) a revelation that the whole "day and night share the sky" thing meant that there'd be an aurora borealis or...

An additional thing I'd change about d20 Modern: I'd have Combat Experise changed to read that it grants a bonus to Defense and to Defensive-Nature Opposed Attack Rolls, while giving a penalty to Offensive-Nature Attack Rolls, instead of just "All Attack Rolls". I don't think it makes sense...

Ranger, I don't have discussions with people who use disingenuous debate tactics, even through inference. So please stay civil and polite and above-board. 1) I'm statting a cleaver, as should be obvious, since I wrote "cleaver". 2) Raising it to medium due to its bulk was one of two options I...

RangerREG, I don't think it's out of the question to expect Archaic Weapons, designed for fighting, to be better than Simple Weapons that are often just picked up as needed, one step up from Improvised Weapons. You could easily fix this issue by saying that a cleaver large enough to do 1d6 is a...

Not to attack, but how is it bad? I haven't run into any problems with it in my game, but my players haven't tried to abuse it, so it's likely something I haven't seen. I'd agree with that, except that I've never run or played in a game where Infiltrator was actually an attractive class...

Heh. Yeah, +20 ain't bad at all for a 6th level character. :) For the record, a Strong9 Ordinary based on this same concept, who attacked at -2/-2/-7/-7 for 1d10+12(+10 offhand), got absolutely owned by a 12th-level martial artist PC. The PC specialized in disarms, and, knowing this, I...

Was curious as to whether this was just me, or if others have tried to come up with oddball characters to take advantage of peculiarities of the rules. I'm actually doing this with a follower NPC going with the PCs (playing something that's d20 Past, roughly) into a war-zone. He's a berserker...

Regarding making things more deadly, I've got a house rule-set that I use in pulp or noir-games that makes things a bit uglier when somebody has the drop on you, but not all the time: - When a target is flat-footed or denied his Dexterity bonus, any hit threatens a critical hit, regardless of...

Bummer. At least Fox gave it a few seasons to try to build an audience, and they did move it to what they seemed to think was a less competitive timeslot. I don't watch enough live TV to know how well they advertsied for it, but I don't see Fox as the bad guy here. This was a really funny show...

Nitpick: Because it'd be unbalanced. The Strong Hero and Martial Artist get full-BAB because they are melee-combat specialists whose coolest abilities do not kick in at range (melee smash, living weapon), and they get d8 for hit points. The fact that the soldier gets weapon focus and...

Well, I'd probably change nonlethal, since I'm evidently the only person who can use it. If it must accrue, so be it, but I'd also keep the massive damage threshold rules as they stand and introduce weapons that did more damage when used nonlethally -- like have a sap do 1d4 lethal or 2d6...

With respect, bull. If you want accrual, go to it, but the fact that somebody gave a monster in d20 Modern a Con score of 45 doesn't mean that d20 Modern's nonlethal rules are broken. It means that the guy was obviously doing a D&D monster write-up and didn't check his rules carefully enough...

I'd argue that d20 Modern regeneration rules wouldn't work well for something with a Con of 45, and that going with accruing nonlethal and D&D-regeneration-rules was the right way to go here. That said, I'd also have liked for them to mention that, like, "The tarrasque uses D&D regeneration...

Ditto everyone else. What's frustrating is that they keep giving the shows a chance, but then pre-empting them for baseball and cancelling them. Maybe we're just uninformed viewers, and Fox is giving a chance to shows that no other network was going to pick up, but it looks like they buy the...