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There are literally only 6 recognizable landmarks when you are approaching Earth, and Venus would be both confusing and bland looking. There's not a lot of options to visually communicate "we'll arrive at Earth in a moment".

Dragon Age: Origins Dragon Age 2 Dragon Age: Inquisition Make up your minds how you want to title your games!

It's not just carrots and sticks, but also chickens and eggs. People no longer look for certain types of gameplay because the rules required for it to work are no longer supported by the game.

Disguise lets you impersonate a specific individual, and the skill description lists the modifiers other NPCs get to their sense motive check, based on how well they know that person. If they know the person and would recognize him on the street, it's +4. If they are personally acquainted, it's...

I am reading through the Player's Handbook again, learning again the rules that I never really used when I was running campaigns. And It feels like reading the Skill description is just like it was 23 years ago. Some are very straightforward, but with others I'm not so sure how I would actually...

The incentive is not just that you move faster. It's that when you move faster, you have fewer random encounters. Encumbrance is only relevant when you have random encounters. And random encounters pose a serious risk. Encumbrance is just one mechanic of a system of something like 10 different...

I got the D35E game system for Foundry and it looks great. Now I want to make some changes to it, like deleting character classes and monsters that wouldn't be available in my game, and perhaps even editing the XP values needed for each level up. But when I unlock a compendium to make changes...

If I'm using the Pathfinder skill ranks anyway, I'm feeling affirmed to ditch synergy bonuses as well. ;)

In Baldur's Gate 1, the cutscene that plays when entering the tower of the Iron Throne in the city has a very beautiful and accurate 3D rendering of the entrance hall. But the person who made the 3D model forgot to put a texture on the underside of the first floor balcony that runs around the...

What about Synergy bonuses? They are basically free +2s, which are always nice. But this feels to me like something that players would most likely forget to apply at least half of the time. Especially those that you can't just put in your skill modifier because it only applies to certain...

I hope it's called 14th Age.

I'm CN: Don't like it? I don't care! :p

Something I noticed making several generic low level NPCs with that system is that at 2nd and 3rd level, it becomes really attractive to put your points into new class skills instead of advancing your skills from 1st level. Putting that first rank into a class skill gets you 3 ranks for free...

I recently saw a GM quoting a player who said they should protect themselves from disintegration by each chopping off a finger that they can take to a cleric for resurrection.

I was just writing up stat blocks for generic NPCs that use the races and equipment that exist in my setting, so that I can actually do random encounters with bandits or patrolling soldiers and the like. And I noticed that the whole exercise of selecting feats is infinitely more easier and...

That dominate person is 1/day, though. And PCs are rarely facing off against fiends alone. They would have their friends with them who would most probably have means to deal with the situation.

I would assume such a group to have lots of rules. Though they are established customs rather than something that is explicitly stated anywhere.

Now you are reminding me of why I have much more fond memories of 3rd edition than of Pathfinder. :D I always thought 3rd edition was too big with too many things you have (or can make yourself believe you have) to keep in mind when planning anything. Pathfinder core is even bigger than the 3rd...

Wrath of Khan The Undiscovered Country The Search for Spock whatever...

As I see it, wealth by level and challenge rating are all suggestions by the designers of the system that are meant to provide guidance for the kind of adventures they assumed would be played. Unfortunately, I was never able to infer the kind of play style they had in mind from the PHB and the...