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    d20 or Bust?

    I play multiple systems on a regular basis - I don't know of anyone in my IRl group who doesn't; BESM, Tri-stat DX, Fuzion, BRP CoC, Marvel Superheros (and now Marvel Universe), Shadowrun, WoD (very occasionally), even Palladium (not that we're going to touch it with a 10 foot pole until someone...
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    Advanced Player's Guide - Info?

    That's weird - I thought that the advanced products were going to be producted by Green Ronin http://www.greenronin.com/cgi-bin/product.cgi?prodid=1602 . I haven't seen too much info about them, however. - Just went and checked out the S&S main site. Now, that's weird. Here's the only info I...
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    Get dressed already! (does your mage wear robes?)

    Depending on the form he's in, either a loin-cloth and his skin, or else a vest and a pair of baggy, arabian style pants. Shape-shifting Half-Dragons are fun. :D
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    Hand crossbow??

    Cimmrion Six-Shooters? Not converted yet... :] But, there are those sweet Dart-thrusters from Underdark.
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    D20 or HERO or TriStat: what I have picked

    For such a simple system, tristat does fairly well, I'd say - BESM spawned the system, but alot of the major bugs were fixed in dX (mostly the things that made getting abilites very cheap). M&M was fairly cool, but, as a weird part of our love for GOO (or maybe it was just a matter of personal...
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    Game Bloopers and Quotes

    "Stop femaleing up your female." "That boy has girl's problems."
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    D20 or HERO or TriStat: what I have picked

    You bought the BESM core rules? But that isn't the core system of dX - if you wanted a full view of the actual system center, just download a copy here http://www.guardiansorder.com/downloads/ - first download on the page. It's free, after-all, though you do need to join up with RPGNow (also...
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    Which are the major RPG rule systems?

    I'd say the major systems would be d20, GURPS, the Storyteller System, Tri-stat dX, Fuzion (the love child of Interlock and HERO) (and, though I really hate to admit it) the Palladium System - these all see use over a multitude of genres. Of course, I'm not really familiar with any...
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    Complete Divine Excerpts

    It's probably a variation on those various 'Chosen of' 'Favored by' 'Disciple of', ect feats from the BoVD and the BoED - a gateway feat, and not much more. Just a slightly more powerful, if less versitile version. Unless they do something completly new with relics, that is....
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    Tell me about Tri Stat Games?

    The problem is that that is not entirely a valid complaint - the way the defects system is designed takes care of this, and more besides - technically speaking, when useing defects you can also account for: Strength, Aglility, Endurance, Intelligence, Wits, Perception, Luck, Willpower, Charisma...
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    Which is cooler? Psychic Warrior or Soulknife?

    Coolness factor, definetly SK. Psychic Warrior is a machine when it come down to beating the living tar out you, though.... And actually makes a really good weaponless character too...
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    A Rifts Balance Discussion for Roguewriter & Buzzard

    A couple years ago, I took a crack at re-designing the Palladium system - didn't get to far before my attention was diverted, but it was kinda interesting to do - I love the settings, those are excellent, and there are (or have been) good writers working there. But I can't stand the rules - an...
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    Halfling war sling?

    Errr.... I would not try to ask a Dm for a Medium sized Halfling Warsling that does 1d8 damage, unless you were a medium sized halfling and were able to make all your own medium sized skip rocks..
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    Halfling war sling?

    Nice little bit of equipment to - the skip rocks used with the war-sling can to a richoett attack, striking first the creature aimed for, then any creature within 5 feet the wielder designates (-2 penalty to pull it off). Normally damage is 1d3/x2. When used in the warsling, it jumps to 1d6/x4...
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    Tell me about Tri Stat Games?

    Well, as a general rule, power level works diffrently. The GM I have for Tristat games insists that after a while, he's going to increase our die sizes from d6 to d8, which is a fairly stupid rule... One of the things we tend to debate when going over the rules (for some reason, he seems to...
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    Should Dungeon and Polyheadron be in the same magazine

    I'd buy a stragith Poly mag. I don't play d20 modern that often, but the thing is, most of the material in there is a gold-mine, even for D&D games (and it annoys me that alot of the material that's being puched into poly is D&D stuff). I can see people being annoyed when Hinjinx crawls into...
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    Tell me about Tri Stat Games?

    I'm going to add my inconsiquential voice to the others - tri-stat is very good. Very very good. The only reason I stick with the d20 system is because there's so much stuff that's pregenerated, and I can have the players scale up in power alot faster, and start off lower. But the tri-stat...
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    [UA] Defense Bonus, Damage Reduction, & Damage Conversion

    First off, as a general rule (I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but), bonuses from enhancement like sources don;t convert into DR - they just stay the same as always - the bracers just give you and AC bonus, nothing else. Which makes the armor look alot more attractive, even if it does have...
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    Gestalt characters, prestige classes, and rabid munchkinism

    No real rules against it. Not too tweakish, though, since you're still going to be loosing out on the two levels of rogue abilities when you replace them with human levels.
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    UA's class-based defence bonus. Your thoughts?

    You'd have to do somewhat more tinkering with the rules in order to make it work - I've assigned (much weaker) CDBs to the classes in my game in pretty much that fashion - rogue/monk's high, wizard/cleric's low, but in order to pull it off, I made some changes to armor as well, adopting the...
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