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Bah, don't sweat - have them work for this. I'm all for allowing stuff that a character would, and player does not know - but this is a bit different situation. "OK, so you see a house. What do you do or look for?" As a sidenote, do you know what was the most loathed thing within dungeon in...

You might find one of Goonalan's Story Hours helpful: The Goodman Gang. It's an entertaining read in and of itself, but there's a neat bonus you might enjoy. The name of the party (and story hour) comes from the fact that the group is using adventures by Goodman Games. So every X posts(end of...

Yay! I'm really set to try out Kingmaker, and after reading it's player guide - Spymaster was the position that gained most of my interest. So I'd be happy to chip in into brainstorming this, as I hope to use it one day myself :) Well CIA/FBI of game world is a nice idea, and it's great that he...

Amen! It's somewhat a touchy territory for me - I'm physically unable to tell the difference between what people call sub-genres. Slayer, Metallica, Iron Maiden and Dio seat in the same folder as Nirvana, Sinatras and Morisette - "01 - Rockopop" :P If I had more, they might get a separate folder...

Yay, science! I'm with HoboGod then - homeless. More to the point, I definitely see a lot of merit with this method when applying to skill checks - it takes away a lot of silly stuff - like fumbling because of low rolls when you have a lot of ranks in given skill, and then someone scoring...

Sceptical tone: does it really work like that...? :erm: <scribbles and counts> B-) Huh. It actually does, 1% chance in case of 2d10 instead of 5% - neat! With 3d6 it's even lower. The thing is: what you're essentially doing is making it easier to your paper characters (lower chance of fumble)...

Dobar dan! I don't get it, why would you do that? d20 makes it extremely easy to calculate probablity of events, as 1 "point" = 5% On top of that, you don't need to add any numbers - it's what's on the dice. Is it to have a minimal 3, or 2 as outcome of any roll? Just substitute any rolled "1"...

Dammit. Thing is - I agree with your post, and still disagree with OP. Sadly, my pressure on adding pejorative load to the word "simplistic" derailed the point I was trying to make. And then, Delericho wrote what I meant in much more clear way: First off, I want to clarify something - it's...

Nah, that's just called moshpit. First off - those bands mostly insist on not being called heavy, but rather [grim adjective] metal. Psycho Death Neo Pagan Metal +6. And... Yes, but those are as common in rap music - maybe even moreso. In fact, hip hop is the sound of rebels in many Arabic...

I rolled just because I like the new feature - now when you roll it, there's a slightly higher chance of rolling a "2" ;-) (or 9. Or 4 and 7 if you flip the hands :D) BTW! When you're rolling - note that the index and ring fingers are of almost (men) or exactly (women) same length!. It's a...

Oh man, now that would be cool :) Frankie Metalfinger. Jimmie the Ironclaw. Of course that's something to be settled with the DM, but it's one of those perfect opportunities for DM to say "yes". Heck, I'd allow giving it some enhancements, like a hidden lockpick :) And if worse comes, and DM...

In practical terms, if you're shooting a crossbow with one hand - the ring finger is the one you hold the entire weight on. As a GM, I'd allow no penalty if you'd get a custom crossbow with pistol trigger (normally it's a lever, and you need two (index and middle) fingers to operate smoothly)...

I know that a lot of people draw some kind of straight line between dumbified simplistic system, and how it attracts players. I can even understand the sentiment. I just don't agree with it. So I'll touch only briefly the subject of success of previous Intro Sets, that were also useful only for...

In some way, vaguely, perhaps... maybe. I'd rather go with nonconformist, but even then - in the narrow, musical-trends meaning. And still vaguely. If you wanted to be rebellious in my high-school, you'd listen to rap. Floyds and Zeppelins were School-shop music. On my university, probably...

Personally I' regard all of those as "good RP". I'd make damn sure that possibly 1, and definitely 5 and 6 backfire in the PC's face really, really bad, but that's more of a personal boundary than RP-thing. No 2 I applaud, and would possibly make the character as a NPC. 3 and 4 is the kind of...

A bit late, but I just saw the link when browsing my RPG links*: Prep Lite Manifesto. Might come in handy next week(s?). * coincidentaly - anyone remembers the RPG web-comic with episode featuring pseudo-dragons ranting about humans being pseudo-apes?

After reading the OP, I scrolled down to see if Draco Suave responded, and went like "how many pages?". It's like with "listen to older people, they probably saw it more than once" - you often get to appreciate this wisdom only after it no longer applies :) As to the OP - I blame lack of...

DnD wasn't actually a gateway drug for me, the stuff that I started with was Rolemaster (MERP), while most of my first group started with one of the other LoTR games (because of publishing delay + title translation, I'm not sure which one it was), and then transitioned to MERP. I regard Talisman...

I think you'll find this thread particularly helpful for this. There's a lot of fluff-based, and as such - always level (and system) appropriate stuff there. The only thing that's not directly transferable to 4e seems to be the Leadership feat. You might invent your own though! The feat could...

It appears that I gave impression that I'd make a better research than the article authors. It does not surprise me, because even if I didn't mean to imply this - I find that all too often people identify renunciation - with claim to higher knowledge. Let me address this with a quote: When I...