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Come to think of it, mercury mucks with just about everything, actually, that's why it's toxic after all...

Yowsa! I haven't been an active part of the L5R community for some time. I know there were a lot of bitter feelings flying around about the Oriental Adventures and Rokugan supplements... No problem. I really ought to re-join the RPG mailing list... FYI, I would go with Rokugan's rules...

It's important to realize how insanely powerful a 21st-level wizard would have to be before taking that level. 150k XP for +5 for each stat? No problem! That's like 4 levels (+2 to attack/damage, +2 to all saves, +40 hit points, +2 AC, +2 to spell DC, +2 to all skills, +2 skill points/level...

This of course goes both ways. Party is helping the local Good Guys win a major battle, bad mojo of an enemy wizard starts chanting ominously, with glee filled eyes at the carnage he is about to unleash. Party rogue thwacks him with a very expensive arrow coated in a very expensive poison...

Buffy the Vampire came out and sold through a dozen copies at my FLGS the week it got them :-) I believe Eden had other releases as well. I have ordered $400 worth of GURPS books, new and old, in the past month. I'm having problems with some of the basic ones (GURPS: Magic and GURPS...

I don't know, he was offered a lot of help, and apparently figured out which e-mail sent him the virus, and all, so he did have some lead...

If I really want to specify a level limit, I can require a caster level, ability to cast certain spells, ability to turn undead as an xth-level character, a base attack bonus, sneak attack bonus, x number of feats... You get the idea, I don't mind someone single-mindedly fasttracking to a...

Yeah, sorry, it's actually clearer in my house rules document: "Skill Focus grants two ranks in the chosen skill, and increases the skill cap by two, accordingly, ie: Level +5 for a class skill, level/2 + 3.5 for a non-class skill)

They're obviously counting pre-orders, they've had that in place for who knows how long... It's probably weighted where each sale today counts for full, yesterday a little less... and so on. There would be a number of simple ways of doing it.

I make Skill Focus give two actual ranks, rather than just a bonus.

I would have given him a warning before making the trade, but it looks too late. There are better, twinkier things that would be more appropriate to Pelor, as I get the impression that Pelor is more about overcoming the types of things immune to this stuff (undead, powerful spellcasters...

Well, the GURPS Basic book (Softcover) has a rank of 96,670, the Hardcover is just over a million. Of course, top 100,000 is probably not too shabby for a ten-year old book. Considering the numbers reach well into the millions, #198 is pretty good. Vampire: The Masquerade: 11,821 Werewolf...

Well, the benifit of water bats, or mercurial greatswords is not so much the increased power, but the fuller swing you end up getting out of it, giving a better technique in theory. The pain of doing this with a weapon is that recovery is going to be more difficult unless a technique, or set of...

I don't think these things can be forged without magic or some serious technology behind them. We'll probably make a sword-useable titanium alloy first (at a reasonable cost, even). Even then, fighting with maces is already a little hard on the wrists, something that actively changes balance...

I have my own Archmage-style prestige classes, where spell resistance (at caster level +5) is one of the powers available Since Greater Spell Focus is a prerequisite here, it basically only means they don't fear lesser spellcasters.

Usually a cooperating group is going to have a decent balance. Something that becomes par for the character is just that, after all. In Deadlands, 7th Sea, Shadowrun and other RPG's I played with, there was one guy who got the most, but no one really blamed him, 'cuz he was a riot :-) It...

Doh! The free action to decide the bonuses is ambiguous, though the FAQ isn't.

For one, you probably don't need more than half a gigabyte of RAM. Modern PC's will top out at 2-4 gigs, it's better to start on the lower end of that and wait until getting 2-4 gigs is pretty cheap. If you're not seriously into gaming or rendering, there's no need to get their fastest card...

Some serious form of haste, too, since a standard action is more than a partial action...

Hammy has it. I think this is illustrated in Tome and Blood a bit better somewhere...