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In my experience people concerned about "cultural appropriation" tend to be mostly authoritarians who want to dictate that everyone in the world live by their rules, no argument.

I think the more interesting experiment would be to do the same thing, but instead offload a bunch of Burning Wheel books into 1970.

Downloaded the PDFs. I wouldn't ever use them for actually running a game, but they did confirm that I like the direction of 4e and make me want the actual books (I hate reading PDFs, even if they are good quality non-scanned versions). Had the "cup of coffee" priced versions been out at this...

If you do decide to use OpenRPG at all, make sure to get OpenRPG+ rather than the regular one (v. 1.6.3 vs 1.7 something).

Point, you, whoosh!

Yes, that's known as hyperbole. Perhaps you've heard of it?

PP = platinum pieces. Now you're just putting words in my mouth. :)

What examples, exactly? Hyperbole, perhaps you've heard of it?

*Shrug* I don't care either way. I was just pointing out what I feel to be a poor feat. To me, that reeks of a feat that in 3e would do something like "You may pay 50pp to gain a +1 circumstance check to Tumble when in the presence of both copier machines and office chairs."

Point is, you have absolutely no way of knowing if the DM will suddenly *start* ambushing you during your Paragon tier, or not. The feat is basically pointless unless you know ahead of time you'll be ambushed a fair amount of the time. And unless you have scads of action points, you probably...

It's trivial because there's no guarantee you'll ever get to use it. It's completely dependent on how often the DM wants to spring encounters that leave the PCs surprised. If said DM doesn't, you just wasted a feat. Also, how is "you get to use this sometimes, maybe" at all non-trivial...

Well, it seems to me if they're going to require a feat to do something as relatively trivial as that, APs will likely be used for (other) very inane things. I find it extremely lame. I never liked the idea that APs were just there to "fix" a bad roll or two. Instead, I always wanted to use...

1 ) Look at all the art. 2 ) Look at magic items and spells for a bit. 3 ) Read from page 1.

OT: Anyone else think this feat is really lame? If I were DMing, I'd probably say that using an action point to act on a surprise round should be a normal part of action points. Some might say that all characters would do this just because it's advantageous, but personally I'd merely give out...

They would have to do something vastly cooler than 3e or the current 4e direction for me to use them. I think the last time I even used one in 3e was because some book listed a group as being halflings, and they had nice fluff that fit with what I was doing. I've never played a halfling...

Personally, I like the changes to the illithid. To me, it seems like they were always just a little too powerful when used to full potential. Now it seems like they're about right for having a main encounter comprised of them and some minions/thralls.

Honestly, I like this better than CR = 4 PCs to 1 monster of CR equal to party level. It always seemed kind of sucky to have to use fractional CR monsters or use monsters below the party level constantly (and using just one = meh). As long as it's not 5 PCs to 4 monsters it should be good.

Perhaps they're just doing NPCs with the same things they do for monsters, except labeled differently + class levels. It somewhat makes sense from a design perspective to have them unified (though it would be weird, since most people (I guess) treat NPCs pretty much like PCs and use this to...

That isn't my Rule 0. I use it in the interpretation that the DM has authority to override the rules, where it benefits play. Also, I really don't think that this has to do with Rule 0, so much as it has to do with being or not being an abusive DM (who would be unfun to play with regardless of...

I just wanted to point out, New Coke was a brilliant strategy. They bring out "New Coke" that they know everyone will hate, act like nothing's wrong for a while, then revert to their perfectly fine old Coke, at which point all the fanatics snap it up like crazy.