Search results

This is a good start, keep it up! It looks like Social Effects tables are next?

Exactly.

OK, that's probably a good idea as long as you use the bell curve approach to calculate the modifiers.

What does "consistent ability modifiers" mean? +1 for every 2 point increase in an ability score? If so, no thanks.

My approach is a little more medieval - I doubt that militia groups were training people in Sense Motive. But the adventuring classes are fictional, so there is more plausibility that training included Sense Motive. I plan to cut the racial weapon proficiencies down to one or two weapons...

I plan to do something similar to this - here are my recommendations: 1) Drop the spell learning and limit the skills to "background" skills. "Background skills" are skills that could earn you money in another profession besides "adventurer". Performance is a "background" skill, Insight is an...

You could give them five action points each (to make it more DCC, add Cha mod, either positive or negative, and call them Luck points, to simulate a Luck stat) and let them spend a point to use a 1st level class feature. Spells should be limited to cantrips. Once they spend the point, they are...

Read the Morrus post further in the thread - he copy/pasted the OP's blog article there.

Monte Book designed a runecaster class in the Book of Experimental Might I.

We can't really audit the math yet because we don't know all the rules, but I do see some editing errors in the Caves of Chaos module. Skeletons are listed as both immune to necrotic damage and resistant to necrotic damage. Huh? The word "weak" on the gnoll pack leader's power is spelled as...

His gladiator theme needs to factor in somehow. Maybe he can TWF with a net? Otherwise what is so interesting about this character that a 3rd or 4th edition player would want to play him?

You could definitely be right. Why would one player who takes five seconds to swing a sword want to wait around while another player takes five minutes to pull some ninja-style tricks?

Yeah, it is true that a grid module or domain management module needs the buy-in of all the players at the table, but it is also clear that players can use their own module individually and it will balance some other player's module at the same table.

But do the mechanics work differently for each player? Let's say Mack is a 0e player and Felipe is a 4e player. Both characters have identical strength and are trying to climb a mountain. Felipe says he risks some hp to get a bonus, then they both roll identically on a d20. The DM says Felipe...

Are you talking about a page 42 approach where the player describes something cool and the DM adjudicates using ability checks as the base? You may be right, the DM is supposed to have a little more control of the game and maybe this is what they meant. It seems a little nebulous to me, but I...

I haven't played a game with explicit build points for about thirty years, and I played a handful of games then went back to D&D. But how do I know that D&D didn't use build points in the design and just left it out of the books? It seems that 3rd and 4th editions, with their alternative class...

Thank you for a very intelligent post. I can't possibly argue with your analysis because you clearly have seen it for yourself, while I haven't. So do you have a guess at how Wotc is going to achieve this "impossible" task? Isn't their track record to release something that has a few flaws...

What would you put your money on? Please give an example of how the two players sit at the same table. It appears that the mention of the word "points" maybe has peeled back the onion of the design process a little too much. We don't know if the Wotc designers are playtesting builds and...

I've played Fantasy Trip, which was a precursor to GURPS? Not absolutely sure. If the player selects from a menu of alternate class features instead of using points, is it still a GURPS clone?

Um.... you realize that is going to be US, right?