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Don't niche yourself. You're a bloody rogue! You can sneak, tumble, and detect, and on top of that, fight and sneak attack, too. Get some wands, and forget this CLW rubbish. See how well enemy rogues fare against hold person, or grease. Tired of being denied sneak attack? Get some scrolls of...

I sometimes suspect that "Freddie Trollger" and My Little Ponycorn were something of a turning point for fans of, say, Giants of Legend.

I read the link. Maybe I'm missing something. All I see are some guidelines based on decibels, and modifiers for barriers.

Where is that stuff, exactly?

Do you have something to say? This just doesn't seem a relevant point to the argument, apart from being rude, speculative, and frankly, inaccurate. I don't see any evidence the price of DDM doomed the line. At least, it's hard to separate it out from the erratic product quality, the 3e/4e...

You are undoubtedly correct. As noted under Pet Monster, pet monsters have few desires other than fighting for their masters, which does not describe the Magical Girl/mentor relationship.

If this were 1995, I'd agree with you. These days, that's the price of lunch for two.

Why is it poor tactics?

Do you mean accurately modeling blow-by-blow combat, or precisely? GURPS is very precise, but not especially accurate. For instance, in real-life you don't perform an All-Out Attack because you feel like it, but because your opponent has revealed on opening. If your GM happened to be a bullet...

Walking in plate is probably about 70 db, but I don't think decibels are a good basis for Listen checks. Human perception is more strongly drawn to contrasts. For instance, it would be more difficult to hear someone speaking, over a crowded room full of people speaking, than a soft melody, even...

A petty evil? If you are simply calling it a petty amusement, I will not be ashamed of that. But if you think I have done harm to someone who did not deserve it, even in a small way, I would be glad to hear your perspective and consider whether I owe some sort of redress.

That's 16 CP. For 15 CP, I could buy Energy Bonus 1, plus Magic 3. Spending all 30 points of Magic on a Special Attack, I could have a magic spell that does 7d8 damage, and I could cast it at least three times in a row. Or I could have two Extra Attacks, which I could perform with my katana.

You paid for them. How is that broken?

I've disliked it since AD&D. It wasn't present in BECMI.

Check out the Kickstarter page for a list of character classes. Let's talk about swords for a second: Beam sword: The beam sword generates a force field around a vortex of plasma energy. When the field of the blade penetrates a solid object, energy flows from the blade to the intersection...

To an extent, 4e is designed to be unclonable. To play, you need a lot of explicit text explaining exceptional abilities. Some of its best value is in its online system, which you can't clone except by writing a DB yourself. All those Hellacute Donkyhorse names are at least, in theory...

I can actually think of a major counter-example, and I don't think your assertion of falling rather than rising action holds up. In the climactic battle in Willow, the two female magicians start off by challenging each other's awesome powers. Before long, they're wrestling and backhanding each...

Probably one of the more popular and well-supported innovations in RPGs is the Hero Point/Life Point/Luck Point/Force Point. A Hero point could be construed to represent: - A character's determination and capacity to exceed their normal capabilities - A form of currency used by a player to...

Include the new elemental cosmology Exclude, uh, I'm going with with huge laundry lists of powers for every class Bring back the wacky spells

An empire found itself facing a foe with no reservations about undead warriors. This empire, however, considered it anathema. However, they found a solution. While they would not use undead spirits, or trap living souls, they found a way to store life force energy. Using powerful accumulators to...