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Oh, come on. He had a bare spot in his armor. Tolkien might as well have named him Smaug the Comb-Over.

I will personally award you a No Prize. When I went through the Sidious scene, exhaustively, I found there might be a remote chance if you assumed the expenditure of at least two Destiny points by Sidious, conservative estimates of some of the Order's swordmasters (everyone but Mace has to be...

Gygax disagreed. He included elves and such as a way to attract a segment of players he was interested in. He regarded Tolkien as a secondary influence, way down on the list from Howard, Leiber, Vance, and so forth. All the examples I can think of are wizards. Assuming Conan has 1d6 sneak...

I've been holding off. The main changes are decoupling all the Secondary Characteristics from Primary Attributes, and taking another stab at some of the fiddlier modifiers. Numerically, little has changed. I got a chance to page through a copy of the basic rulebook (the $20 one) and I had...

I have a couple of brief updates posted about the direction of the project. Fundraising is going at a good pace, but please, tell your friends!

LOTR isn't an "Action and adventure" genre. It's literary high fantasy. Further, none of those examples refute what I am saying. We don't know what kind of critical hit tables the GM was using, or what kind of Action Point mechanics. Further, you can perfectly simulate the death of Smaug by...

An opinion is not an attack. Let me demonstrate. "Katy Perry's so-called music is rubbish." Observe that Katy Perry is unharmed. Now, obviously Ms. Perry isn't here to be offended. If she were, I might say, "I can't say I'm much of a fan of your music, Ms. Perry, but it was nice to meet you."...

1. So? 2. I do not agree. They have been used in that manner. 1st level characters have as many hit points as Luke Skywalker, who gets taken out by one Tusken Raider mook in one hit. If you want tougher characters, start them at 2nd or 3rd level, as was suggested for Dark Sun. I view that...

Looks good to me. With Vital Strike coming at level 6, this is going to be a sweet spot for damage for this character. Level 11 will also probably be a good level.

Super easy and worthwhile: - Boosting HD to match BAB, d6 for slow BAB, d8 for medium, d10 for fast - Use Pathfinder skill rank rules - Import the Pathfinder fighter and/or sorcerer wholesale Also worthwhile, but more work: - Importing the Vital Strike chain of feats - Replacing polymorph...

L5R does a pretty good job of handling that sort of combat. True20 supplies about that level of deadliness, with less rules fiddliness.

LOL I can't give you any XP, so have a high five!

I actually had that thought a while back. I eventually decided that, first of all, I didn't have the passion to create a D&D clone, and second, when you are working in that creative space, you don't have as much room for creativity in your approach (although there is still plenty of room for...

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Our wizard decided, on the balance, to keep his Archmage levels, but it didn't make a huge difference. The Contemplative still works fine. Monsters can be run as-is. Now, for a true converision, monsters may gain a feat or two, and monsters with low skill points and/or Int tend to gain a...

This might be a bit esoteric, but I want to make a comment about "retro" design. Retro design lies exists on a continuum between imitation and revival. The basic problem of retro design is that you are imitating something that was, at one time, original. Even if your imitation is a perfect...

I strongly disagree. In cinema and literature, fights tend to be drawn out affairs, with characters whittling each other down before finally delivering a telling blow. Mooks, of course, have few hit points, while good guys can always take one or more hits from a mook from anything that could be...

Ok, so let's look at those parameters. I don't think there is such a thing as "too retro" if that's what you want. Are there specific aesthetics you find attractive? Do you like charts? Black-and-white line art? Hirelings? Traps? D&D is already D&D. Even if you make a better game, you'll...

Why? Answer that, and the rest will follow.

It doesn't bother me. I've just never seen any DMing advice out of 4e that made me say, "Oh, hell yeah, that's how you do it."