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You lost me right here, when you set up "casual players" as a moderate and "rule-geeks" as an extreme.

You get a ludicrous amount of skill points -- 10 + Int modifier (!). The abilities you get are more oriented toward social situations than dungeons -- you lose trapfinding for "Social Intuition," which basically greatly minimizes the time it takes to Gather Information and Sense Motive, and...

This is way off-topic, but I feel I should mention that there are several strands of intellectualism in the United States for which there is such a thing as "good knowledge" and "bad knowledge," i.e., knowledge has a moral alignment. Personally I am of the "all knowledge is good" variety, but...

Nobilis has a rather interesting damage system that it uses -- you get Wound Levels of three flavors, Deadly, Serious, and Surface. The author, when she built the system, decided that an HP system didn't work conceptually for really powerful and talented beings, because eight thousand tiny...

So after having glanced through a bit of Paranoia XP, it struck me that the D20 Modern game I was playing last night seemed to reverse cause and effect with respect to skill checks. To wit: Normal: GM: "Okay, make a Search check." The GM has a DC 15 in mind to find an amulet. Player: <rolls>...

Although preferable to a player or two knowing all of the rules and the DM knowing none, which is a situation I've found myself in multiple times before.

Not to be picky, but this is one of those linguistic things that really bothers me -- not "husband and wife" or "man and woman" but "man and wife." It's rather like saying, "The man went berserk and shot his neighbor's wife." Why is the man the default "neighbor," with his wife as the...

Here's something from improv theater: Never ever contradict what your fellow GM says. In improv, the wrong thing to do is to deny what someone has done to establish a scene in order to set up a cheap laugh -- in gaming, the rough analogue is contradicting someone because you think you have a...

He's probably talking about White Scorpion Strike -- your unarmed strike has ghost touch and does extra damage to undead. It didn't strike me as very significantly overpowered, though. You swap out evasion for enhanced shifting -- different abilities based on what stat gets the bonus...

Random stuff I've noticed so far, in terms of oversights: · The book seems to use the Action Points mechanic without explaining what they are. · I have no idea what this Rejuvenating Spellcaster thing is on page 37. · Dreamsight, Gorebrute, Swiftwing, and Truedive shifters need a Weretouched...

You just gave me an idea for a magic item in Eberron that "catches" whispering wind spell effects and similar effects in a certain radius, allowing you to spy on messages while they continue to be delivered to their receivers... Definitely trouble for House Sivis's sending stones.

Because magic is alive. Spells aren't just inert, memorized formulas -- they have an otherworldly tint to them, and they have desires and feelings, on some level. Not on the level of sentient beings, certainly, but considering that they reside in the mind until cast, they are certainly...

Alyra Tannenbaum, Marchessa of Innocence Innocence plucks the flowers out of the flower-boxes, not minding the dirt tumbling to the ground, and proffers them to her Familia. "I think," she says, giving the impression that she would be puffing up her chest if she could, "that there's no reason...

Alyra waves a hand dismissively. "Before today, I wouldn't have believed me if I told myself that someone broke into my apartment and forced me to drink her blood. If we don't break anything of theirs, well, so much the better."

Alyra merely shrugs. "Does it really matter? We are Noble. It's not as if subterfuge is important. Subterfuge to mortals, anyway. I'd just rather not see an innocent girl be harmed; I don't really care if she sees me." A thought occurs to her, and she turns to the others. "...has anyone,"...

You have too. I ran that one-shot FR game. And then there's Eric's World Tree deal.

Because I'm sure a lot of us have books just lying on our shelves unused. Here's a partial list of mine, including campaign settings: Big Eyes, Small Mouth (1st Edition) Planescape (AD&D) In Nomine GURPS Discworld Ninja Burger Until recently I had D20 Modern and Nobilis on that list, but I'm...

A Nobilis game -- on the boards, in fact: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=125759 I've also played World Tree (an obscure furry RPG that has mechanics I'm not happy with and would like to convert to D20) and World of Darkness and its assorted trappings. I own more RPGs than I'll ever be...

Alyra Tannenbaum, Marchessa of Innocence Alyra makes a thoughtful noise. "If you'd like, I can ensure that she won't suffer any emotional distress as a result of anything she might witness you doing, y'know." By a Lesser Preservation. Also, you'd be more bulletproof if you did that one Rite...

...I am profoundly impressed, and I live in Seattle, and I'm planning to run my group through Grasp of the Emerald Claw. Sadly, I am but a mere college student, but depending on where you live, I might be able to take it off of your hands. ...pretty please. ^.^