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You do know that you are supposed to turn the Geller Field on when you go into warpspace, right?

The ruleset dosent determine the monsters actions. The DM does. The rules are irrelevant to that. One of the points of a DM is to ajudicate situations where the players are trying something outside of a strict reading of the rules. If that isnt allowed you are far better off playing a computer...

Since it is a low magic environment: Fur lined Wyvern hide boots with platinum buckles. Finest silk pants and shirt. Vest decorated with gold thread and gemstones. Eight rings set with the finest gemstones I have recovered in my travels. Fine platinum necklace with a gem encrusted holy symbol...

Which is just silly. You dont need random encounters to keep players from going nova, all you need is to let them know that trying to rest without taking out the bad guys ability to retaliate is going to get the camp attacked. Now before anyone pulls out the old, tired list of all the...

I had to do hate it, but that dosent really say what I think. The problem with pacing is the second worse to me. Having to hunt down the encounters, instead of them being near the descriptive text is a real pain. It is good for running encounters, but not good for much else. The worst thing...

Fate system, like the Dresden Files RPG could probably do this. The Dresden RPG already mixes magic and modern, so stretching it to cover more shouldnt be particularly hard. Come to think of it, it already takes the point of view into account, since using the surroundings to manipulate the...

Geas. If you kill an innocent in a hunger frenzy, go watch a dawn. Assuming that would be fatal. If it isnt, then stake the DM :D If she is trying to be good, then all I want is some insurance that she wont kill due to her hunger. Even then, my geas idea is a bit harsh. Adventurers...

I realize that all the bad guys have never heared of a wizard, and so never ever think to do anything to stop a wizard from having their spelly way with them.... Oh, wait, all my bad guys with a int of more than 3 know what a wizard is, and have various plans of varying usefulness to take care...

You miss that Brother MacLaren defines the best option as the one which maximizes fun.

No, just an example of you missing the point. The discussion is spider climb taking over for climb skill, not climb skill taking over for spider climb. This isnt about standing on the ceiling shooting a bow, but using spells to replace skill checks. In which case, for a skill check that is...

'I use climb skill' 'I use spider climb' I dont see the effective difference. I think that you are missing the point tho. A chasm is wandering damage. It does nothing to advance the plot yet still carries risk. A wall is frequently the same. A plane shift is an inherently magical effect that...

A layer of steel and a sharp pointy thing he is really good at using for when the dragon hiding behind a cloud decides that invisibly flying around looking like someone else is rude. A wizard can invisibly fly around looking like someone else. A smart wizard has someone else invisibly fly...

You would need to look pretty hard to find a game which needs a new edition more than RIFTS.

I would get really fussy about rules and exact timing in that case. Especially if this was an out of the blue thing. Of course, the moral of the story is: Healing Potions! They may not be very efficient, but even the cheap ones would allow you to use up some surges that were sitting around...

Or a Scorpion NPC. One not-quite-random poisoning for the win. I have to question the DM also. If you have a group of courtiers, then there should be a preponderance of interaction encounters, not fights. Should the disruptive player be turning the interactions into fights for no good reason...

Pretty much any real physics in a starship combat game. Especially if they are actual 3d.

If it were my game, I would not let you homebrew stuff either. If you came to me with an idea, and then discussed it, and then accepted my decision about wether I was going to use it, that would be fine, but if you insisted, then I would demand you run the bloody game and let me play.

You do realize that this comic is a D&D comic, dont you? It seems pretty likely that the characters in the comic are supposed to be based on the game, and not the other way around. You do realize that the character sheet that Zar is going off of is the official character sheet out of the back...

A throwing axe is a melee weapon with the heavy thrown property. It is technically a melee weapon first, thrown weapon second.

I think this hits the nail on the head. The best kind of fight isnt one where half the party is dead, and most of the loot is going to go to raise dead and/or replacements. It is where at the end of the fight all the bad guys are dead, and the party dosent have a healing surge worth of HP...