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When my current group was 5th level, the dwarf fighter was putting out about 10 points of damage on a regular hit with his (non-magical) greataxe. Of course that could go up when he used Power Attack. The archer, if she hit with both Rapid shot arrows, did in the same neighborhood. NOW at...

Funny funny stuff. I thought the "railroading plot" bit was hilarious. I also like the fact that the horse has wounds and Belkar's the only one who's actually unconscious. Too funny.

Sadly it's gone, along with lots of other wonderfully weird spells from earlier editions. Hasn't someone updated this in a third party product though?

For a generic system I'd certainly do away with classes and levels. Point buy all the way, with XP being used just like the original build points. I don't know if this is how M&M works because I can't seem to get my hands on a copy of it! Grrr. I'd do something like VP/WP or the way HERO...

That's an interesting idea, but it's not quite what I'm trying to achieve. It sounds like you are looking for a way to remove the skill ranks cap in a limited way to reflect super-specialization. I'm looking for a way to let someone spend a moderate amount of ranks to get good at all aspects...

Girble scrambles down the ladder with the others in pursuit. Looking down the shaft as he climbs, he can't see anything, but his view is very restricted. The narrow shaft drops some 15 feet before it opens into a larger space. A stone floor can be seen 15 or 20 feet below that. The rope...

Sorry that's not right. The big shaft that you are hovering in has a side passage that opens into the barracks cave. Inside that small cave is another, much smaller shaft (just big enough for a beefy bugbear to climb down) that includes a rope ladder. I'll post an updated map tomorrow, but...

Yep. They all have Improved Trip (or so I assume since I don't get AoO on them). I like that game because it lets me try out builds. I made a "trip monkey" character in it (spiked chain and all) and it worked just fine. But I've never gotten a chance to play one in a regular game.

Grapple has only come up a few times in our campaign (I'm the GM). In almost every case, the monster ended up trying to grapple the dwarf fighter. That would be the dwarf fighter with Improved Grapple. A Fiendish Tiger jumped on him and tried to initiate a grapple. The dwarf won. I was...

The difference is that each of those skills has a pre-defined ability associated with it. Knowledge skills are always INT, etc. Hobby lets you use whatever ability is most appropriate to the specific task, as long as that task is part of the hobby. You could just use Knowledge ranks with...

I've got two things I want to accomplish with skills and I think I have a decent way to do them: 1) Allow characters to have skills in highly specialized areas that aren't really useful elsewhere 2) Allow low-level NPCs to compete with higher-level PCs at things the NPCs should be good at...

All good. The interface took me a little while to get used to. It was kind of hard to find how to move and delete things and the whole labelling function had me baffled for a bit. But now I've got it straightened out and I love it. The way it organizes e-mail threads and lets you...

My apologies for not posting IC today. I'm swamped at work after the holiday. Post coming tonight or tomorrow morning. Sorry about that.

I'd definitely go with Elements of Magic or a similar modular spell system. I really like the idea of players being able to design their own signature spells without having to go through an ad hoc approval process.

I'll be sad if this game doesn't fly. It's a great premise.

All of which means (and I think this is what people get confused on) that if you have someone pinned you can't actually take advantage of that fact unless you have a BAB off 6 or higher. You can't do any of the "if you've got an opponent pinned" actions because you never have an action coming...

Visually I favor either wu xia or comic-style martial arts. I'm thinking especially of Frank Miller's work in Daredevil in the 80's.

More generally, I think the problem is that the cost for useful levels of skill would rise with your character level, while the availability of skill points would not. Nobody would ever have over, say, 10 ranks in any skill. If the cost was a sliding scale based on your character level it...

Sure the skill description just says shaken, but when the difference in checks is so big I figure it's time for new bugbear-undies. :D

Just a heads-up. Thursday is Thanksgiving and I'm taking part of tomorrow off as well, so my net presence will be spotty at best until Monday. I'll try to check in once or twice over the week-end.