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Bingo. The important part. Personally, I find the psychological aspect of it all to be the most interesting. How we decide what counts as a "meaningful" change in statistics. Personally, I think a +3 is pretty significant because its enough to get me to change how I make decisions. Even if...

That's not what he was looking for. He could have looked for that, but he didn't. He wasn't looking at the average number of times something doesn't happen before it does, he was looking at the point where the likelihood of something happening at least once was greater than .50. To calculate...

ggroy- for the first one, he took his 85% chance that the +3 won't matter, then calculated the chance that an event that's 85% likely will happen X times in a row, and ran it until he got to about 50%. The sequence is, .85, .723, .614, .522, .444. At this point it is 44.4% likely that no roll...

He assumed that 85% of the possible outcomes will be things that would have either been a success even without the +3, or things that are a failure in spite of the +3. In other words, if you need a 15 to succeed, and you have a base +5, you will fail on a 1 to 9 and succeed on a 10 to 20. If...

Doesn't the second document include printable copies of all the tiles you might need?

Its useful for rangers with animal companions who don't want to use two weapons.

Well, a d20 is basically a percentile dice that works in 5% increments. So unless you have a pressing need to calculate with greater granularity than that, the d20 gets the job done. As for why you'd pick it instead of the percentile, there are two possible reasons. First, it keeps things...

How far do you intend to go with this? Could people choose to have their hit points key off of a score other than constitution? Could they change the origins of their diplomacy score? Would you prefer to just go whole hog, and let people have generic, unlabeled ability scores like "attack"?

You're not a wargamer, are you.

I can understand rating Pandemic as complex. I don't think the rules themselves are so bad, but if you've ever played a game of Pandemic where you only won because you planned part of the game eight turns in advance in order to coordinate every action you'd need at exactly the time you needed...

An 18, 19, or 20 is not mandatory. It is, however, very good. And getting one isn't very hard. So if you don't have one its worth asking why. You might have a good reason! But if you don't, you should go with at least an 18.

Yeah, the math on a Falchion with 1s and 2s becoming 3s isn't actually so bad. A Falchion normally averages 5 per [W], because a 1d4 averages 2.5. With that feat, the Falchion averages 6.5, because each individual d4 changes its distribution from 1, 2, 3, 4, to 3, 3, 3, 4, which averages 3.25...

Hard to slash with a fist. But maybe? Maybe its a sword / open hand combination, like my homebrew.

While this is probably true to a certain extent, I can't help but feel that it is probably less true than people online think. Its just got that aura about it that... that even if it wasn't true, we'd still tell ourselves that it was.

Annual Layoffs < Random Layoffs ?

Oh, and Aye Dark Overlord is a game where player LITERALLY roleplays being an evil overlord interrogating his minions after a failed quest, and where the other players literally roleplay being the worthless minions as they make excuses for their failure and try to pass the blame. There are some...

I can't tell if this is one of those "SLIPPERY SLOPE! OH NOES!" posts, or a serious comment. Some of those would possibly qualify, though I'm not sure why Feudal is on the list. Seriously though. Taking Battlestar Galactica as an example, its a game where you have a character with a distinct...

Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game. Aye Dark Overlord. Pretty much any board game where you take on the role of a character and interact with other people doing the same thing. There's probably going to be some pushback in this thread against counting adversarial boardgames where you sort...

This is an example of one of those issues where the proper response to complaints is: "If you don't like it, don't play it. Not everything in D&D was put there specifically for you. Some people like these things, and its not ruining the game if someone other than you has fun. On a certain...

When I'm really on fire, when I'm really doing well as a DM, combat takes place in terms of large, tactical set pieces that involve multiple encounters but only one "scene."