Search results

LOL! :D Agreed. BlackJaw, can you take care of that? Wyvern

Mongoose Publishing's Codename Veil setting might be comparable. It's hard to be sure, though, since all I have to go on is the blurb from the site linked above. Wyvern

Feed me! Feed me! :D So do the defense bonus and the armor bonus stack, or do you take the higher of the two like in Star Wars (unrevised version)? Wyvern

Codename Veil Does anyone have information on the Codename Veil setting from Mongoose Publishing? From the description on the d20 Reviews site, it sounds intriguing -- like a more serious take on Men in Black -- but I can't find any more details about it. It doesn't even seem to be...

I haven't read this whole thread; I'll need to read your vessel construction rules before I can make sense of it, and I want to get my character creation updates finished before I do that. However, just skimming through, there are a couple of things that stuck out which I can comment on right...

Okay, I agree with your reasoning. However, on reflection, I realized that the math involved is too finicky. As written, the Speed Demon feat allows you to increase a vehicle's maximum speed by 10%, but when you're dealing in increments of 30 ft, that just doesn't work. So unless someone can...

Spell resistance It's not a metamagic feat, but Spell Penetration already provides this without using a higher-level spell slot. Of course, there's something to be said for being able to increase the bonus the way you suggest. Wyvern

Re: Earthdawn and Names Another interesting feature of Earthdawn is the idea that using names is the mark of sentience; the sentient races are referred to as "Name-givers". This is best reserved for artifact-level items, otherwise magic items become much less useful. In "Charmed Life" by Diana...

Temperature effects I realized today that I'd made a rather major blunder in composing the temperature charts; I'd forgotten to double the degree range in converting from Celsius to Farenheit. When I went to make the change, I also realized that I'd made the range a bit too large, since...

Well, in my first draft of the character creation chapter I included a Speed Demon feat which I'd "borrowed" from the Pulp Heroes mini-game. However, since all these other fancy maneuvers are being treated as stunts, I thought it best if "pushing it to the limit" was treated as a stunt also...

Chapter 5 update Sorry it's been so long since I last posted (though I'm not alone in that). The last couple of weeks have been especially busy. Anyhow, the latest revision of Chapter 5 is up, at the same URL as above. Notable changes from the previous version include: - Revamped rules on...

Moving on from chapter 2 to chapter 3: Threat ranges that are less than the current grid size are treated as zero. This means that characters aboard a vessel will be able to make melee attacks of opportunity against vessels in their own square. You need to make this latter point clear in the...

Here's my (belated) feedback on the latest revision of the rules. It may seem like I've still got a lot of nitpicks, but these are just working out the wrinkles. Overall, I'm very impressed with what you've written. Starting at the top: Described head-on collisions -- possibly not clear...

Well, when I mentioned crossovers between environments, I wasn't specifically referring to borders between them. I just mean that the rules should be designed to allow a player to figure out whether his airplane will operate in vacuum, or his spaceship will work underwater, etc., and if not...

Of course everything is made of moving atoms. The only time atoms don't move is when they are at "absolute zero" (which is never, AFAIK). The definition of a liquid is *not* being made of moving atoms, it's a state in which the atoms are bound loosely enough to "flow" but not so loosely that...

What on earth are you talking about? That's not true by any definition of liquid that I know of. I suppose if you stretch the definition far enough, what you say could be true, but that would make the distinction between solids and liquids -- indeed, the word "liquid" itself -- meaningless...

chapter 5 As for the why: back when this project first got going, the general consensus was that we wanted to create a system that was flexible enough to work in any environment imaginable, and to handle crossovers between environments. The medium rules allow you to create an amphibious...

Here's my revision of the take-off and landing rules which attempt to address the concerns I had about the current version. I've also uploaded them to http://msu.edu/~reesmatt/landing.txt to facilitate cutting and pasting. To save you the trouble of doing a sentence-by-sentence comparison...

I've just uploaded the latest version of "Chapter 5: Setting Design" to my webspace. You can find it at http://www.msu.edu/~reesmatt/Cosmo2.rtf. My next project is revising the character creation rules. Something I forgot to respond to previously was your comment about guided weapons: I'm a...

Sounds fair to me. True, but I was thinking of it more in terms of something akin to Innuendo. Personally, I think that makes it more interesting since there's a chance of miscommunication. If there were more people involved in this project, I'd suggest putting it to a vote, but since there...