Search results

-I am a master of the gear and wheel with many strange devices to my name. What others achieve with sword or sorcery, I manage with a turn of a spring and grand design. Chemicals I mix have many strange and interesting application. -I am a changeling, a master of many forms. My body is a...

As I've said, the alignment thing and simply saying that there is a blood war is simple. However, the problem comes to the changes that they've made to the connective realms (Feywyld, Astral Sea -> Great Wheel) It takes a lot of modification to manage. Not to mention all the planar creatures...

I personally complain about 4e because 1) I personally liked the OGL and much that came from it. Moving away from that does not make me happy even the books were bound with sunshine and flowers. 2)I don't like any of the fluff changes...any of them. At all. That is still ok right? 3)There...

Mustrum Ridcully I find your post well thought out, your prose clear, and your example apt. Having said that, I must disagree that such things are in any way equivalent. Having your village burn down is something that happens to you, rather than an action taken. The character reacts and just...

As that is your take, I must ask that you defend it against my inquiry and counter arguement. For magi-tech, while I agree some of the larger uses of magic like raising an island and a floating city would beg for a ritual, what about functions that require that the magic take less time to set...

Things that I cannot do with 4e without significant amount of house rules or fiddling. -Planescape (Loss of Alignments, Casting Times, No more Planes frankly, no Blood War,...it goes on) -Gnomish Inventions (Small amounts of steampunk for when I want a bit of it). -Magi-tech/High Magic...

Now this might take things on a different tangent, with such powers. I can understand that a prisoner or a contrived situation. I could see how that would easily be adjucated. For those powers that require credible threat, would another PC serve as a credible threat. They are roughly as...

Honestly I'm not particularly enthused. Perhaps it is because of the fact that every FR game I've been involved in has revolved around Realms that they've obliterated. (or has been set in the Ancient Past). Frankly I find much of what t

I have discovered as I considered the various answers for this problem, that I had two possible solutions for these. The first is the one suggested by some of the others in the tread. "Rules said it, just go with it." It would go over like a lead balloon with the people I play with, but if it...

Suggesting another system when five minutes and a decent explanation would have handled it does not help. (Besides, save for a few of the similationist touches I loath both Harp and Rolemaster, too many bloody tables thank you muchly). I was describing more the 3.5 psion, but again that's not...

I for one have always supported the more creative outlets for things such as spells, enchantments, and gnomish inventions (love those). As the fighter in the party, I befriended a small group of bytopian Gnomes from whom I commissioned a number of interesting items. The first where a pair of...

I will agree that having a limit to magic is something that is largely a specific concept, but I've always though it as magic having specific flow and pattern. To construct a spell requires energy, and your god will grant you all the power he/she feels that you are worthy of/or can handle. If...

I miss the 2e level fluff in a number of books. Hell, I've yet to find a WOTC book that I would buy to read if I wasn't going to immediate use the rules contained within. They are unreadable. By contrast I own a number of White wolf and Indie RPG's that are actually entertaining to read. Why...

Voadam is quite correct. I think it becomes as much a logical issue as it is an "Uncanny Valley" scenario. If you are to think about the various power sources, it is only really martial that we have a proper frame of reference for in our world. We know that muscules work a certain way, and...

Honestly, if you are going to do encounter and daily powers, that would have been the way to do it. I find that works better honestly in terms of understanding. If the dailies are the high flying moves, eventually they are going ot tire you out. Same with the encounters. Personally I'd have...

I will admit the particular example works best under that particular circumstances, which is why I set things out in that manner. I was more trying to articulate a scene, but the net result was thus. The possibility of failure or complications in the things I do make things more interesting...

Only if the flaw would prevent the sword from serving its originial purpose. Say it has a flaw, a minute physical one. Having the sword that is supposed to vanquish the demon lord shatter during the climatic battle might indeed seem like an anticlimax. But if it the fighter is then driven to...

Because sometimes its much more interesting if you don't get everything quite right. A minor curse, a flaw to be exploited, perhaps the power of the sword is greater but caries dire consequences.

The problem with having the smithing happen off screen is the assumption that you forged the sword perfectly. Perhaps you missed the most minor of flaws, that will cause it shatter in battle or allow the mind of the mad elemental to fight you for control. The swords power is necessary and...

While I do certainly hope that for a version of rituals that would closely that would draw upon a smith's skill and exotic components to craft unique and interesting items in a reasonably balanced way. You know what is boring, crafting horseshoes. You know what isn't, at least in my opinion...