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You may have a point there. The main thrust of my comments were aimed more at the mechanism that controls the critical (ie: just a die roll with no situational or conditional modifiers) versus the rest of your system which has conditional modifiers and limiters. I could see a situation where a...

*yoink!* Read that later! :-)

This raises an interesting consideration. If we assume that some method is devised such that this system can be implemented in a fast and easy way, then we have a system which stresses the virtue of more closely approaching realism by attempting to model the interplay between ones ability to...

Could you please post these races? More examples of your system in use would be nice to see. That sounds like what I would expect most players to do. That's interesting... did they say WHY? I'd be curious to know what made it more interesting/attractive/useful for them to see the flaws...

This is a very interesting system, one that (from a first read-through only) doesn't appear to be obviously broken or structurally "wrong" in any way. It does raise a few questions/comments though: 1) What sort of setting/campaign will this be run in? Judging from the lack of any mention of...

I introduced my girlfriend to roleplaying. She tentitively tested the waters, just watching for a bit at first (I didn't push), and eventually she became a gamer. Now, as my wife she routinely plays with my, ahem, OUR gaming friends. Instead of it becoming a barrier between us and a source of...

Thanks everyone! :D This looks like a bunch of helpful resources that I'll be looking into after work. (at work now, so just a quick look now during a break!) ;) My plan is to only make a small number of miniatures at a typical "lead mini-fig" size; roughly equivalent in size to those...

Simple question: How does one do it? I've gone searching, and while there are numerous sites selling miniatures, even more about modifying and painting them, but I can't seem to find anywhere that describes how to make them, what materials & tools to use, and so on... :( I want to make a few...

Sounds kinda neat! I'm picturing all sorts of wacky equipment and Prestige Classes for various positions or roles in specific games. The first thing to do though is to decide on a game and some rules. Reinvent a preexisting game? Make a new one? A very specific game or a more generalized...

Well for me, the connection is that to avoid a trip attack, you would need to successfully roll a reflex check against their melee touch attack. The reasoning being that one would rely upon their reflexes to avoid an attack. I'm open to equally valid alternatives. P.S. I swear I'm not trying...

Actually I didn't... :o I hadn't noticed that imbalance in the advancement rules. Then again, I guess neither did the original designers, so I guess I'm in good company! :cool: :D My original intent was to streamline the process of tripping and remove things that I didn't agree with like...

I have only one primary request: Please squash any urge to make it the "WOTC Future system only better". I really wasn't impressed with that book. Especially the starship rules. I think B&S1 was much better even in that regard. Beyond that one "biggie": Modularity is good. Quick ship...

I really didn't like the trip rules. I thought they were so clunky and ackward for both the GM and the player that after using them once I vowed to never attempt trip again until I rewrote it. One afternoon a friend and I did just that and it's the version of how to perform trip attack that...

A good point. I too find it annoying when players get off track like that. I'm more prone to simply invoking GM perogative and stating that regardless of the existance of varying ways to interpret the map, when the GM says it's "25 feet wide, no flanking in the corner", then that's what it...

I could see a case to be made for excluding the Fighter class. As I understand it, the Fighter is someone with a certain degree of formalized training in warfare, not just someone who likes to be in a fight! :D A Fighter knows battle tactics, how to use a wide range of different weapons, how...

Hello? WOTC? Notice this thread!!! :lol: Here we have a golden publishing opportunity: Take previously published material, re-edit it to fix known errata and update it all to 3.5, and presto instant sales! Any questions?

While, I didn't post the pic, I too only use hex maps (not due to a dislike of squares, but simply because a hex map is what I currently own) and I think I can give how .I. would answer that question. It's really not that difficult. First off, let's remind ourselves that the grid, be it hex...

It occurs to me that all this excitement over the new server is to a certain extent setting everyone up for a certain measure of an emotional letdown. After all, while the new server will be a lot faster which will be great, it's not really going to be any different in any other respect that...

In one of my campaign setting, I had three main groups of Dwarves, each of whom had a distinctive accent. The players quickly learned to pay attention to what accent was used for a Dwarf as they had quite different relations to other races and cultures. In this setting, the Dwarves had migrated...

To clarify: When GMing, do you find yourself using a different voice or different accents than your regular speaking voice/accent? If so, do you keep notes on which npcs have which style of voice? If you're from a place with a "world-famous" accent, (ex: Louisiana, London's East End, Paris...