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  1. Michael Tree

    True20 system released by itself

    You can't change skills, but the Skill Training feat gives you two new skills. If you look at the starting feats, you'll notice that there are benefits to taking your first level in each role. If you take your 1st level as Warrior, you get 5 feats instead of 4 (heavy armor, light armor, weapon...
  2. Michael Tree

    True20 system released by itself

    How do arcana work for non-Adepts? I quite liked the way BR's Arcanum allowed a non-adept to have some decent powers (albeit at a higher cost than adepts). Have any new arcana been added? How extensive is the modern appendix? Has Canny Defense been modified, or does it still add to Defense?
  3. Michael Tree

    [Green Ronin] Announcing True20 Adventure Roleplaying

    Is there anything in True20 that isn't in Blue Rose? Or is it just the BR system stripped of the setting?
  4. Michael Tree

    D&D Class Survivor -- Round 1

    Confucious say, eastern pseudo-mystics who punch dragons to death have no place in western fantasy.
  5. Michael Tree

    Mage or Magician Class [Need Input]

    How is this based on Mage: The Awakening? I don't see any similarities. In fact, it looks like it's almost exactly the opposite. M:tA mages can create any magical effect they can imagine, if it's in an area they're skilled in, while this mage is even more severly restricted than the sorcerer...
  6. Michael Tree

    Star Wars 2005 - Who would you cast?

    "Obi-Wan never told you who's your daddy..." "He told me enough! He told me you killed him!" "No, Luke...I'm your daddy. Ohh yeah."
  7. Michael Tree

    Best Lightsaber fight in the Star Wars movies?[SPOILERS for episode 3]

    I most like the Luke/Vader fight in RotJ for the same reason. It's not just pretty choreography, but a dramatic battle between titans, one of whom slowly turns to the dark side during it. I still get chills when I watch Luke go berserk on a prone and defeated Vader, hitting and hitting as...
  8. Michael Tree

    My Thoughts During RotS [SPOILERS]

    Losing the will to live is a perfectly acceptable event in Star Wars melodrama. What bugs me is that Lucas hits us over the head with it by having the droid say it!. A simple "she'd fading" would have said exactly the same thing, in a much more dramatic and unstilted way. "Show, don't tell"...
  9. Michael Tree

    Rate Revenge of the Sith *SPOILERS*

    I didn't realize that they'd filmed it. Do you know what happened in it? No doubt lots of stilted and unneccessarily long exposition. :D The little editing trick I suggested wouldn't have taken any extra time. (And couldn't lucas have done away with one of the "frantic running around doing...
  10. Michael Tree

    Request for understanding about Star Wars concepts (Spoiler Caution)

    I wrote the following in response to your question in another thread: The Jedi code seems to be based much more on Buddhism than on Taoism, though the two are similar in many ways. Taoism teaches a person to go with the flow, to accept and embrace change. Too much intellectual thought, too...
  11. Michael Tree

    My Thoughts During RotS [SPOILERS]

    The Jedi code seems to be based much more on Buddhism than on Taoism, though the two are similar in many ways. Taoism teaches a person to go with the flow, to accept and embrace change. Too much intellectual thought, too much striving, and too much stubbornness, force and desire make a person...
  12. Michael Tree

    Rate Revenge of the Sith *SPOILERS*

    I'd forgotten about that, and so apparently has everyone else. That's why it needed to be in this movie too. The annoying thing is that it would have been phenomenally easy to include it: Just put in one warning from Qui-Gon as Yoda is about to be ambushed on Kasshyk. That would have added to...
  13. Michael Tree

    Rate Revenge of the Sith *SPOILERS*

    SPOILERS I gave it a 9. The first half had the primary problem of Ep.II - it was just a bunch of aimless running around and pointless fights with droids. But the ending was good enough to make up for that mediocrity. I found the Palpatine vs. Jedi fight particularly chilling, for a reason I...
  14. Michael Tree

    What D&D race are you?

    I think I'm a Arcana Unearthed Giant, based on my size, temperament, and likes and dislikes.
  15. Michael Tree

    Variant Player's Handbooks -- Who do you want to write one?

    Steve Kenson and John Snead, combined. Blue Rose almost qualifies, but I'd love to see a d20 High Fantasy game with M&M's damage save mechanic, class archetypes based on folklore and mythology, and a system of powerful magic (rather than BR's more subtle arcana) that has resonances from real...
  16. Michael Tree

    Tell me tales of Savage Worlds!

    As a GM, it allows you to create a full adventure without spending hours statting up all the opponents, giving you more time to focus on the plot or locations. In play, you won't need to spend time cross-referencing stat blocks and bookeeping hit points and spells, so you can focus your entire...
  17. Michael Tree

    Solving The Riddle of Steel

    The magic system is a bit overcomplicated and overly pseudoscientific, but it's the fun combat system you'll be buying it for anyway. It has a huge learning curve, and the critical hit tables can be a bit cumbersome, although there's a good computer utility that lets you use them without lots...
  18. Michael Tree

    Iron Lore: Malhavoc's Surprise?

    A lot of what you're describing is ethos-based, not game mechanics based. IL classes aren't based on ethos, they're based on combat roles. And I see horsemen as fulfilling a variety of combat roles, and using their extra training in horsemanship to enhance those roles and give them entirely...
  19. Michael Tree

    Buyer Expectations for OGL

    I really don't care. I'm not a publisher, so whether or not the content of a book is open is completely irrelevant to me. Now, in principle I prefer publishers to release open content, because if it's good or innovative I'd like other publishers to pick up on it. But, as Alzrius mentioned...
  20. Michael Tree

    Iron Lore: Malhavoc's Surprise?

    That's not the only core problem, IMO. Another big problem is that "horse-mounted combatant" isn't really that strong an archetype. You could make a heavily armored knight on a heavy warhorse who charges in formation with a lance, a lightly armored mongol on a pony who darts back and forth...
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