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Right, that's why I said that descending AC was still a little bad. But it becomes much worse when you also have modifiers where sometimes a minus means it gets better (lower) and sometimes a plus does.

Me, I started with other RPGs – primarily Drakar och Demoner (the predecessor to today's Dragonbane) but also other games like Mutant, Marvel Super Heroes, MERP, Star Wars D6, GURPS, and Warhammer. So it's a bloody miracle that I didn't bounce off D&D and AD&D like a bullet off of Wonder Woman's...

I mean, Rule 34 is a thing.

Descending AC, by itself, is a little bad, but not a disaster. Descending AC when there are +X bonuses in the game that make your AC better by lowering it is pretty bad, but something one can deal with. Descending AC when there are both +X bonuses and -Y bonuses that both improve your AC by...

Some day I will manage to internalize the message in this picture, but apparently today is not that day.

If you can withdraw things released under a CC license, the license is useless. The point of the license family is that the content of a work is released under the license, and removing content from that would invalidate the whole thing. In other words, the point is not that there's a document...

I wonder if that might be part of the problem. I remember back in the days when we were playing Pathfinder 1, and one of my more rules-savvy players "helped" some of the others build their characters (basically built the characters for them). The problem was that as a result, the players didn't...

I don't think things got as far as lawsuits, but in the early days there were definitely some C&Ds thrown around. I specifically remember Fast Forward Entertainment getting C&Ded because they didn't bother reading the actual documents and made stuff referring to Lolth and other "fluff" elements...

3e used a formula for XP progression (n*1000 XP to go from level n to n+1, which then leads to a table of pyramidal sums for total XP needed), but neither the formula nor the resultant table was ever included in the SRD. Nor were XP rewards or wealth-by-level numbers, or for that matter the...

This primarily deals with board games (though there's an RPG coming Soon (tm)), and I don't know if the post is available to non-backers, but here's Cephalofair's perspective on the thing: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/cephalofair/gloomhaven/updates/20854?ref=bk-noti-project-update-20854...

Star Wars/Genesys provides a two-dimensional... I guess you could call it "success matrix". There are successes and failures, which determine if you succeed at the actual task you were attempting and if so, how well (a single uncancelled success is a full baseline success, but more successes can...

I wouldn't bet on it. Adkison wasn't exactly a business genius. Plus, the purported contract doesn't exactly hinder Wizards in any way. Being able to call the game Dungeons & Dragons, without the "Advanced", is on the other hand a huge marketing advantage. My understanding of Adkison's cleaning...

This seems like something specific to the implementation in Baldur's Gate. I'm like 95% certain that any attack modifier in the actually published AD&D 2e was added to the attack roll, not to THAC0.

Technically, I don't think there's anything that adjusts THAC0 (other than level/HD). Everything else is expressed as a bonus/penalty to the attack roll. Now, on the sheets I made myself for 2e, I remember having spaces for adjusted THAC0 for melee, ranged, and thrown attacks (adjusted for...

I mean, there are two parties who would be able to say for sure: Ed Greenwood and Wizards of the Coast. I've never seen anyone from Wizards directly contradict the claim, and Ed certainly seems certain. And I don't see why Wizards would mind having such a clause – they do, after all, have the...

Not quite. Genesys uses six different dice types, three "good" and three "bad". The good dice have various combinations of successes and advantages (with one of them having a Triumph, which is basically a supersuccess), and the bad dice have various combinations of failures and threats (with one...

Siocast is a Spanish invention, but the actual machinery is in-house. I don't know to what degree it depends on importing specific materials from Spain and/or other places though.

Reality can be stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense.

I think it works pretty well in Savage Worlds because: most rolls are against a TN of 4, and the threshold for each raise is also 4, so you just need to divide the result by 4, and for most rolls, multiple raises do not matter.