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Yeah, that's a pretty bad math error. :eek: I blame the cold medicine I'm taking. Lucky that I'm giving tests today- I shudder to think what incoherent ramblings would have slipped out if I were lecturing. Anyway, it seems that (modulo some arithmetical errors) our methods are in agreement...

Oops. :o Yeah, 50% more power. I'm thinking that quality would be the product of damage dealing capacity and staying power. In this abstract example (where each creature's AC, attack bonus and damage/attack is set so the damage dealt is 1 hp/round) the differences between different...

Wulf- I'm not quite sure that the average quality of a mixed group is just the mean of the individual qualities. Suppose that each creature differed only in hit points, and did an average of, say, 1 hp/round. A mook has 10 hp say. If 2 mooks are an even match for one brute, then the brute has...

*Is* there an (unlocked) E6 thread in House Rules? Or does someone have to start one?

A fine beginning for a D20 modern scenario! Like that Lovecraft story- "Pickman's Model" - only different.

I have to disagree with you where you reduce the ability score prerequisites from 18 to 17. Although it is a convention to do so in standard D&D, in standard D&D you also get a bonus spell at even ability scores. In E6 you can't get a bonus 4th level spell with an 18 Intelligence; there are no...

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Curses! Foiled again! :D

This is not too worrisome. When I was exploring the CHI/RHO system I was adding up the square of the CRs of the monsters to get their "power rating" (symbolized by "CHI"). Then I would do the same thing with the PCs. Their ratio was a good estimate of how challenging the encounter would be...

Arg! The WotC people are reading these threads and they don't know what we mean by "more powerful". See here I think my question basically boils down to this: "If 2 monsters are a challenge to a party of level n, then 4 of that same kind of monster will be a challenge for a party of what...

Cool idea! But noble djinn are freed of their servitude after granting the third wish- wouldn't that mean that the simulacrum becomes free willed? Although I suppose the third wish could be to create a simulacrum of itself. A legal way of wishing for more wishes. Hmmm. I suspect the spell...

Yeah, I can see that now. I was reading "usually" as "sometimes (at least in the author's experience)" but I can see how it can come across as a lot stronger.

How are you calculating the cost of the xp component of the spell? Do you have rings that cast wish once per day too? I don't think spells like simulacrum or wish are well suited for the guidelines for magic item creation given in the DMG. Maybe the result wouldn't be as bad as a...

I didn't get that impression myself. (About RightGoodFun and WrongBadFun). It sounds like some Thespian Roleplayers that Valiant has encountered have hogged the spotlight or have been excessively dramatic (shouting and jumping about or something), but I don't feel a value judgment is being...

This is a problem in our estimates for fighter types, too. We don't know how the "per encounter" abilities interact with with our estimates of power. Healing is an especially crucial factor- if a character can heal himself with per encounter combat maneuvers (maybe like the crusader in Bo9S)...

I'm wondering about how they are calculating power levels. Maybe the recuperation of resources is much faster, so that a 20th level character can only handle combats of half the power current 20th level characters can handle, but can do it 3 times a day. Or something like that. The "per...

Can't resist... one more post... The piece of metal will have its own length in every possible world. But it won't be a metre long in every possible world. You should pick up Naming and Necessity. It's not too long (and this distinction is very near the front). And it's a classic. I don't...

No, I mean that "this piece of metal is one metre long" is an a priori, contingent truth. When applied to one particular piece of metal, that is: the standard of the metre stored in Paris. But that piece of reference is used to fix the reference; it could have been a different length (if the...

If something is true by definition it is true by virtue of its meaning, and this holds in all possible worlds. It is a priori and necessary. Something which is a priori and contingent can't be true by definition. I was hoping for positive arguments for subjective morality. :( If you listen...

Of course. If you attach the OGL license at the end.