Search results

Part of the issue with these systems is usually the sliding scale. It's accurate to be sure but the math (5 up 8 down) gets tedious after a while. It's not 'wrong' just eventually gets left by the road as waste.

The Star Trek Adventures uses an advantage disadvantage system (as does most Modephius systems) amd they are all good... until they aren't. Your concept is sound, I think the next step would be to do a series of playtests to find exploits and flaws (one of the prime reasons ad/disad systems...

That has been a great debate for years. Personally I hate the 'mana' idea. (hence the debate). Spell systems have long garnered us vs them mentality. (which is a little too intense for my tastes) but Vancian vs point has been around since late 1e. There is no correct answer just...because...

Last I heard, the only current medically accepted use is creating replacement joints for recostructive surgery and one case of a valve reconstruction for an open heart surgery where transplant was not an option (but to be fair that info is most likely out of date.) But that's still light years...

Stylish? It sounds like you stepped in something foul... "Hey watch out for that..." gishh.. 'ewwwww'

Not exactly, but it's getting closer. Replicators as 'originally' designed re-used waste products from the day to day life on the ship, broken down into base molecules to be reconstituted in the future. Food, uniforms, weapons, materials, etc. 3D printers are currently just single input matter...

So i agree with your concepts, but I think we should be careful about 'altering history' for the sake of hurt feelings. Before you start talking let me explain. Unlike some folks that use this argument to prop up their favorite hate, I liken it to a bruise or a scar. I.e. - Ignoring that a...

No, there is a small but loyal group that detests its use. The meetings are on Thursday, we have cookies. lmao

Believe it or not, there were a very large contingent of players in the early to mid 80s who did not play the 'carbon copy' characters. One of the reasons when 3e 'first' dropped a lot of players dissed the 'race/class' power gaming curve that was touted in some of the early presentations by...

I will agree to disagree, I won't argue anymore, frankly it doesn't matter much but fighter/magic-user was around long before Gish and I've never accepted that (to me) illogical leap. That being said. Most of my post was tongue in cheek. I don't triggered much more by gamer 'gab'. Too much...

LMAO...oh, how times have changed. If you want a truly horrifying poor editing job, get the Encylopedia series from the late 2e era and see where someone did a 'change all' of mage to wizard. imwizard instead of image, etc. That's fun. Piratecat used to do that reading for the editing award...

Gish ONLY applies to the Githyanki... rant over. Sri, had to be done. I'll take my cane and go shake it elsewhere now...lmao As to what to name ... Spellsword or Magicblade. (Only 29.99 if you order now).

Yeah guys I really didn't wanna go there... but I thought it. And yeah, I had one too. lol

I think it was a poorly attempted (and worded) stab at making the book seem approachable. Like being in a Monster Manual made them part of an elite club. Part of it is the vernacular of the day. While it may sound cringe now back then...it was cool. God that makes me feel weird saying...

Yeah, some of those ideas were born out of abortive attempts at breaking the 'cookie cutter' left over from 'Skills and Powers' that never quite worked.

Notice how they didn't have a real drummer?? Lol. That sound just doesn't exist in home studios. I know, I've tried.

You know, it wasn't always the DM's who made things difficult back in the day... I do remember a time my cousin, his friend, my sister and I were playing while another cousin ran. He asked each of us about our characters and we gave the fighter from a broken home or whatever BS. And then he...

Hold up... I was one of those old thieves... I lived to the ripe old age of 105 (1/2 Elf) and retired as a guild master. You just had to think like a member of the canting crew not a fighter with a utility belt. lol

The spear, bow & arrow, hammer and axe were tools first. Notice I said tools and OR farming implements. They were used as war weapons after they were developed for other uses, hunting for the first two, construction for the later two.

Well that'ss true, but if you study the progression of weapons of war, with the exception of the firearm (which went the other way) most weapons of war start as tools or farming implements that are altered by the population so there is a sense of 'familiarity' to ease the training of militias.