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CotU is a star-spanning epic. Enjoy this snippet about the evolution of the Empire and the formation of the Star League. The Empress Astorada, Negus's great-granddaughter, would be the undoing of the Empire. Expanding the power of the Imperial bureaucracy at the expense of the Senate, and...

YouTube - ‪THE HOLLIES - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother‬‏

This sounds like a player who needs a lot of love. Do you have a lot of love to give him?

What is this, make up a new rule day? You can fire at anyone you want. Attacks are handled one at a time (or two at a time in the case of Manyshot). If you don't use Rapid Shot or other full attack options, you can even attack once, then decide whether to make a full attack or move instead.

I made use of my computer printer to fire off copies of monsters I thought I would use. I adopted a very austere approach to NPC creation; hunting across a half-dozen books and comparing Prestige Class this or that turns out to be a big waste of time for all but the most important and...

While Marvel Super-Heroes does have its problems, it is inarguably accessible, free, and capable of delivering the action.

Very easy: Icons BASH Still pretty easy: D6 Supers Necessary Evil (Savage Worlds) Silver Age Sentinels (Tri-Stat version) Not precisely easy but teachable and not too scary: Mutants & Masterminds 3e Hero System (Champions) GURPS Supers Not easy: Wild Talents

It's kind of a tough call. Once upon a time, one of the upsides was access to the old materials. But Pathfinder now has equivalents to many of the old sourcebooks, in some cases, vastly better versions. So it's a plus in that Pathfinder is, overall, a better game, but the downside is that those...

Take a look at Palladium Fantasy and Rolemaster. Identify elements that appear in 4e that do not already appear in one of those two games. You tell me how much "original art" is left to make a case out of.

If you want the hit point to do more work, you could say: poison arrow (1d6, +2d6 poison) and poison is extra damage that only affects living things, and which things can be immune. Now we don't even know how much damage is caused by the arrow and how much by the poison, which is, IMO...

While using the edit function, I somehow managed to duplicate a blog post. I want to delete this duplicate: http://www.enworld.org/forum/blogs/pawsplay/6504-conquest-universe-kickstarter.html But when I hit the delete button, it tells me I don't have permission.

I like Tolkien, and one of the things I dislike about 4e is that it was less "Tolkienesque" than previous editions. However, I just can't see much evidence that Tolkien was anything more than an extra onion in the pot. Strip out the elves and dwarves and hobbits, and you could still have Conan...

I'm just saying that a conversation has to move in two directions. I don't object to discuss countepoints (ha! check my posting history), I was simply indicating my impression that I am in the minority in finding such discussions interesting.

Are balors made of fire and darkness? Do they live in the depths of the world, waiting to be dug up by dwarven miners? Do balrogs explode when they die? Do they teleport? While balors were clearly influenced by balrogs, I disagree with the assertion that a balor is a balrog. A balor is a...

I think it would be pretty trivial re-skin D&D such that it was no longer D&D.

A small teaser; this is what the Warrior class looks like right now.

He dies. That definitely puts a damper on his heroic activities thereafter. Trying to determine who is a "protagonist" or not in RPG terms is a fun but aimless exercise. It's enough that he's "PC-like." I think giving 1st level characters a lot of hit points, as 4e does, is usually not a good...

Actually, AD&D half-elves and half-orcs are completely different than anything in Tolkien. In Tolkien, being a half-elf isn't a genetic condition, it's a combination of hereditity and the free will of men; Elrond is a "half-elf" which is basically just a regular elf with a different secret...

John Lithgow as DM Willem Dafoe Michael Cera Joan Jett Pink I figure two of 'em could play lesbian stripper ninjas, and Joan and Pink could be like a wizard and a cleric or something. Maybe Pink as a dwarf cleric with a mohawk, yeah.

The design I'm looking at right now is for Defenses to go up. So combat bonus (AC) and Resistance go up. Saving throws would be based on ability scores, which could increase, and you would have equivalents to Iron Will, Great Fortitude, and so forth, if you wanted to boost specific saves. The...