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I see a critical fumble rule, I immediately start rolling up a Halfling.

Or the connection between Twilight and heavy armour. Or the connection between Twilight as described in the subclass description and....basically any god in D&D except for Selune and maybe the Raven Queen. It's not as bad as Hexblade in having a weak theme, but damn, it's close.

Makes me wonder if the player was a fan of Killer Instinct. In a Rifts game, there was an android who had adopted a human name to fit in better. The name he chose was Mack Ross. And more recently, Danone Yakult the half-elf warlock (Yakult being the name of a brand of bio-active yoghurt, and...

Some players aren't in it for the mechanics. Though for players like that, it can be handy to give them some sort of quick reference for what their character can do, or the odd prompt ("is that a reckless attack or a regular attack?"), etc, so they're not floundering in combat. After something...

My in-my-games headcanon was that the Wall wasn't a permanent doom, more like a cosmic recycling plant from which souls would eventually break free and reincarnate.

Unfortunately, all DM's are automota to whom "RAI" is a meaningless concept (according to this forum). For me, it's not a question of power level, or "just use this counter". It's more that Counterspell is fundamentally something that exists in order to cause cool things to not happen. It's...

I remember building a Swashbuckler and going for archetypal acrobatic-human-with-rapier, then getting told that optimally, I should have gone for a dwarf with a pick because [mathbabble mathbabble mathbabble]. Which is what everyone thinks of when they hear the word "swashbuckler", right?

THANK YOU. Whenever this topic comes up, I feel increasingly certain that most people never read that page for themselves and just took someone else's word for it. It's a complete and utter strawman and even a cursory read of the relevant part would make it obvious that the DMG does not...

1: At least one clear reason in the setting for PC groups to form, and clear objectives for them to pursue once they do form. There are a lot of RPG's that kind of forget to do this! Scion springs to mind, where I read the books and thought "This is cool, what the hell do I do with it?" 2...

I was going to say! Extras are one of the best things about SW, because they only have three states--fighting, shaken or off the tabl--and only one die to track when they did an action. It was the first system where I was able to run 20 NPC's in one fight (without cheating with mob rules) and...

Which is funny, because Savage Worlds Rifts is an actual licensed setting. Having played both, I'd say it works far better for that sort of gonzo action-movie stuff than the actual Rifts system (and characters like Juicers or Leyline Walkers feel far more thematic), though the system tends to...

Anyone who thinks rabbit people are automatically too twee and whimsical for D&D has probably never read Watership Down.

Everyone says Harry Potter, but A Wizard of Earthsea was also set in large part in a magic school.

The prison break in GotG1 is such an RPG moment. --The smart guy lays out a plan which fails at the first hurdle because another one of the group wasn't paying attention. --So the group just starts a big fight instead. --A new character joins the party out of nowhere. --One character insists on...

In the Eberron setting. there are "feather tokens" (Common magic items that activate a Feather Fall effect when the user falls more than a short distance) and "life rings" (magic wooden rings used for when you have to abandon an airship, that you hang onto to drift down from the sky at a safe...

I really appreciate that (plus, the orcs were originally displaced by the golbinoids). It's very easy and trite to say that humans are the real monsters and they did all the bad stuff against those poor Noble Savage orcs, but all it really does is switch out who the racially determined bad guys...

And now you've invested about 100x the effort that it would have taken to edit in [ spoiler ] and [ /spoiler ] to the post. That's an impressive commitment to diminishing the enjoyment of others.

You know, with all the time you've spent furiously justifying spoilers, you could have gone back clicked "edit" and added [ spoiler ] [ /spoiler ] about fifty times over by now.

And with their first post too. :) (edit--you can tell it's really old because people are claiming monks need a nerf)

This was my main beef with the 40K RPG's--the baseline percentages are really low (and in published adventures, negative modifiers are thrown around like candy, the writers seeming to assume that the skill levels will be something like 80+). And if you're not trained, your attribute is halved...