Search results

Ranged weapons and powers are your friends. They can't get you if they can't get near you.

Title says it all. Let's come up with rules (numbered from previous post) for how to survive a zombie apocalypse in D&D. Rule #1 is . . . ?

LOL! How about some "Rules for surviving Zombieland - D&D style"? Oooh! Time to make a new thread.

Ta-da! I'm wondering what actual Nazis in a D&D game would be like.

Guys, look. I don't want to continue the same arguments from other threads here. Please don't threadjack my post if you don't think the exercise is worthwhile.

So there have been a couple of alignment threads recently, and they're about how the alignment system in past and current editions help or hinder roleplaying. Of course, there are more complicated things going on (duh!), but that seems to be the gist of it from what I've been reading. Anyway...

Are you familiar with Fading Suns? It uses similar mechanics for a person's orientation toward the world - a far more useful rubric than D&D alignment precisely because it's specific and tailored toward the themes explored in the setting. Precisely. Things like character-specific motivations...

And you guys were doing so well. *Sigh* I'd love to see an online conversation where Nazis were mentioned in a discussion about the Nazis and the Holocaust.

Depending on your tastes, I have a few in mind, a couple I tinkered, and one I designed myself.

Traditiooooooooon! Tradition!

Precisely, which is why alignment as a system seems fundamentally flawed from the start. It presents a person's ethics in a sort of mathematical way, where good deeds earn "points" while bad deeds take away "points", and the sum total is your moral compass. People are more complex than that...

I remember reading about something like that in Races & Classes before 4e came out. I believe the idea is that one of the ideas is that classes no longer have to sacrifice in-combat effectiveness for out-of-combat effectiveness. But it's easy enough to house rule that the only thing really...

Ditto RaHoWa

I'm strongly introverted, so my inner life is sacrosanct. It takes a lot of energy for me to be around people (even people I'm close to). Psychologically, I need to plan and prepare myself to spend time around people. Thus I'm extremely purposeful about how I spend my time. So if I'm not...

Games I've created: Kathanaksaya, X-mas, Dramatikos. Used to be available online until I did something dumb and deleted my Comcast website. X-mas and a lite version of Kathanaksaya published in Random Order Comics & Games Issues 4 & 5. I ran a 2 GM Matrix game using this system, and everyone had...

How about the recharge mechanics that monsters get? Something that might be worth developing is the idea of encounter powers (especially martial exploits) as exploiting tactical openings. If the idea is to encourage more tactical and strategic movement, the powers should seize upon that by...

More like weapon groups are a particular group of instruments - comparing unarmed combat to voice, for example. Specific weapons are more like specific instruments. I imagine you could treat armor like all other equipment such as implements, foci, and thieves' tools. Wearing armor gives an...

a few thoughts There's nothing preventing me from trying this in 4e but lack of a group of guinea pi- er, players. This may have been covered already, but I was thinking about integrating skill training for combat and non-combat skills (possibly armor too, but unsure exactly how). I'm...

My name is Aldoraine and I'm putting together a special team, and I need me some soldiers. Elven-blooded soldiers. Now, y'all might've heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we'll be leaving a little earlier. We're gonna be dropped into elf country, dressed as civilians. And once...

Perhaps because rape is closer to most people's personal experience than murder? IOW, you're more likely to know someone who's been raped than someone who's been murdered. Would the revulsion you feel about rapist protagonists be similar for protagonists who participate in domestic violence or...