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It depends. I've actually found that FFG's Legendary classes work really well for Epic characters.

Actually, as far as my "default" books of PrC's, I prefer Fantasy Flight's Path Of... series. Even though only Sword and Magic are out now, I've been really impressed. I still use the WotC splatbooks and allow a good deal of stuff from them. I was disappointed as anyone else when Sword & Fist...

Heh. Watch dragonball-z. After awhile, we took to describing our monk's actions like that. He had a modified move of like 180. So when he did a double move he was traveling at something on the order of 40 miles per hour. When he used Haste and moved during his partial move, it was around 60mph...

In our current game, we have a Fighter/Paladin/Divine Champion/Planar Champion. I built it for a new player. He LOVES the character, which pretty much completely rocks. After seeing them in action, I think the Planar Champion is a little on the powerful side because he gets good skills, two...

No werebears, but I do play a weretiger monk in a campaign. The +12 strength in hybrid form kicks butt, and he certainly does have a lot of style, but the loss of HP, the comparatively poor saving throws, and lack of class abilities hurts.

Oh, and just as a historical note, knowing what I know about swords and the wounds they inflict on unarmored targets who are not moving to avoid getting hit, I'd say that the idea of the loser of a real iaijutsu duel surviving longer than the 1 minute it takes a D&D character to bleed to death...

You're right. It is a taste thing. Personally, I don't see the difference in time taken between me making an an attack roll vs. an AC and, if successful, rolling damage (two rolls of the dice), and me making an attack roll, and then having my target make a defense roll to see if he evaded...

Hong said: "Nobody, as far as I know, has shown how a soldier can survive a direct hit with a tank round. Point me to where the hit point model mandates that taking X points of damage must be the result of a direct hit." The thing about a HP system is that an attack either hit or it didn't. If...

I'm not blaming the rules for anything. Stock d20 works great for certain types of play. However, being a big fan of operational consistency in my games (I hate being surprised by unusual rulings so I tend to avoid them whenever possible), I don't believe that rule zero, while always a nice...

Yeah. And it's also not beyond the realm of possibility that the one-cut-one-kill duel will lead to some grievous wounds, a few more rounds of combat, and one very confused iaijutsu duelist. L5R is an extremely deadly game. We used to joke that just looking at a sword might kill you. The d20...

At the end of our last Planescape 3E game, my character was a Ranger 8/Rogue2/Strider (custom PrC sort of like a rogue-ish Planar Champion) 10. I picked up Leadership late in the game and wound up with Swara, an awakened (as per the Druid spell) lioness barbarian. Totally unexpected, but it...

Which is all well and good for that kind of combat. But it isn't appropriate to every RPG. In Deadlands, certain things are supposed to be highly dramatic. A character who is trying to defuse a bundle of dynamite really has to worry about being blown to bits. In d20, once you hit about...

Well, so far, there are three Deadlands games out there. There's Deadlands, with its custom system, Deadlands d20, and Deadlands GURPS. Of the three of them, you're right, Deadlands classic, as you called it, is by far the most fun, because of all the neat stuff you can do with it and the cool...

If I make an attack roll, and I make your AC, I hit you. If I score a critical, I hit you really, really well. If a "stock" d20 character (with HP and stuff) is holding a bundle of dynamite when it goes off, he takes just as much damage as if someone threw it at him and it blew up at his feet...

Wow... looks awesome, Will! I love it! I just gotta ask - will there be any support for figuring a way to assign ECL's to monsters?

I'd scrap the entire character advancement system and replace it with something that was a little more organic. I'm sick and tired of classes and levels and prestige class requirements and blah blah blah. I want to pick up a couple points in a skill here, maybe learn a few new tricks with a...

Well, there are a couple things: 1. CoC d20 came out a lot later than Deadlands d20. In that time, developers have been able to play with the system a lot more and we've seen that variations can and do work. 2. The central failing of Deadlands d20 is, IMO, the same problem that turned me off...

Well, I will be the first one to admit that D&D is very, very easy to play and run. It seems to be one of those institutional games. Still, there are groups that always go back to D&D, groups that always go back to Vampire, Champions, Rifts, Palladium Fantasy, whatever it may be. Still, it's the...

Except that when you boil it down, Spycraft's system (and by extension, the system from the Farscape book, which, if I remember correctly, DOES have a d20 logo on it) is quite different. Character creation and levels work the same, but the combat mechanics are like night and day. Personally, I...

If someone would release one, I might never by a d20 label book again. Don't get me wrong - there are some great ones. But I have a zillion prestige classes (Swashbuckling Adventures gave me like 90 of them), more feats than I can swing a sword at, a ton of alternative mechanics that have been...