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I've been thinking a lot about this myself Tequila, so let me throw in my bit. I haven't had a long-running group in a couple years - not since the end of college really. I tend to drift in and out of campaign groups, a few weeks here, a few weeks there, but never sticking around. A lot of...

No, it's not up yet, so I can't claim first credit for it. I did notice that the Dragon Magazine cover page has changed and lists this: Player's Handbook 3 Debut: The Seeker By Robert J. Schwalb and Stephen...

So are you guys going to have a Jets vs Sharks-style danceoff against the folks from Hommlet? I hear DM Jackson has some pretty wicked moves. :)

Heck yeah, a grab should mark. The mark is the mechanical implementation of the Fighter getting up in someone's space, disrupting their attacks and generally being a nuisance. If I'm trying to grab you in combat, and just catch an arm or maybe part of a tunic or something, it's going to mess...

Gotta pile on the Swordmage love. It's very ADD, just like oohchipsandsalsa! ::runs off::

But it's a +2. Look at it this way - a +2 bonus to a skill is the noncombat equivalent of Sure Strike. There's nothing wrong with Sure Strike. Sometimes you just want to fracking hit, sometimes you just want a better skill modifier. Perfectly good and effective. But isn't Tide of Iron also...

Gotta run with Garthanos on this. Most backgrounds seem.. petty. On the one hand, I get that in D&D your character is coming into his or her prime as the adventure starts, not before. Still, if I'm going to write a background, I'd like a mechanic to actively leverage that background to my...

you know, Donovan, you really oughtta reference your development work on GAW in your sig now. Might even draw more attention to this thread! edit: that didn't come out the way it was supposed to, but you get the idea.

Thanks for giving me a word to apply to the concept, Ari. I've been down that line myself recently and didn't have the vocabulary for it. A couple more points that might be worth bringing in to this discussion: 1) Fallout or Consolation Prizes - rarely do I let a skill challenge be only about...

As a loyal and continual Warlock player, I would argue that each Pact is its own role and should be treated as such. I like the earlier of idea of modifying the Curse by pact, doing a minor version of other roles' schticks: The Starlock is a controller - Dire Radiance is a movement-denying...

Though I run mostly LFR games, I still encourage my players to push the system, stunt and otherwise not feel limited by their power suite and skills selection. This has led to more than one occasion where I felt the best representation of something was to have the player roll a d20 plus all of...

ooh ooh! I missed it last year. This and MACE.. grr.. I've got half a mind to run a Dogs in the Vineyard game - not that I've ever played it myself, but I think I could totally do it anyway. Also - if anyone is going to run Burning Wheel or Mouse Guard, let me know - I'd like to try that...

Well that's closer. Multinomial distribution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Still not quite there though. The binomial (or Bernoulli) distribution covers multiple independent trials in a single set with identical probabilities of a binary outcome. The multinomial is used for a single...

Those are cool, but they're adding the rolls together GURPS-style. I'm looking for something that would be for say, Shadowrun or World of Darkness where each die counts individually, not added together for a final result. Thanks for the start, though wizard and ggroy

I'm working on some probability models for a homebrew system. Basic roll a handful of dice and count successes as any individual roll over a target value. Example: 3d6 vs 4 rolling 1, 4, 5 is two successes. I've been able to work out equations so far to calculate the odds of rolling X number...

This isn't quite as awesome as I thought it would be when I read the title, but it's definitely closer to filling some gaps I feel still exist in the system. I really like Arcane Mutterings, Eyes of the Delver, Practiced Rider, Fast Hands and Improvisational Arcana - interesting powers that...

Cleave and Dual Strike are NOT redundant for one very simple reason. You do not 'hit' the secondary target of Cleave, you simply deal damage. Therefore you can't mark two targets with Cleave, but you can with Dual Strike. I'd be very hesitant to drop it. If you really want to abandon Dual...

I actually find the Bubble to be more of a feature than a bug. Thinking about it from my martial arts background, there is a certain distance after you've swept a guy that you want to get to - not so close that he just grabs your feet and not so far that he can get up and reset himself - just...

It almost seems to me that the controller is the new 'skill monkey' or maybe special effects crew. The Invoker, Druid and Wizard all start with Ritual Casting as a bonus feat, as do the Cleric, Bard and Artificer which minor heavily in controller despite being leaders. If you need something...

There isn't one yet. But I would think it would be interesting if someone wrote one =D. Have you seen the show? I think it would make a very cool RPG.