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Yep! So if you have other pressing questions, send them on in. :-) Owen K.C. Stephens d20 Triggerman Need better cheap magic options? Get Loot 4 Less II: Rods, Staves and Wands

Well... yeah. Love the heck out of it. First, it's an honor to be the official rules guy for any rules system, much less one I like so well (and write so much for) as d20 Modern. Second, it's the only gig I have where someone else writes half my work (in the form of questions). :-) As was...

For an official answer, send the question to Bullet Points. Unofficially, while the effect takes a round to activate, and those benefiting must be able to hear the Charismatic for the full round, they are free to take other actions at the same time. It's not an action on their part, just a...

Thanks! My lik of d02 Modern knoes no limits

In my opinion? Great. Better than any previous version. I've run an all-Jedi campaign (set in campaign where Vader captured Luke on Cloud City, the two of them turned on the Emperor, and Leia was running the new Jedi Academy in a desperate bid for enough Jedi to win a 3-way war). Those Jedi were...

My first sale to Dragon was an elven name generator, which I always keep a copy of handy. I also did Dwarven, Gnomish, halfling, dragon, and some other moster names. A number of those have been picked up and expanded in the Races of... books. What I liked about these was they included meanings...

Those are areas where game design, cannon and logic often seem to be at odds. I can't say if we changed anything, but I promise we looked at them and what we put in the book was what we thought would do the best job of combining those three concerns.

It sure can be. And, a chunk of the people who want to play a Star Wars rpg are casual gamers who are hard-core Star Wars fans, rather than hard-core gamers who are casual Star Wars fans. But also... we want to keep things simple for hard-core gamers too. Rodney and I have run a LOT of Star...

Which, all things being equal, could have flown over to attack the archer just as easily as the melee fighters. In fact if it has room to fly, it may stay airbourne out of reach of melee fighters, and only attack the archer -- though by the time that's a reasonable foe the melee fighters may...

I can say, with no fear of being unbiased, that if you like paper figures you can do a lot worse than the Stand-Ins paper figures. I'm the producer, so obviously I think they're lovely. You get 125 different figures, all presented with separate front and back art, and all presented in both...

As broad generalizations, in my play-experience, the problem with being an archer is that you can't crank out as much damage as a well-built melee fighter. Even with full attack actions and rapid shot, or skirmish dice, the total damage per round just doesn't add up to a power attacking fighter...

My quick rule is two more spells known for each level lower than their max. So a 7th level NPC wizard is going to have 2 4th level, 4 3rd level, 6 2nd level, 8 1st level, and 10 0-level spells known. Now, that general guideline is for an adventuring wizard who's been out doing things. If the...

In fact the book talks about that some, on page 86. Specifically you can take a dragon aura as a major aura, and then apply dragon aura feats to it. While we didn't specifically call it out, I'd say the rules also support taking the dragon auras from the dragon shaman as major marshal auras...

I may have some of the following details wrong, but in broad strokes: Dragonfist was a product written by Chris Pramas (of Green Ronin fame) that did some very interesting things to 2nd edition D&D to turn it into an Asian martial-arts game of great popularity. After the book was ready to go...

"As soon as you sujmmon the Efreet, it dissappears in a puff of smoke. Why? Because being an above-average Wisdom creature that has a legendary hatred of servitude, it already got a humanoid to wish the efreet would be immune to those spells. Said humanoid got a wish in return, of course. Neat...

As an additional note, high base attack bonuses are rarer in d20 Modern than D&D, as only the Strong hero and Martial Artist have a 1/1 BAB progression out of the core book. That means for -most- characters (all characters that don't have at least one of those two classes) you couldn't get Imp...

Treasure tends to fall into 3 categories in my games. The most common source of big bucks are the tools and budgets of sapient foes defeated in battle. Dragons don't just have piles of gold to sleep on, they have magic items they use, monies they intend to buy influence or guards with, and items...

Me too! Obviously as an author I'm biased in favor of the book, and I like my own writing, but I can safely say there's a lot of stuff Rodney did I really like. Dragon pacts are definitely finding their way into my games (modified to work for war mages, which is what my players currently choose...

I'm not sure that's a question I can answer. By which I don't mean I'm not allowed, I mean I'm not sure what the correct response is. I will say when I first agreed to co-write the new Star Wars rpg, I expected to be sticking close to standard d20 rules, as seen in either D&D or d20 Modern. I...

A serious question: Do you have a problem with character becoming too accurate in combat despite not having focused on fighting? Or getting better and better at resisting poisons and toxins despite never being exposed to them? Or absorbing more and more punishment without ever practicing...