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Either your math is awful or your state has the easiest lottery in history. For example, Powerball has a 1 in 195,249,054 chance of winning. 20*20*20 is only 8000. There is no way the Oregon state lottery pays out $6M on a 1:8000 chance. As far as dice rolls, my wife was rolling 2 weeks ago...

No they're really probably marketing themselves to anyone interested in a kitchen sink game or ridiculous power levels, the better DMs who want to shape the system a bit are probably the only ones who will stick with it tho :)

We're in complete agreement that KS is a very frustrating individual when it comes to his presentation and his opinions on gaming. The problem for you and I is that I think the game does work as is b/c it is designed so openly and is given forth as the ultimate sandbox. Someone said it is hard...

Why am I not surprised a long post about Rolemaster killed the thread? :) Rolemaster is a great game as long as you can survive the 4 hour character creation. We used a spreadsheet our DM and one of our friends created to get character creation (including Talent Law and all the job...

In many ways, Nakor was really the heart and soul of that book series. Let's have a moment of silence in his memory. *grin* Want an orange? BTW, to the earlier question from someone, yeah I did know the world was based on their D&D game. Feist likes to talk about it in forewords pretty often :)

I know that in the Teragen book, White Wolf provided 3 or 4 different possible scenarios that people could choose from. What I'm curious about is did White Wolf have one of those planned internally as the official outcome for the storyline? Not that it honestly matters, I'm just curious who...

I disagree Wik, all games require a good DM. If they don't, you're probably playing a board game. That doesn't mean that all systems need a good DM to make a balanced group. RIFTS has a super wide gulf between the high and low that you can experience in character creation. I've played RIFTS...

I'm surprised I haven't seen a mention of Raymond Feist's Riftwar series. In those books, magic is far and away the stronger method. If you're a warrior like say, Tomas, you could stand up to Pug, but not too many below his level. Then again, pretty much any other warrior is below Tomas's...

I don't know that vague is the word I would use to describe it. It did give rough power levels (and exacting levels of damage capabilities) for every dot of power in a sphere, but the system had very little in the way of rotes. This was always one of the flaws of Mage, they didn't give you...

For something that is still pretty close to D&D magic but much more flexible, I have to go with the magic system from Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved. The strong emphasis on caster implements was carried into 4E and while it is still Vancian magic, you can weave spellslots to obtain more lower or...

My wife can roll 3d6 for her stats and end up w/nothing lower than 13, probably 2 or 3 15+ scores. No, she won't roll up your characters :)

I know Monte has said he won't be doing any conversion to 4E, but I was curious if anyone has taken the races from AE and made some changes to them for 4E. The assumptions of 4E are that there are no more minus stats, you get 2 bonus stats. Heck, recently it's one solid stat and then a...

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Seeing the quotes from Adkinson made me remember the announcement. Besides, given the month and year it would make actually researching the original quote easier. Things like that had a way of showing up in issues of Scrye, Inquest and the Duelist too and I would have been reading all 3 back...

Super necro!!!! Post 127: "One observation is that power attack is made obsolete. Reducing chance to hit and thereby increasing average damage comes out worse than keeping the bonus to hit. Not surprisingly really, just hadn't seen it before testing. It will likely also be better to take...

Been away from this thread for a few days. Actually Danny you're getting your years confused. December 1995 was when WotC dropped their RPGs. They were publishing The Primal Order, Talislanta, Ars Magica and Everway and Everway was drastically overprinted. They never made a dime on ANY of...

I dunno. I rolled a Swordmage for a Dark Sun game and have him using a Falchion just so I get to roll lots of d4s :)

If they detailed W there, but not the rest of combat, they would need to either repeat information later in the book or refer people back to an earlier place. It makes more sense to me (and apparently the 4E devs) to consolidate info and not repeat things. Just look back at the d20 explosion...

Page 57 refers you to the section later in the book (pg 269) that describes combat and also covers what W means. Even without actually reading the meaning of it, it seems pretty obvious that 1W will be less than 2 or 3W. If you want the extra detail early on, you can follow the page reference...

Someone in the comments makes much the same point you do. My poll only talks about his opinion that the format change threw people. Personally I think that both the format and the content are better, but I'm not asking about content. I'm doing my best for this not to be edition war...