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My official opinion on moderation is: Piratecat seems dashingly handsome, and Rel better stay away from my sister. Cheers, -- N

The bases I'd want to cover are: - Some normal animals (baseline) - Some dire animals (baseline + hp & damage output) - Something that flies - Something that imposes various conditions - Something that ignores common magical attacks - Something that ignores common weapon attacks - "Terrain" /...

Why do you hate kittens? "Kittengorical Imperative", -- N

Be very careful where you put the d4. d12 and d20, now, those are dice more in tune with "safe, sane, convexity". Cheers, -- N

That's not why mine is sore. "Session, indeed", -- N

Excellent strip. Great mix of dark in-character humor and Elan's air-headed meta-humor. Giggling in an undignified manner, -- N

Apropos of nothing, my highschool nickname was "Rule 0 Ho". (Yes, I ran a one-shot for the whole football team, but at least nobody filmed it.) --- Anyway, it sounds like the DM under discussion is planning something mysterious, using the space the player gave him (amnesia == "please write my...

Great background jokes. Mediocre main punchline. Promise of action soon. Yay! Cheers, -- N

Moreover... -- N

Nope, it just means you don't get to make an optimal attack every round -- possibly not even an attack each round! Some rounds you move and recharge, other rounds you move and strike, yet other rounds you move and make a ranged attack, or make a ranged attack and then re-charge your psychic...

Soulknife is bad because it's built around a very specific playstyle (mid-to-close range skirmisher). If you play it as it was intended, it's pretty solid: it's got a good skill list, decent skill points, high HP, two good saves, and a bunch of features which help you not notice how much your...

Mage: the Ascension by a GM who knew the rules well enough to fix the many, many bad design decisions, yet preserve the kernel of total awesomeness at the core of the game. Exalted run by that same perfect (and therefore implausible) GM. Cheers, -- N

FATE v3 in general can be done using this method, so you see it mentioned in Diaspora and Dresden Files too. FATE's fudge dice and WFRP3's special dice are a bit related. They generate a bell curve using a dice pool, in which constituent dice can give both success and anti-success results. You...

All hobbies have many awful fans. This is for two reasons: 1/ One cannot be fired from a hobby, no matter how awful one is. 2/ One can use a hobby to meet new people, which one probably wants to do since those who know one well don't associate with one, because one is awful. Cheers, -- N

Meeting future in-laws sure seems traumatic. Cheers, -- N

The coolest secret base I've visited was a Lockheed Martin facility in Colorado which had enough natural line-of-sight blockage from the Rockey Mountains that it actually had windows. The basic rule for secret bases seems to be: nobody can look in. If you accomplish that by being underground --...

DO forget Complete Psionic, it's terrible. Total power point expenditure cannot exceed manifester level, and that includes expenditure for meta-psionics. There are a few exceptions to this rule (like the Wilder's class feature), but not many. This is exactly backwards: the default for 3.5e...

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No. The Soulknife sucks because it is inflexible. There is only one right way to build & play a Soulknife (which is as a single-attack high-mobility skirmisher). If you stick to playing that specific way, they're tolerably strong. They get decent skill points from a good skill list, they have...

Nice chart. Perhaps it could use a section on dice, particularly: "I love new kinds of dice!" -> (warhammer fantasy roleplay 3e) "I have a lot of ...." d6 = Shadowrun, StarWars d6; d10 = White Wolf games Cheers, -- N