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I would say that suitably powerful arcane magic would work the same way on him. Thus a 5th-6th level Arcane spell. Since, however, that arcane spell doesn't seem to exist, you'd probably need something a little more powerful that can duplicate spells. So, I'd say, a Limited Wish could do...

Well, for most of a year I commuted about an hour, each way, to the game I'm currently in. We lived a town over and I figured I'd be getting a job any time where we wanted to live, so it wasn't a big deal. "A few months" of commuting turned into a year of commuting without finding work. After...

Well, I ran my own Firefly-esque game. I wasn't really satisfied with the setting as-is for a game ... because Joss Whedon is a writer, and as a writer the setting was crafted for the story being told. The ship traveled at the "speed of plot", there was no real scientific basis for anything...

I linked it to my wife. oots is a little too much D&D for her, I think. When she plays D&D, she's not big on rules minutae and the laughs that go with it. I think this might be more her style. I honestly liked the art. It's pretty different, a meshing of several styles that seems pretty new...

I don't see why you couldn't, either. I probably wouldn't allow magical items to be BUILT using the method, IE wands and potions and such, but the Spell Storing ring gives you a nebulous value of X Levels Of Spells that the character must then fill. You have to have someone with the Sudden...

Ehhhh, I've got both games and, honestly, to me, I think Blood and Vigilance would do a better job of modeling the things in the show. M&M is 4-Color. It scales down toward "Street Level", but it seems to always do "common man on the street" with a bit too high of granularity for me. Not that...

Best show on TV for my money. Makes me want to play a B&V game. --fje

Yup. I loved Alternity, and still play it now and again with my brother-in-law and his pals when I visit the wife's family. It has its issues ... specifically places in the combat system. A tricked out dodge guy can be a pain ... certain armor/weapon intersections ... I had a few issues where...

There's something to be said for universality. However, there's a floating event horizon in there where it goes from "flexible" to "uninteresting". Savage Worlds goes in for this general sort of "it booms, so it's a boom, you can use any trappings you want" thing really heavily. Which, for...

It's a game. It should be fun. For everybody. People whose fun revolves around limiting the fun of other people by causing conflict, seeking conflict, are people I don't want to play with. Inter-party conflict can be fun. We've had a few moments of it. But I prefer to have it very limited...

I just don't see the ground for the argument that it doesn't stack. Here are our precedents: 1) Table Text vs. Page Text ... the Rules Lawyer Law here is that the text trumps the table. This is from WotC. 2) Stacking ... This is pretty fundamental stuff. When named bonuses are encountered...

I actually have a True20-type setup laying about. Thus-far, my problem has been that the Adept's power-base feels like it was created for a fantasy game. Which, of course, it was. There's a little more power there than what I've done in SFX Skills, which has POTENTIAL for greater power, but...

The Adept is probably the #2 reason I haven't used True20 yet. Either the games I would run wouldn't need it, but I think the system is balanced to the three roles ... or the game I would run would need something less "ta-da" and, again. So I'd have to get under the hood, play a bunch of games...

It's a blah feat ... it's overpowered to give a PC a poison attack, but the DC is so low it means after about level 6 all you're doing is forcing the GM to make a roll every time your character strikes to check for poison. I'd considered it for a cool sort of "frost" monk that slowly freezes...

Well, game night is "boys' night in", so some. Mostly off-color. Thinking about it, I'm probably the most blue. I'm not sure WHY. My dad was Navy, but I'm way more sulphurous than he is. --fje

My cousin named his son Dhalgere, after a character in a story he wrote in high school. Swear to God. We named our daughter Zoe (with the dots over the "e") and everybody assumes we named her Zoey after the butt-kickin' chick on Firefly. Don't ask me why. Worst I got was, if she were a boy...

I would say that d20 Modern is sort of the "Microsoft Windows" of Modern gaming. It's not the perfect system for everybody, but the sheer weight of existing product, driven by market share, means that you can probably find or make rules to do what it is that you want it to do. Spycraft2.0 is...

Usually people want "realistic" gunfire rules when they've made a sniper's or machine gun nest and want to riddle some enemy with gunfire with impunity. When they get shot alot, they desire them less. It's a balancing act, always, between realism and playability. Hell, for most people...

The table is always trumped by the actual text though. That's the danger of just reading the table, like I did. The table text is highly condensed non-rules descriptive text that is supposed to tell you what the feat allows you to do as succinctly as possible ... it's a more complex feat than...

I just think it should be called out as such in the text. Like: "If you use this book, it's suggested that you just eauthanize the Fighters in your campaign gently and humanely. They'll thank you for it." I'd probably rebuild the Fighter a bit by adding some maneuvers and such from the Bo9S...