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The the clause that states that the originating square is unaffected clearly defines the intent. Why would the originating square be affected if it could not also fall within the area of effect? It would not. Therefore, yes a creature can indeed place itself within its own blast. It seems very...

Or you could do it like the crew at Palladium and delete everything that isn't 100% positive for your products and everything that isn't 100% negative towards competitors products.

The issue I see is this: The qualities you describe are far from distinct in practice. Both supernatural and horror themed stories often involve otherwise normal people thrust into a unique situation, just like your extra-ordinary theme. Likewise many horror stories have a strong overlap with...

My favorite way of getting fast healing like ability is one level of crusader with the martial spirit stance. Basically, you beat people up to heal yourself. And if you need to, you can beat someone up with non-lethal damage to heal them of real damage. Its like in those action movies where you...

Crazy as it sounds. I want to increase BOTH gamist and simulationist aspects of modern.. But only a few of the changes I want to see come from 4e.

I spent part of my childhood in an extremely poor, extremely rural area. Actually it was Montana, not that far from Calgary in Canada. There was a time in my life when the only way we could afford to eat meat was to kill it ourselves, and the only way we could afford bread was to mill hog feed...

New faces mean the hobby does not die. But they are a bit more likely to be clueless or rude from my experience. My vote is mixed bag.

Maybe. Maybe not. Int is incredibly valuable for skills. There are 60+ different skills in d20 modern. Wis will probably be reduced in importance because mundane will saves are not common, unless your GM uses 3rd party morale/horror/sanity/depravity rules. Modern is more of a simulationist...

For basic classes? the fast hero has too high a defense bonus at level 1, making it ideal for dipping. Other than that they are quite balanced. For advanced classes, I would note that the setting specific supernatural classes tend to be quite a bit stronger and more flexible than standard...

yes, you are in it. as for WotC, all d20 modern boards have been deleted. There is still a D20 general forum and I think they still have an optimization forum, but that caters mostly to D&D.

I would not say that experience is necessary. but it does help. Anyway, here are a few more resources. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNS_Theory http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/physics31oct03.html http://www.skotos.net/articles/BSTG_44.shtml

I have a few... Discreet Math Linear Algebra Statistical Analysis Ok, so they cover a lot of the theoretical concepts. But no real examples or advice when it comes to gaming.

THe black Kestrel: you are forgetting a few things. 1: using iron fist gives a max of +6 damage under standard rules (average of just under +5). 2: tanks have a defense of 6. 8 strong/2 soldier/10 MA Damage: starting str 17, +5 levels = 22 +6. +3 melee smash +2 weapon specialization (+2)...

A few more issues I have with the toughness of vehicles. 1: A sufficiently high level martial artist can destroy an M1A1 main battle tank in less than one round with his bare hands. 2: mecha have several times the HP and equal or better hardness compared to tanks of the same size. For any given...

One reason to combine hide and MS to stealth and spot and listen to perception is to benifit PCs. Do to the opposed nature of the roll's and the number of roll's required, in the long run it is practically impossible to sneak around effectively for more than a round or two at a time. Suppose...

Vehicles: they do not mesh will with either grid based combat or chase scene style frame of reference. Vehicles are also too fragile. An M1A1 main battle tank, with over a foot of advance chobham composite armor, has 64 HP. Thats less than a dire bear of the same size. For skills? there are too...

Mostly? Vehicles and the skill system. Plus feats should be worthy of the name. I like the class system a lot, but I have a few crazy ideas bubbling around in my head that require a radical departure from the standard 6 ability classes.

Most of the active posters have moved here: http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?board=30.0 I may no longer be among the most active posters (a fiance, graduation and real job tends to do that), I have been coming here more and more often, and encouraged others to follow me.

meh. close enough for handgrenades.

Because in chainmail, wizards were fantasy artillery pieces. Their lightning bolt & fireball had the same area of effect and damage as the wargame artillery that they were based on. Artillery doesn't heal.