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Some have tried. Pendragon was famous for it's passions and virtues and how you had to roll against your "frugality" to go to a fest or roll against "temerity" to withdraw from a battle. You even had a score to know how much you loved your lady.

It does work, but have it's own issues. The lack of granulatity in damage, the huge swingness of the system (because the 1d20 weights a lot compared to relatively small modifiers), the death spiral... I like mutant and masterminds a lot, and there is some good ideas in True20, but I think the...

while I don't think elegance in mechanics or unified mechanics should be a mandate (ie: as happen with T20, where the damage is done with a d20 because the game design forbids any other die), I think the game should *try* to be as much elegant and unfied as it can, withouth sacrificing anything...

I think other classes should have a different kind of "parry" mechanic. For example, Paladins can have a "purity vow" or whatever, that they recharge when they hit an enemy, or heal a friend. Spending that, they can get +4 AC as a reaction. Rogues, on the other hand, have the option to make a...

Well, Beowulf killed a demon (grendel) naked, and with bare hands. Yet he is not a monk. I think the problem you have with monks, is that you see them as "martial". They are not, they are mystical in nature. Sure, real life shaolin monks are martial. But the ones you see in a D&D world, are...

The german style of swordfighting is especially fond on unarmed combat, indeed I happen to disagree. It depends what you call "a rapier". While epeens and side-swords aren't very useful except in duels, the swords used by Rodeleros, were quite dangerous in the battlefield. "Rapier" is kind of...

Of course they were. Dragons, as Beholders, Chimeras, and other monsters, have always been solo monsters. They just didn't have the term invented. Just like "Runequest" was "simulationist" even before "simulationism" term was invented. The point of normalizing the terminology is to make it...

Fair point :). However, by "martial artist" I was reffering to "1vs1 combats" more than "wars". A kusarigama isn't exactly useful in a combat formation, as opposed to, say, a pike.

If you are going to use the Sage class more than once, this might be a good move. But if you are going to need some obscure special need NPC (let's say... a glassblower?) why would you go through all this process, and needing that much prep time, just to make a class you'll use once, and only...

The fantasy trope might work for the town Blacksmith, or maybe the woodcutter, but will fail for the world's best glassblower, or silkweaver, or scribe. A level 3 fighter is damn seasoned by D&D standards. Really depends on which edition you play, but most seasoned soldier's that came in...

Actually this is one of the common dissonances of games with levels. Power is attached to level, so a high level whatever is always better than a low level anything. The best tailor in the world can defeat a platoon of militia. Also, he can defeat an ogre. While this is cool and fun in some...

In the fantasy trope (where the blacksmith is the biggest and strongest guy in the town), maybe. In real world, no way. There's no reason to think Paul Chen will be able to defeat a seasoned experienced warrior, or to believe that Masamune could defeat an experienced samurai (or a CR3 ogre, for...

Nop. Archer "twin strike" feat is supposed to be balance because you do half damage. With spells, often the damage is not really relevant. A "twin" ice-ray that can do 1d3+slow to two enemies is quite better than a single 1d6+slow to one. And that's just with the few spells we currently have. If...

You mean DMG2 from which edition?

25 out of 45 years is pretty close to 20 out of 45 years :p

Sure, that's enterily cool. :) It's your game, if you don't have a heart for martial artist, the monk class, or psionics, or whatever, you don't have to like them, period. I don't like spicked chains myself, to be honest :P Or any double weapon, for that matter. I was just pointing out that the...

It's a property of non-simulationist games. The more simulationist the game is, the closer are the rules and the game experience (as the game experience is based on the rules'' descrpition and simulation of the world). The more narrative, or gamist, the bigger effect this property has. I, for...

Hit points are not only unrealistic and abstract, but also disociative. There's no in-game explanation for your mortal human lvl 20 fighter being chewed by a dragon, the spit from 1000 feet high, slam the floor, and then being able to fight, run, and jump with absolute normality because he has 1...

I haven't trained with kusari fundo, but I've done with a kusarigama, and I can say for sure that you can do a lot of amazing stuff with it. Ogawa Ryu Kusarigama - YouTube

Natural armor was 3ed response to being too tied by in-game physic laws. A red dragon was a "soldier solo", even if it did not have such tags attached. So they needed it to be able to threat a whole group, fight well, and being able to stand under fire while being hit relativelly few times. So...