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Just to note that Apocalypse World and PbtA world games in general are very/vastly different games from 4e D&D as well. So, all of D&D (and plenty of other games as well; PbtA is quite a different approach).

Might Rule of Cool simply be a particular variation of/take on Rule 0? In this case tilted towards the favour of what's narratively exciting for the game/campaign at hand and/or what's the most interesting or fun for the players? Just like Rule 0, it's a philosophy -- Rule 0 could be taken to...

I'd say that's a different argument. Rage lasts 1 minute. Cunning Action lets you do something that ordinarily takes a standard action. Drinking a Potion is more involved than the instantaneous action of sending your divine radiant energy through your weapon in the split section you make...

Yeah, frequently we found that the monsters we were fighting broke the system, where even a seemingly smallish +X to grapple (and an auto-grapple chance) would often lead to figurative character dismemberment. Much ouch. (Given HP is intended as a 'measure towards defeat' system, whether...

Ahhh, a classic Dragon article! My fav was the wording for the Robe of Blending (3 Speed): "To all appearances, this is a perfectly ordinary robe. If the clasp is examined closely, however, it will be revealed to be a sliding switch with four setting (including “off”). “Chop” does 2-20 hp...

I don't mean it's messy in terms of complexity, I mean it's messy in that it interrupts the regular/usual flow of how the character uses his weapon. A fighter can pull a maneuver on any attack, such that if they are a TWF type they don't forgo their shtick if they chose to do a maneuver earlier...

This, all this. As the resident instant mage slayer with my pally, I'm totally fine with it being limited to 1/turn just like Sneak Attack (or even 1/round). Alpha striking with multiple smites per round is definitively amusing, and burns through resources, and I get that one-shot kind of...

Oh heck yes, the number of hours I as a younger player lusted after these three items would be embarrassing to disclose. ;) (I was 'fortunate' enough to get a girdle of cloud giant strength in one campaign, which was admittedly quite cool in its own right...) While it wasn't overpowered per...

I've been using OneNote for a number of years now (both on the GM side and in one of my groups we use it extensively on the player side as well). With the pages and sub-pages it's easy to organize, I can copy/paste images or maps or text or tables or whatever and arrange or re-arrange it as I...

FWIW, the 1e Gold Box games (Pool of Radiance, etc) did the full reflection/double damage method of reflection for lightning bolt. :)

Natch, not quite at your hand but as Lanefan noted you still need to line yourself up, which while perhaps not as automatically dangerous as needing to be adjacent to the start point it was still more difficult to achieve and potentially isolating (and still all reasons why the reflectivity made...

Not sure if this counts as a rule per se, but spell talk reminds me of the fun of lightning bolt's reflective capabilities. Smacking it off a wall to hit the same opponent(s) twice made it not only a bit more challenging to use (gotta be sure you don't smack yourself too!) but really helped...

Huh! All these years I assumed that the "Fireball radius = always the same" was part of our use of the common house rule of not following fireball's volumetric conformance requirement. And yet our DM was indeed following the letter of (spell) law.

Huh, coupled with taking some wizard schools as a sphere, I bet this would be the perfect way to make a good 2e gish! :)

Yeah, monks play quite differently in 4e than in other versions, being a multi-target striker (at least until the Desert Wind monk came along and created a path for some single-target focus). Ki powered, attacking NADs, and with powers like being able to shift their speed + some number across...

Speaking of Clerics... the 2e Player's Option version of the Cleric, where you could purchase the invocation/evocation school of magic as one of your usable domains. Run around in plate armour, a shield, a mace, and cast fireball! (Did make for a way to make an 'elemental priest', though...)

Hmmm... that kinda feels like 1e summed up in 5 words, doesn't it? ;)

Cool to hear! Any word on when it or the next preview will be released?

Accidentally bought a sword from this recent UK Games Expo? Not me. Has "accidentally" bought a sword-like object at sometime that did started a particularly geometrically growing collection? That... might indeed be me. Yes. :) (Humorously, I don't think any of my 20-odd "actual swords"...

We've played a cyberpunk inspired campaign, set in the Eberron city of Sharn (the City of Towers) and where we were all playing the Disney princesses. So that can totally work. :D Sounds like the game was a lot of fun! My regular Sunday group will be taking a short break later this month so...