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See... sometimes our assumptions about "mundane" reality fall way short of how crazy it can actually get. You might find this interesting Wolf of Soissons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and these: Beast of Gévaudan, a contemporary Wolves of Périgord, more contemporaries Wolf of Sarlat...

I think people have really, really lost track of how fantastical the 'mundane' can actually be. A fight with a bear could be very exciting IMO. I remember the first time I read Lord of the rings, how terrific the battle with a few orcs and and ogre was in the Mines of Moria. To me that was...

As I said, I haven't used swift actions in my campaign, but if I understand it based on this definition SRD:Swift Actions - D&D Wiki I would say yes, that sounds right. Do you see any issue with that? G.

The general rule of thumb we have used for actions has been that any action which can draw an attack of opportunity requires spending an MP. So many Free actions would cost no MP. For move-equivalent actions I may charge two MP, depending what they are doing or how far they are moving (i.e. at...

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Yeah it would at least be cool to re-introduce that for monsters. It's kind of silly for them to just hold their ground and fight to the death no matter what. I think the Squad Leader tables had an interesting dynamic which could be very interesting for an RPG. Basically you have to roll...

Thats a tough situation, and it sounds like you handled it extremely well. You may just have a point or two of BaB you didn't even know about. I experienced a lot of violence growing up in New Orleans and I've seen many people go through "fight or flight" situations. It's interesting how...

I like the idea of the rules being simplified a little from 3.5, the "completeness" in the endless quest for perfect balance did somewhat strangle it in my opinion, but only if you throw rule zero out the window which I didn't do. The simplicity of 4E is nice but the WoW stuff with the...

just like the picture in the codex in the "when animals attack" section :)

We made a new forum for the codex. There is nothing on it yet. But of course I'm going to continue to answer anything posted here needless to say. http://www.codexmartialis.com/ G.

In our system, when you allocate a die to active defense it basically works for that one attack. You get the value of your die roll (or the best of multiple die rolls) plus your defense rating. Each active defense roll defends you against a single attack within the round, once you have used...

Yes that is basically how we have been handling it. The integration with magic here introduces some other possibilities which we only begin to address in the codex. At 40 pages its basically limited to combat. But you may have noticed there is a small magic section in the appendix which (very...

How do you like the Martial Feats? And what do you think of how the weapon stats work?

If either of you are interested in a copy of the Codex let me know I'll send you a comp coupon. G.

it's not a bad idea to be honest... Yeah I like what they did with E6 from what little I know, I'd like to learn a bit more about it. By all means, thats why I posted this so other people could use it. Mention the Codex if you ever publish it ;) Thats a good idea, you mind if I borrow...

I'm not certain what you mean but I'll take a stab at it. We decided to keep the number of dice in the Martial Pool low to keep the system fast. You could have fun playing with larger number of dice but it could eventually slow down I think. If I understand what you mean by iterative attack...

Thanks for the explanation. It sounds like our system is quite different then. G.

Hi Mustrum, Yeah I think that it a pretty fair way to characterize it. Two things to clarify: 1) is that we don't do re-rolls per se. The attacker and the defender have to decide how many they will roll before rolling. So this makes it sort of a gamble. You can't decide later after a miss...

There have been so many developments in DnD over the last four or five years, I don’t know if this is new or not, but I thought it might spark an interesting discussion (and maybe I’ll find out if anyone else has done this). The Martial Pool is a system we have been using in our house rules for...

Thanks guys much appreciated, was kind of freaking there for a minute.