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I have an idea for that for my 4E inspired Arcane Evolved homebrew: You choose a primary and a secondary stat and the rest uses the regular column. I currently even include a full random character generation that selects classes and class specilization, species and what you pick for primary and...

And I would definitely disagree with that. It's highly debatable that IQ tests test more than your ability to score on IQ tests, but you can definitely train for them and be better at them - either that means you can improve your Intelligence, or you can't make any conclusions from IQ Tests. (or...

I can absolutely not say where I learned something about the Greek or Nordic Gods and beliefs. I would say I learned more in depth-thing around the time I went into RPG (which was in my adolescent years), but first exposure was definitely sooner than that. Was it school? Was it just reading or...

I kinda like the idea of teleporting as part Wasn't that the forbidden edition whose name shall never mentioned (except all the times it does?) ;) I must admit, sometimes I like the idea of teleport being something reserved more for the Paragon Tier of D&D for my sense of "verisimilitude" or...

I vastly prefer point-buy, though I think it can feel quite boring, because there aren't that many selections that make solid characters. I wish there was a randomization method that guaranteed that whatever my character is supposed to be good at, he's good at, and he is also good at something I...

Actually, that is one of my "peeves" with D&D - stats barely change. 'Realistically', you might start with about average stats everywhere (whatever is average in your environment, the average might be lower if you live in a time and place where people are often malnourished versus someone...

That would depend - do Dragonborn and Tabaxi only live in far-away lands that are rarely visited by Halflings and rarely visit Halfling areas, or do they live in multi-racial/ethnic cosmopilitian cities?

A short rest is an hour in standard D&D, that's way too long, but I understand that a regular action might make it seem way too fast, and anything more than a single action is awkward to handle and difficult to balance. Imagine if someone was carrying multiple loaded muskets, or had a servant...

One thing of note here: I don't think that any Star Trek RPGs include Jedi as class or ability set (though it might have rules for psionics of some sort that could be used to fill some of those functions, but it might not be sufficient without house rules compromises). And I suspect it also...

Maybe Bard, Paladin, Ranger, Warlock probably. Maybe Artificer instead of Bard, and have the Ranger be spell-less except in some Fey/Nature Spirit related subclass. That means associating with powerful supernatural entities is the more common way to access magic, alternatively,y ou have to...

Draw Steel got rid of Constitution, for example. It has only Might, Agility, Reason, Intuition and Presence. 4E had Endurance and 3E had Concentration as Constitution skills, I think that was it. 4E used Constitution for some classes (Warlock for example), however. (I think 3E did for some of...

I think players shouldn't self-police actually. They should just play it as the Int 18 character having the smart idea. Because no one at the table is Int 3, but also no one is Int 18 either, so very likely, the party with that Int 18 Wizard should come up with way smarter plans than any single...

The last D&D character I played was with point buy, the last Pathfinder character was whatever Pathfinder uses with its background, class and race attributes bonuses. And for Shadowrun 6 I spent the build points I was allowed to spend according to my chosen priorities.

Time to pick a character than can deal with a dump stat, I suppose? Probably Charisma, probably Fighter or Wizard maybe?

I use the Forum List drop-down to go to the forum I wish to visit. Very often, I am opening multiple in tabs, and once I am inside a forum, I will scroll the list for topics of interest and open those in tabs.

But what if the player wants to play a mage? He just happens to want a simple mage? And what if the complex character enjoyer is tired of always playing spellcasters and really would like the flavor of playing a great warrior? One of the reasons I liked 4E so much was that it finally offered...

They can reuse the cast of voice actors freely, but I really think the story of our characters is mostly done and they don't need another world-saving adventure in their life. They could reappear as guest characters, I suppose, but even then, that might make your personal favorite play-through...

Yes. (Partial) nudity moving to fade-to-black it is. The rest is all to the richness of your imagination. (I wonder if some people using their imagination see things there that children shouldn't see, and don't realize that the children won't imagine those things because they simply lack the...

The more often you roll, the closer your average roll result is to the expected average. But it also makes it more likely that in some of the combats you experience, you will have very one-sided roll. A TPK due to a series of poor rolls might be "balanced" by 10 combats were you rolled slightly...

Speaking of old games like MMO2 - what ever happened to the Commander Keen series? Does anyone even remember that? I am not really sure I'd want to play Jump & Run games, but that's a 'property' that hasn't been used in forever.