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It's also worth noting that by having different flavors of heroic resource, it arguably opens up additional design space. For example, Werewolves draw power from a similar source as a Fury, as such, the first time Ferocity is spent in an encounter, the Director gains a bit of Malice, but they...

Assuming I am remembering the same video from Matt, part of it is also MCDM, right now, doesn't seem super interested in another "mundane" (as in completely non-supernatural) class. I'm sure somebody else has, or will, come out with another "mundane" class at some point, but I actually really...

Agreed. It is hard to beat how up front the "What Is This Game?" section in the Introduction is for getting the point across, and I love that there are callouts to other games that might fit what you are looking for instead if you want something adjacent to Draw Steel, but it might not be the...

Sure, but that's more of a table culture thing more than something that can be fixed with game mechanics. It doesn't matter how simple or complex the game or character build is, if a player has no desire to learn the basics of the game and the system, they won't.

That's a really good point. And it also works on both sides of the GM Screen, because as the players have more Victories, the GM has more and more Malice (their meta-resource) at the start of combat, and can also do bigger and bigger effects earlier.

Forge Steel is just as good as Pathbuilder in my opinion, and both make character creation a breeze. Between always having an effect (even if you roll a 2 on the dice, you will still have a Tier 1 effect and do something - you can't whiff and go "well, I guess I wait another round to try to...

Really no W40K RPG players here? Awwwww :(

Recently, I have gotten my hands on a copy of Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader, and plan on eventually getting Deathwatch, and I'm definitely thinking about coming up with a game to run. However, I don't play the tabletop game (I don't have the money for all those minis), and so I figured that I...

First, a Gauntlet doesn't work with FoB. Brass Knuckles do. Second, a -2 to hit, aka a -10% to hit, is NEVER WORTH A MERE TWO POINTS OF DAMAGE!!! Third, if you are blowing a feat to throw Siangham (why, I don't know), sure they might "have the best weight to damage dice ratio", but you...

So I am running a campaign in which there is a heavy presence of wild magic, and I was wondering if there are any really nice tables for wild magic results or rules for dealing with wild magic in a 3.x setting. Any suggestions?

In just about every situation where a PC takes a single prestige class for its entire length, and not when they just take a level or two of it for one or two abilities. Granted, 3.5 didn't help any by releasing PrC's like the Exotic Weapon Master, where the entire point of the class is just to...

Well, they aren't common that's for sure, but Alkenstar has made a 90 inch bore cannon for Taldor... So the technology for them definitely exists, but they would not be common. But I can definitely see some ships on Golarion's seas having a cannon or two; heck, one of the GameMastery...

Personally, I would go with something similar to what Kaisoku said, except possibly a little less obvious. A Great Wyrm Gold Dragon is OLD but is powerful, and I would probably play that up to a fair bit. Make them meet an incredibly old but incredibly fit man dressed in the most ornate...

ranger level - 3, but otherwise you are correct. (Otherwise when you get the animal companion at level 4, you have an effective druid level of 0, and what do you do?!!?!?)

Not to mention, you can take the Thug (Rogue) Archetype!

As a DM many times more than I play, obviously I create and run women fairly regularly, for a variety of different reasons. However, looking at my players play characters, I let some (most actually) play whatever they want, by some I don't let them because I know that they will not be able to...

Personally, I approach my job as DM when planning the game as this: The PC's will rarely, if ever fail. The only time that they risk actually failing (as in "good try, game's over, you lost" as it seems what happened with your group) is at the absolute end of the campaign. Because of the...

In a Star Wars Saga Edition game, I was the only Jedi left in the group (the rest of them died) and we got caught in a massive firefight with some Imperial troupers and a few AT-ST's. And all of a sudden, we see a pair of AT-AT's approaching our position. Seeing those heading towards us, I...

I like the monk, but as many have said, the Core monk is hardly overpowered. Now with the APG out, there are more than a few nice little goodies for the monk, and one of them is particularly attractive: The Zen Archer Why you ask? Well, its got a number of nice goodies (such as Weapon...

Thanks for all of the suggestions, I have a pretty good idea of what I am going to do (those links are particularly helpful). Once again, EN World has come through for me! Yay!