... I pretty much agree with what you wrote, and woul dextend it to magic in general: Magic should not be about doing better by magic what you can already do...
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Klaus Æ.
klaus_ae_mog...
Mar 9, 2012 2:36 pm
... You should post a link on the D&D Next forum at WotC's website. I agree with much of your criticism, but to be fair, D&D 4 has dealt with the stacking...
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symphony88ing
Mar 13, 2012 2:27 am
LotR has the super armor known as Mythril armor. Frodo makes use of it to stop a blow from a cave troll in the Mines of Moria that *should* have killed him....
45594
Torben AEgidius Mogen...
torbenm1
Mar 13, 2012 8:38 am
... Mithril armour is not really magic, it is just made from an incredibly strong material. I know the distinction between magic and imaginary materials of...
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David Lamb
dalamb54
Mar 13, 2012 1:54 pm
... I'm not sure what specific scene in the forest you might be referring to, but I recall Saruman's power as being his persuasiveness, an extraordinarily...
45596
Peter Knutsen
peter_knutsen
Mar 21, 2012 5:01 am
< http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/rpg-create/files/Sagatafl/ > I've re-done the layout (again). It's not too pretty, since I did it in MS Excel 2003, but I...
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Raven Daegmorgan
greyorm
Mar 22, 2012 3:20 am
... It's honestly been years, so you may be right on that. I seem to recall something about the languages coming first, in that the Prof. spent a considerable...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
Mar 22, 2012 10:19 pm
Hi All, I was just directed to a forum post at the Forge that consisted of: Thinking about work that's to be done before the end of the Forge forums, I'd like...
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Abrigon Gusiq
abrigon66
Mar 26, 2012 5:45 am
I am here to check on if I posted my D6 RPG here and ... Mike...
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Mark Walters
mark_a_walters
Mar 26, 2012 5:36 pm
... and what? ... -- -Mark [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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iconoclast_
Mar 27, 2012 11:02 am
... And see if it was attacked by Ninjas!!!...
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Benn Grant
xipelord
Mar 27, 2012 12:38 pm
.And he took an arrow in the knee? -Benn Grant eFix Computer Consulting <mailto:benn@...> benn@... 603.283.6601 From: rpg-create@yahoogroups.com...
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Peter Knutsen
peter_knutsen
Apr 1, 2012 3:15 am
I had the opportunity to play the computer game "Skyrim" a few days ago, and it has given me two ideas so far. One involves adding special effects to some...
45604
Wayne Imlach
wimlach@...
Apr 1, 2012 3:02 pm
I’d approach the problem by breaking it down into why damage is actually caused during a fall and simply derive it from existing values: a.. Weight of...
45605
ennobee
Apr 2, 2012 2:15 am
Crazy idea, but if you already have a 'jump factor' for movement, why not just take the same factor for fall damage? Just make 'jumping' a modifier for falling...
45606
Peter Knutsen
peter_knutsen
Apr 2, 2012 8:32 am
... I've now attached some Non-Linear Effect numbers to the various possible stat values (from -3 to 12), but "normalized" so that an average stat, of 3, gives...
45607
thirdkingdom
Apr 8, 2012 2:29 pm
Been a long time since I posted, what with life going on and stuff. Anyway, two hundred some pages into the Third Kingdom PHB and the file became corrupted...
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David Lamb
dalamb54
Apr 12, 2012 1:26 pm
There's an illusion in the kind of wimp-to-god levelling CRPGs and MMOs that we're talking about: you don't *really* get a lot better as you level, because...
45609
Peter Knutsen
peter_knutsen
Apr 13, 2012 9:30 am
... [...] ... Are you familiar with EVE Onine? I've been playing it for 5 years and 1 month now. There are no character levels. You have five attributes,...
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David Lamb
dalamb54
Apr 13, 2012 11:14 am
... I had heard the name but knew nothing about it; thanks for the example! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Peter Knutsen
peter_knutsen
Apr 13, 2012 5:24 pm
... One of the real charms of roleplayng gaming is the potential for world impact, that one player character, or a small group of player characters, can affect...
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Torben AEgidius Mogen...
torbenm1
Apr 14, 2012 3:41 pm
... "Fun With Dick and Jane"? Torben...
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Peter Knutsen
peter_knutsen
Apr 15, 2012 8:11 pm
... As far as I know, it's fairly common for investment funds to devolve into ponzi schemes, once profit-making fails. -- Peter Knutsen...
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Torben AEgidius Mogen...
torbenm1
Apr 16, 2012 6:53 am
... In Fun With Dick and Jane, Jim Carrey's character gets promoted to PR manager just before his company folds because of the actions of fraudulent managers....
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Peter Knutsen
peter_knutsen
Apr 25, 2012 3:31 pm
Pendragon RPG, based on Chaosium's BRP system, goes a long way towards a comprehensive definition of a character's personality, irrationalities and biases,...
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Japartridge
talus_perdix
Apr 25, 2012 8:00 pm
I would be quite interested to hear if there and hear details as well. This seems to be an area largely ignored in rpgs. I've always been impressed with the...
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Peter Knutsen
peter_knutsen
May 2, 2012 12:47 pm
... I find the MB thing underwhelming. There's so much it *doesn't* cover. It fails massively at being a complete description of a person's personality. ...
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David Lamb
dalamb54
May 10, 2012 2:23 pm
I've been playing around with a "heroic" RPG design based somewhat on Keith's leveled-but-classless Echelon ideas. Once upon a time I posted an idea that...
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Torben AEgidius Mogen...
torbenm1
May 10, 2012 2:32 pm
... This is the place to discuss all aspects of game design. You will certainly hear a lot of opinions, and some of these framed as criticism, so you would...
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Keith Davies
jdk_kjdavies
May 10, 2012 3:34 pm
... As Torben said, if you look for comment and critique with context, you'll get better results. Without the context, you stand a higher risk of getting...
