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17 hours ago, Duke Bushido said:

_Always_ have a held action.  If you don't use it as a counter-attack, take a Recovery with it.  As soon as you use a held action, get another one as soon as you safely can.

Using a Held Action for a Recovery is explicitly banned from 4e onward.

Yeah, the text is ambiguous. It's, "like a Block in HTH Combat." (6e explicitly requires a Block roll.) I'd allow it unless there was a SFX-based reason why it shouldn't work.

3 hours ago, C.R.Ryan said:

For Ize Zumi in L5R who jump off of mountains I'd do like a mega scale teleport with no velocity, heavily limited for that specific event.

You don't need Megascale. You only need to teleport to a Fixed Location (1 mm over the surface you are about to hit), Triggered by the impending impact.

Muppet 1776

On 2/2/2023 at 8:21 AM, Cygnia said:

"Whatta you lookin' at?"

4 hours ago, Opal said:

A hundredfold,  you say?

 

D&D:  yipe, from 8d to 800d, we're all dead.

 

Hero: so +35 Apts is x128, call it 33pts, +6.5d? It a KA. 2d, then? Explosion. Ok, roll your fireball +1.5d

Don't forget that the original attack was probably getting some damage past your defenses, so that's an extra 2-9 points straight to BODY. It's gonna hurt, even if your character won't be immediately reduced to ash.

14 hours ago, mallet said:

I am 100% certain the the WotC game plan is to change that business model. They want to go all digital, all subscription based. Charge DM's $10/month for a subscription and players $5/month. Now that group of 6 people I mentioned earlier are going to be spending $35/month to play D&D. So in 10 months they will have paid what the originally spent on the books, and everything after that is more profit for WotC. 

Typical (modern) corporate behavior. Instead of selling a product, they sell access to a product. They want to sell the same product to the same users (not customers!) every month. If they don't want to pay? Too bad, everything they had goes away. It's disgusting.

Hello! (Again?)

5 hours ago, Old Man said:

Regardless of whether the OGL1.0a survives or not, this is the biggest opportunity for non-d20 RPGs in two decades.  I'm seeing an explosion in discussion board posts about what other RPG systems to try, and even calls to action to deliberately switch to non-d20 systems, all purely to spite WotC's cash grab.  Is there like a gofundme where I can contribute to Hero Games' marketing budget?

What year is Stranger Things up to? It might be worthwhile to suggest (to the showrunners) to have the characters switch to Fantasy Hero, which came out in 1985.

I once did a set of 25-point (aka, "first level") characters as an experiment. There wasn't a lot of room for customization, but all the archetypes were buildable and were distinct from each other.

Another one off to the Great Game in the hereafter. RIP, Darren.

16 minutes ago, Asperion said:

 

Now you can exterminate that cake 

They're supposed to be pine trees.

I made lemon pound cake for Christmas Eve. It was delicious.

The future is a 15-minute remix of, "The Girl from Ipanema" and I'm cool with that.

12 hours ago, Logan D. Hurricanes said:

I sense a story here...

 

Friends! Romans! Countrymen! Lend me your ears!

On 11/9/2022 at 1:42 PM, Duke Bushido said:

Is Find Weakness not a thing anymore?

On 11/9/2022 at 1:45 PM, Christopher R Taylor said:

6th edition eliminated find weakness.

The canonical replacement is to use a Naked Advantage on Armor Piercing or Penetrating (typically taking a Half Phase or longer and requiring a skill roll).

2 minutes ago, Cygnia said:

Dare I ask what your other numbers were...?

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