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Kaja Rainbow posted:Regarding the doll people, yes, they aren't handled quite as well as they could be, but not as badly they could be. I certainly felt it was viable to play one in a non-creepy way (and she was created for a different purpose than companionship anyways). I'll discuss it a little more once Prof's actually covered the relevant parts of the setting. Yeah my second character was one of these doll people, she was given to a Master Martial Artist as a gift, and he ended up training her, much the the chagrin and jealousy of his pupils. When he died his students took out their anger on her, using her as a training dummy. In the process she got injured/broken and had various parts replaced with kijin stuff, making her an even more deadly training dummy. Eventually someone came through and dealt with these jealous pupils and she went off in the world to try and understand her place. This character had a massive Empathy, and the fighting style that let her use Empathy to fight, and ended up with tons of aiki and then burned for all the kiai and went Asura. This character was my second character and replaced the Guyver like character I had that used a Demon-of-Battle annelid and the one 5 karma archetype that automatically had the Dead Box filled, which does things but makes it more likely to outright die. This character lost control and was sniped by another character.
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Don't forget that Sean K. Reynolds, aka must nerf monks whenever I can, apparently had something to do with the book. And has more or less gone on record of saying that he purposefully made options terrible so that no one would actually play as monsters.
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May 23, 2014 00:21
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Both interesting, and in general probably better than their early stuff. At least more interesting. Too bad most of the stuff in Tome of Magic was unusable, or at least subpar powerwise.
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May 23, 2014 00:22
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Asimo posted:Yeah, pretty much. There was really no reason to ever play most monster races with ECL considering what you give up in class levels, let alone the ever important caster levels. Yeah I haven't had a lot of experience with Basic and stuff like that, but a lot of those look interesting. Want to try the Treant, and maybe Sea Giant or whatever it was called, probably some others as well. But well I only play on the forums and no one has run a game allowing these. 50 Foot Ant posted:Ignoring ECL could work. Hell, there was tons of workaround posted that made monsters viable PC's. I still want to play in an all monster party. I have wanted to build a treant monk, or gelatinous cube monk but gelatinous cubes have no playable rules, but hey they made a fiendish gelatinous cube monk for one of their articles.
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May 23, 2014 00:53
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I had a game where some of the players used those Oslecamo's Improved Monster Classes, some seem a bit powerful while others seem fairly balanced. I have wanted to try them myself, but never had a DM willing to let me. A while back some of us on IRC had talked about how a all monster game using them might be interesting.
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May 23, 2014 23:38
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I can't remember if I ever actually got to play Spycraft 2.0, I know I tried to run it once, but it seemed interesting. Also apparently there is a supplement that includes playing as basically Transformers. Now that is something I really wanted to try. This also reminds me, did Fantasy Craft ever get done in Fatal & Friends? I looked in the table of contents in the OP and didn't see it. Though that might be because the table of contents hasn't really been getting updated. Man I wish someone would run Fantasy Craft again, or the Spycraft Transformers stuff.
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Sep 10, 2014 18:38
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I think there was a third one as well, but I don't remember what 80s cartoon it covered.
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Sep 10, 2014 19:06
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Oh yeah Light of Olympus I think had some stuff like medusas, centaurs and minotaurs, might be port-able to Fantasy Craft, not sure. And Classic Fantasy had things like elves, which are probably a bit different than the versions in Fantasy Craft.
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Sep 10, 2014 19:25
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I am looking forward to Teenage Mutant Ninja Dinos. Or maybe less teenage and less ninja, but still badass mutant dinos. I still kind of want to try a TMNT game playing something like a Dino. Or from the core book maybe an elephant for something relatively big and strong, or I kind of like the idea of a Porcupine, with its natural armor and spikes for when things try to punch or kick it. But I don't think anyone is likely to run another Palladium game, even if it did involves mutant dinos. Don't think I have had a chance to look at the Transdimensional book with the Dinosaurs, so I am looking forward to it.
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Dec 14, 2014 23:29
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How about a Trollkin Stone Sorcerer/Pugilist oh wait that wasn't on the list, then how about a Trollkin Stone Sorcerer/Fell Caller.
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Dec 30, 2014 03:11
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Yeah I want to try the Path of War stuff. Speaking of Path of War, and of spellcasting fighters, there was a playtest for a Path of War expansion class, I believe to be released in a followup book. Away from the materials right now but it was definitely more magical than the normal Path of War and Tome of Battle stuff. Had a feature that added Int to either melee attack rolls, AC, or something else I can't remember off hand. It eventually got a choice of movement features like enhancement to speed, or flight, or teleporting as a move action. It got stances and maneuvers like the other PoW classes. Some were choices already available to the other classes, some we're new and more magical, including a stance that put up mirror images, stances or maneuvers where they used someone else's defenses, hitting touch AC but also being hit on touch AC, etc. The class had a curse mechanic where certain abilities would curse the target and other abilities, stances and maneuvers would either only work on a cursed target or would have additional effects on a cursed target. They also ended up with an extended reach or something.
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Feb 26, 2015 00:08
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Twice I tried running this game. I really want to actually try playing it though. Maybe this Fatal and Friends writeup will get someone interested in running a PbP game of it. Also at this point I almost feel like you should throw in a fourth person, a Village Hero or Would be Knight for a bit of a meat shield. Although that would require reworking the sitting order, and thus who gets what guest starring/bonus. EDIT: Also I was unaware of the Bear playbook. Forget the Would Be Knight and Village Hero, clearly this group needs a talking Bear friend. Ryuujin fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Mar 30, 2015 |
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Mar 30, 2015 05:10
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Yeah a Party of Talking Bear, Nobleman's Wild Daughter, which is yeah another great playbook, and Witch's Apprentice sounds like it could be fun.
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Mar 30, 2015 05:15
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Huh yeah. Last time I read through this stuff was sometime before that movie came out, so I didn't even think about that. Also just took a look at the Bear playbook, which is up for free on their site, and it is not a warrior class. It is actually one of those multiclass Warrior-Rogue ones. And some of its results involve cooking.
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Mar 30, 2015 05:24
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What does quote:1 The blacksmith was kind to you, and you often sat at his forge, trading stories. or quote:6 The innkeeper loved your strange songs and tales. sound like to you?
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Mar 30, 2015 05:27
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Kai Tave posted:Having gone and examined the Village Bear playbook for myself it turns out it was made as a thank you to Benjamin Baugh, aka Bailywolf, a game designer and author most notable for Monsters & Other Childish Things and The Kerberos Club, as well as regularly championing the inclusion of talking, adventuring bears in games over on RPGnet. I'm not making that last bit up. So that explains that. So Bailywolf made the Village Bear playbook, looking for discussion of it I came across the RPGnet thread where they were talking about Beyond the Wall, and where Bailywolf was working on the Bear playbook, and apparently also a The Curious Wyrm playbook which sounds like playing as a Hatchling Dragon. Looks pretty nice, but still doesn't actually look finished. But yeah if someone ran Beyond the Wall I would love to roll up and play a Village Bear. Xelkelvos posted:Better question: Is Sir Bearington a possibility? Not entirely sure what this means but I will try to answer. Grab one of : quote:3 You were part of a mighty warrior culture, fighting wars against dark creatures far from the lands of men. +2 Str, Then maybe one of: quote:3 Being a kind hearted soul, you believe that men and beasts can help one another. +2 Cha, +1 Dex Then probably: quote:7 You served your time with a human militia, aiding them in the protection of their lands. +1 Str, +1 Con, Then the most knightly sounding option for the next roll would be: quote:2 How to defend themselves from enemies as yet unknown. +2 Str, +1 Con, Next would probably be one of: quote:2 You use your thick hide to great advantage to turn your enemies’ attacks. +2 Con, Then one of: quote:1 Though it pained you to do so, you protected a group of villagers from a maddened lesser bear And finally probably one of: quote:1 You will end forever the threat of the violent northern raiders. +2 Str, Ryuujin fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Mar 30, 2015 |
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Okay then, keeping in mind Village Bear starts with a 5 Charisma instead of 8, we would probably pick:quote:12 You lived in a forest filled with social beasts of all types who shared a culture all their own. +2 Cha, +1 Dex, quote:3 Being a kind hearted soul, you believe that men and beasts can help one another. +2 Cha, +1 Dex quote:1 The blacksmith was kind to you, and you often sat at his forge, trading stories. +2 Cha, +1 Str quote:4 The proper method of boasting about one’s mighty exploits. +2 Cha, +1 Int, While this is a Warrior-Rogue multiclass it doesn't have a huge selection of Skills, and Boasting is probably the most social skill it gets. quote:5 You fight like a truly wild beast and bewilder your attackers. +2 Cha, quote:Again the first is better for getting a high Charisma quote:5 You will find one of the remaining great wyrms and befriend it. +2 Cha, If you take all the Cha +2 options, you actually end up with 18 Charisma, if I didn't miss count, and with the way skills work you would be rolling d20 and trying to get under your stat. Which would mean 18 Cha +2 Boasting would be trying to roll under a 20 on a d20, taking into account any modifiers for the roll. For Boasting at least. For things like lying, bluffing, etc it would be rolling a d20 and trying to get under 18. Though Village Bear can actually speak so don't really need to bluff people into thinking you are talking English.
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Speaking of Beyond the Wall and the damage of weapons the Village Bear has this to say:quote:A Bear: Bears have a base AC of 13, may bite for 1d8 Much like the non human races have some special advantages and disadvantages because of their race, the bear gets that. And looking at the bite and claw one would wonder why would they ever use the claws? But then it says they may attack up to three times a round in some circumstances. Presumably that would be claw, claw, bite. But it doesn't really specify what those situations would be.
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Mar 30, 2015 08:22
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Nessus posted:Also I'm gonna post about NIGHTBANE, the Palladium RPG, later. Believe that. Nice, looking forward to that.
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May 18, 2015 19:26
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Still disapointed in the things that didn't make it to the 5e Hackmaster, like Monks, and possibly some races. I think the 4e version had Half-Ogres as well. So I would say a Gnome-Titan Fighter groin stomping to victory, and a Pixie-Fairie Thief.
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May 24, 2015 19:43
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Dungeons the Dragoning, it is the game that should be run again, but not by me.
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Jul 10, 2015 04:48
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I once made Diablo using Nightbane, but I don't think the options necessary are in the basic book.
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Sep 1, 2015 19:30
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How does Self-Orctulized actually work? The items you get have uses, but it makes two of them permanent? So you can just keep using them? Or you still have limited uses but they recharge somehow?
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I remember hearing one works kind of like a Shapeshifter option, presumably Alteration? Would like to see that.
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