And that new players are important - mere fanservice doesn't actually keep the industry alive. And I learned. And I stopped complaining about the text clearly designed to help new players (or in your example case, GMs) figure out how to get into the role-playing mindset. i've taught probably hundre...

I suppose in this day and age even if you buy the rulebook in a bricks and mortar store the next thing you do is hit up the internet to see what else is available. Yep. And I think this also figures into the '...for space reasons' problem too. The ability to provide supplementary material on-line p...

i'm pretty sure the reason is because pistols can be used one-handed and carried easily, so roadwardens can draw up ahd be ready to shoot without having to get out and steady a big two-handed crossbow. besides, maybe they don't own them? what if it's supplied by the state and they're expected to pay...

Just to add my 2 cents. I see no problem concerning snowball effect. 90% of the time is taking the player's side and the rest 10% the players have several options to change it. The way I say it, most important thing is the player's narrative and the game is spot-on on this, along with some serious ...

Just to add my 2 cents. I see no problem concerning snowball effect. 90% of the time is taking the player's side and the rest 10% the players have several options to change it. The way I say it, most important thing is the player's narrative and the game is spot-on on this, along with some serious ...

40k is wildly hyperbolic compared to fantasy, you can't really translate 40k reasoning over to fantasy and have it make any sense. if you wanted to cross something over you'd be better off asking about them specifically to find out if there's anything that can be salvaged than floating it as a vauge...

Oh I am not sure I am the one that really wants to pick a fight^^ I am quite happy overall with the game.And I am not trolling other systems forums explaining why they are bad. Having done my share of fighting with orc costume and latex swords I find the combat rules realistic with the added realis...

Opposed rolls are not a problem in 4e, they are good. Cumulative adv and +60 bonuses yes but easily fixed. opposed rolls are specifically a problem in 4th Ed., because they're done off a single die roll so there's no curve to balance against. this means both that all things being equal there's no w...

Just adding that the idea is to have an Endeavours phase between every adventure, and to limit the number to 3 even if that downtime is longer than three weeks. Central to the concept is also the random events that not only provide spice (inspiration) on what your character is doing during downtime...

as great a bit of fluff as we'd expect and a useful intro to an adventure to bring back a suitably live troll.

although i'm not sure what sort of a group is both gullible and brave enough to take that job...

- "if you focus on only one skill, you suffer elsewhere". Have you heard of party tactics? Any minmaxer knows that increasing your offense is well worth having a low defense, especially if another team member is there to cover for you. Well that is mostly wrong happily. It goes with the ”min/maxing...

the living costs are for maintaining the standard of living, which makes a certain level of sense for gold tier- it's very hard to live the life of a landed noble when you're travelling away from your taxed population. that said, i pretty much immediately discarded the status as a concrete stat. it ...

yeah, the WS is king in 4th so the penalty larger foes take to hit is crippling. it doesn't matter too much how you an multiply damage when you're generally gonna deal 0 damage to begin with. i wonder if that's why they pushed the balancing off onto the GMs, it's horribly complex sorting out how a m...

i fiddled with making weapons and came to the general conclusion that the game mechanics are too hazy in nature to make any concrete rules for crafting. your best bet for balance and gameplay's sake it to ask them to design what the weapon IS and then assign it properties yourself, the system gets v...

Continuing with the tangent subject of the twin tailed comet/orb as a symbol of chaos, i notice that @gideon has just posted a blog post: TOPOS: SYMBOL OF CHAOS , at the bottom of which is an "Unpublished illustration of Chaos symbols, by Martin McKenna, for The Enemy Within (1986)". One of the sym...

I'm afraid I found the creation of a separate Fate/Fortune mechanic to be a failed experiment. The way Resolve points lets you ignore Psychology for a round means that monsters that rely on Fear and Terror are severely weakened. The way you're supposed to get them back (completing "goals") was an u...

I've got two more days before dealing with that family event, don't scare me like that!

the comet is a sign of major events in the warhammer world, and we know that the lizardmen and nehekarians used it as a symbol of their gods as well. it's not surprising or terribly damning that the forces of chaos would natrually link it to their own beliefs. i recall there was a snippet in one WFB...

i'm inclined to say "two systems following the same upgrade system share the same restrictions unless they state outright there is a difference I agree with that logic. But I would start with the premise that "the same upgrade system" here is blessings -> Miracles, not Arcane Spells -> Miracles. So...

converse to easl, the rules for magic list largely identical rules for expanding effects under "overcasting" on page 238 and state that a range of touch cannot be extended magic /= blessings and miracles. They're in different chapters in the book and clearly follow different rules. both miracles an...