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1. I would have the characters roll everything normally but divided by half, if the toughness is exceeded tell them it is knocked out. They are choosing to hold back their hits after all. Descriptive choice of hitting w/the flats of the blade or something. Maybe not allow bows unless they specifica...

Third game session last night. A good time was had by all. The PCs are entering the Mouths of Madness underneath Castle Zagyg. A couple of questions came up: 1. Subdual damage. How does this work? The PCs wanted to capture a goblin for questioning, and wanted to knock it unconscious. But how? We de...

Good stuff I Hope??

1) Split Resilience into two passive DPs, one to handle magic and the other non-magic harm. Okay, but we could do this without introducing a third DP...just by allowing Toughness to handle part of that. I think Toughness can handle poison, environmental, etc, since it already encompasses Endurance ...

This is worth thinking about. The creatures would have to have slightly more HP to compensate. But I also think that there should be more than the 3 types (fodder, standard, exceptional). Right now, my mind is focused on converting creatures from other sources. And until ERP comes out with a Monste...

What if we got rid of resilience for non-full fledged creatures? Instead, make harm spells go directly to HP as other damage does. For other types of spells (Curse, influence, etc), give them opposed roll based on type. What if we got rid of Resilience for ALL creatures, NPCs, and PCs? Non-spell da...

2nd session: Down one player, who couldn't make it. Allowed the other PCs to roll for his character. Session went pretty smoothly. Realized that I hadn't stressed Scrutiny enough so the 3 PCs having trouble beating base challenge in this. Except of course when I wanted them to fail....The dice be cu...

Proposed Fodder, standard and exceptional creature resilience change: What if we got rid of resilience for non-full fledged creatures? Instead, make harm spells go directly to HP as other damage does. For other types of spells (Curse, influence, etc), give them opposed roll based on type. Fodder: 1d...

I'm not sure of the difference. They seem the same to me. Anyone care to explain? Bolt would be like an arrow(Couple feet in length or so). Stream would be like Ghostbusters proton pack stream... But they both have the same range (MRV x 2). One is just thicker than the other? Is there any differenc...

dunbruha wrote:I'm not sure of the difference. They seem the same to me. Anyone care to explain?

Bolt would be like an arrow(Couple feet in length or so). Stream would be like Ghostbusters proton pack stream...

In most games combats can drag if too many rounds pass. It may depend on the game, true, especially if the system is really focused on TONS of combat options (like 4E), but I've found no matter the game there is a limit to the number of combat rounds can pass before things start to seem a little mo...

dancross wrote:Did they use the occupational guidelines, or make up their own?

They did though they are more "on the path" then actual occupation yet...

I did this table some time ago, to answer my player's question "how good is my 3d4 ability?". Well, it's not surprising that rolling more dice rather than bigger dice provides better chances for success. Even 2d6 (6 CP) is better than 1d12 (8 CP). But... we have some specialized character...

I be here. (Actually more for the deer in headlights look than real shock )

One of my regular groups started ERP tonight. Def were positive about the freedom in character creation. They made some pretty cool characters. A paladin/ranger type, a paladin/knight type and a mystic warrior w/ a weapon type. Pretty cool range though I would have liked a rogue type. :) Unfortunate...

My wife (Carrie) was really happy that the reviewer understood the length of the published character sheet has more to do with providing lots of notes space and easy-to-read organization than implying major rules-heaviness. I do like the streamlined one based on her original better, and will be usi...

Hey, I was interviewed by All Games Considered, a neat podcast. Check it out, the portion dealing with Eldritch Role Playing starts about 30 minutes into the program, but if you're Robotech fans you'll enjoy hearing a lot about recent happenings with Palladium's mech offerings in the first half of ...

dancross wrote:I was afraid of too many choices...but Seth is adding spells to the arcanists for GenCon.

Makes sense.

I am also going to give the players some more spells to use next week, as magic didn't get much use. The spell list are not complete for the pregen characters. Dannumara should have 10 spells at her lvl according to the rules as should Kristianna. So giving more spells would definitely not be out o...

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StormPatriarch wrote: Could I keep it for a snowy day instead?

I don't think that question ever came up in the playtest...crap.

Well I think it should have...Playtest should cover everything right?????

I am going over the sample adventure, and I am wondering how many trolls are suggested in the encounter F-A. The paragraph above says "This creature is a troll...", but then says "...the trolls will stomp out of the forest...". The monster stats say "Trolls", but have ...

Yes, that's right, I'm discounting your racial bundles. :lol: Reduce CP cost for races by 10% each when first creating characters (round down). This rule applies to any race, including humans. Sounds like a retail ploy...I am not buying it?!?!?!?!? :? :? :? Go ahead, splurge...keep that extra point...

dancross wrote:Yes, that's right, I'm discounting your racial bundles.

Reduce CP cost for races by 10% each when first creating characters (round down). This rule applies to any race, including humans.

Sounds like a retail ploy...I am not buying it?!?!?!?!?

Imagine a character with Arcanum d8 > Mystic study d4 > Pyromancer d4 and Arcanum > Psychogenic d8 > Mentalist d8. He's better at psi than at wizardy, and both Influence and Harm effects first deplete Resilience... So, he's better off bombarding a foe with weak Influence mantras, any mantras, even ...

I would like to extend a thanks to all of the folks on this board who've contributed, asked questions, and given this game a shot. I've heard your requests, gathered a team, and I'm preparing to deliver the sort of material you're all requesting. Progress has been slow, since this has been a "...