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Re: Corrupting influences in 6E?

Re: The cranky thread Agreed. In other news, for some reason, I cannot look at the word 'white' when I type it without thinking I spelled it wrong, even though I know I haven't. It just ...looks weird. Edit: In semi-related news ... seriously, guy on D&D forums? How can you play D&D for as long as you claim and not be able to spell the word 'Ogre'? It's not even a hard word to spell! If you were trying to spell Ixitachitl, I might understand. But you spelled Ogre with the 're' reversed five times in four sentences. WHAT THE HELL?! And this post ... really? It's HONOR, not HONER. Geez.

Re: Corrupting influences in 6E?

Re: How To Build: Split Personality character

Re: OK, so I ordered 6E Fantasy Hero How (or if) alignments are done is dependent on setting and GM and such. I wouldn't let you do 'only against evil people' because morality isn't a codifiable universal force in my game. Only vs Undead, Only vs Demons or stuff like that, sure, but 'only vs evil people'? No dice. My suggestion: Buy the spell as AE selective.

Re: Corrupting influences in 6E? Basically, seems like a Transform (you get all evil and twisted and crap), though in most of those settings once you're fully Transformed you're as good as dead, so you go to NPC-ville. Obviously, you defend against it with Power Defense (in L5R, you'd have protective spells or Jade that provides it).

Re: Fantasy Economies: How closely should we examine them? Or it could simply be acceptance of the conventions of the genre. This is a game, you shouldn't have to micromanage like that; at that point, it goes from being fun to being work. It doesn't need to be realistic, it just needs to be playable.

Re: The cranky thread Editorial Note: I don't actually believe this. I swear, I must be a jinx. The two people who regularly sit adjacent to me at the clinic have both had to go to the emergency room in the last month.

Re: When, if ever, would your character kill? Seconded. At the very least, this qualifies as negligent homicide.

Re: How To Build: Split Personality character Multiform will probably be simpler, plus you can account for the different personalities because it lets you chance Psych Lims.

Re: OK, so I ordered 6E Fantasy Hero Multipowers are allowed if your GM says they're allowed. AFAIK, standard 'by the book' however, spells are bought separately. Limitations bring the cost down quite a bit (either of those spells could easily take 5 minutes to cast, for example). Also, in 5e, standard Turakian Age FH rules included a cost multiplier than divided spells final costs by 3. If I ever run FH again, I'll probably raise the starting points for PCs, but I may well require point expenditure for equipment instead of purchase.

Re: Making Hero 6E More Dangerous (Skyrealms of Jorune Conversion) ? This is a big part of why I prefer less-lethal or non-lethal games. You get one character, you know you're going to be playing it for a while, so you have reason to invest in, and focus one, just the one. In my experience, the higher the character turnover rate, the less time and effort a player is willing to put into a character. Why spend more time designing it than playing it?

Re: Making Hero 6E More Dangerous (Skyrealms of Jorune Conversion) ?

Re: Making Hero 6E More Dangerous (Skyrealms of Jorune Conversion) ? Perhaps Body damage only. If STUN damage was included in that, all you'd really accomplish is making everybody buy craploads of Lightning Reflexes because He Who Goes First Wins.

Re: When, if ever, would your character kill? Every character: Only when absolutely necessary to save another life.

Re: Making Hero 6E More Dangerous (Skyrealms of Jorune Conversion) ? Just set low defense caps for PCs, particularly in terms of Resistant Defenses.

Re: Fantasy-Less HERO?

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Whispered to my wife during the first 10 minutes of Cars 2: "So, I guess they've got the spy movie car chase thing down cold ..."

Re: Fantasy Economies: How closely should we examine them? A little of both, really. Ultimately, I think fictional worlds nigh universally fall under Bellisario's Maxim ("Don't examine this too closely").

Re: Fish-Men This is dependent on the campaign world in question. If you're the DM, it's up to you. If you're a player, talk with the DM and see if there's a place for that in his world history.

Re: Fantasy Economies: How closely should we examine them? This gets into the basic principle of 'we're playing Dungeons and Dragons, not Accountants and Merchants'. It's the same reason that a tiny little domino mask completely protects a superhero's identity, or why villains never attack when the magical girl is transforming or the robots are combining; certain suppositions are simply true because of the genre you're playing. They don't necessarily make sense (and often don't), but That's Just The Way It Works.

Re: Fantasy Economies: How closely should we examine them? In theory, sure. I would think he could probably come up with something just as lucrative that would involve less work, though, if he was that good, though.

Re: Fantasy Economies: How closely should we examine them? If one decides to be that realistic, presumably the laws of supply and demand would continue to apply. Unless you've suddenly created a massive need for those products, merchants will buy as much as they think they need/can sell, and no more, leaving you with excess materials laying around serving little purpose.

Re: Fantasy Economies: How closely should we examine them? Mine's similar, yes, but few priests are quite so fervent as to attack people just for debating them.

Re: The cranky thread Dear Sir, While I do commend you for walking down the road towards traffic while wearing your headphones, so that you can see other vehicles approaching and whatnot, I would like to address your attention to that flat, long, narrow concrete surface three feet to your left. It's called a SIDEWALK. Other cars would not have to veer around you if you would merely turn left, take three steps, turn right, and begin walking again. Thank you.