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If debated having him forget spells that he doesn't use, since he focuses so completely on 3 of his spells and almost none of the others it would make sense to me he might start to forget the others. So your punishment for him abusing these three spells is to take actions to ensure he can take no o...

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Any time a single spell (or group of spells) can be used without any sort of innovative combination and just shot blind into groups with out thought or planning AND be -highly- successful at it, it is not that the player is being clever or smart. They're using a powerful spell. All three of those sp...

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Fullmetal alchemist did a city sized circle , don't see why you couldn't do it in PFRPG.. i suspect it would be expensive though. The main difference between them is that Full metals magic is a lot more lenient in what you can and can't make circles out of. Where in Palladium, the circles have pret...

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What else do you what to know, Cinos? Could you please be more specific? It like birthright, none of the PC's kingdoms are exactly the same. It is meant to be a game of kings and queens, but you do not have to be one, or even be associated to them to play in it. The name of the world is Zenthia. I ...

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Gthomas41571 wrote::eek: Nothing Cinos ...

Nothing other than 4 years of necromancy I suppose.

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I think it was unfortunately an idea a couple years ahead of its time. This kind of thing as an app now would have sold like hotcakes. I don't actually think this was the problem of Promise of Power, since it wasn't really heralded as a phone game, and the N-Gauge was branded as a gaming platform t...

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You spend a lot of time talking about the shiny stuff in terms of gearing, but not at all about the kingdoms which in theory are the foundation of your idea, or the implications for the characters who would get these items beyond what they would do for them. Fill those in and I'd give you a response...

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Sadly ownership rights and the ability to release for various platforms is much more complex than people like to give it credit for. I'm not sure what sort of agreement was signed for Promise of Power, hopefully it had some sort of auto-terminate clause after X years, if not, forget it ever existed,...

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While I would never dispute the intention of the spell includes fire, I dislike the blanket spells a lot, and found after drawing back on this (and similar) spells blanket immunity, the specialized ones where actually taken by players, and it created a bit more of a situational use, letting them swe...

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So Glistam, are you then also for missed melee and/or ranged attacks to do partial damage? You miss a great deal more of the time then you do with spells, since generally the target with have a relatively equal bonus so about 1 in 2 people will avoid damage, much worse then your 2 in 5 for spells. A...

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Now, which part of that requires the person to be a priest specifically, as opposed to just a willing supplicant?

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I'd allow it, if it came up, because they're gods. I might require them to have a priest or something perform a ritual to provide that boost in power. While I don't disagree with your stance, your additive seems to make little sense. That a god would need a priest, whom they are empowering with abi...

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I never suggest the passive-aggressive 'change the date' method. I'd first check with your other players, either one at a time or preferably in a group setting to make sure everyone is in agreement with you that he's a problem for X reasons and he should be either confronted or simply removed. With ...

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Do you know if the damage is progressive? For instance is it 2d6 for 20 ft fall or 3d6 (1d6 for the first 10ft, plus 2d6 for the second ten ft). I ask because with straight dice, a 50ft fall would only do 5d6 (avg. 15 points of damage) as opposed to to 15d6 (avg. 45 points of damage). Clearly a fal...

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I see it slightly differently... you have different WPs because they can be used differently. So, let's say you have WP Spear, and are using a military fork. You can use WP spear bonuses, since it's pretty much a spear. If you have WP Forked, though, you can instead choose to use WP Fork, and use i...

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Forked was the one that crossed the line to me, it feels way over focused. It's like having a WP for short and long knives. And while it's fine for a game to do that (things like Super Spies), Palladium is much more general about its combat as a base line. I can see a lot of leeway for allowing some...

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Spock nothing, time to put in the first Transformers movie. Galvitron shall rise again, in our memories at least.

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I've seen no official listing of the names and dates, in Old Gods, there's reference that the world has largely adopted a unified system, the Timiro Royal Calendar, for their dating system. I'd figure old holdfasts of elven and dwarven city-states in isolation, or those unwilling to send envoys to a...

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the difference between LoD3 and bizantium is that kevin is working on bizantium now. not eventually, not some day, not "coming soon", he's working on it now. it's the next thing to come out. Yeah, you could have said that when LoD3 was first set up as "coming soon" too. The lite...

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Hard to pick only three, even with general catagories. Combat flow and basic rules (Skills and combat) are the biggest to me by far, the game is ultra simple in flat view, and yet observably complex without depth seen in games produced over the last 20 years. Even IKRPG and 4th Ed D&D seem utter...

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from what i can tell, the PB track record of publishing as much as they say they're going to publish has never been in shape in the first place. yes, congratulations are probably a bit premature. but it's silly to paint this picture of a book that's never coming out. it will come out. perhaps not s...

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I've always chaffed very heavily at the idea of being railroaded as a player, so as a GM I adopted a very open, sandbox style, meaning I wing a lot more then I plan. That said, once I have an idea of what I want to happen in a particular game, which can take a few sessions, things will happen with o...

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It's pretty rare I commit campaign ideas to any sort of permanence, keeping it mostly in my head, largely because gaming is an interactive thing, and players will most often derail or otherwise fundamentally alter any long term plan without a great deal of flexibility, which committing down will red...

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Almost got excited because I assumed 'Congratulations' meant the book was shipped. Only the shipping delays was the reason in the back of my mind why I hadn't seen it at my stores shelf. While this is a book I really would like to come out, I'm also not going to put in any pre-orders until PB gets t...

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I think it's something of an illusion when people talk about 'this player isn't playing in character'. There are egregious elements that are easy to spot (player plays a paladin and goes around murdering villagers). The sniper example, both options could be in character, because that's a tough call ...

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Alignment isn't purely a factor. If there are people all over, particularly as you noted there is a person moving through the line of fire, that sniper did not have a clean shot. Even an evil character may not have taken the shot on principle of professionalism and self preservation (if he takes the...

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If the size difference is great, I'll often just disallow it, with shields granted added consideration in that regard. It's hardly a hard and fast rule, but just a common sense thing. I eventually shifted Parry's to be 50% damage reduction (with shields also absorbing that total) to provide a bigger...

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Unless there's a good reason to make them the same (like a band of highly individual characters who will act as the key leadership and a group of villians for a longer plot), just make one orc, then copy and paste. There's no need to get into the nitty gritty for just random orc bandits, they can be...

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UbiquitousRat wrote:Thanks - although that's an awfully complicated calculation to have to make.

Yes, movement in palladium is likely the biggest blank spot in the rules that really needs to be fixed.

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the issue with this idea as a whole, and the reason why D&D / Pathfinder can do this is the strength, or rather the reliability, of the rule set. As a player, I know what rules I will be playing with in Pathfinder, and there's not a lot of room for variations from GM to GM. I can be pretty sure ...

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It can depend at times for me, but generally speaking, it is not an action to activate, I generally limit it to toggling them once per action if required.

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This does lead to some sticky situations. Like Adhesion Carpet being offensive if you want to hold someone in place to shoot them, but not being offensive if they're going to jump off a ledge and you stop them. Actually kiralon's 'offensive part is decided by the target, not the caster' comment cov...

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This entire idea is a very interesting concept in general, done poorly though, it can be ruinous to the mood. However, giving players tools to control their enemy and in part direct who in their party attacks greatly expands the options players have, and it makes the big durable brute with low damag...

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Uhhh did you see the last release for the PFRPG line? It was one of the most shoddy pieces of work they have ever done.. I'm confused? The most recent PFRPG books to my memory are Mysteries of Magic, which was ultra solid with a lot of good writing and interesting magic bits, and before that it was...

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It is just that our GM is very up set about by the new guy telling him how his game should be played. There is nothing anyone on a forum for any game that can do anything meaningful about this specific problem. This is something that GM, player and their group of players need to hash out for themse...

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Doing something against ones will is Offensive. Damage is not a requirement. If I handcuff a person to a door, it is still an aggressive act, even though I've done them no direct harm. Defining offensive acts as only damaging acts opens a huge door of shenanigans, such as invisible entangles, CoA's,...

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Just allowing a person to spend time on a given task to become better, in regards to games, is a system that is inherently broken. However, you can relatively easily break down different advancement aspects (Such as improving a skill, attribute, getting new spells / etc) and assign a cost to each as...

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Palladium Fantasy with Nightbane as a close second

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So long as you're not selling it or distributing it en-mass, there shouldn't really be any copy right issues, which have exceptions for personal use.

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It varies for different games, but in Palladium, most of my players will often avoid combat if they feel it's unnecessary.

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All the books I got from you, where you colored the black and white interior images in are a big hit with my local gaming group. Maybe off topic, but you are among my top 3 favorite unofficial Palladium book coloring artists...or something. Well I'm glad 14 year old me's boredom is enjoyed by someo...

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Rifts: Dark Conversions: I'm a sucker for minimalist takes on things, the simple white siloutette of the plain black background is always amazing. Rifts: Bionic Sourcebook: This sells the post-apocalyptic feel of Rifts waaay more than many of the super high tech covers of many Rift books, it feels l...

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First two books after the core book should be Monsters & Animals, and then Dragons & Gods. Both fill in a lot of gaps the core book leaves, heck the core book hardly even talks about the faiths of the world, which is pretty important. The former of course has a lot of ideas waiting to be use...

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What about using temporal magic to bring said item from the future to the past. Ie. Two of the same rune sword. This I might let fly in a case by case, but the unique weapon would need to follow the same rules a person would. I.E if you state that if two of the same person come into contact during ...

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The conjurer appears to be the only thing that works so far. thank you for the insight. create metal and the warlock spells don't work for the kind of metal I'm trying to replicate (Gantrium, from the northern hinterlands book) a spell, even a temporary one, would be optimal. if not it looks like I...

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I suppose I'm the odd man out as the one who uses the insanity tables with relative frequency (comes up about once per campaign, more for Nightbane / BtS). Though I take a pretty judicious care with it, re-rolling any of the inanities I can justify at least something of a connection between event an...

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Earth Warlocks can alter some materials into metal with lasting effect, I think stone to Iron is the exact spell (and Mud to Stone, so you just go to a river bank, dig up a pile of mud, turn it to stone, then to iron, and bring it over to a forge for shaping).

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One issue would be the timescale. The Atlantis disaster happened some 14 to 15 thousand years ago. Meaning that this occurred sometime during the time of a Thousand Magic. Which means that this was just around the time that humans were just beginning to have a noticeable presence on the world. So f...

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Believe it when it's in stores and not a moment before. I'd say 2015 would be the optimistic view point, but bluntly, I think the optimistic view point is that it will come out at all, and not end up like that first Old Kingdom book that's been 'Coming soon' for the past decade, or LoD3 that I've be...

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I have a lot of my players invest when they can, though it at times depends on their characters. I had a group do a lot of work (some of it for free) to help an skilled (but not fiscally adept) alchemist set up shops in areas they would operate in so they'd always have access to his work, whom they'...

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