Recent content by R Arceneaux

In re to weither the success is to the high or the low side it makes no difference from a stastic POV...the pure math POV. The odds of rolling any given number be it a 1, 20 or any given number targeted on a proper balanced D20 is 1 in 20. So for a crit 20 or a crit 1 whichever one uses the...

What does the core rule book have for a magic user similar to a Witch? Do the core rules even allow the Witch Profession at all? Perhaps an evil mage person whose deity is an evil deity?

Why does it have to be the opposite? Could it not also be possible that the political position of the opposition could just as well be completely something else different that is entirely different? Could it also be possible that both parties seek the same objective but desire to use different...

In re to... "But I don't know that anyone ever playing badly to win it." The tourney playing was dominated by 3 players that were to be quite honest so good that that one of the three won every tournement taking the grand prize and in most tourneyments the second and 3rd place prizes as well...

Several years ago in was somewhat into a miniature game called Mech Warrior. For those who may not have heard if it, Mech Warrior was a table top miniature war game that mimiced big mechanical robots fighting each other along with rocket fireing tanks etc.. Our little group participated in a...

Every thing is a two edged sword.... If they can board me then I can also board them..... The trick is to shoot down their boarding ships before they get near you in the first place....

Re "You start the boarding action in the same turn as you grapple. That rule is simply there to stop ships grappling, dumping troops, and then leaving the very next turn. " And what is the matter with this tactic. It looks like a perfectly valid tactic to me.

Why is ownership of the ship even needed. The situation could be delt out that an Non Player Character agrees to take the party somewhere if they perform a task for them. The situation could be delt out that a government or military agency could loan them the use of the ship--to be returned...

some rules are just flat out stupid and the rule makers of games do stupid rules to make all things equal. In the real world no two creatures be they human or beast are ever equal. IF in your groups opinion that a particular rule or feat cap in your example is stupid then just as a Roll Play...

it would be only common sense that it would take at least 2 rounds and most likely 3 rounds: Round One grab the ship, Round Two open door or cut opening making your own door, Round three move into the ship. That would be three move actions if you include the initial grabbing of the ship.

Game designers and rules makers of RPG designs have never bothered to examine the famous hand to hand fighters of ancient history.....

My point exactly...

Experience for the purposes of the below is the past history of success of a character (player character or NPC) being given a bonus while doing certain things with age and previous injury factors added in to tweak in a negative fashion as required. And BEFORE yall say it: More charts to...

Here lies the question that makes the rule that defies the real world.. In the real world a thermo nuke does more damage than a hand grenade. Making weapons equal is the deliberate nurfing of weaponry. There is a certain excitement to the ever present chance of instanteous death with no...

Never underestimate the power of a one in a million chance.... Under normal circumstances I would agree with your statement that small weaponry has little damage effect on any 'tough' armor. However, let us not forget the possibility, be it ever so small, that a bullet might hit a very...