Recent content by Laurefindel

There’s that. The Star Wars movies and TV crowd, the Star Wars computer game crowd, and the Star Wars TTRPG crowd are not the same crowd, event if there are overlapping zones in this Venn diagram. Wookiepedia as a whole, has probably a bigger overlap with the Star Wars movies+RPG part.

Agreed Such a systems should be able to support the narrative, but not driving the narrative. That would take too much place in a Star Wars game, where there should be at least a semblance of plot. A Star Wars RPG should allow a dynamic and dramatic game, but it should also allow other styles...

You mean the game where the goalposts keep changing and new stuff is added at any time? Yeah, that tracks with the media…

Since we’re at it, I have a pretty complete Star Wars RPG based on The One Ring (2e) engine/system. I’m finally happy enough with it to go have it printed and bound; I find it works well.

I haven’t watched the video but from previous Eberron material, Khorovar haven’t build their own world; they acquired a cultural identity which they half developed, half imposed by outsiders’ views. Yet, they have no nations, no leaders, and basically no social representation outside the...

TL;DR: Half-Elves are popular because they can be special without being alien. Now that I have a bit more time, here’s the long version: 1) For a long time, half-elves ans half-orcs were the only options of clearly mixed heritage. You could always roleplay a human of mixed heritage, but these...

Short answer; the are special without being alien.

Worth noting that Embers of the Emperium is mostly a setting book with character options, but requires the Genesis RPG book to be played (unlike the Star Wars games). The older RPG was its own stand-alone game. I never read it but only heard bad things about it.

Hypothetically, it’d be easy to include expected ability score bonus progression into the proficiency bonus and do without ability score completely. That, or keep a universal ability bonus and proficiency bonus separated for the purpose of features with a bonus/number of use equal to ability...

I never used it as a DM, but I have as a player. Low-level area of effect spells (like burning hands) become very efficient, and so do AoE class abilities (one of the players could teleport, dealing low damage to every creature within 5 feet of the place he teleported from). Spirit Guardian...

My go-to answer for that levels 5-12ish; enough that it takes a fireball to drop a bunch of them at the same time, but not too much so that a fireball drops most of them. So somewhere around 15-20hp.

It’s simpler to explain dis/advantage as pick lowest/pick highest because there aren’t any situation where picking the lowest voluntarily would be optimal in RaW, but I don’t think it’s against the spirit of Adv. to pick any of the two results instead of being forced to pick the highest

Personally (as a DM) I could have a lot of fun with this if it's merely meant to inform the player on how much Ying they can expect in their Yang and vice versa, but I'd find it too tedious if it reflected a separate, tangential axis. The method is simple, so point for that, but the frequency is...

I think @Zardnaar was saying that tongue-in-cheek…

That’s the way I would go, and is it not how it was presented in the classes of the apocalypse Unearthed Arcana? While I can see the parallel between defiling and slavery, I don’t think they are (or should be) equal taboos. Both are unethical forms or abuse, but I really don’t see presenting...