Recent content by ouini

Clarifications Bought the paper version from Amazon, going to show it to my 3e group. Until it arrives, I'm pondering a couple things in the PDF: - The first optional 'Action Point Enhancement' (APE?) is something called 'Bound Item'. Does one spend an action point in order to use this...

If our GM and a few other players agree on some aspects to use, I'll be getting the paper version. And thanks for clarifying the dispel magic sentence. That is excellent advice, thank you. Yup, taking gaming style seriously is a compliment. Thanks for the character sheet and quick reply, by the...

Praise, question, ponder Our group looked for fixes to what we saw as 3.5 problems for years. 4e came out, and we found it too high-fantasy, and too much like a video game or CCG. We stopped looking for a while, but I looked again a few days ago, and after passing over PF, found TB, bought the...

Well, there still isn't a one-to-one progression with Monks. I realized/rationalized our a-la carte pricing system staying consistent with all classes but Monks this way: The one thing the Monk class does differently from other core/simple classes -- besides buying up all saving throws every...

My list of feats available to 1st level PCs is out at http://www.leepfrog.com/~kwelsch/vale/1st_feats.doc . I just used the idea that when you pay for a feat, you're paying for exactly one feat. So I split your Martial Artist feat into:Improved Unarmed StrikeFlurry of Blows (which you choose to...

Replies I didn't always, but after looking at it for all this time I do now believe DrSpunj is correct when he says one feat per level for fighters is quite fair and balanced. Really fair and balanced, not FOX fair and balanced :) Like I said, I've played in four sessions with DrSpunj, but I've...

Four sessions of DrSpunj's game with this system, and really it's going pretty well. Everyone seems to appreciate the incremental improvement in their character every session.

Went well Played last Thursday with the new system. The group had already created their characters, but one of them had brought their character sheet, and had "cleaned up" all the little notes and stuff. The notes and stuff had included which armor and weapon proficiencies she had, and whether...

Specific characters. It's just the standard three players. The woman who played Mishka created a human 'heavy'. A brutish thug for hire who lives in the capitol city of the Vale. She knows and is respected by locals in the poor quarter, and has a variety of friends with a range of talents...

But I think it's fair to say that, inside the Nevanna/Oheka groups, I'm the least likely to stick to a class or cookie-cutter feat-tree. Rule of thumb, the more you deviate from classes, the more exceptions and GM-aid you're going to need. I went through and simplified it for 1st level folks...

The system and campaign are fun. But actually, when I said "if you're careful it will only get better," I was as much referring to avoiding over-tuning and complicating it as I was referring to watching for necessary changes. Everybody has a character for my campaign now, btw, and made their...

It goes well The system is working very well. In a nutshell, I'd say this system is actually more fun, but is not for novice gamers, and still reqiures input from the GM, whereas players can work with a class system (core) more independently, but are "stuck" on rails. DrSpunj's system needs a...

If this weapon were proposed to me as a GM, I'd either make them use two hands (if the d12 were their priority) or I'd lower the damage (if using one hand were their priority). But, given that the thing has already seen play, I think I agree with Kiznit (?), who noticed that this is very very...

I like the layout of the featcheatsheat. Ifsokay with you, DrSpunj, I may just use the layout and feats you took the time to organize, and tweak the reqs and prereqs.

SSquirrel: I probably wasn't the only person to notice a while ago that, overall, the mana advancement table for a regular (full) caster that you posted above comes out almost exactly to: - at first level, you get 2-4 points of mana, - after first, whenever you gain a level, add your new level...