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| bio | website | d7.pipemaze.com |
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| location | Vancouver, Canada | |
| age | 32 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 8 months |
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Roleplayer, lapsed blogger, and full-time dad.
Started playing with AD&D 1st edition and started GMing with AD&D 2nd edition. Ran D&D 3rd edition, D&D 4th edition briefly, then became a fan of indie games and the OSR. Particularly fond of GMless and short-form games because they fit nicely into a busy schedule, and are very good for enticing non-gamers into the roleplaying hobby.
- @sevensideddie on Twitter
- The Seven-Sided Die blog
Running Savage Stonehell • Playing nothing • Scheming Savage Worlds in Shaintar • Reading A Game of Thrones
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Apr 4 |
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High-Tech Dungeon Crawling in Hard Sci-Fi Eclipse Phase is about post-humanity people who can change their physical body like changing clothes and an Earth that was razed by a machine/nanotech war. So… :) |
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Apr 4 |
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What can make a dragon familiar suitable for a low-level character? +1 for "maintain balance of players' toys by making the dragon a different player's PC". |
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Apr 4 |
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What can make a dragon familiar suitable for a low-level character? @C. Ross See link in answer on "Tier 1". It's a classification system for character class power levels, i.e., a wizard is more powerful class than a bard, which is itself more powerful than a fighter. Boosting a less powerfully-classed character (with, say, a dragon familiar) is less problematic in terms of balance than giving the exact same boost to a character of a Tier 1 class. |
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Apr 4 |
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What can make a dragon familiar suitable for a low-level character? @C. Ross I briefly played a wizard who had the luck to roll fairly for a pseudodragon familiar. It was great, and the DM relished the chance for my unpredictable familiar to cause me trouble. It was great. |
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Apr 3 |
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What can make a dragon familiar suitable for a low-level character? What are you concerned about balancing the dragon familiar against? Do you want to maintain balance with fellow PCs who don't have dragon-pets? Is it against "level-appropriate" encounters? Published adventures? There are all sorts of different answers, depending on with what you want to maintain balance. |
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Apr 2 |
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What would be the proper mechanics and stats for playing a siege? @Adriano Not at all. What does the question have to do with roleplaying, apart from just being part of an RPG? |
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Apr 1 |
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What would be the proper mechanics and stats for playing a siege? The title could use a rewrite. It seems like a question about rules for sieges, not how to roleplay them. |
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Apr 1 |
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Uses for Science! skill mid-session take a stab at clarifying the title |
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Apr 1 |
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Witch - Octopus Familiar @Baelnorn No reason except that it's not the default state of affairs that the question is asking about. Though, that might make a good answer of the "No, but…" form. |
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Apr 1 |
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Adding an explosive dice mechanic to the One Roll Engine Often the necessary width will be obvious, just because of the way the system works. Incidentally, there is some discussion of this kind of mechanic (called "squishing") in the Reign Enchridion. It's introduced on p 17, and its implications are discussed on pages 67, 73, and 75 in specific Disciplines that enable it. The short is that whether it's useful or not and how much depends heavily on the skill being rolled, even when the player knows the numbers they need; and it will often break games when allowed on martial skills. This is an interesting suggestion, but proceed with caution! |
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Apr 1 |
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Witch - Octopus Familiar @Baelnorn An octopus can actually do fine on land for short periods of time. Captive ones are notorious for escaping their aquarium tanks, walking along the staff catwalks, and sneaking into nearby tanks for midnight snacks. They just can't hold their "breath" for longer than a few dozen minutes. An octopus's stats should have a land speed for exactly such circumstances. |
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Mar 31 |
answered | Witch - Octopus Familiar |
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Mar 31 |
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Can you use a Spelljammer ship to get to Ravenloft? @Brian @AKA I've overhauled the answer to contain the information that makes it informative. |
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Mar 31 |
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Can you use a Spelljammer ship to get to Ravenloft? make the answer clearer using the author's clarifying comments |
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Mar 31 |
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How do you powergame 1st Edition AD&D? fix markdown |
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Mar 31 |
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What iPhone / iPad apps do you use for gaming? format link |
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Mar 31 |
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What iPhone / iPad apps do you use for gaming? format link |
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Mar 31 |
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What iPhone / iPad apps do you use for gaming? heavily copyedit to remove advertising quality. haven't verified any of the claims yet though. |
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Mar 31 |
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The half-elf: is it balanced? That's a great question! You should post it as an actual question using the Ask Question link at the very top-right of the page. (You won't get any answers here because question hijacking isn't allowed—these posts are reserved for actual answers, not just forum-style discussion.) |
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Mar 31 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on How to deal effectively with a player unable to lose? |
