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| location | Houston, TX | |
| age | 31 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year |
| seen | 4 hours ago | |
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My RPG History
I started with AD&D2e and Palladium's TMNT in the late 90s, and have moved through 3.5 to 4e (both of which I considered to be improvements over their predecessors), with brief detours in Kobolds Ate My Baby, Big Eyes Small Mouth, the old d6 Star Wars, d20 Modern, and 4e Amethyst. While I haven't played much of it (only some generic/Hunter nWoD), I've read up on most of White Wolf's stuff (oWoD & nWoD, Scion, Exalted) because I like parts of their systems and love their fluff (especially Exalted & oWoD). I DM from time to time but prefer to be a player.
Current Games
My main group recently built our own system, a blend of 4e combat, Iconoclast's FORGE system for skills, and GURPS advantages, because we want something in between 4e and 3.5 and we all agree that DnD Next looks like it's going to be terrible (you can tell Mearls just doesn't understand why anyone might want a playstyle other than his own; polling has let him know that many people don't like what he likes, but he has no clue why, or how to appeal to those people). We made our own setting using Dawn of Worlds (warning, PDF!).
A second group is doing nWoD Hunter, with the possibility of shifting to some other branch (probably Changeling or Geist) once people are a little more familiar with the system and the GM has some more ideas. When we don't have time to play a full session or are missing people, we play Microscope instead.
I'd like to try 13th Age & Dresden Files.
Current Distractions
Currently Reading: Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan books
Currently Playing: Warframe, Penny Arcade: Gamers vs. Evil (on iOS)
Currently Programming In: Ruby on Rails
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May 8 |
answered | Difference between Ranged Sorcerers Attack and Ranged Basic Attack |
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May 8 |
answered | How can we heal HP while infected with Filth Fever? |
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May 8 |
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How can we heal HP while infected with Filth Fever? Once it reaches the final stage, pretty much only the Cure Disease ritual can remove it. "Cannot regain hit points" means even healing that doesn't require surges won't help. |
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May 8 |
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How can we heal HP while infected with Filth Fever? possible duplicate of How does the disease recovery mechanic work? |
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May 8 |
reviewed | Reopen What diceless tabletop RPG techniques are there? |
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May 8 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Can a druid use powers from other classes while in beast form? |
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May 7 |
revised |
Are Masterplan projects equivalent to adventures or campaigns? add tags |
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May 7 |
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What is a good system to play LOTR? low magic |
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May 7 |
reviewed | Reviewed What are the “roots” of the Arts that a standard covenant library would have? |
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May 7 |
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What are the “roots” of the Arts that a standard covenant library would have? Welcome to the site, Tyrrell! This seems like the seed of a really good answer, but we prefer solid facts rather than anecdotes when possible. If you could find the post from the official message board and edit both the relevant quote and a link to the post into your answer, then your answer would be perfect. It's great to someone knowledgeable about Ars Magica here, I know @BrianBallsun-Stanton has been getting lonely. :) |
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May 7 |
revised |
Can a druid use powers from other classes while in beast form? added 53 characters in body |
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May 7 |
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Where are a monster's skills? added 161 characters in body |
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May 6 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 6 |
revised |
Can a druid use powers from other classes while in beast form? title with more google juice |
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May 6 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 6 |
revised |
Can a druid use powers from other classes while in beast form? added 7 characters in body |
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May 6 |
answered | Can a druid use powers from other classes while in beast form? |
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May 6 |
reviewed | Close Incentivizing Player Betrayal? |
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May 5 |
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How can I convert 2nd Edition AD&D to 4th? Having a better answer than someone else doesn't really mean much when you have a thoughtful answer that actually resolves the problem in the original question and the other person's answer basically boils down to, "You're dumb for wanting to do that." |
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May 5 |
reviewed | Reviewed How can I convert 2nd Edition AD&D to 4th? |
