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Arrows have much more mass and a similar profile area so they are slowed far less than bullets. But they have lower velocity than bullets, so what's the net effect? The arrow loses a lower percentage of its speed for each foot of water it passes through, so it looses less damage than a bullet passi...

I never got the impression that adepts where other than common. Heroes are not. maybe 1 in 20 people is an adept but most are not heroes. Between military adepts, private guard adepts (including guarding locations and caravans) merchants who are adepts. Air sailors, trubedoors, weaponsmiths who use ...

Bullets lose momentum really fast in water. I imagine that arrows, being slower and having more drag, would be even more hindered. Plus, aiming is hard because of refraction. I'd say unless the target is within a yard of the surface, arrows are probably useless, and even then they'd do less damage....

I would like to give an example of a cooperative action taken tonight, My housemate has only one leg and is cooking mac chees for diner. I assisted by grating some chees, I did this within 1 square of him (about 2 feet) myself and several others put things in the microwave for him. Nobody could argu...

It's mostly a setting thing than about game mechanics. There's the "immunity" of orichalcum and volatility of true elements, and there's the large mining operations that somehow have to make sense. The books, however, focus on player character use of these things. So, for example, there's...

The same issue occurred to me.

My solution was to rule that there would be no benefit to have both the skill and half magic and advise my players not to take overlapping skills. I was not totally happy with this but everything else that occurred to me was too complex.

I can offer an opinion on a couple of those points. Lightning bolts ability to ignore mettle armour is more useful than you think. While there are only 3 types of mettle armour in the book they are the armours most likely to be worn by soldiers, scorchers or raiders, being heavier than leather while...

7) No, that's extra, and more expensive than the elements (it's in the Player's Guide). They are re-usable, though. The other things that bothered me was the 5000sp cost for a container capable of holding 20 kernels of true elements. Even the most expensive of true elements cost 100sp per kernel so...

6) The value of the coin isn't equal to the value of its materials. Much like a $100 bill is just a piece of paper. Given that the nations of earth dawn all use precious mettle coins for currency I find it unlikely that anybody would accept an elemental coin as being worth so much if it didn’t actu...

The point as I see it is that no system has ever implemented cooperative rules in a truly satisfying manner. While they work adequately on the party scale, breaking down a door or doing some research. They always break down at several points, the first being situations where assistance doesn’t make ...