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It has to do with surface area of the impact. The larger the surface area, the more energy is transferred to the intercepting medium. A broadhead tipped arrow will penetrate more than a target (blunt) arrowhead, or a bullet. The bullets that have conical shapes, and thus a smaller impact cross-secti...

The "1 in 20" comes from the book The Adept's Way , which is also reprinted, in part, in the PG and the PC. The speaker estimates that only "1 in 20" have both the talent and the opportunity to become true adepts and not just half-magic adepts. While this is just speculation on t...

In my game, the PC's have run across some Theran storage boxes that hold 40 kernels apiece. These are obviously larger and harder to carry around, but the players gleefully stole as many as they could carry, anyway (turns out that number was 11). A kila is expected to use its firepower more, so the ...

It even goes so far as to suggest that large actions (for example, the building and enchanting of an airship) are not one, but many individual rolls to determine success. In that way, multiple characters can help with the work because there are a large number of rolls needed, and thus many hands tha...

Too much, and too little. The rank 15 effect is the latter (can weild 1 handed but is harried is not a memorable endcap power, I'd remove the Harried condition). Thread rank 7 is the former (makes EVERYTHING easier to use, even if the thread is lost is too much). The whole thing is only Warden coste...

I've got a rough rule in place at my table. Every person who wants to help makes a roll against the DN. On a Poor result and up (Average if it can be defaulted), the assistants add +1 to the main. I use some common sense about how many can help for a given task.

I've found that very few items need to have a ton of ranks to be effective, regardless of their power level. One thing that I've found that helps guage between different item's potency is the Legend Point cost of the item as well as the number of ranks. For example, a Spell Matrix object can have 15...

I just figure the cost in materials/investment for enchanting has been paid for by the Weaponsmith Forging said weapon up. Spend a month fine tuning your efforts and ping a minor thread item pops out. Weaponsmiths have a much easier time making thread weapons than anyone else (of course, they should...

It doesn't take a standard action to use, only to begin hiding the object(s). Once they are hidden, the character can attack with a hidden object and, if the target doesn't make the perception test, gain the benefit of surprise vs. that attack. EDIT: Of course, this means that the attacker is droppi...

Assuming, of course, that there is a market for such expensive animals. Just because you have 10 tons of gold and gemstones lying about, does not mean that you can sell them all in one session, or even in one month.