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You're turning Durability into hit points per level? Have always found the personal control over the Durability Talent the players have as a major plus compared to the other level based games on the market. 3e Karma rules, imnsho, blows chunks. It was a poorly thought out mechanical change done, fro...

There are times when I like to use a battle map. Having the option in the rules for grid use isn't a bad thing, ime.

And SR5 still needed more play testing. And good grief, WTB errata. ED4 can take a long time to come out, just make it a good product all around - art, system, setting (should be easy), layout, and editing. Tell me about it. We were, surprised(an understatement), at what was released as 5e. ED shou...

I believe the armor penetration issue for Disciplines that rely on it may be mitigated depending on changes with how called shots and Spot Armor Flaw are handled. A called shot could still be used to hit an area without protection, and Spot Armor Flaw could be adjusted to make attacks function like...

Wasn't that the Players choice having a PD of 6 or 7? Yes. Do you want to play a game where all players choose to have a high Dexterity? Compared to a game where people will be plopping as much armor as they can on themselves? There used to be this quandary that the players would need to work throu...

Here's my thinking: Characters with a low Physical Defense don't really have an alternative way of protecting themselves from combat damage -- you can take some armor, but armor defeating hits against them make that pointless (and its a lot easier to get AD hits on them once enemies have a few rank...

Right now the intention is for it to just do extra damage -- helping overcome armor in the case of armored opponents, or doing nastier damage to unarmored targets. This makes better attack rolls useful in all circumstances, and also helping mitigate the "great attack, crummy damage" scena...