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I like that, hmmmmm.

I always found the Horror Stalker discipline to be a way to keep the "vampire hunter" part of the "Cleric"-shtick around - as ED dropped the other parts for a related idea (Questors, which Mataxes is also giving a "more Discipline-like treatment"). This is interesting, ...

I'm more worried about re-rolling poor results. There's no reason not to. With "let it ride" the player must do something to change the circumstances before they can re-roll. Distract that guard by throwing something noisy over his shoulder, snuff the light sources, etc, etc. Once the pla...

Let the player know the result of their roll and hide opposing Perception tests ;D, it takes just as much experience to know if you (or some-one else) is doing something well, as it does to actually do that thing well. I also use the "let it ride" guideline: A roll result like that stands ...

I haven't finished reading yet, but agree with the above. I like insta-killing the npc madmen idea, but have it immediately convert them to hostile Cadaver Men, or is that too much of a threat?

Just a note, as it had caused me a headache for a few weeks in the Airship re-design: A combat round in ED4 is 6 seconds, 10 per minute. Otherwise, I agree that these kind of house rules can get messy. I'd say if you really want to implement this, a soft-rule would be fine: In any non-combat (i.e. n...

I've been having lots of fun mashing up Greyhawk and Earthdawn. I've always loved the Darksun setting, but never got a chance to play it it much.

oD&D -> Earthdawn conversions are a REALLY GOOD IDEA (in my opinion).

I always thought that the core of the Vasgothia material was really good from the Theran Empire book, but it needed some re-working to really stand on it's own. Interesting! I'll have to check this out later this week.

It is a magical Talent, after all, not a skill. Not everyone can pick up any object and just _know_ details about it's story after a week of casual study (plus how many Threads can be attached, total Rank, _and_ it's magical effects as you learn each Rank). It's the realm of the Elementalist, Trouba...

Bah, the main link there is broken, but the mirror link pointing to dropbox works:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/925 ... rus%29.pdf