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Incence or a similar substance could work for air; perhaps in a perfume bottle. Fire could be sulfur (Brimstone); certainly a stand-in for fire. I'll need to think on that before giving my (unofficial) opinion. On the one hand a specific substance rather than just the nearby equivalen is a greater l...

(Normal explanation of its your game and what I say isn't official spiel) Hmm. That might work as a theme "Elementalist" Since its rock s/he are looking at first, I'd go with Theme "Elemental Merging" 1 Armor (only useable when touching substance) +1 rank limit 2 Attribute to STR...

...and there's no point in even trying to talk to the Trolls about it until after GenCon. <sigh>

Mike, waiting for later in the month to bug Steve!

I suspect that is cruely, cruely true. <sigh>

I'm proud to be among the 12 though!

GM Mike, who scoffs at FB

So, who's the current admin of the forums?

Mike the Confused

Who do I talk to about getting the errata thread in the Victorious forum as a sticky? I went looking through the list of admins and the latest one of them signed on was 2015?

Mike, wondering where all the admins have gone...?

My gut reaction is no, since this is a (theoretically) updating list. It'd be hard to regularly update via blog-post?

Mike, who just posts and doesn't know the details on how pages work!

Here's one that came up at tonight's game. * Totalling power slots for xp chart advancement is set at character generation. Purchase of new powers when a character goes up in skill level do NOT add to the xp requirements; they are considered part of the level advancement. Once those initial powers a...

Here's the latest post from the Victorious site, regarding everyone's favorite Amazon in the Victorious RPG:

http://victoriousrpg.com/2017/07/28/won ... ictorious/

All comments welcome,

GM Michael

Just finished re-reading books 0-3 in the Classic Traveller (little black books) for the Save for Half podcast review.

I'm HOPINg we can finally get to Castles & Crusades for episode 7!

Mike, who won't need a lot of reading for that show!

Frankly I do that in Victorious in my home game. I look at the PC's xp charts and just wing it from there. High xp characters might only level half as much as the lower xp characters. Since you're eyeballing it, it doesn't have to be exactly "balanced" (God I hate that word!) so long as th...

<shrug> We'll just have to agree to disagree. Like I inferred in my first post, "Doctor Who Canon" is kinda like "Star Trek Canon" in that there's so much out there that's frankly contradictory you can make an argument for most anything. In my view, the past shows have portrayed ...

According to prior "Doctor Who"-ness, The doctor regenerates when he's near death to a new body. While its been stated he can turn into potential aliens, he's always turned into a human looking man. Most Time Lords (his race) appear as human; no aliens. BTW, this is to explain when DW gets...

Argh. That's all I gotta say. OK, maybe not. If they wanted the Doctor to be a woman, why not have the "doctor" apparently die and his clone Genny decide to honor him and take over as the Doctor? Or Susan? Romana? Though I know the perils of arguing DW canon, this just doesn't make sense. ...

Do you have the numbers for those WD issues? I've got the WD CD ROM but don't want to dig through issue after issue.

Mike

<nod> This time of year is usually busy for all concerned. I'm teaching summer sessions at the college and that takes a lot more time being so condensed. I look forward to the game, whenever it happens. You might say that "H&H" is as old school as you can get; since that was what we di...

Hey Tree,

Send it to me or Liz and we'll stick it on the victoriousrpg.com site. Alas, I can't access google docs.

GM (but not for this game) Mike

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=77505 Dammit, RIP! Good guy - old time C&C fan. :( Crap on a cracker, this is....rough. :( I never met him, but we chatted in emails and on forums for years. Words really do fail... Clang; say Hi to Gary for us in the Great Gaming Room ...

Hey Lurker, To your q’s: 1. In baseline Victorious (ie Gilded/Neutral Chronicle) damage is automatically subdual. If you want killing damage you have to specifically state that. Sort of the reverse of C&C where all damage is killing and you have to specifically state subdual. IMC, all firearms d...

I think Targeting would be ideal, because as its written... Target (Wisdom): This ability allows the Hero to study a target and discern any weakness in their defensive capability. With a successful Wisdom check (adding the appropriate Wisdom bonus and class level to the roll), it allows the Hero to ...

Hm. Interesting, and something I'll need to chew on a bit. Two things come to mind though: 1. Don't forget the skill Target. This basically allows one attack to ignore armor or many other defenses. I was specifically thinking of the martial strike for this one. 2. Suppression: You could suppress an ...

Yeah, Happy BD, GP!

Not to apologize for the Trolls (again) but I think most people's emphasis is moving to Facebook. I hate that, as I prefer forums to FB but its the facts.

GM Mike

I run into more trouble with students when I try to explain why the British in the 18th century would rather have a German Protestant ruling Britain than a British Catholic!

GM Mike

Buttmonkey wrote:I either eyeball it or just roll a d6 and take my cue from the result.

Same here, though I sometimes use a d10. Weaker Chaotic monsters are more likely to run to save their skins while Lawfuls are more likely to stick it out.

GM Mike

Yeah, good job! I too felt that Ravenloft just didn't 'get it.' ;) Regarding the later morality of the Victorian era, some of that was imposed by Queen Victoria. Her uncles George III and George IV were notorious rakes (the former with bouts of madness) and after George IV's death there was real tal...

Yeah, despite being a bit rambly there's a lot of good stuff here about the Guild and its history!

GM Mike

Save for Half Episode 4 1/2: "Judges Guild Seminar" Thanks to intrepid reporter DM Jim, we at Save for Half present the 2017 North Texas RPG Con seminar on the history and future plans of the Judges Guild, presented by Bob Bledsaw Jr. If you didn’t make the con (shame on you!) or missed th...

"Ogre", a 5th level Human Fighter, died in Tegel Manor. He left his semi-lucrative career (CHA 6) as a pole dancer only to die at the haunted mansion itself. A lich cast "Irresistable Dance" on him. Fortunately for him, a pole was nearby. :) "He died doing what he loved...&...

"Ogre", a 5th level Human Fighter, died in Tegel Manor. He left his semi-lucrative career (CHA 6) as a pole dancer only to die at the haunted mansion itself. A lich cast "Irresistable Dance" on him. Fortunately for him, a pole was nearby. :) "He died doing what he loved...&q...

Wow, sonds rough...and as someone else in academia (though an adjunct) I can sympathize with the 'fun' of dealing with both faculty and admin. :( I don't know where in LA you are, but there's a ComiCon in Tyler TX (East TX, about an hour from Shreveport LA) at the end of October that we go to regula...