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Jet Fuel Johnny said:
Death Knight has specific connotations in D&D. The reason you don't see it in Pathfinder or any other 3PP supplement is it was one of the few things that WotC set off to the side for themselves (Along with beholders, mind flayers, and a couple of others) as distinct IP of WotC. (You could get permissions just by writing in. It was more to catch those who really violated the SRD than anything they had planned to do)

I'd name it something else, since Death Knight brings to mind Lord Soth more than an armored death dealer.
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fair point. I'll leave some potential suggestions below

dark paladin

grim guard

black knight

actually already changed it. Will likely get started on editing the classes and finishing the spell lists through this week, though I won't be posting them in full for this thread to avoid clogging it up. I will let people use the fully finished versions I have if they ask and brainstorm suggestions for them in private
 
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Jet Fuel Johnny said:
Death Knight has specific connotations in D&D. The reason you don't see it in Pathfinder or any other 3PP supplement is it was one of the few things that WotC set off to the side for themselves (Along with beholders, mind flayers, and a couple of others) as distinct IP of WotC. (You could get permissions just by writing in. It was more to catch those who really violated the SRD than anything they had planned to do)

I'd name it something else, since Death Knight brings to mind Lord Soth more than an armored death dealer.
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Although Pathfinder does have a 'sanded-off-the-serial-numbers' version of the death knight, called the graveknight. Those fuckers are actually worse than death knights; like liches, they won't stay dead unless you destroy their armor in a very specific way.
 
Yeah your Death Knight was in the Fiend Folio, I think. That's a weird book, part of it came from White Dwarf magazine. Way back when, Games Workshop was a game store chain that sold lots of company's products and reviewed and did content for them. Before they became solely into their own games, which now are only the Warhammer games and I think they still do Lord of the Rings (checked: it's called The Hobbit now and seems very pared down but yeah), they had a monster of the month article and magazine readers could mail in home-made creatures. The "best" of them got put into the Fiend Folio along with some monsters (Drow, some demon types, some of Gary's creations, etc.) . That's where the Death Knight came from.
 
Can anyone tell me the mechanical differences between 4th and 5th edition shadowrun?
 
Simple. Take all of the out of control dice pools from 4th and clamp them down. No fun allowed! Then take aside your hacker and piss in their face for a while, double the length of time if they're a technomancer. Now you have 5th edition.
 
So after a month break, we got back to my DM's campaign. The elf that we rescued turned out to be royalty. Her bond animal is this giant wolf with electrostatic fur, and we managed to meet up with her father. His kingdom would like to join the coalition due to us rescuing her daughter, and he's gotten on good terms with the party, especially the druid (who I play), considering the fact that I told him the pirate race's weakness to ice, which got me a ruby. After telling him how we found his daughter, one of his soldier's got the drow, and an elder elf used a scarab to suck her brains out. We also picked up a gnome bard and a human wizard who were working at the hotel we are staying at.
 
Just encountered a discussion amongst friends who were talking about how the new Vampire book panders to the alt-right, and how terrible Zak S. is and how he taints everything he touches and he sends hate mobs after people, and now that White Wolf said the guy calling them Nazis in his blog preview was a liar, that they've been negatively affected by Zak's influence and how dare they call that guy a liar...

And it's completely not worth getting into with them since in part I simply don't care enough but also I know they would just reeeeee at any counter-claims that didn't fit their pre-conceived SJW narratives, but I just wanted to vent that it's apparently standard form for SJWs to say that White Wolf are trying to appeal to their alt-right gamergate base and how offensive that is.
 
So I got pretty close to finishing up all the edits I had for the classes I posted last night over the course of a few days. Couldn't quite clinch it but I decided to try again on finishing them up and the spell schools and spell lists along with the edits to the adventure I have planned starting tomorrow in a much more focused set each day. I won't be sharing it on here like I did with my 1st post on this page but if anyone wants to see what I'm working on, I'll tell them what I have done and what I have left for them to view, critique or even use as their own
 
Currently grinding through 5th editionVTM, the art is naturally awful as per white wolf tradition. Seems to be nudging back to the 'street' level game or earlier editions, which is nice if a little bit of a step down from the conspiracy wars of 3rd and 20th. Although their's a couple of real head scratchers such as Quitus being merged with Thaumaturgy under the catch all 'blood sorcery'-which makes no sense.
 
To be honest, I have no interest in VTM 5E. Between resuming the metaplot and the drastic mechanical changes, I think I will just stick with 20th Anniversary Edition. It's fairly metaplot-neutral and can support a variety of styles and themes.

I like the idea of going back to the street-level style of 1E, but V5 seems to be a case of one step forward and two steps back. I love the street-level campaigns of VTM 1E, but I also like VTM 1E's noted lack of metaplot and its mysterious open-ended setting.
 
Next Task said:
Just encountered a discussion amongst friends who were talking about how the new Vampire book panders to the alt-right, and how terrible Zak S. is and how he taints everything he touches and he sends hate mobs after people, and now that White Wolf said the guy calling them Nazis in his blog preview was a liar, that they've been negatively affected by Zak's influence and how dare they call that guy a liar...

And it's completely not worth getting into with them since in part I simply don't care enough but also I know they would just reeeeee at any counter-claims that didn't fit their pre-conceived SJW narratives, but I just wanted to vent that it's apparently standard form for SJWs to say that White Wolf are trying to appeal to their alt-right gamergate base and how offensive that is.
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One of RPGNet's mods who was perpetuating this myth went on Pundit's site to issue an apology when she couldn't turn up any legitimate prove of Zak being a harasser or a transphobe. Of course, she later started doing it again.
 
So, going to be taking a break in life before I have classes start up for me again in great detail and will be reviewing and editing all of my rpg work along with the real possibility of doing a campaign for my college and the sign up for the boy scouts game design merit badge starting up next week on wednesday. I'll be sure to share any tidbits I find interesting with this thread and such. Wish me luck
 
I enjoy Traveller 5th but hard to get a game for it. Mongoose Traveller is easier for players to get into. Really don't bother with GURPS Traveller other than to take stuff from it for other games.
 
Wallace said:
One of RPGNet's mods who was perpetuating this myth went on Pundit's site to issue an apology when she couldn't turn up any legitimate prove of Zak being a harasser or a transphobe. Of course, she later started doing it again.
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Was it Zeea? It was Zeea wasn't it.
 
So after September 3rd I should know what days/ hours I'll have free to go back to doing some role playing. Hoping for some Friday or Saturday games long as the kids are well behaved (they wont be but I can dream)
 
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