I could see arguments for both sides and I wasn't taking a position. I would want to know all the details if running it as well. You never know if a player is going to do something unexpected and it is always nice if players have a more existential world to play in. Go to Comment

If I play basketball and D&D then my motivation may be the same, I enjoy it or find it rewarding. But what I find rewarding about the two is very different in some respects and overlapping in others. Enjoyment is the conclusion or cumulative response to experince, but stating that I enjoy it does nothing to detail my motivation behind it. "he enjoys it" is no answer at all

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Yeah, I thought him up as more of a fiction. I was (sadly) mowing the lawn, and my brain wasn't exactly required. I think that I'll expand the fiction piece of it at some point Go to Comment

Adam Smith's an actual figure in history? I guess its true that you learn something new each day. I actually just thought of two random, common names, not the Father of Modern Economics. Anyway. Right now, Adam Smith is defined by his murders. Maybe I should make a list of crimes he's committed, or a short bio (detailing the huge inheritance he got, sustaining all his plans- what, you thought napalm came cheap?). But if I do do that, it will happen tomorrow. Or the day after that at the latest. Go to Comment

Update: added crime list. Go to Comment

Update: Added Rudolph's family to crimes and backstory. Go to Comment

His reason for killing? What's your reason for being a GM? What's your reason for, in short, having fun? All have the same(ish) answer. Go to Comment

What is enjoyment? What is happiness? Why do you like the taste of pizza? Why do you like the color blue? Adam Smith has no motivation to kill. If you want to say that it makes him feel more powerful than everyone else, fine. If you want to give him a reason to kill, fine. But my Adam Smith enjoys, for hobbies, making bird houses, cooking and decorating cakes, and killing random strangers. Go to Comment

Good solid start to a magic system. Would be even more awesome if you had a graphic with the different symbols on it to use as reference. But a somewhat normal rune system.

Where does the magic for the runes come from would be good to see. And can anybody draw the runes once they know them? This isn't that complex so not hard to memorize. What keeps others from using it, what needs to be done to complete the rune to make it active...stuff like that.

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Whats the difference between spurting and shooting?
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Palladium uses a system very similar to this and is Extremely detailed... to much so IMHO. But just to get a better idea on how they implemented it you should look that up for what to do, and what NOT to do. Go to Comment

I thought about doing graphics for each runelet, but decided against it. The players would just say that they draw this outer circle runelet with this noun runelet, and that verb. They wouldn't bother with picture, just the names. So I saved some work. If a DM sees this and decides to make some graphics for it for there game, they can.

Though I had originally thought that only wizards can do it (actually, it was more like a 'common knowledge' or assume thing- I never actually thought which class it should to), now I think that anyone could do it. I would say that if you arean't a wizard, you should have to dedicate a certain amount of time (maybe 2-3 months, to practice art, and to memorize the basics), and not do anything in that time frame. A wizard would just start with the knowledge, because it would be assumed that they had taken a class on it at some point.

And where the magic comes from... I'll ponder on that. Go to Comment

Update: added other classes to able to do runes list. Go to Comment

Depends on what the other runelets are. In some runes, it would be better to shoot something (say a stone) than spurt something. In others, spurting would be better. Go to Comment

Update: Added history section, which tells where runes get there power Go to Comment

This submission is a bit dull. I mean, the idea of magic items that come in sets is one that I don't see used to it's full potential that often, but this is just not that interesting of a go at it.

The individual items themselves are fairly standard as far as items go, so they have to hang on the background and connectivity to be really interesting, and there just isn't anything extra there.

It's not a bad submission, it just doesn't really stand out to me. Go to Comment

Well, from a compositional perspective this is not a bad submission. There is plenty of detail, and the majority of the bases have been covered. The subject matter is going to be provocative, but that is probably the intent. If the intent was to be provocative, I think it needs to go further into the matter. Why do they milk humans? Wouldn't it make more sense for them to milk cattle or some other herbivore ruminant? The amount of milk produced is decidedly greater that what a human can produce. What do they do with the gathered milk? Drink it like whiskey, make tiny cheeses out of it? Do they eat humans, use human vellum to make their scrolls and books?

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The logic behind this is flawed.
a) humans treat cows as animals, as cows show no evidence of intelligence not culture, just a herd. You specifically state that Yothats breed out intelligence from their flock, hence are aware of that trait.
b) As described, Yothats lack the capacity to stand against humanity for long. Sure, they are big, but organized into tribes 50 strong - which will fall one by one; their social structure does not support acting in unison for any extended period of time.
c) societies with units of 50 will not have bankers, or even guilds. These rely on a large number of individuals living in a society to support their existence. Go to Comment

Anthropormorphic cat people who keep dim witted large breasted lactating women caged up….

Jonathan Swift style social commentary or Furry Fantasy? More over what would the gals and Dungeons and Diva’s have to say about this?

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/dungeons-and-divas/Content?oid=1536154

I will vote and comment more later when I have time, cause this a gold mine.
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