09-26-2017, 11:56 AM | #21 |
Wielder of Smart Pants
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
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Re: House Rules
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09-26-2017, 12:38 PM | #22 |
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Re: House Rules
Old house rules I'm probably going to add back in:
1. Two-handed weapons used in two hands get to re-roll 1's on damage dice (but you must take the re-roll). 2. Small weapons (dagger, knife, small sword) get to rapid strike at no penalty. |
09-26-2017, 01:35 PM | #23 |
Night Watchman
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: House Rules
Just one additional strike? Irrespective of Weapon Master/Trained by a Master?
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09-26-2017, 06:35 PM | #24 |
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Re: House Rules
I thought that you could only rapid strike once in a second regardless of any other circumstances.
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09-27-2017, 10:15 AM | #25 | |
Join Date: Aug 2016
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Re: House Rules
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EDIT: Ah, I remember now. I don't like the standard Henchman templates as substitutions for the professions because to me they are too generic and I would have to merge them with their Delver lenses and balance the changes to get what I want and keep the point total below 150. And since On the Cheap pretty much already does this, it's work I don't have to do. Last edited by shadedmagus; 09-27-2017 at 10:45 AM. |
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09-28-2017, 10:36 PM | #26 |
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Re: House Rules
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09-29-2017, 01:55 AM | #27 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way, Infinity.
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Re: House Rules
Specific Weapon Parry -3. Hard Technique. No Default.
To raise it to match your melee weapon Parry would cost you 4 points. It never made sense to me to have a Parry Missile Weapons skill. The skill itself doesn't do anything. You'd never roll against the base skill. |
09-29-2017, 03:49 PM | #28 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Saskatoon, SK
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Re: House Rules
If I used this, it would just cut the penalty in half, stacking with WM/TbaM.
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09-29-2017, 03:52 PM | #29 | |
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Location: Saskatoon, SK
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Re: House Rules
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Plus, Henchmen is a bit more restrictive in starting point totals due to being written for two different purposes.
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09-29-2017, 06:18 PM | #30 |
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Northern Virginia, USA
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Re: House Rules
I'm planning to start my first DFRPG game with as few house rules as possible. Just because it's a new game and it makes sense to give the rules as written a fair shot. Also because that's easier for new players if we keep the DFRPG mostly self-contained rather than pulling in too much stuff from GURPS and overwhelming them.
One area I might want to house rule is languages. The adventure I want to run relies on languages beyond Common a bit, and I think it would be good if most PCs started with two languages. The templates as written only allow more languages for Clerics and Wizards. I think I'm going to make the tiny change to say that everyone can buy more languages, and then maybe even hand out extra points that can only be spent on another language. That way the dwarves and elves will all speak their racial language, without having to mess around with the templates too much to find the points for it. And the other races will also get another language, to be fair. Another area I plan to house rule is character point awards. I want the PCs to return to town at the end of every session, so that if not everyone makes it every time we can easily leave some PCs at home without continuity problems. I play to enforce that by only giving points per delve, not per session. If you insist on staying in the dungeon, fine, but it'll cost you points, so don't. (A cheesy min-maxer might immediately see a loophole: spend the session walking back and forth to the dungeon several times. Said cheeselord would soon learn that the minimum points per delve are zero not one.) But even for those two small house rules, I'd like to discuss with the players before deciding for sure. |
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