Iron Heroes

Armor in armor

feeds@yuku.com (MadmanAtW) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:39:43 GMT

So I am using a heavily modified version of Mellowship's Armiger in my campaign. The player pointed something out to me that I hadn't really noticed- in the RAW, the armiger can reduce the weight category of the armor by up to 2. In MS's version, however, it can be reduced by up to 3! There's no benefit to lighter than Light, so my player has insisted that therefore, he should be able to design and build armor heavier than Heavy. (This...

Power reach weapon w/ exotic proficiency?

feeds@yuku.com (jfry) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:56:37 GMT

Hey y'all, some friends & I're going to start an IH campaign soon for the first time. I'm considering creating/proposing a way to have a polearm with both power and reach. I assume that the reason Glaives &etc aren't power weapons is for balance issues. I'm wondering if the use of feats/proficiencies would mitigate that?

I could picture either saying there's a new polearm (e.g. a "Heavy Glaive") that grants reach and power, but requires an...

OGL question

feeds@yuku.com (wrathgon1) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:56:17 GMT

Hey all, does anyone know if the feat system is Product Identity or Open content? I got a d20 i am writing and would love to use feat system in it. Any help would be great.

Sleight of Hand to Perform

feeds@yuku.com (Elric Lornhood) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:29:45 GMT

I am playing a weapon master(scimitar) who is in a carnival as a performer. She does a weapon display/flaming sword spinning/sword swallowing and twirling kind of thing. Right now I have a new perform(weapon display) to cover it, and also have maxed sleight of hand for juggling.

My question is could I just be using sleight of hand to cover the weapon display too, rather than 2 skills to cover it? By splitting them up am I screwing myself by wasting skill points I shouldn't...

Archived Design Diaries?

feeds@yuku.com (hagen kirk) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:41:29 GMT

Mike's Design Diaries related to IH are not found on Monte's site anymore, presumably done after the sale of IH. Does anyone have these archived anywhere?

A free Iron Heroes mini-adventure

feeds@yuku.com (Jagyr Ebonwood) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:56:41 GMT

In preparation for my upcoming Iron Heroes game, I've been looking for an adventure suitable for 1st level PCs. I happened across the Spider Farm by Stuart Marshall. It seemed like a simple, fun little adventure, but it was written for AD&D. So, I spent a little time and converted it to 3e and Iron Heroes.

I changed the main villains from goblins to bandits, because my campaign...

[RQ] Improved Shield Bash 7 and Bucklers

feeds@yuku.com (DuelingBlue) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:35:02 GMT

A character has Improved Shield Bash 7, and several Shield Mastery feats.

He is also equipped with a buckler, and a two handed weapon. We will call him Throgdorina, or Throg for short. :-)

Under normal circumstances, Throg has the +1 melee defense bonus from the buckler, in addition to the bonus he receives from the Shield Mastery feats. When Throg attacks, the bonus from the buckler is lost until the end of the round.

First question. Is the extra defense from...

Increased magnitude access for the True Sorcery arcanist - y/n?

feeds@yuku.com (Jagyr Ebonwood) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:26:42 GMT

I'll likely be starting an IH game in a few weeks. I just picked up the pdf of True Sorcery in preparation for the game.

I've thought about changing when the arcanist gets access to the various magnitudes. As I understand it, "First Magnitude" for the arcanist is actually "Student of Magic," and "Second Magnitude" is actually "First Magnitude" etc. (my first houserule will be to change to names to match the rest of the book, for...

More attack challenges

feeds@yuku.com (MadmanAtW) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:03:59 GMT

Moving to another thread because it's no longer an RQ.

Looking at the FAQ and Errata wiki, there is this:

Q: For attack challenges, should there be a "no Hail Mary" rule on challenges where you already need a natural 20, to stop people "loading up" on penalties that don't mean anything?

I could certainly see this being added as a house rule by many Gms, but it brings some other issues: what about...

Iron Heroes Class Re-Designs

feeds@yuku.com (durendal) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:10:59 GMT

Hey All,
I'm finally going to get to run an Iron Heroes campaign, so I'm going to be posting many a question over the next long while...

First up though:
What class re-designs are really really worth including? I like the look of Hong's Weapon Master, and Mellowship's Armiger, but I don't want to use other re-designs simply for the sake of it; so which ones should I be busting out?

On the same note, are there any particularly fantastic house...

[RQ] Attack Challenges

feeds@yuku.com (MadmanAtW) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:54:50 GMT

On page 205 of the rulebook, the Attack Challenges section states: "Unless otherwise noted, an attack must hit and inflict damage (in other words, your damage beats the target's damage reduction) in order to grant you the challenge's benefit." There are then 10 attack challenges listed, not one of which notes otherwise. Should I take this to mean that every attack challenge in the RAW only works if you hit and deal damage? Would that mean that taking Bonus Damage only gives...

Proposal: Merits and Flaws in an Iron System

feeds@yuku.com (Alkalannar) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:07:52 GMT

I started thinking on this based on the Oriental Adventures thread. I've never seen OE except for the bastardized Rokugan version. However, I love Legend of the Five Rings, and part of what I enjoy about it (and other games, like a lot of White Wolf) are the merits and flaws that allow for character customization.

So how could merits and flaws get put into an Iron system?

Well, we're already spending points to get stats, so merits and flaws could be assigned a...

Looking for a thief conversion

feeds@yuku.com (Alkalannar) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:44:51 GMT

I thought I read somewhere in here about a thief that had some of the seedier parts of it changed a bit to be more like a Rokugani Courtier. (Not that those aren't seedy if done properly, but it's seedy wrapped up in kimonos with a chance to meet Kahicko! Rawr!) However, I seem to be failing my search check, and I don't quite have the patience to take 20. Could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

Attacking into a grapple

feeds@yuku.com (MadmanAtW) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:59:53 GMT

I'm curious how many people use IH's attacking into a grapple rules unmodified.

IH is the only variant of 3.5 (that I know of) that has the "randomly pick who you hit" when attacking in on a melee attack. AE, Pathfinder, and for that matter 4E remove it entirely, and 3.5 only has it for missile attacks. Why is it there? Sure, when the grapple is two people rolling around on the ground, I can kinda see it... though I would think you could try to time it right if you...

Magic Items (IH: The Return players please don't read)

feeds@yuku.com (MadmanAtW) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:02:37 GMT

Magic items in IH are supposed to be... problematic, if they exist at all. In my campaign world, the gods went missing about 100 years ago and with them went magic's stability, thus the lack of Wizards and magical macguffins. But, sometimes it's fun to just throw in a magic item anyway... along with all kinds of drawbacks.

So I wanted to start a thread for people to post fun magic items they've seen or used to intrigue or abuse their players. Any takers?

A few...

WC feats and passive def.

feeds@yuku.com (Elric Lornhood) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:58:21 GMT

2 things that were once discussed a lot were wild card feats, usually how to make them more flexible; and that passive defense was too easy to hit the higher level the characters get. I found one idea on the wiki for passive def., just granting half the active to passive when a stunt or token ability causes it, and nothing about wild card feats. Few ideas considering the amount of talk.

So I am just looking for what everyone may have decided on concerning these or if either have...

IH Supplementals

feeds@yuku.com (DuelingBlue) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:20:19 GMT

We've got the player's companion. And an appendix in True Sorcery. To my knowledge, those are the only non-adventure non-setting supplements for Iron Heroes.

But, IH is still based off of 3.x, and there is a mountain of supplemental material for that. What do you use? Anything?

It is harder to channel a spell if you have a high inteligence?

feeds@yuku.com (MrGoblin) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:41:29 GMT

How does the following make any sense?

To channel a spell a spell, you must make a channeling check. To do so, roll 1d20 and add your mastery in the school of magic you want to use. Your channeling check has a difficulty class equal to the amount of mana spent on the spell + 5 + your Intelligence modifier.

Your intelligence modifier makes it harder to cast the spell?

Combat Reflexes EM5 and A'soO[RQ]

feeds@yuku.com (Elric Lornhood) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:46:55 GMT

In general, is it 10' worth of movement that would provoke an AoO or 10' of actual distance moved?

I ask this with regards to combat reflexes 5 specifically, so also with regards to moving through difficult terrain w/in an enemies threatened area in general.

Does it mean anyone who enters your threatened area provokes an AoO from you for using 10' worth of movement? Or does one have to move 10 actual feet/2 squares of distance?

If it does not...

[RQ] Mobile Defense

feeds@yuku.com (Randall Jhen) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:11:47 GMT

The description for the harrier's Mobile Defense says, "... you gain an active bonus to defense equal to half the number of squares you moved."

Two paragraphs later, Mobile Defense says, "As with mobile assault, your bonus equals the number of squares you physically move, not the amount of movement you spend."

So does the bonus equal the number of squares you move or half the number of squares you move?

'Course, if this shows up in the...