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You could look at world building as a game....or just play a game of world building: Dawn of Worlds game.
It's a 12 page PDF that breaks world building down into a game you can do alone or with some friends to achieve a unique world. I believe that there is a good thread going where some posters are going through it and using the thread to document their progress at building the world...it's pretty interesting and gives a good basic framework of many millenia-long history.

I just love that James Jacob's quote basically boils down to "technically you can per RAW but the haft of polearm is not really a good weapon and I would allow someone to trip someone with it but not do damage". So a long pole isn't a good weapon for doing damage. Guess we should houserule staffs and long staffs to be unusable....
That statement, meant only to nerf a RAW rule, is really pretty stupid.

Jimmy "Big Daddy" Ho-Chunk wrote:

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It would be pretty interesting to have the sword grow in power as Karzoug does.

I was thinking that also...have it's abilities develop and unlock as the PC levels up. Just remember that this PC will never need to spend money on his weapon....make sure that you adjust accordingly or you will see him get overpaid and have better equipment than others in the group...

Martin Luther King's famous speech discussed the deplorable fact that after a hundred years of legal freedom, "the negro is still not free". That was more than 50 years ago today. Police brutality, uneven judgement, ...[SNIP]........milar situation to what white poor workers do, and would do better to join them in the fight to improve conditions for the poor everywhere in America. But that will not happen, because people who define themselves as...

Well stated. There are people here who are trying to dissect what I posted to figure out what type of racist I am but the truth is that I am not racist. I would rather see racism and discrimination in general addressed for the real problem that it is. It should be about a change in people's attitudes towards other people. It should be about respecting everyone's right to be here. It should be about removing negative perceptions passed down through generations, religious doctrines, and in society. It should not be about giving assistance based on ethnicity but rather based on need.

I just love how "we shouldn't discriminate" is all about putting into place laws that benefit the minority in ways that makes them have advantages over more populous groups but never addresses the attitudes towards the discrimination.
I was in a union before where I needed an 85% on my tests to become a journeyman. Meanwhile the African-americans only needed a 65% because "we need to allow easier access so that we can be more integrated". All this did was cause a rift between caucasians and african-americans in our union. The caucasians were mad because it was unfair.
You can't cry for racial equality and then give out special advantages to certain races. Change the attitudes that cause the problem. Punish employers who truly are being racist and not the ones who are just weeding out people who are unqualified for a certain job.

I am caucasian and I feel like the government doesn't give a crap about me. If I was from India I could fairly easily get a deferred interest loan to start a business in America. As a caucasian I need collateral, education, a business plan and model to submit, and then I will still get turned down. If I was any number of minorities I may have actually been able to go to college with some fund or a scholarship or somesuch. As a caucasian I better hope mom and dad can help or I need to shoulder the full amount on my back.
Every time something white on black happens in the news we practically have a race riot, whether or not it was racially motivated. Yet when a white guy is robbed/killed/carjacked by a black it is just a crime even if the black admits to looking to target a white person.

The things that are supposed to help the minorities only really serve to widen the divide between the races. We need to change the attitudes.

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THE U.S and Nato got out maneuvered and this invasion will have no consequences for Russia....Would Putin have tried this with Bush as president?

I don't even wanna speculate on that, but it does appear that Sexy Putin is a slick playa.

Wait until after Olympics, national pride in Russia is high, the world is glad all their athletes are back,...perfect timing. He is quite cunning, or his advisors are...it was brilliant timing.

different AC and HP system.

increase AC, make it hard to get hits, (ALOT harder) but each hit hurts A LOT. say. roll % dice each hit, have severity of hits be based on what is rolled. It would require an overhaul though.

another thought. run an HUGE low-power game. 10-15pt buy. low hp, like 1/4 your HD per level +1/2 con mod.

I totally agree here. Pathfinder is not a good system for edge of your seat raw gritty combat. It is more geared toward heroic fantasy.

In a functional democracy, a protest is not needed to remove the president. I may think GWB and Obama are the worst president in history, but they did not, personally, violate the constitution, nor endanger the safety of the people of the US.

-Thailand, Turkey, and Ukraine, are all having trouble with multi-party democracy. A president is elected who is only popular with a minority of the people. Korea had the same problem when I was there.
-Street protests are against unelected rulers, not people you wait until their term expires.

Bwawahahahahahaaaa!!!

Also if an alchemist could make a bunch of mutagens and keep them around why would there be a discovery called "infuse mutagen" that specifically allows that?
Infuse mutagen: When the alchemist creates a mutagen, he can infuse it with an extra bit of his own magical power. This inflicts 2 points of Intelligence damage to the alchemist and costs 1,000 gp in rare reagents, but the mutagen created persists on its own and is not rendered inert if the alchemist creates another mutagen. This allows an alchemist to create different types of mutagens and keep them handy for emergencies. This does not allow an alchemist to gain the effects of multiple mutagens—only the most recently imbibed mutagen has any effect.

And the cost to have EACH extra mutagen: 2 int damage and 1000gp.

Poor Wandering One wrote:

Exactly. One at a time.

Step one: make mutagen
Step two: hand mutagen to familiar/friend/shelf. Mutagen goes inert.
Step three: make second mutagen with different choices.

Repeat steps until bored

When alchemist does not have mutagen take one from familiar/friend/shelf and use.

This will not let mutagens stack. They don't see last line in Mutagen
"The effects of a mutagen do not stack. Whenever an alchemist drinks a mutagen, the effects of any previous mutagen immediately end."

I am just wondering why it is not possible to have multiple pre-made mutagens. Is possible for a seventh level Alchemist to prepare a mutagen while under the effect of another. (last 10min/level take 60min to make)

At most this adds some versatility to the Mutagen feature. It does not invalidate Infuse mutagen as that discovery allows multiple doses to be ready at a moments notice.

Once he starts making the second mutagen, he is no longer 'maintaining' the first one. Effect: It becomes useless.

You may as well stop arguing, someone found what they think is "murky wording" to allow a loophole rule exploit and no amount of pointing out what the actually says is gonna be accepted. Just because the rule is very clear to state 2 separate things doesn't mean that anyone who doesn't want to will acknowledge that.

1st statement- doesn't allow for the existence of more than one usable mutagen.
2nd statement- show how the one usable mutagen acts when it leave the alchemist's possession and how it acts when he retrieves it. Still doesn't give an allowance for more than one existing mutagen.

It's very clear except to people who want to be purposely obtuse or wish to use/exploit the loophole. FAQing this is only going to lead to a "no faq necessary" response even if the design team does respond to this.

I would like to know what qualifies as "funny" to you all and whats the difference between "funny" and just humourous?

How in the world could you ask a question looking for a quantified answer for a concept that is mostly based in personal opinion? This is silly and possibly trollish...

WHy would anyone want to come back? This world sucks. I'd rather stay on in a world with monsters than come back to the hell we created here. Maybe find a way to bring others over into my new world, but never go back. And I would want to be the Reincarnated druid. Whatever kills you, you come back.
For adventure path I would like Rise of the Runelords I think...

I think some observations on the class are colored by a playtest that includes a dex-based fighter style. If you went with a regular fighting build and focused more on str and wis, with con and Cha being secondary I think most of the complaints being leveled here would disappear. A straight-up strength based fighter/cleric would fair much better IMO.

I think it was for 3.5 D&D but Rich Berluw (writes Order of the Stick webcomic over at Giant in the Playground website) did a Divine Trickster PRC.
It's about five or six posts down on this page Archived Articles of GitP

It may or may not be helpful...

Fake Healer wrote:

Rynjin wrote:

Tels wrote:

While I may not like him very much and I clash with him on rules, it's going to be a sad day when he leaves. He's a talented designer with many years of experience and I hope him all the best luck in his future endeavors.

That about sums it up really.

Good luck in Indiana, whatever you decide to do. It'll be weird not having you around.

Yup, pretty much my take also.

I know he wrote that it's all amicable and such but I wonder if there isn't something coming on the horizon that he didn't want to stick around for, like a new edition of Pathfinder getting ready to start being designed and he didn't like or want to be part of the direction it is looking at taking.

You sound hopeful, FH. ;)

A re-boot is looking pretty good right about now....

This is highly subjective I know; it's in general as opposed to advice. I've been sitting here trying to homebrew something and realized that my last three adventures are basically rehashes of the same thing: party comes to a settlement, there's an attack in town, and suddenly they either know the major NPCs of the plot or the villain. The rest of the adventure essentially becomes cleanup at that point.

So I thought "What makes for a fun adventure?" Is it a thinking villain or can you have just as much fun with mindless killing machines? Is it an interesting locale, gripping plot or what?

I know obviously the answer is "all of the above" but what do you look for or forward to when you, say, select a module to purchase/run, scan local PFS games or chat with your GM/players?

I want to put this out there. The adventure is really secondary, I've seen some really basic stuff that ended up being some of the coolest encounters a group has had. The main ingredient is a Good Group. Not a good GM, but the whole group. If they are all out to be cool, inventive and fun then they could make an orc guarding a pie in a 10X10 room into a really awesome encounter.

When the group all strive to make the game fun for everyone the background is secondary.

Now of course once you have this group it is time to turn things around, toss in environmental challenges, odd critters, mysteries(watch any number of tv shows for inspiration), and any type of challenges that are more than "kill monster, loot body, buy better gear, kill better monster, etc". Everything in moderation.

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Tels wrote:

While I may not like him very much and I clash with him on rules, it's going to be a sad day when he leaves. He's a talented designer with many years of experience and I hope him all the best luck in his future endeavors.

That about sums it up really.

Good luck in Indiana, whatever you decide to do. It'll be weird not having you around.

Yup, pretty much my take also.

Threaduvusa Necrorisenus!!!

OK So I am just biting nails at the battle going on between Kore and Forgath. So worried that Forgath is gonna die and hoping that he doesn't....it is odd for me to so invested in any comic and yet lately this comic is just getting in me. The storyline between Kin and Minmax, the Goblins themselves and now the epic battle of Kore vs Forgath...I am desperate to know the outcome and wait with a sense of dread and wonder.

I tip at 15% and usually adjust upward from there. On rare occasions I tip lower but that is usually due to really poor service (not food, not atmosphere, but service. I never punish a server for the cook's mistake, that I take to management).
There are a couple times when I tipped extremely low and as an example of the latest: Joe's crab shack. Waitress takes my wife an myself's order. NEVER comes back to check on us, doesn't bring me my drink, we never got out appetizer, and had to grab another server to get us silverware to eat with after the kitchen brought out our food 5 minutes earlier. Talked to the manager, and he said "yeah, she got busy with a large group that came in after you, they have 10 people". So what? I get dumped because a large tip walked in? It takes a few extra seconds to swing by and ask how everything is going. She finally returns to my table 10 minutes after the manager (45minutes after ordering) and tried to smooth things over and suck up a bit.
I stiffed her on the tip, which is the only time I ever did that.

Yeah, my group wanted to own a brewery in Sandpoint and all have rolls in the building up of it. I gave it to them as an inheritance. It was a struggling business with no customer base and they loved it because while going around town they would petition barkeeps to try out the local brews...they invested time in it. I had the business making enough to keep it afloat and put a few coins a month in their pockets (which they tossed back into the business to expand it and even more at times), and eventually when they started going to Magnimar they brought a few casks, got some interested taverns, set up a shipping schedule, hired a few people (including the semi-evil dude...Vandercaskin? who they reformed) to make the deliveries, and started gaining some note in the area as a good brewery. Mostly this had no real in-game effect but it was fun and they enjoyed having that aspect of the game going on. Excellent RP.
If they are looking to only gain money then lets talk about how easy is it to fail at a business, or how much money can be needed to be pumped into a business to get it to be profitable.
But if they are just looking to add flavor...who cares how much it costs? Hand-wave the operation tell them that they gain 25-50 gold a month and move on. The plot hooks and character investment is worth more than anything if you are a good GM.

Love the link to the ll-928 (I had it). This movie saddens me and not because of anything that has to do with the movie.
Try as I might, I have not been able to get my son or daughter to like legos even a bit. I still have 2 5 gallon buckets of old legos in my storage closet and no one that cares. I spent SO much time playing Legos and to not be able to relive that with my kids is awful. I've tried getting them into the legos for their favorite movies (Harry Potter, LotR, Star Wars), I've tried getting them into the Lego Star Wars show, the Chima show, offered to take them to Legoland....nothing. 0 interest.
Other than that they are perfect kids but I miss knocking blocks together....
I will probably buy this on DVD when it comes out anyway.

One of my favourite games. Better than Pathfinder IMO with more interesting combat, a better damage system and a more interesting character progression and experience setup.

That's not to say Pathfinder is bad, I wouldn't have thrown thousands of pounds at the system if it were bad. It's just that Lo5R is so good it makes most systems I have played pale by comparison.

If you want some information then I'm happy to give you background.

Feel free to share anything you wish. I am still trying to figure out how combat works without playing yet...it seems lethal and fun. I just wish I could figure out some of the roll/keep and what modifiers are used things...

Cool. Sounds like just the type of break-from-the-norm I am gonna enjoy. Seems like my more recent games have been the never ending struggle to get better loot and bigger bonuses. I think I will enjoy getting more into a personality and character. Thanks. Little disappointing that I have to wait on getting the rules to see a little char-gen stuff but oh well...

L5R is best described as a samurai drama. You will play samurai from a place that looks like Japan with the serial numbers filed off and some mystical stuff thrown in. Like all good samurai dramas, it's a tragedy. There will be death, but that's preferential to dishonoring yourself and your ancestors.

If you've played any games from the late 90s, you'll recognize a lot of the character generation stuff. You choose a Clan, a family and a School to belong to, and these choices give you the skeleton on which to build your character. You get points to buy up Skills, Traits, and Advantages, and you can get more points by taking Disadvantages.

It's not like D&D, at all. The stories aren't about killing monsters and taking their stuff - they're usually about the political struggles between the warrior culture, and the inevitable wars that start because of them. It turns a lot of fantasy tropes on their ear. You play as the ruling class, and have all the rights. Magic isn't feared (well, maho is, but that's black magic), they're performed by priests of the kami. Money isn't important to samurai - that's something that the commoners use, whereas samurai call in favors. Oh, and it's got its own Worldwound. The Shadowlands are damn scary.

It's a lot of fun, and both the CCG and the RPG have remained both relevant and entertaining for quite some time. In fact, there's an Organized Play campaign for the most current edition of the game that's currently in its third five-year campaign. In short, I think you'll enjoy it!

Sounds interesting! Is there any sites that help with Char Gen around that you know about?

1. You're meeting someone that's playing PFS for the first time and they show you the character art for their character... and they actually photo-manipulated a picture of their own face into the picture.

1.a. Same person brags that they spent more time working on their background than building their character.

Actually had this one time but the dude had taken a picture of himself, in a ratty brown robe with rope belt and crown royal bags on it and a Halloween styrofoam raven with feathers and all on his shoulder while carrying a homemade staff that used a lot of tape....and this was in the game room behind the FLGS where we were gaming, not at a con or anything.

*(walks off singing People are Strange)...

I am joining a new gaming group and they are in the latter stages of a L5R 1st edition game. What is the game like? Character Gen? Equipment? I don't have the rules yet but I was just looking for some thoughts and stuff on the game in general to get my head on straight. Anything interesting from someone's experience with the game, please post, also any links to resources would be cool.
Thanks!

More dice rolled = more predictable damage = my preference.

I sometimes also base the weapon on the PC's alignment....Very Lawful PC=more predictable damage and crits. Very Chaotic= less predictable damage (like a d12 or a lesser amount of dice) and less predictable crits like a X3 or X4.

I personally like the X3 (or better yet, X4)crits. I know that in the long run the larger range of crits is better and make the damage bigger overall but I love that when I do crit it is X3 (or 4) and that usually is really sweet damage that tends to take an enemy out more times than not.
I just love hitting big numbers better than critting more often for less, DPR be damned.

How far from Celebration are you? I am looking for a group....been playing D&D and Pathfinder for a Long Time and just moved into Celebration a month or so ago. I am well experienced as a player or GM. If you are close enough I would be very interested.

I absolutely agree. But I believe it is more than just this community...the world in general is producing more people with a severe lack of common sense and also tossing in a good portion of self-righteousness and lack of respect for fellow people and their feelings.
We have put laws in place that allow for senseless people to be disrespectful and never have to feel any form of negativity and we wonder how that continues. It used to be that when you stepped out of line you could expect a bloody nose, loss of job, social exile, or something. Now there really isn't any form of punishment for stupidity, disrespect and lack of common sense that can't be countered with some wildly ridiculous application of a law and people's "right" to be idiots.

darth_gator wrote:

Regeneration wrote:

... but they cannot die as long as their regeneration is still functioning...

'Die' is a generalization that simply eliminates descriptors. You can say, "Die from suffocation," or "Die from starvation," or "Die from massive head trauma," or "Die from a sword through the innards." If a creature "...CANNOT DIE...", then they CANNOT DIE. Period. The method of death is irrelevant. If we can substitute the following in the regeneration definition, "...but they cannot die [from sword inflicted injuries] as long as their regeneration is still functioning...", why does anyone assume you CAN'T substitute, "...but they cannot die [from starvation] as long as their regeneration is still functioning..."?

It seems pretty self-explanatory to me.

Well, I can see why it doesn't seem self-explanatory to others. Is the troll's regeneration actually still functioning?

One could say, "Yes, the Troll's regeneration is still functioning. It still has the Regeneration ability, even though it can't restore the hit points lost from suffocation." In that interpretation, then the troll can't die from suffocation. It continues to lose hit points, going deeper and deeper into negative numbers, for days, weeks, months, years, or centuries, but, if at some point, even millions of years in the future, it can breathe again, it will come back to life (of course, it will, by that point perhaps need years of regeneration to get back out of negative HP).

Another, to me, perfectly reasonable, interpretation is, "No, the troll's regeneration is not functioning. It might still have the Regeneration ability, but the ability is not functioning, because the troll has lost hit points and regeneration, whose function is to restore them, is not restoring them." What does it mean to say that regeneration is 'functioning' if it is, in fact, not doing the very thing it is supposed to do? What other option is there for Regeneration to be 'not functioning'? I...

Love the scenarios you pose here.

AbsolutGrndZer0 wrote:

so I said "Seriously, saying **** you to the GM is a serious thing..."

Why is that? The way you phrase that, you make it seem as though you think saying f*** you to the GM is more serious than saying it to another player. That's a bad approach to take as a GM; you shouldn't think that your authority over the game means you deserve some special respect.

AbsolutGrndZer0 wrote:

That was when he said "You know what? **** you. I asked if I could be a Black-Blooded Oracle and you said no."

This is a rather reasonable response, though it was clearly stated in anger. Telling a player he cannot take a certain archetype and then giving it to an NPC is just bad GMing.

I kind of agree. If Black-Blood Oracles are so rare that I can't be one then an NPC shouldn't be showing up as one. It's bad form and undermined your own position. Not saying that his response wasn't totally out of line also but I feel that the GM brought it on himself and then got really mad about being called out for it. "Do as I say, not as I do" is a crappy parenting style and in general a good way to make people not respect your stance on things.

If a GM tells me that some class is off limits then I expect to not see it in the campaign. I would be upset if it suddenly showed up in-game but I wouldn't have been so rude in my response.

To the OPs original question:

No.
Because Paizo works to provide game balance for their content. They want things to be balanced and be fun.
No.

My own opinion:
I think that many GMs don't set their games up to allow player rogues to us their skills and abilities. It would be the same as having a Druid in the party for an urban campaign.

RedDog? More like lapdog...(joking)

The trick of squeezing thru rings is about the ring not being a fixed in place but one that can be moved so you can take one arm and shoulder and then the other. It can look impressive on stage but it is really not that hard.

There are places that can be to broard on a person but if you are free to move the ring then you can often get thru.
But if it is a fixed thing like a window then it is another thing.

The people doing these things are also quite slender in frame with wiry musculature at best....and they train and practice for it....and they aren't wearing adventuring gear like belt pouches, wands, weapons, armor, etc. and sure, you could take it all off and shove it through the ring but that still leave your naked-ish PC with trying to squeeze through a basketball hoop, which a vast portion of our world would find impossible to do due to size/musculature.

A basketball hoop is 18" in diameter. I can say with absolute certainty that a person who is muscular is not getting through one. There is no way I could, and I find it hard to believe that someone even 50 lbs lighter than I. A basketball hoop.

on occasion.

And less the higher level you are....

Yeah I am 5'8" and 210 lbs, fairly muscular....I locked myself out of my house and tried to crawl through a 18X12 dog door. No go. Shoulders were the real problem, my shoulders don't fold in and are wider than 18" by a few inches. Any dude with a decent strength is probably a bit wide in the shoulders and would likely have similar problems.
Remember! Just because a mouse can fit into any place his head can squeeze into doesn't mean that same rule applies to all humans.
You ain't getting Vin Diesel, Wesley Snipes, or probably even Jason Statham through an 18" hoop.

It is durable, but not particularly powerful. The other improved familiars are still more attractive in my opinion. A faerie dragon, for example, blows this thing out of the water. Thematically, I think the pyre kite is awesome, but mechanically, I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary, Fake Healer. A couple cure lights and a minor fire shield is hardly overpowered.

Do what you want. Why aren't there any other familiars with regeneration and reincarnation? The answer is that those abilities are very hard to make into a balanced option. They are tricky abilities to gauge in the game and that is why the developers don't have familiars with those abilities.

I would go either bard or Inquisitor.

Both can hold their own in melee and you can
help with cures, along with the druid.

Inquisitor can take the Conversion domain to help with being the face.

If you need trapping, both are capable with the right traits.
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I would go Human if Bard with Focused Study and Silver-tongue racial traits.

I would go 1/2 Orc if Inquisitor.

Both I would go with Skill Focus[Perception] as 1st level feat (or racial feat if Human).

In a 20 point buy: Str 16 Dex 13 Con 12 Int 10 Wis 14 or Cha 14 depending on Inquisitor or Bard. Racial +2 to go to Wis or Cha too.

Heck, take the traits and slap them on a wizard...you want skill points, be an Int caster and focus on stealth spells, detect secret doors, knock, and some others. Alternately you could always just take a level or so of rogue to get some of the basics and maybe consider an arcane trickster build. You wouldn't need to be an Uber caster because you have one already so you could focus on the tricky spells and maybe some summons to help frontline. Could work out fairly cool especially if the party isn't all about optimizing. Sometimes Optimizing can make there be a limitation on functional builds that are fun but not 9th level caster/1000DPR/skillz+35 types...

You are playing with reincarnation and regeneration for a familiar, along with some really nice fire abilities similar to flame shield. I don't know that you really can balance that. I mean even comparing to some of the improved familiars this dude is looking better.
A fire mephit gets fast healing 2 when touching fire, while this dude gets full-on regeneration like a troll and then can still reincarnate if slain. I just don't see how that can be made into a balanced familiar without many more negatives in addition to cold vulnerability.

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I think that mature rated video games and movies should be sold in "adult" stores along with porn and other stuff. A 13 year old shouldn't be an expert on headshots.

I wouldn't be opposed to this.

My hope would be that the ultra-violence in video games would get toned down so as to allow the games to be sold in regular stores and you would see more diversity in the games with imagination and such and less of the "we have the besterest rag doll effects and most realistic splatter patterns ever!" that designers are slapping into mediocre games to get the teens on board.

Yup. A massive stigma on sex and how it corrupts the youth in the US and yet the amount of violence and gore that the youth is exposed to is absolutely abhorrent. It's ridiculous.
I think that mature rated video games and movies should be sold in "adult" stores along with porn and other stuff. A 13 year old shouldn't be an expert on headshots.

He is as big as my Kaladrax if you go by most of the descriptions I remember. I think that would be a good stand-in mini for him anyway....As to what size category...RFB(really frickin' big) is what I would go with and make one up that is bigger than the standard sizes for this legend.
If you have an epic-sized critter you should give it whatever is required to make him epic.

I prefer my games to be completely immature.

As befits someone who suffers from perpetually arrested adolescence.

This. A lot!

I could understand that if I used it in some weird slang way. I used the word PER IT'S DEFINITION; " to seize and take away by force".
And because I used "rape" per it's definition my entire post was removed. If I said "The American Indians were heartbroken by the Europeans who raped the land and left it in shambles" that would also be a correct usage per definition; "to despoil".
This type of moderation is just plain juvenile.

Removed a post and reply. Do not use the word "rape" in this way.

Really? I would love to know how that usage was offensive in any way. You removed an entire post that had many different aspects to it due to one word that was used in a non-offensive way? This is the type of crap moderation that is being complained about here more and more.

Reading it now,....So far liking how well done it looks and I am looking forward to delving deeper and giving a true opinion on the content.

3d6+2 and 2d6+6 are two methods I usually offer together with the player taking their choice of method. I have used many others also but whenever I do use dice rolling methods for char-gen, I put an ability bonus limit on the total. For instance I may make the "playable PC" range +5 to +10. Any rolled PCs that don't have ability modifiers that meet that total are unplayable and need to be rerolled. It prevents The One guy getting an 18,17,15,15,14,12 PC while someone else gets a 10,12,14,11,9,13 and having them play together. Everyone ends up with decent, playable stats with variation and similar power-levels.
I usually also add in caveats like rolling in order then switching 2 stats afterwards, or some such.

"Rings bestow magical powers upon their wearers."
If you aren't wearing it you aren't activating it or keeping it activated.