Just an update: I googled for a free PDF editor. I found a site called PDFescape. I hand-drew fields everywhere! Then I saved and downloaded the sheet (I still have it). It still asks me to sign. I googled for a solution. I found a way to remove a signature once it's already there, but no way to avo...

I'll eventually post an addendum on the Over-The-Top Idea thread on thoughts I've had regarding making sure the Abilities do not become too unbalanced or unwieldy, as well as progression ideas. If it works, I have no problems with Clay taking the idea or modifying the idea for a sort of "OVA Z...

I can’t think of much to add that hasn’t been addressed well and verbosely by the various contributors here, but just in case anybody’s waiting on my OFFICIAL WORD™… 1) In my own game, I would probably recommend using Scale to handle any vast discrepancy in power. And yes, that includes social and ...

Hmm. Scale indeed might be a sufficient solution to what Longevity would propose. Normally one would expect to use Scale for physical contests. But if opening to the idea of Scale for other uses like in Connected, Famous, Knowledge, Smart, or Wealthy; that certainly could do the trick for what Long...

Yep, it’s among my list of Abilities! Of course, there’s probably more than a handful of Weaknesses to balance things out. ;) Knowledge: Graphic Design +2 Sounds about right? :wink: As mentioned on the blog, I pretty much taught myself for the sole purpose of making OVA a reality. However, I probab...

Ninja’d on numerous points! Yes, I'm a ninja artificer! :D With the cover of the night, I sneak my way into forbidden magitech labs & handcraft Babbage Engines powered by lightning elementals from which I answer FAQs not even directed at me! I'm SO AWESOME! :D :oops: Uh, yeah, it was my pleasur...

Sorry about that. I really need to investigate how to make a proper fill-in sheet and put it on the website, so people stop having to find alternate solutions. I’ll do my best to get to that, but I generally have more to do than I know what to…err…do with. Well, normal people are often savvy enough...

Hi! I encountered the same issues as you. So... I solved the problem myself! This is a link to the original spreadsheet that someone else on the forum uploaded (Sorry! I don't remember your name. If you find this, and let me know, I'll give you proper credit!) https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5b1...

Unique Ability Unique Weakness Yep, that's in there. Come on, Mal, I know it's in there! :P I wasn't doubting anything, I know it's totally feasible, it's just that I'm very cautious when homebrewing and prefer to use existing rules in new ways instead of creating new ones... simple as that :wink: ...

Speaking of which, all those Abilities for the Leviathan from Mass Effect 3? I mentioned that said image was a place holder for the broader zoology of Elderich Abomination such as Lovecraft's Cosmic Horror setting for example. Though I'm pretty sure without Monsterous Scale or Longevity, the levels...

That'd still be the way a normal character or a group of normal characters would have to approach a "Monstrous Scaled" encounter. I imagine in a standard OVA game, such an encounter would not have any stats- as you say, it's more terrain or hazard based than boss battle fight. But just li...

Elderich Abominations, by their very nature though bizarre, are not so limited. Or at least in the mortal sense. That it has witnessed so many events that there is very little that they have not seen already, have not anticipated countless times before. I get the point, Sabersonic, but why does som...

The counter to that is that anyone can use Health as Endurance costs when their Endurance is used up, just as anyone can use Endurance as back up Health when their Health is exhausted. So a Wizard still has that extra points for their mojo regardless. How silly of me, of course you're right... one ...

I did! :( And I found: 1) 1 thread with sheets that by now have moved to greener pastures (don't know where, but the link is broken, i.e. it gives me a 404 or something like that) 2) another thread with a very good sheet, still there... but it's one of those PDFs you have to sign. I started creating...

Unfortunately, that would not work. Power Ceiling rules limits how many total points in Abilities a character can have, regardless of the number of Weaknesses. With a Power Ceiling of 15, a character could have 15 points in Abilities and 25 points in Weaknesses, but they would not have the Base Zer...