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- Thu Apr 11, 2013 7:26 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Difficulty in RPGs thread
- Replies: 578
- Views: 60006
- Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another balancing Magic thread
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1507
Re: Another balancing Magic thread
Which do you think tells better stories, or is more fun? Depends entirely on who you are gaming with. Or, equivalently, who you want to play your game, who your market is, et cetera. I'm going to guess you are mostly making this game so you can play it with other people. Thus, the important questio...
- Mon Mar 18, 2013 4:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
- Mon Mar 18, 2013 9:52 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: {AD&D2e} What the fuck was wrong with the writers
- Replies: 56
- Views: 13209
Mistborn, I think you're reading too much into this. DnD (none of the editions) is not some magnum opus of philosophy. It's just one game, made by some people. They didn't put as much thought into it as you have. Doesn't mean it couldn't or should not have been done better, but... I guess my entire ...
- Sun Mar 17, 2013 6:41 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
I don't think any actual expert will accuse police and courtroom shows of being knowledge porn. That's like calling Star Trek science porn. The forensics and law that we see in those things makes about as much sense as reversing the polarity of the neutron field. It's bullshit designed to look and ...
- Sat Mar 16, 2013 1:08 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
This just took a turn for the interesting. I'll try to sum up what you said Ice9. Feel free to correct me or add on. So anything that requires an property of reality to work - such as a predetermined future - can't work in a fictional game where that property doesn't exist (because of dice and playe...
- Fri Mar 15, 2013 4:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why everyone, including LM, does tiers wrong
- Replies: 70
- Views: 14019
- Wed Mar 13, 2013 9:38 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
I'd say one thing that I have yet to see an RPG do very successfully is a police procedural. Not sure if it can't be done, since RPG is a very elastic term, which includes many things beyond strictly playing a certain role. Now that I think about it, that kind of game sounds awesome. But there are ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2013 9:07 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
You could possibly run a body guard game where players get to plan... but the end result is that something interesting always happens any way. Perhaps the reward for filtering out all the low-level threats is that only the high level threats get through. So let's say you made sure the crazy ex girlf...
- Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:57 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why everyone, including LM, does tiers wrong
- Replies: 70
- Views: 14019
- Wed Mar 13, 2013 4:08 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
- Wed Mar 13, 2013 4:07 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
- Wed Mar 13, 2013 4:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
- Wed Mar 13, 2013 3:58 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
- Wed Mar 13, 2013 3:52 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
- Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
- Tue Mar 12, 2013 4:16 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
- Tue Mar 12, 2013 4:14 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
- Tue Mar 12, 2013 10:32 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Saints Row the TTRPG
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4139
I think Saints Row would translate to table top RPGs very poorly. Saints Row relies on visual spectacle and gag humor. Much of the fun is doing something and watching all the insanity unfold. And the things Saints Row describes are interesting visually, but not interesting from a text or speech base...
- Tue Mar 12, 2013 10:20 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
- Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:28 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why everyone, including LM, does tiers wrong
- Replies: 70
- Views: 14019
Tomorrow I'm playing a 13th level game that is at an absurdly high power level. My character is an Initiative of Mystra abusing, persistent divine metamagiking Archivist who thanks to Monstrous Regeneration and Favor of Ilmater is literally immune to HP damage. And tomorrow when I fight some Demon ...
- Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
- Replies: 92
- Views: 12255
What stories are impossible to tell in RPGs?
... The Vanilla Action Hero is the character of choice of innumerates who do not understand probability. And what they want out of the character type is literally impossible. What they want is a character who "beats the odds", which is literally and specifically the only character that no...
- Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:34 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Warning Signs: Yellow Dawn - The Age of Hastur
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7892
...Dave is a hardworking, honest and decent guy, entirely underserving of your rather unpleasant accusations.... This was actually fairly entertaining in a bit of a depressive way. I'd like you to take your blatant advertising else where (preferably no where). I guess it's nice to know there are pe...
- Wed Feb 27, 2013 3:17 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Help me pick good class names!
- Replies: 66
- Views: 15500
Is the class actually going to be just a fighting class? If so, I don't quite understand avoiding calling the class what it is; the fighting class. Worrying about transparency rather than substance seems inconsistent. If the class is not just a fighting class, then call it what it is. So the questio...
- Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSR movement threat or menace?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 20863
I'll weigh in. I use a computer and the internet very heavily when I build characters. I have a text document detailing the exact plan and inexact plan of every character I play (probably 4-5 pages each for completed characters). I also keep the text documents of every character I have ever played o...