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I disagree, in a skirmish wargame one of the design goals is likely to be that two people show up to the table with armies they picked out on their own without knowing what the opponent would bring, and then they have a tactical battle that's balanced enough that it's not boringly trivial. "Oh ...

Actually, divination powers that are vague and narrativey and heavily interpreted by the DM gives me an idea. Why not have a character building resource dedicated to letting the DM give you problems? Like you could pick up "lost heir of the kingdom" to be hunted by assassins and have to hi...

The 5e people in the denner discords mostly got bored of it before it even came out...

3) if they're fancy live rendered cutscenes they could well not have any spare VRAM for loading the next one while the current one is playing 6) I feel like if a game does this you should be able to easily tell before buying it 8) did you accidentally buy a game for babies 11) but what if the gamepl...

Having a light flavoring system like Kaelik's elemental siphon is pretty good for a TTRPG I think. It's nice to have some unique class mechanics that give you a little bit of extra stuff to think about beyond what the other players can see, especially in order to make your actions a little mysteriou...

So comprehend languages has 5 augments, but you only mention 1 for magic missile... Does magic missile have more you didn't mention? What's the median number of augments per spell?

Also boons and banes is a better alliteration and you'd think a writer would appreciate that. Boons and banes sounds funnier, but alas, making two opposites that are used in the same context sound similar would lead to a lot of disastrous mixups in play. They aptly avoid alliteration at an area and...

your entire strategy IS the "if you never stop doubling down at the casino you can never lose!". While I do agree with kaelik that ddmw's estimation technique is really bad, I can't shake the feeling that you're mixing up three entirely different gambling strategies that have entirely dif...

Even if chance of winning beats the given odds, if the chance of winning is vanishingly small and you can only make that bet ONCE EVER its a pretty fucking bad bet. Hey, if you can find enough different favorable bets that can only be done once ever you might make a profit from the maybe one of the...

Oh hey that's right, he's a single-term president. He should run!

Maybe ddm is so supportive because he owns a lot of electronics and doesn't want to die.

I think you can add racism to this aura-based system without too much trouble. Having a character who is racist doesn't require tracking that character's relationships with specific other characters or anything, just a modifier that says they don't trust elves even when the elf has a trustworthy aur...

Fairly tale trust mechanics could be kinda neat, we are usually talking about fantasy games after all. And as an extra upside, it doesn't aim to model realistic social interactions so it's not doomed to exclusively produce results that are worse than mtp. However, with a social mechanics system then...

Given that bots like chatgpt are trained on every word ever written and are still blithering idiots, I think there's a couple orders of magnitude in the way. However, nowadays you can show a giant fully trained bot examples of what you want and it can emulate the style... I guess nobody talks about ...

silver877 wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 15, 2024 4:36 pm

Let's not hijack this thread with Trust Decay mechanics. If you're serious about proposing it, start a new thread and give us a clear explanation of what you're working with. And I'm curious to see if you can pass the 'human test' without quoting or name-dropping.

Great job, PhoneLobster.

Neo Phonelobster Prime wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:56 pm

everything this lunatic produces is flat out schizophrenic, and also disastrously unfinished to the point of being insulting to the reader.

You hit the nail on the head there, that's the crux of my lack of acknowledgement.

Ayyup, here it is viewtopic.php?t=53241

One time I wrote up a social currency favor trading system in response to discussions about it on this board, I got username17 to look at it, and he shut up about the whole idea for at least a year.

Not every character in a Tome party needs to be able to do everything a wizard or cleric can do. The wizard or cleric can do those things, after all. Much more important to feeling like not dead weight is to be able to do some things that the party wizard or cleric can't do. Role protection and what...

Phonelobster is very bad at polite discussion, but I think his question is valid, so I'll attempt to translate: You said: this requires giving everyone multiple options that are not feat/class/species/spell dependent, but instead more like the 3e Disarm and Trip options for combat; He wondered why t...

In this case it's not so much complexity, as it is complexity-erasure. There's a lot of random-ass abilities that interact with the being attacked rules, and pretty much no abilities that interact with the having someone roll a Spellcraft check against you rules, so you miss out on any sort of unusu...

Items that add to skills are generally super cheap, but given that the Dexterity or Constitution score (whichever is higher) doesn't scale to keep up with Spellcraft you'll probably only worry about boosting it at low levels anyway. A touch attack would be fine tbh, is it really necessary for the wa...

This feels like a topic similar to one that's dear to my heart so I might as well pitch in. Once long ago I was really into the idea of making a caster class about speaking words of power that actually have meaning, because that's what the fluff of wizards (and not just D&D ones at that) is all ...

Note that summoning doesn't actually create a new creature when you cast it, it makes specific statements about what happens to a creature when it is summoned. Regular summon spells presuppose the existence of arbitrarily large numbers of the creature you're trying to summon out on some plane somewh...

Yeah I admit, even when den threads popped off and there were suddenly five new pages of arguing since last I checked, it was relatively easy to find my place, and it really isn't with Discord. But alas, everyone else has been raptured to Discord so what can you do? It's kinda lonely out here. I gue...