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Facepalm of the Day: If you want Pangaea's troops to attack a province in one move, you gotta send along at least one non-sneaky unit...

Craven bastards.

Have a good one, everybody!

Korwin wrote:8 of 13 pretenders are submitted...

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Hmm. I don't think I would have picked Pangaea if I'd known we'd be playing on a map that's mostly waste. Isn't there anything available with a better territory balance? I'd be fine with a better terrain balance. But why are you upset with Pangaea? Pangaea loves Wastes. They get alot of their money...

Hmm. I don't think I would have picked Pangaea if I'd known we'd be playing on a map that's mostly waste.

Isn't there anything available with a better territory balance?

Akula wrote:We should really determine the new map before we mandate pretender submissions. I want to know if I need an SC or not.

+1

Oh, and I'd like to change my nation preferences. Nobody seems that hot for Pangaea and I'd love to try my hand at it. So, if the order of preference matters, please set mine to

1) Pangaea
2) Abysia
3) Caelum

Another question (hope this doesn't start a FW as well):
Do we want the score graphs enabled?

Dunno about the deathmatch mod. My take on the arena is that it's mainly there for fluff and something of a lottery as well. Why attach greater significance to it? As to CBM, I think the general consensus has been explained before. Being the noob here, I'm fine playing vanilla. Since CBM such a game...

I only hope, we didn't scare the OP away. ;) Hehe, the OP is right here and amazed at the number of replies after the rigors of a weekend well spent. Excellent. I like the suggested map very much. Looks great! As to mods, CBM seems pretty decent to me and I haven't seen it mentioned here. For all I...

first and foremost, all the technical stuff. how to administrate the game (or does llamaserver do that for you?), how to file moves, what's the usual turn frequency, which mods are good, how do you set which mods are used, etc. secondly, i'm a newb at the game. the AIs seem pretty dumb to me, but i ...

Hey,

I got Dom3 a few weeks ago and did a couple of SP games. Now I'd like to try MP. Anyone up for a game?

I'd also appreciate if somebody could show me the ropes of MP.

Well, that was certainly informative.

Thank you all for your contributions.

After some effort, here are approximate probabilities of results off each d10 under this system. Its a stochastic solution, so the numbers aren't exact, but should be close enough. First colum is end value, second is probability of that outcome in %. Mean result is 5.64, distribution is definitely ...

So, why is this better than playing your setting using d20? (or storyteller, or d6, or whatever) It's kind of a neat mechanic, but it's definitely not lightweight. What does it give you that's worth the extra effort of using a peculiar system? Hahaha, very good question, and one that I maybe should...

Hmm... When I said '+d10', BTW, I didn't specify but was assuming you'd read this d10 basically the way you were currently reading your d10s, with 0 being a forced reroll. I'm not sure that was clear. Well, now that you say it, it's quite clear... :) I guess I didn't read your post carefully enough...

Hmm, I see a number of problems with that. If you don't pick up the die, you would have to assign it a value - if it just stays a zero, people are essentially getting a free success level. If you make it a 10, then you get all kinds of oddness in the probability distribution (e.g., the impossibility...

I just read through the long thread about the enchantress in Count Morgenstein's party, which is a pretty extreme example for how roleplaying sexually charged content can go wrong; please forgive my euphemism. However, if you run a roleplaying game that focuses on storytelling and the personalities ...

Alright here's what I can see. It's very multi staged and "complex" for a resolution mechanic. So in some ways thats very good and in others not so. There are a lot of steps to this system relative to most die resolution systems (which are usually one roll-success/failure) your system has...

First of all, thank you for your constructive comments. This is the kind of exchange I had in mind when I joined this forum. I think the multiple steps could work, as long as one roll accomplishes a fair amount. So in a fight, for instance, you wouldn't want Attack vs Dodge + Damage vs Soak, for eac...

3 things. 1: Apparently if you don't continuously create your own homebrew rpg system, you are a total failure as a dm. I fucking lose at this game, man. It's game over for me. GAME OVER! 2: The system is kinda terribad. the whole low roll is just going to get a little confusing. 3: The unique fact...

Just like any other GM worth the name, I am continuously working on a homebrew RPG system that never gets finished. The background is a world with a roughly 15th/16th century European tech level and some magic revolving around the manipulation of information and bio-modding. So no fireballs, but you...

Well, it's a matter of interpretation. Players would need to lose some of their emotional attachment to the actual symbol shown on the die. I think most people are capable of doing that; just think of systems using percentile dice where a zero is interpreted as a zero unless it shows on both dice. W...

Why not do it like this: When a die explodes, don't keep it and re-roll, but pick it up again and roll two dice of the same type instead? This neatly smoothes out the valleys in the probability distribution. It also decreases the mean results somewhat, however. Yes, I know this is a dead topic. (edi...