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There is no reason why any monster generation needs to take more than a minute, and no reason why it would be less balanced than writing up monsters with no rules at all. It takes that long just to read your options ... and that's being optimistic. And your basis for comparison - how long it takes ...

Then please cite where in this thread I told about my like (or dislike) for Apocalypse World. It's all part of a common theme. You keep trying to force this Forge b.s. on us; but we've (mostly) all already figured out that we don't like that shit .... that's why nobody here shed one goddamned tear ...

I honestly think that chunks of WotC were writing more or less independently of each other for years at a time, and what we have here is essentially a third party product put out by the main game company - something like when Kenzer Co. did their Kingdoms of Kalamar supplement advertised as the &qu...

I could have sworn that I got set straight on this earlier this year.
And yes, silva did post in that one. Hmmm.

Just sayin'.

While Frank's characterisation is otherwise correct, K did indeed express the necessity for a set of pregenerated monsters, and felt that quibbling about how large this set has to be is the least fundamental part of the argument. Which I suppose it is, until we're actually writing MMPi. K wants the...

It is not supported. If your DM is stingy, you could make it a metamagic feat, so people only get the mass versions of existing spells and a caster could make up any mass spell they needed. Seems like it will bring up plenty of rules loopholes though. I honestly thought there was some from of multi...

Or, in a more concrete example: look at the Sorcerer rpg (and the various "indie" or "new school" games that succeeded it ) - Sorcerer has the mange, and smells like sour milk. Also, Ron Edwards is a self-important assclown who can't get enough of his own self-fellating. A game ...

Strike what I said earlier -- I got my kickstarter projects confused.
(I was thinking about Torn Armor)

I think that the day that the Forge closed down was perhaps the worst day in silva's life. also: But then, the zeitgeist of the early 80s was too D&D-influenced, so its forgivable. Just because something is forgivable within a given context doesn't mean that it's not still bad. Actually, that ex...

Just a couple of things for Kaelik and spongeknight: 2) That's just stupid. Being a trained adventurer doesn't make you fucking Aquaman, it means you're competant at a wide variety of things. Not being able to drown ever without someone holding your head under is a fucking superpower for a normal hu...

But that brings us back to the problem of static numbers. If you start out with a swim speed of 5' but that is cancelled by armor, you die as soon as you enter water unless someone else saves you. That's my entire point all over again- static pass/fail mechanics make you die . Regular move speed is...

For me, the biggest point is that the druid knowingly, willingly, and artificially contrived a situation where a helpless and defenseless individual was tied the fuck down for the expressed intent of necessarily being slaughtered. That's not "the way of nature" .... "the way of nature...

"A dwarf in a steel top hat and steel tuxedo called MC Killzalot, the most famous dwarven rapper who's on the skids after a disastrous attempt at a prog rock album. Oh, his class is Fighter." ~Mike Mearls, head designer of Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition introducing his character. I had ...

Designing a monster generation system that interfaces with summons, polymorph, traps, and companions is hard. It's so hard that it's never been done in any meaningful way by anyone, but we know that it can be done because PC classes with spell lists exist and they work and have worked for decades. ...

Or to put it another way: the PC abilities are keys and the challenges are locks. Every lock you add requires that you make a key that fits it. Every key you don't make is a lock you can't make . So if you create a bunch of challenges first , then you can look at them and say "Well, Swordy McS...

I'm really sick of seeing the word "playtest" being used to describe what DDN has done so far -- the entire past year-and-a-half has simply been an extended focus group; i.e, market research. There has been no playtesting to date -- you have to have something resembling an actual product b...

Your implication is that MM1 should not contain things made with the system. To which I ask why? If I understand Frank correctly, then I think that you have the cause->effect backwards (at least by your wording): His baseline is 3-400 monsters before you have enough for an adequate sample size (15-...

Ran across THIS NYT article from '08: It also became a commercial phenomenon, selling an estimated $1 billion in books and equipment. More than 20 million people are estimated to have played the game. While the article doesn't reference its figures, one would assume that, given the particular public...

There will be monsters that are too powerful or too bullshit to be in player hands with whatever system you have. -Username17 But with abilities like charm monster, shouldn't you account for the possibility of any monster fighting on team PC? That's a temporary thing that really just turns in to wh...

So, monsters follow different rules than PCs? Well, yeah . Monsters have access to abilities and racial packages that PCs don't. A Manticore can simply not have hands , which isn't acceptable for a PC. A Wyvern can simply not have the power of speech , which is even worse. Heck, a Golem can lack th...

Making mounts and trained animals into minor PCs (3e) vastly inflates combat time, agreed. leads to stupid combats (fighting dogs is always fucking lame), If it's thematically appropriate, it's thematically appropriate. and unbalances the hell out of the game any time someone decides to abuse it. T...

Go to amazon or any shop that sells used books. The red box, add, and 4e stuff sells for 2-5$ with a few gems going for a little more. 3.x has books selling for 65+$. Look at the cost of main books and the cost of splats and compare. The one that people actually have an interest in will have high p...

Just gonna drop these of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n94E3IeBquY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXsFNPO_gUM

A digital play format in your living room, while awesome, is quite different than the social-media-only format that is suggested by the OP. Sure, but there is an overlap ... the software is mostly the same, even in the living room you would want a separate DM screen on a tablet and the player scree...