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- Sun Sep 25, 2022 4:03 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why are Tome Feats a problem?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6826
Re: Why are Tome Feats a problem?
Having run a low-level game using Tome feats, Tome of Prowess skills, and primary caster PCs (cleric and wizard), there was definitely a problem where player options increased at a pace beyond what my players were happy keeping track of. Everyone at the table was smart and wrote software for their d...
- Wed Oct 27, 2021 2:08 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: yet another yet another stealth thread [Spellbound]
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1869
Re: yet another yet another stealth thread [Spellbound]
When characters are sneaking in a combat situation, how does your system handle the problem of needing to track the undetected/detected/located for (number of sneaking characters) × (number of perceiving characters) character-character interactions? The extreme example is something like a bunch of n...
- Mon Oct 25, 2021 4:45 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "In my game the Mental Attributes are..."
- Replies: 219
- Views: 48400
Re: "In my game the Mental Attributes are..."
Going by the 10-minute version, Holmes is a Tome Fighter who murmurs "Discombobulate" whenever he uses Foil Action (and spams it every chance he gets).
- Wed Aug 11, 2021 3:12 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 972235
Re: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
On the flip side from getting the science right, have you looked at any period SF for inspiration? You could do worse than mining Star Man's Son (aka Daybreak: 2250 AD ) or similar to see how pop culture in the 50s envisioned their world after a hypothetical nuclear armageddon. (There's a wide spect...
- Fri Jun 18, 2021 11:16 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "Toybox Tales"- working on a Toy Story-alike RPG
- Replies: 9
- Views: 950
Re: "Toybox Tales"- working on a Toy Story-alike RPG
Another possible source of inspiration is The Stuff of Legend . The fundamental thing driving character action there is rescuing the boy (from the bogeyman in the closet), and dramatic tension also comes from characters confronting past misdeeds or dealing with feelings they've kept hidden. It might...
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 5:09 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "The win condition of the Fighter is to reach b2b contact"
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5994
Does burning wheel do much with party members acting to support each other? What I’ve seen of it was focused on 1 on 1 dueling. Burning Wheel has a few different combat resolution systems. The two that you probably care about are: Fight: a very detailed combat resolution system that is mostly prese...
- Sun Oct 04, 2020 1:41 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Miscast risks as a balancing system for magic
- Replies: 59
- Views: 10884
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:27 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 502572
Since we're on the subject, can anyone else confirm or refute that Timothy Zahn's Conquerors' trilogy would make for a good miniseries? I've had a soft spot for it, but it ain't quite high literature, and I've never discussed it with someone else who has actually read it. It also has issues with wea...
- Wed May 06, 2020 6:47 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 972235
I was thinking about how to emulate the pacing (people starting fights at their lowest power-state and ramping up over time, not using the strongest attacks at the start) seen in many anime, without meta mechanics. This sounds a lot like how that turning in Risk cards to get armies works: each time...
- Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:53 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: From the Depths of Wikipedia
- Replies: 2956
- Views: 426915
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_movement
Overloading the sense of "manifold" in "the ethical manifold" leads to a invocation of GSV Ethics Gradient (which appears to presuppose some underlying manifold on which the gradient is defined).
Overloading the sense of "manifold" in "the ethical manifold" leads to a invocation of GSV Ethics Gradient (which appears to presuppose some underlying manifold on which the gradient is defined).
- Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:12 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Reommend me a Heist game
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4233
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:14 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: From the Depths of Wikipedia
- Replies: 2956
- Views: 426915
- Fri Feb 14, 2020 5:03 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How does your Heartbreaker... divide up magic?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 19609
My heartbreaker notes never advanced to the point of a fully fleshed out system. A friend did take these concepts and produce a system out of their own take on them, which I quite liked, but it wound up falling well outside of heartbreaker territory. I started with the principles that player charact...
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What if your PHB had actions instead of spells?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6385
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 3:05 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Who are all them lurkers?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5193
- Sun Dec 22, 2019 12:37 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Exalted 3rd Edition?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5333
A more efficient approach, of course, would be to rip it up and start again. Yep. This is a problem. Narritively, you want to the party to consist of a Solar (Luke), A Lunar (Leia), A Sidreal (Obi-Wan), and a couple of dragonblooded (Han and Chewie). But this isn't a party you can put together, in ...
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 4:46 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cyberpunk Fantasy Asymmetric Threat summary
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7769
- Wed Jul 24, 2019 5:29 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cyberpunk Fantasy Asymmetric Threat summary
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7769
- Wed Jul 24, 2019 2:57 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cyberpunk Fantasy Asymmetric Threat summary
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7769
I think I understand what Frank is getting at. For example, in the climactic hack at the end of Neuromancer , in which Case becomes one with the Kuang Grade Mark Eleven virus and achieves the apex of his art, he is sitting somewhere in orbit around Earth. If you want someone to be able to do that, w...
- Sat Jul 20, 2019 12:02 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cyberpunk Fantasy Asymmetric Threat summary
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7769
The amount of time travel meaningfully possible within the solar system with instantaneous communication is unlikely to do much. In the spirit of using RAW to try to break a setting: A rocket takes off from Earth orbit and fires its drive until it reaches a relative velocity of 0.0005c with Earth. ...
- Thu Jul 18, 2019 5:24 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cyberpunk Fantasy Asymmetric Threat summary
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7769
I also thought this had fallen by the wayside, but I had high hopes while it was still going. Throwing something more onto the idea-pile: today, in 2019, it's clear that, in a future like the one posited by Asymmetric Threat, it will be trivial to generate internally consistent, photo-realistic audi...
- Sun Jun 16, 2019 7:35 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Genre-emulation
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4624
- Mon May 27, 2019 5:24 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Religion is use
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7817
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 6:58 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Spears of the Dawn
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3680
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 3:24 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]S1 - Tomb of Horrors
- Replies: 31
- Views: 18108
A friend tried to run this for us last year. It was nice of him to do so, and I suspect some of us had fun. He obtained a 3.x conversion of the module from somewhere and had us put together level 10 character builds using the 3.5 SRD only, with a pocket veto for shenanigans like wish chaining or spe...