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I like the idea of actions being ways to build up a "win". Thanks for that interesting concept.

I think I played a Scoundrel too in KoToR. Initially I wanted to specialize in guns and be like "why the hell would I use a light saber when I can just shoot you?" but finally decided to use the lightsaber because it was easier this way. I still killed the final boss by running away and la...

First, Old Man's War, I enjoyed. It was fun enough the whole way through and I recommend it. There's other books in the series/setting, I'm putting them on my to do list. I jumped into the book having no idea what it was about (a perk of buying e-book bundles) and enjoyed it as well. I haven't read...

In Earthdawn and Fallout dungeons are former bunkers used to survive the apocalypse. Some didn't quite work and are now filled with riches and wonders from the old world (and probably some weird/dangerous stuff as well) The Elder Scrolls and other settings have dungeons that are remains of an ancien...

The French RPG Cops used something similar for car chases. If I remember correctly (and I'm not sure I do) everyone would bid on the target number (to represent the risks they were going to take) and only then would they do their roll. Calling and failing to reach the TN meant crashing, folding mean...

You could just abstract the whole thing and consider that sometimes your success on a sword attack roll means that you tried to attack with your sword, ended up grappling your opponent and dealing x damage.

I think there's a big difference between fiction, realism and historicism. In fiction, heroes wield swords and cut people in half with them (or stun them if it's aimed at kids). I think you can compare this with movies where heroes wield akimbo guns. This isn't realistic, but that's what people expe...

Getting your weapon stuck inside/under someone can easily happen, especially in a chaotic melee. I think it was in Snow Crash that there was this text about how the art of using a katana in battle isn't about putting it inside someone but about pulling it out before that person's angry friend attack...

Besides overwhelming the defenses with too many missiles, there are other options like hacking the defenses or sabotaging them (directly or by cutting their power supply). And stealth is still an option: if the defenses can't detect your aircraft, they can't shoot them down.

There are also some rules that are mostly relevant to PCs. For example you don't really care if a mook is "really dead" or just "out of commission", while you need to know it for the PCs.

If I remember correctly the rule doesn't forbid creation of complex matter but just says that magic is not intelligent and won't create it by itself. In the case of the Create Food spell, the mage is the one shaping the mana into food, just like he's the one shaping the illusions for illusion spells...

If you design something that has the player pick from two columns but Cyborgs are better Hackers than everyone else, Psychics are only useful as Diviners or Mages are completely useless as Hackers, you don't have 25 choices anymore. While it's ok to have some more obvious/easier combinations or some...

They still haven't added Reckless Wiimote Safety Man ?

If you want to replicate the style of western movies, you'll want to have cover feature prominently. Anyone standing in the open is easy to hit while targets behind cover are virtually impossible to shoot. And people can be shot at when running from cover to cover. So maps with hexes + covers and Lo...

angelfromanotherpin wrote:There's an old Donald Duck comic where he goes in search of a source of square eggs. Apparently the savings in storage would accumulate into a monstrous profit to big egg agribusiness.

Hard-boiled egg tubes are already used for that purpose.

Hiram McDaniels wrote: I like that the background music for the battle in ep. 7 was a version of bloody tears.

Good, I've spent all first season waiting for recognizable music (and for something to happen)

That really depends on the problems you have with the neighborhood. If it's something that you can change (and if you've got enough time and energy, it's surprising how much you can achieve in some cases) or something that will change in an acceptable timeframe, it could be a good move. If it's not,...

Democracy means that the People rule (most of the time they'll delegate this to some people by voting for them), Republic means that politics are a public matter (and not the private property of some people). It's hard to imagine having Democracy without Republic : if politics aren't a public matter...

You could probably factor in "missing persons" statistics as well. They're estimated around 800 000 every year in the US.

Difficulty is not only about dice pools and firepower. There are so many ways to complete most runs. It doesn't matter if the guards are able to wipe out the party in one combat turn if all it takes is an easy hack or a small bribe to get them out of the way. So generally speaking I'd say adjusting ...

Nuyens can be bought with karma as in chargen. The way I handle it in my games is that in-game the PC get paid (and really well paid) with nuyens, but if they want to spend these nuyens to improve their characters (by buying ware, drones, programs, etc.) then they have to spend the corresponding amo...

A common problem with run rewards is that there are two currencies: nuyens and karma, and the nuyen part can go out of hand when players start to steal and sell stuff. That's why I like to use karma only for character advancement, nuyens are only here for fluff purchases or possibly for one-time boo...

I've met a few people in Europe who had Swastika tatoos related to the original symbol and who were trying to "reclaim it" from the nazis. The problem is that many people aren't even aware that he Swastika predates nazism and think that it's only "the nazi symbol". In French, the...

Should be ok now.

I don't know how much killing Hitler and his inner circle would have done to avoid what came next. There would have still been a huge population of disgruntled Germans with antisemitic tendencies and a grudge against other European nations lost in a political and economical crisis. So many stories a...