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Literal moonshine is an amusing image generated from that, (that being a specific kind of brew that needs to be aged in the presence of moonlight.) As is the image of the effects of a bootlegging operation in a fantasy backwater, with the well-documented explosive potential of both magic and ferment...

The way I was going to model that was with critical effects, since the Zones abstraction I had in mind didn't lend itself to conveying any meaning to "knocking a dude across the room" for most cases. When a Wallop happened it would apply an appropriate critical effect based on the attacker...

I still lurk, but yeah I've abandoned this project for many years.

I have a couple notes on an updated-ish version I'd run through a few years ago, if you wanna look em over.

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There's almost no similarity, to my sensibilities, between D&D and MonHun's itemization beyond the fact that players can dumpster dive for the things that benefit them most before going out to hit things with sticks. Other than that they're wildly different. D&D itemization is a gatekeeping ...

Point of contention: Monster Hunter isn't anywhere near a primitive society, despite the materials they use. It's a triumph of the series' world building that nearly everything is made out of monster parts and it's almost universally integrated, but that's because in their world monster parts are th...

If you're not concerned with the ethical issues or stresses to the animal I imagine casts of lesser restoration or cure light wounds (depending on how you decide to model the action) to restore flanks of muscle you harvest from living livestock may also be viable. Gentle Repose on the corpses of ani...

A bunch of D&D mechanics borrow heavily from the works of Jack Vance, and he is one of the big figures of Dying Earth fiction.

I'm biased to recommend it cause I enjoy his work for particular reasons but if you want another series to look into, Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun is worthwhile.

Just food for thought, and this inquiry could apply to CoC-styled games in general, not specifically to heartbreakers so apologies for lack of specificity to the topic at hand. What would be the potential problems of crafting mechanics to support an ensemble of characters, that the players would dir...

Feel free to change whatever you want for it. If it helps, half the idea I was working with was that a fair number of the practitioners would treat and exploit the spirits of things like a resource rather than something with any kind of awareness or sentience. Beyond that it was just a couple things...

Throbbing pain. I also become keenly aware of my pulse when it happens, I can feel it in that area pretty strongly. My glasses don't seem to cause any problems. Earbuds tend not to present a problem for me, but I rarely use them for a length of time equivalent to what I use my regular headphones for...

I wear a pair of circumaural headphones when I'm at my computer, and have a couple of other pairs I use when traveling, etc., and recently (last year or so) I've been getting savage headaches starting from above my left ear and moving around my left eye whenever I wear them. I assume I'm compressing...

Does anyone here use or know how to use Maya? Specifically the 2015 version. I need to know how to apply textures (such as images nabbed from the web) to objects. Sorry if this is way late and you've already moved on, but applying textures is basically the same across all modelling programs: you un...

I don't think Doctor Who is all that great.

Thanks Cynic! Like three days after, I also got news that I'd be in another show with the Light Grey Art Lab about game boss characters, so I'm cautious of the wrinkle to come. I'm unused to getting good news in such a short amount of time.

AH: That's a thing of beauty.

I voice support for letting Goat Spawn and the like to get materials for fielding non-heroic members of their respective races. While exceptional individuals of one race or another might be capable of matching a Yaoguai without a career kitting on top, I'd still like to see a model that can spit out...

I just now sent off my overwhelmingly positive response in regard to a prospective concept art position.

I dunno, is just calling the Sentai expies Rangers too on the nose? I'm assuming we generally want English titles for the different archetypes since the others are referred to in English, so Knights, Raptors (in reference to Gatchaman), Saints, Braves or Champions would be my suggestions. Otherwise ...

It pains me to admit this, but other than a handful of the big names my grasp on the Cthulhu mythos is really bad . Other than voraciously consuming a bunch of the source material, what's some recommended reading to familiarize myself with the needed horrors and start having loud, angry opinions on...

If you want to tie it directly to the Warlord's version of it, "More-lord" seems pithy enough. "Invisible Hand" speaks to a pun on the way the action economy gets played with for a great deal of characters who would fall under this concept while also being kind of literal; every ...

Don't get me wrong; as much as I find the Magic design work to be fairly hit-or-miss, the fact that they at least attempt to correct problems for a competitive game, that they have an idea of community engagement and that they apply some amount of rigor to maintain a release schedule puts them well ...

Ryan Dancey gave an answer basically to that effect to some redditor's question about a Magic sourcebook, citing internal deliberations from after the release of 3rd Edition. I'm just surprised it's been maintained for as long as it has. Given my impressions of both teams I'm merely baffled that a p...

Tangent: is D&D anything beyond a licensing tool for Wizards? I have a hard time imagining anyone, production apparatus that doesn't produce anything aside, notices any money moving around except when they hand out the name to other media. I have a hard time imagining it's even pennies compared ...

This reminds me, I'd like to present my new grading system that groups gamers and games into categories based on the age, region and varietal, as well as various subtle nuances noticeable to enthusiasts. D&D, grown from a Midwestern species, is a long-standing commonality at many hobbyist tables...

You'd be looking to get print and web rights as well as rights to use artwork in promotional material. From personal experience a rough idea of pricing for quarter to half-page illustrations can go from anywhere from 100 to 500 dollars, depending on the complexity of the image and a handful of other...