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- Mon Dec 28, 2020 4:05 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Vampire the Masquerade 5e- Actually a huge step up?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 9382
From what I've heard the changes to the mechanics have been well received by fans of the franchise, as they're less clunky and work better than their predecessors. This isn't a high bar to clear, and V5 still has some ancestral jank (namely the disciplines) but it is a lot smoother. What fans are mo...
- Sun Dec 27, 2020 6:13 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "The win condition of the Fighter is to reach b2b contact"
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5994
Yeah that. I think it can be an adventure in itself to trap, ambush an enemy in that way. Or you could just play and/or design a real class and not waste time on low-level Dumbass Melee Fighter Bullshit. I got kingdoms to save and demigods to kill, I do not have the narrative bandwidth for an adven...
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 5:12 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "The win condition of the Fighter is to reach b2b contact"
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5994
It's not one to one but Ogre's scenario reminds me a little of Kingdom Death combat. There are a variety of optimal strategies players might gravitate towards. There are also monsters that punish those specific strategies. Range is very good, but also very hard to work with because bows limit your ...
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "The win condition of the Fighter is to reach b2b contact"
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5994
There are some cases where Kiting the Ogre is perhaps optimal but not actually viable.For example the Ogre could have a higher base speed than the PCs, so while kiting a few rounds is possible, it could run one of them down in a round or so. Or maybe it has a few tricks like hurling rocks that punis...
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Investigative RPGs (No PhoneLobster)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4364
I feel it's fundamentally flawed to look to mystery Novels as a guide for how to write Mystery Games. They're two very different mediums. And even mystery video games tend to lean heavily on the players object spamming and/or save scumming to brute force things when they can't figure out the puzzle....
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 2:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why 'Realism' in Fantasy?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9643
I think that the only kind of realism worth talking about in the context of these games is actually not realism but just verisimilitude. People want to play in games that don't break their 'immersion' (immersion in this case being based on how they believe things 'should' work). This is sort of the...
- Fri May 29, 2020 3:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: RPG systems that are actually fun as games.
- Replies: 71
- Views: 16191
- Fri May 08, 2020 8:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Musings
- Replies: 73
- Views: 13262
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea of being this defensive of making goblins as a whole evil capitalists when the clear and easy fix is to just make like, a specific culture who's evil capitalists and then just stock it with an assortment of races. But not it's got to be exclusively go...
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 4:06 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.
- Replies: 2920
- Views: 531516
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 2:46 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: YouTube Chudz
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11318
Could pediepies crap just be because he's a Swede? My admittedly limited experience with Swedes was that they think racism is extremely funny. Like, I heard more racist jokes from swedes in one week than I did 30-ish years living in rural Virginia. It could be that people in Gothenburg are just sho...
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 6:40 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: YouTube Chudz
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11318
- Fri Oct 18, 2019 7:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: ACKS Heroic Fantasy Handbook
- Replies: 156
- Views: 27566
- Fri Sep 27, 2019 3:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "Rules as written" and the current state of RPG design
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9850
I think prep time is going to vary from person to person and game to game as a rule. When I GM I do a rough outline of 'here there be plot hooks' and rely on random tables for the rest. There's even a random dungeon generator that only takes a couple minutes of cleanup to look presentable. And then ...
- Thu Sep 26, 2019 9:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "Rules as written" and the current state of RPG design
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9850
- Thu Sep 26, 2019 6:55 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "Rules as written" and the current state of RPG design
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9850
- Thu Sep 26, 2019 1:18 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "Rules as written" and the current state of RPG design
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9850
- Wed Sep 25, 2019 4:14 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "Rules as written" and the current state of RPG design
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9850
Because even written games have bugs in them sometimes that render RAW either unplayable, broken, or unplayably broken. Say there's some class feature that allows you to make a move action whenever you miss with an attack. And then there's a feat added in a later splat that allows you to make a fre...
- Tue Sep 24, 2019 7:24 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "Rules as written" and the current state of RPG design
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9850
Because even written games have bugs in them sometimes that render RAW either unplayable, broken, or unplayably broken. Say there's some class feature that allows you to make a move action whenever you miss with an attack. And then there's a feat added in a later splat that allows you to make a free...
- Tue Sep 10, 2019 3:06 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Podcasts you follow?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16666
Darknet Diaries is one I would recommend. It's almost exclusively stories about hackers and the various things they've accomplished. My favorite episodes so far have to be about the professional penetration testers. People hired to break into secure locations in order to test security. Their methods...
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 6:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: CK2 Trait-like based diplomacy
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4277
If there are mechanical bonuses associated with picking the right traits, or even treating traits as an auto win in certain situations, adds a layer of social deduction/info gathering not currently incentivised by standard d20 social mechanics. If the DC to hit is 20, and I have 15 diplomacy, then t...
- Fri Aug 30, 2019 3:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: CK2 Trait-like based diplomacy
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4277
- Thu Aug 22, 2019 8:07 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Gumshoe seems like it blows
- Replies: 75
- Views: 13900
I think there are two distinct types of clues and I think that distinction is important for the purposes of a collaborative game. Information: Gossip, hearsay, history. The things you find written down or bribe a maid for. This is where you find things like 'Motive' or who's feuding with who, who mi...
- Tue Aug 20, 2019 7:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cleverest game mechanics in your opinion?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 10340
I've just recently discovered an obscenely expensive board game called Kingdom Death that does something neat with it's monster encounters. Rather than have a dedicated GM, the monster your civilization hunts is controlled by the AI deck, a randomly selected pool of moves the monster uses on its tur...
- Tue Aug 20, 2019 2:37 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cypher System fails
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3363
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 3:16 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Podcasts you follow?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16666
The first season of Limetown is really good. It's an x-files esque conspiracy story delivered in the style of a public radio interview series. Definitely recommended. (The second season is kind of a shitshow; I gather that this is because the first season's writers focused on chasing a potential TV...