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OD&D and some other early iterations had mechanics for fleeing in dungeons. You could drop amounts of food and/or gold for monsters or intelligent enemies, and enemies had a chance to stop chasing if you turned corners or they ran past secret rooms and so on.

I have no words.

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FrankTrollman wrote:From Duck Til Dawn

Not to be confused with Count Duckula.

A lack of communication on the flaws in a system is not a selling point on that system or its administrators, and I never need to buy an official Calvinball rulebook.

I love M&M, but it's not different from D&D, in that you still roll to hit, roll for damage, and note down effects. It is in fact usually more of a pain in the ass than D&D is because you have to look up unique charts for degree of severity of damage instead of just ticking off hit point...

http://www.ulisses-us.com/wrath-glory-designer-diary-november-2017/ The dice roll system seems like bullshit: d6 hits system, 1-3 are blanks, 4-5 give 1 hit, 6 gives 2 hits, and you always roll the "wrath" die, which screws your results on a 1 with complications, and a 6 similarly boosting...

Dragon Warriors did something similar, if you make a wand (which was described more like a staff) you permanently lose magic points that go into it, and you get that + an extra 50% from the wand you can cast on specific spells relevant to the wand. IIRC, you are permanently worse at casting any oth...

Hi silva. o/

Modeling mass combat in an RPG doesn't turn it into a wargame any more than modeling political maneuvering turns it into Coup. Both things are huge patches in most RPGs, in that they routinely come up in actual games actual people actually play, and don't have satisfactory resolution systems. Most R...

Games need good rules for anything that is likely to happen routinely of any significance. Crafting, sneaking, diplomacy, mass combat, kingdom management, travel, survival in the wild, investigation, those things all happen commonly in games I've played or run, and rarely have they been addressed sa...

Aaaand that was quick, it only took three posts for someone to AGAIN making this into yet another Fighter thread. Does that mean he "lost" considering Fighters threads are the Den's Godwin? Any thread about giving spells to people that don't cast spells is already a Fighter thread. I'm no...

How about not just giving spells to everyone to try to fix people that don't get spells?

D&D was, of course, originally a hack for Chainmail, and had rules for mass combat by way of it, as well as a late game kingdom building minigame. Every edition since then has made at least some kind of effort to making it so you can go from a raiding party to the rulers and generals of a kingdo...

...so basically, trying to make "an anime game" that covers "the stuff in anime" is not very useful. You should really look at a handful of specific anime that you want to recreate or steal from, then decide where to go from there. This is exactly my problem with every "ani...

Max out Charisma and Constitution, cast some more forever?

So, how does stealth work in a miniatures wargame? Can it work at all? Sure. There's a few ways that stealth usually works: increasing a units ability to evade attacks is very common, as is simply denying the enemy the ability to target the unit at all until they get close enough. Allowing position...

I remember the Infinity RPG Beta being really, really clunky, like the worst parts of BRP, SR3, and a story game like Fate.

Are there any systems with something akin to the wanted stars in GTA? Not a roleplaying game, but I played Mercs: Recon recently, it's a cooperative miniatures board game, and it definitely does. You're mercenaries performing very aggressive corporate espionage, and as you start killing opposing fo...

Red blood cells live about 120 days, right? Feeding three times a year would be more managable, but not at all cool. The full moon is associated with another iconic monster, but feeding every month or so would be less bodycount inducing and at least might be cool.

hyzmarca wrote:With a million vampires, there would be room for clan politics to be meaningful, and for all the bullshit tiny factions and bloodlines to actually do things.

It would also require like one in every dozen or so people to be being fed on by vampires several times a year.

Which always sticks me about conspiracy games: they're cool, but it's hard to imagine any rubric by which someone simultaneously calls the shots and is also able to be exposed and overthrown. COINTELPRO wasn't some far-reaching power play by the FBI, just an ugly facet of systemic racism in the Amer...

Vampires would not be in power if torches and pitchforks could overthrow them. The US government came out on top when a third of the country decided to throw a giant hissy fit a few years back, I'm not terribly impressed with the "powers that high-level vampires" apparently have if they ca...

Lots of false positives? Government spyware programs rarely stay hidden for long in the real world. Trying any sort of mundane solution to cover up the existance of vampires, beyond following the first two rules of Fight Club, would cause more problems than it would solve. Honestly, the only reason ...

I would go so far as to guess that the hardware behind such things as cameraphones is hardwired at the factory to malfunction if someone tries to take a photo that includes a vampire. And possibly sends a signal the next time the camera goes online. Because that wouldn't be conspicuous. Like, at al...

If you want to save yourself a few months of work, Monte Cook's World of Darkness is a complete-ish port of WoD into d20. It has a straight-up vampire progression with 20 levels and disciplines converted to d20 and everything. Isn't it also a total trash fire? I only read through it once a while ag...