The Gaming Den

So you've been whoring yourself out and running Shadowrun games for people who don't have even a single advanced degree in a quantitative discipline? For shame. This is doubtless true, people "feel" that rolling 6 dice and hoping for at-least-2-5s is "risker" than rolling 6 dice ...

Lago - so instead of having a TN of 4, epic characters have a TN of 2 in order to roll fewer dice? Rolling a smaller pile of dice is always good, but that's a lot of *work* in order to reduce the number of dice, and it isn't good for what you care about, which is the *variance*. Also I'm not sure wh...

I'm disappointed that no-one is complaining about what I named my prophet.

Todays news:
Despair, false idols, for you are all DOOMED! The bony hand of Knife Bright Insight, the true Goddess, is around your necks as we speak.

I'm not Ermor, no. Sorry for vanishing off the face of the earth; I had an NIH grant deadline yesterday afternoon, and then I collapsed for roughly 17 hours.

--DrP

Oh, have you guys started? If not, sign me up as EA Abysia. Also I enjoy making life difficult for people who volunteer to make maps. Huzzah!

This does get problematic in combat though, because that would lead to half of the team going, then ALL of the enemies going, then the rest of the team going . . Or am i misunderstanding something here? You don't actually "go", you just say with-whom you are fighting, and then you all eng...

Or in Pirate Island, in which you win fencing matches by picking up more witty reparte. My only concern with this is that it will tend to produce bizarrely perturbed characters (like, every front-line fighter has Survival 4 because that's what gets you the "Endurance of the Mountains" mane...

Well, given the right history to work with, it's easier than people have made out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_personification Hell, they even overthrow the old order of Olympian/Norse Gods. Britannia, Columbia and Marianne are the triplet daughters of Athena/Minerva/Zisa; along with Rossi...

So... Drift Racer (Drive): In a chase (yes, regardless of vehicle or even on foot), this enables you to bid the maneuver Drive In Tight Quarters without taking extra penalty dice for high acceleration. The relevant obstacles (curving, narrow or crowded streets for a car; an asteroid field for a spac...

Perhaps every skill in the game comes with maneuvers/perks? I suggest, one such perk for each skill point after the first? This also enables us to deal with other junk-drawer type competencies, such as languages (which are available as a perk for several different skills - Research and Expression at...

That's a bit of a mischaracterization, actually. Yes, After Sundown is not *ideally* a heavily combat focused game, but Combat is a single skill for the same reason that Operations is a single skill; because more granularity than that doesn't help people bring their character conception (and the cor...

I am not Frank Trollman! He is a *doctor*, while I am a *scientist*! I am considerably more mellow and diplomatic.... by default. Also that isn't hard. Random musings. Dreadnaughts Good suggestions. All of those reasons, yes! Oh! We could have a Tradition which *claims* that all magic is actually re...

Have you forgotten about the New York - Israel organ smuggling ring? Well, let's look at today's news: Beduin smugglers stealing organs from African refugees Your argument of WSOD is bullshit. When you presuppose imaginary ways to bypass the need of donor organs, you don't need donor organs? Whoop-...

On the technology side of things, I'd like to make the case for harvesting organs. It's not something that's reasonable in Shadowrun, for various reasons. It is, however, an incredibly dystopic part of the real world . It's quite easy to include. Make targeted immunosupressants cheap and effective....

Is North Africa part of the middle east section? It probably should be, unless we're positing some drastic cultural shifts in that region.

So I'd suggest changing Middle East and Africa to:
Mediterranean
Sub-Saharan Africa

Just imagine that I'm talking at you and every time you see a bold word I'm annunciating so heavily that I'm spitting on you.

Magic Covers Sample Spells Associated Demitype Astral Detection Space Warping Metamagic Clairvoyance Dimension Door Spirit Ward Deep Ones Enchantment Shapeshifting Transformation Polymorph Stone Skin Alter Self Ogres Evoking Kinetic Forces Time Telekinesis Stasis Earthquake Asura Illusion Images Em...

I am not defined as Frank; nor am I, god help me, a respected member of anything. If it makes us easier to tell apart - I just *think* you're an idiot, Frank will tell you so. There's a good chance none of this will be used (for After Sundown, I think my only suggestion that he actually took was the...

Magic "I'm writing a book on magic," I explain, and I'm asked, "Real magic?" By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers. "No," I answer: "conjuring tricks, not real magic." Real magic , in other words, refers to the magic...

Also:
"Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. As soon as a work is complete, it will begin to acquire a patina of anachronism."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/se ... cyberspace

Frank Trollman's Cyberpunk Fantasy Heartbreaker: Assymetric Threat [/size] "Except that the admixture of cyberspace and, spare me, *elves*, has always been more than I could bear to think about." - William Gibson Frank Trollman's Cyberpunk Fantasy Heartbreaker (abbreviated FTCpFHb, pronou...

Okay, how's this: Base damage level is (weapon power) - (scale). To soak damage, you roll Toughness + Armor vs. Margin of Success, and subtract hits. On a bust , you suffer a critical hit. This does something bad which is up to the person-who-stabbed-you. Do to the way the math works out - more skil...

Stuff from Rifts, which is cool: Rifts has a lot of armor and robots, many of which are awesome because they have really cool pictures with them . Other than that, they're pretty generic, so I'm not highlighting any of them. Also I'm simply skipping or ignoring the many things which are either deepl...

@Orion, Are you playing Dungeons and Dragons, or are you playing Fantasy Hero? Fantasy Hero is a perfectly acceptable game - in which people simply do not use the loot they pick up. In Dungeons and Dragons, or any other game where you expect the characters to festoon-themselves-with and also-maybe-f...