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- Tue Dec 31, 2019 3:32 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Dumbest Official Take on Alignment?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7386
- Tue Dec 31, 2019 3:09 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why is anyone here?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 10869
- Tue Dec 31, 2019 1:01 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Designing a Pokemon TTRPG
- Replies: 142
- Views: 21019
I think you're missing Frank's point, but I will reinstate the obvious: [*] Pokemon that you can hand back and forth like short swords are boring, and don't do a good job of providing the pokemon experiences people care about. [*] Pokemon that are hard-to-catch are a very limited resource, and it's ...
- Mon Dec 30, 2019 8:09 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Designing a Pokemon TTRPG
- Replies: 142
- Views: 21019
- Mon Dec 30, 2019 12:50 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Medical Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 962
- Views: 188626
- Mon Dec 30, 2019 12:35 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 60963
That said, the spymaster should have a covert holding to build, although you shouldn't need it in order to do any spying. First, because having a spy agency full of clerk-assassins is cool, and second because everyone should get buildings if anyone does. Likewise you can do wizarding without a tower...
- Fri Dec 27, 2019 3:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 60963
I tend to think they should differ only at high-level, optional specializations. At lower development levels, in most historical contexts, distinctions between public and private finance and administration don't really exist. So once you have a town hall (which is also a guild hall), maybe you have ...
- Mon Dec 09, 2019 2:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Dragonlance: Legends of the Twins
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6121
I remember this part of the novels. I recall that Raistlin was somehow concerned that he was simply repeating the stuff that Fistandantilus did, but not that it was impossible to change the past.
https://dragonlance.fandom.com/wiki/Fistandantilus
https://dragonlance.fandom.com/wiki/Fistandantilus
- Mon Dec 09, 2019 2:31 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Medical Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 962
- Views: 188626
PSA = prostate-specific antigen, not public service announcement :). Gamma-glutamyltransferase gets into your blood when cells turnover - most often these are liver cells, but prostate cell turnover (which also releases PSA) dumps GGT into the blood as well. If you're curious about all the tissues t...
- Sun Dec 08, 2019 1:12 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Sins of the Blood
- Replies: 70
- Views: 10611
So, lets say you were making a game where people played vampires who deal with supernatural politics. Well, of course Frank did. Does such a game want an expansion about sins ? Darn-tootin' it does. But, what do you want in that expansion? Category of Sins Do you want Fluff? Do you want Crunch? Per...
- Tue Nov 26, 2019 2:17 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 60963
I think the discussion about celestial economics is more interesting. Once you've devoted time to giving players the ability to build irrigation improvements, you might want to obviate that ability entirely at the next tier (in the same sense that lockpicking is basically irrelevant at some point.) ...
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 1:13 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 60963
Okay, I'm not sure how big a disagreement this really is. Certainly, a party of 3rd level characters could join a mercenary band, or all go work on a farm together for a summer, and I suppose it's better if they take generic peon actions during the strategic turns than if the game engine returns div...
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 4:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 60963
Good design is hard . Let's suppose that we have a good set of tier 2 rules. Crow has a magic shop, Icy runs an inn, the Stranger has a platoon of hillmen warriors and Elvis has a criminal gang. They go on adventures where they call upon these resources, and they also take strategic turns where they...
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 6:11 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 60963
On the one hand, I love Grek's table, but let me push back on my strict level gating. (I'll let Frank respond to Chamomile's comment if he wants). Simple argument - if player #2 wants to stay home and be a rune fang merchant, then he's going to do that and players #1, 3 and 4 are going adventuring i...
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 2:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 60963
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 1:32 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 60963
Foxwarrior raises a legitimate point, but let's unpack it. Presumably there are hereditary princes who govern hexes. It seriously strains credibility if every six year old with a regent is an 11th level Fighter 5/Shadow Blade 5/Warmaster 1. The player characters may even be such princelings at first...
- Sat Nov 23, 2019 9:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 60963
- Fri Nov 08, 2019 2:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 60963
The tiers need to overlap. So if you have 30 guys on each side, you need to be able to resolve the battle as either a skirmish or as an engagement and the rules need to give roughly the same result either way. So, perhaps counter-intuitively, if you are engaged in distributed gang warfare ( https://...
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 8:31 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 60963
There needs to be a scale transition where you care about having 40 or 70 tiny men with spears, to where you only care how many zounds you have. I'm not sure how it should work mechanically, but in a tabletop RPG you can't be deciding how to split patrol duties among 75 platoons of kobold spearmen, ...
- Sat Nov 02, 2019 7:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Nuts and Bolts Discussion: Hit Points or Something else?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5527
JRPGs and MMORPGs have established a particularly bad precedent. These games have complicated soak formulas and also exponential growth in hit points. This works at all because it's all done in software, but in FFVII, is +10 Def better than +150 hit points? The math is needlessly complicated ( https...
- Sat Nov 02, 2019 3:20 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Nuts and Bolts Discussion: Hit Points or Something else?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5527
- Fri Nov 01, 2019 8:04 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: John Wick's Libertarian Fantasy Utopia
- Replies: 203
- Views: 25958
Economists may very well argue that slavery is inherently low-productivity (for whatever explanations), because many economists, especially of the Austrian school, are pathetically ignorant of econometrics or economic history. https://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/t_oleson/echist/slavery2.html 4. Slave a...
- Fri Nov 01, 2019 4:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: John Wick's Libertarian Fantasy Utopia
- Replies: 203
- Views: 25958
AC0 is a self-caricature, but as a tweenager I volunteered for Bill Weld's (Republican) candidacy as governor of MA, so I do know some libertarians who don't blend into the alt-right or Trumpism, and they are an intellectually interesting bunch - unlike AC0 whose bigotry makes him easy to dismiss. I...
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 3:53 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 60963
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 2:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: John Wick's Libertarian Fantasy Utopia
- Replies: 203
- Views: 25958