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My feeling regarding the setting is that while the Steampunk, Renaissance and High Fantasy settings are more about interpretations of tropes, the Antiquity setting should be more historically accurate. Thoughts ? Just wanna say that "historically accurate" is not going to be particularly ...

A friend and I are currently developping a tabletop gaming system, with the hopes to get it published in the semi-near future. We just worked out what we felt like was needed in a core rulebook, with the aim of provinding material for a wide range of settings (we basically have a -400-1850 time fram...

Liquid tension experiment would be a pretty cool band name. Is that a joke? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Tension_Experiment Maybe I subconsciously knew that band... but I didn't mean to reference it :P I really just read "Liquid tension experiment" and went, 'huh, I'd name a band a...

Liquid tension experiment would be a pretty cool band name.

The thing is that you'd have to rewrite everything. Like, if you want a Bear Shaman he needs to have a completely new flavor text, new dice bonuses, new weakness, and maybe new spirits. You basically have to rewrite almost every word to get a Shadowrun clone, so you might as well just write a new g...

Frank, would you be willing to eventually review this product ? We're talking a quick reading to see if everything is internally consistent and free of loopholes and exploits. Name your price if you would charge.

Well, pretty much what you just said, the mechanics for different traditions. If I write up like 10+ different traditions that use the exact same mechanics, IE Bonus to whatever skills, spirits or spell types, miscelaneous disadvantage, 5 spirits and manifestation type. I won't keep any of the origi...

Let's use an example : does the SR tradition system for magic can be considered as mechanics or artistic presentation?

To what extent is a RPG system copyrighted ? If I were to substantially modify a P&P RPG, completely change the setting, remove mechanics and add a lot, could I legitimately claim it is a new RPG, publish it and make money ?

Dumpshock forums are so full of blind fanboys it makes me sick...

OK Done.

Wow, am I the only one who has a problem with this page's display ? It only shows the topic on the left half of the screen. Did I do that ? How do I fix it ?

EDIT : now this post is on the right ?!! What is this I don't even

Choice cuts : I can. They want to see Loren Coleman lose control of the license, no matter what it takes, no matter where it goes. Yeah, we're really the bad guys here, 'cause we wish bad things to happen to fraudsters... Yeah. There are people violating their non-disclosure agreements, leaking item...

It really irks me to see the likes of Dr Funkenstein and Patrick Goodman blabbering on and on about how anyone who isn't 100% behind Bills and Coleman is a member of the "Cult of St Frank Trollman" and just want to "pour gasoline on the fire" and destroy Shadowrun and CGL. They r...

The famous date being May 3rd. I'll be waiting for the next excuse to see this delayed once more.

Frank, do you think this can be considered as "The Truth", or is it shenanigans once again ?

Regarding the availability and street date of the LE's, Randal Bills posted this today on the Dumpshock forums : Hello all, Just dropping by to post an update...was hoping to have a specific Street Date today, but the distributor asked for another day to verify on his side. Regardless, the SRLEs are...

Sorry, stupid double post.

Frank,
Do you think I will see my copy of SR4LE ? Or should I press for a refund ?

That's a pretty cool article, but I really want the cat proof. That's the kind of simple example that ought to shut them up

This could probably be a PM but I guess someone other than Frank might be able to answer this question. I remember reading in a topic about racism that cats had more genetic diversity between members of the same litter than two random human beings. My search-fu is weak and I can't seem to find that ...

Frank, if I play in a game where non-magical healing is severely limited, IE takes several days / weeks instead of a few minutes, what spells should a combat mage choose ? Obviously this means that overcasting isn't a viable default option. I don't necessarily want to make a "blaster" mage...

Oh ok, thanks for the explanation... I kinda figured that was it but I wanted to make sure.

By the way, that SCP site is effin awesome, it killed my productivity then and there.

Hum... what's a "Steve" ?

I'd like a source for that please, since I have heard almost the exact same thing being attributed to Socrates, or some other ancient greek philosopher...

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