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For this crowd, coining MTP was originally a reaction against bad game development practice, such as Paizo's faux play test of Pathfinder - where Paizo was more interested in tweaking the indefinable game experience rather than crowdsourcing corrections for badly written rules and poor math. It pre...

Houston City History : "The city has had a lover affair with things that go all through the 20th century and continuing to this day." lover = love Paris places to go: "Like the British Museum, walking through it like an active crime scene." should be walking through it is like wa...

Psychometry uses the old name in the description. The Attract Magnetism power is cut off. Water Prison "Actually capturing someone with titular prison made of water" should be the titular prison Song of Swarms mentions Dead of Night Small Witness: "and can continue to see through its ...

I don't go out of my way to add pickles to a burger, but when I do, I drink Dos Equis I use kosher dill. Since I never watch adds, it took me until now to catch that joke. My coworker has a picture on his cube wall with a guy with Dos Equis that says "I don't usually test my code, but when I d...

A) The Australian ABC is pretty decent. A Uni, Monash I think, did a study and found it was slightly right leaning. Of course people on both sides complain that it is blatantly partisan whenever it says something they don't like so its not like there is any agreement. B) I don't care for the news me...

Asking Around: Montages "Whenever a character wants to get something that is substantially less important to the story than the amount of time it would take to get that accomplished is important to your game session. " This sentence is ugly and doesn't actually contain the point: use a mon...

Too many Dexes and too large a fraction of them are marines. Both problems could be solved by getting rid of every marine dex except one.

Won't happen ever though, which is a shame. 40k is insane and over the top, often to the point of silliness. But it is cool.

Physical Skills, You repeat that the defaulting penalty is zero twice in a line and a bit of text. Sample Backgrounds: "Marionette is a former trapeze artist, and this facet of her life with the Circus Life Background." Got a word missing there, probably represents. Stylistic note: You pro...

Monstrous Society needs a find replace Dead of Night -> After Sundown Syndicates second paragraph: "The Syndicates do no t have directly analogous social hierarchies." and "Syndicates exist to fulfill essentially the same functions an d is ( replace with are ) essentially on the same ...

The problem with Kaelik's spell isn't that its broken. Its a concocted example to show the massive flaw in the epic spell system. It only produces two types of spells. Type 1: Legitimately cool spells with a DC of way too high. Type 2: Kaelik's spell, its more boring than the time I bored into a log...

talozin wrote:A bad rule is the fault of the game designer.

A bad ruling is the fault of the MC.

Even when the MC isn't out to get the players and noone suspects it either the bad rule is still less disruptive. Laughing at Mearles' ineptitude won't hurt anyone at the table's feelings.

Its used both to disclaim responsibility for mistakes in quoted text and to draw attention to them for the purpose of mockery.

The Goblin Market writeup misses the transient example. In the I Fought the Law opening "when you push on an object it move." looks like it should be moves. From the Frenzy section "When subject to strong stimuli, a supernatural character my completely fly off the handle and start doi...

Its scripting for the sake of it. Too much of the web is already script driven.

Teen Fakes Pregnancy Now that is some epic trolling.

I'm still right to say that NPCs should have some mechanics that back up whatever their personality is. Then the PCs can try to diplomance them from there. Personality is equivalent to terrain in combat, it provides some modifiers and rules. Exactly which ones are there in any encounter is DM fiat a...

Maxus wrote:Nah. A few months back, Frank reviewed a Czech-produced RPG, which dubbed the GM a title with translates as "Mister Cavern".

The term sort of caught on with a few people around here.

Double nah, that wold be the hilarious in joke easter egg for TGD requlars.

You've got an extra /list tag after the contents. I'm also assuming that the cannon expansion of MC is Master of Ceremonies. "How much plots for stories are generated by the actions of the protagonists and how much are generated by external events will vary from group to group, but in either ca...

The point is, all this is done so that by the time the shit hits the fan, everybody knows their roles and what to do in particular circumstances without having to think about it too much (which increases combat effectiveness). However, steps taken towards this direction seems to detract from this t...

It's also used by GW as one as their vampire bloodlines. It's not trademarked, though and I see no issues in using it. I checked for that, it wasn't on the first page of google. Syndicate sounds kinda modern, probably because the most common use I hear is 'lotto syndicate'. What wold the first two ...

I'm not that up on oWod but the IP-scrubbing on the currently posted bits looks good.

No, that would be an example of a very slow and shitty WoF. Since the optimal solution in almost all cases would be to discard everything you didn't use anyway - after all it was something other than the maneuver you actually used, making it statistically likely to be worse than a random card out o...

Searching? Cycling? Sinking (reference to Kitchen Sinks)? Key Fumbling? Something like that. The idea is that you aren't really making decisions, you're just trying shit either with a sorting algorithm or totally at random until you either win or lose. It's the thing that happens when you're facing...

The most glaring thing that needs to change that I don't see mentioned is the name.

Neeeek wrote:I've never known where to put myself on this sort of thing. I find the idea of homosexual sex attractive but I've never found an actual male attractive ever.

Pegging. That is all.