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- Tue Apr 30, 2019 1:45 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Earthdawn
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5837
You seemed to be busily self refuting your own statements as hard and fast as you could. Nothing I've said refutes myself. I only have two points: 1) The historical record is incredibly sparse, and it's not difficult to make a secret history that fits it with plausible deniability. 2) Earthdawn did...
- Sun Apr 28, 2019 10:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Earthdawn
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5837
- Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:18 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Earthdawn
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5837
Even then, the existence of the Vandals was recorded by other cultures that did leave an archeological record. For an entire era to have no cultures that left any such record in an area doesn't just require that not one culture have writing but that not one culture have effective construction techn...
- Sun Apr 28, 2019 5:53 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Earthdawn
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5837
Suspending our belief to have a secret past society leave no archeological record requires completely rethinking how humans act. Except there are plenty of past societies that left no archeological record. The archeological record is incredibly sparse . Humans have, conservatively, been around for ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 7:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Darksword Adventures
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10889
What follows is a few pages of perfectly serviceable direction for what a game session might be like and what the 'gamejudge' and players need to do to prepare, and then we're thrown headfirst into some hand signal nonsense. See, the idea is that you're probably going to buy this book in an ordinar...
- Sat Apr 13, 2019 9:47 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear CharGen/Geometric Advance Needn't Be Inherently Bad
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3799
Okay, there are two things that really need to be cleared up because they just keep being repeated. 1) linear character generation is not automatically faster than geometric generation. In the very specific case of having to do all of the math in your head it is easier , but once you have more than ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2019 12:36 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear CharGen/Geometric Advance Needn't Be Inherently Bad
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3799
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:33 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22732
*shrug* WoD mechanics aren't exactly shining examples of quality, but in general there are at least enough combat options that you don't automatically know someone with STR 5 DEX 2 is going to lose against someone with STR 2 DEX 5. That's the whole purpose of the charm webs, magic swords and shit. Y...
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22732
So you want a game where your choices of stats and Charms doesn't mean that you can't win? Honestly, I may have misinterpreted this, the double negative made it confusing. Longes said the social combat minigame is deterministic, meaning if I have a 9 and you have a 10 then my loss is inevitable, ev...
- Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:51 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22732
- Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22732
- Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:56 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 6614
- Views: 709439
If we get knocked down the tech tree, we will probably be able to use leftover technology to get back up the tree quickly, but you cannot give an iPad to a watermill factory and expect them to be able to immediately produce circuit boards with a squillion transistors just because they've got workin...
- Tue Apr 09, 2019 11:10 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 6614
- Views: 709439
The fact is that if nano-assemblers exist then the only technology that matters is getting access to an unlocked nano-assembler. It's like the joke of pirating 3D printers by printing more 3D printers, only real. Even if a nano-assembler can't make more nanobots, an unlocked assembler can make all t...
- Tue Apr 09, 2019 7:03 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: It's Personal...
- Replies: 4839
- Views: 630527
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Are any RPG's worth playing?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6294
- Fri Mar 29, 2019 9:55 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Not-Awaited Witcher TTRPG Review by WiserOdin
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21057
Trying to faithfully transfer a video game crafting system to TTRPG never works because the opportunity costs of each system are wildly different. Video games have neigh-unlimited single player downtime and literal spreadsheets to track how many owlbears you've hunted down and harvested, and how man...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear CharGen/Geometric Advance Needn't Be Inherently Bad
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3799
Same difference. You're still doing additive character building at generation and then exponential later on; the only difference is that instead of having fixed points to spend on select categories (i.e. White Wolf-style) you add another layer of decision making (Shadowrun-style). The general purpo...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 5:42 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear CharGen/Geometric Advance Needn't Be Inherently Bad
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3799
Really what you're arguing for is a sane version of the Feng Shui archetypes or Shadow Run priorities system, not linear chargen. Something like distribute 4,3,3 to stats, 4,4,3,3,3,2,2,2,2 to skills, get traits worth 3,2,1, and flaws worth 2,1, a 3,2 background, distribute 24 XP how you like (with ...
- Fri Mar 22, 2019 1:12 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
- Replies: 202
- Views: 83702
- Wed Mar 13, 2019 7:27 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder 2e
- Replies: 666
- Views: 150260
There's no artist signature on the second one, I wonder if it was commissioned to be a legally distinct art work to avoid royalties or something That, or an audition piece by a new artist that someone decided they like better. Nevermind, same artist. There's a lot of things to prefer about the new ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2019 1:29 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder 2e
- Replies: 666
- Views: 150260
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 1:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Alternate M:tG Color Wheel: Take II
- Replies: 111
- Views: 13919
Actually I am way more impressed with those White Weenie lists, those are in are real sense more interesting decks from a deck design point of view. You might see a deck that brainlessly counts to twenty, but I see one that has been well tuned to resist opposing lines of interaction. The reason tha...
- Thu Feb 21, 2019 6:13 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Is Dude Bashing Avoidable?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2006
- Mon Feb 11, 2019 1:39 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: NSFW News That Makes You Laugh/Cry/Hurl/etc.
- Replies: 525
- Views: 138187
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 8:24 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 936537
It might be fairer to say that the court asked for a specific type of evidence, McDonald's provided a different type of evidence, and the court decided to smack them around for failing to play by the rules. Reading the article again, it does seem fair to say that McDonald's really didn't do a good ...