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This is what I was fucking talking about: options. You cannot make a rational actor worse off by expanding their choice set. Sure you can. Adding options can set up a prisoners dilemma. No, not even then. There are times when it is better to be irrational in certain problems, but that is not the sa...

Chapter One: Breaking the Mirror Chapter One starts off well with suggested changes to chargen and the character sheet. They offer a way to get rid of that stupid primary/secondary/tertiary system for character creation and just let you assign the points wherever you want. They also offer a super s...

We begin with the usual White Wolf intro fiction. The story is about some woman who is being chased by unknown figures. She ducks into an abandoned amusement park hall of mirrors and hallucinates (dreams? Imagines? It’s incredibly vague) that she is every kind of nwod splat (changeling, mage, promet...

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/images/1/82477.jpg Mirrors was the “options” book for the New World of Darkness with a focus on changing up the rules and setting. It came out in 2010 and was the last nwod book published before Richard Thomas took over and did the “Chronicles of Darkness” rebranding, a...

What makes you say that Eberron doesn't "actually work" for that sort of thing? Just the fact that it still assumes PCs are adventurers and the Dragonmarked Houses and such are background elements instead of putting all the politicking in the foreground, or...? The Great War in Eberron is...

I'm trying to write a setting that's a combination of industrial/"steampunk", post-industrial/"contemporary" and futuristic themes and it looks like this material was grappling with a lot of similar concepts, so this is appreciated reading... might take a look at it myself. I ap...

a Season represents a five-month passage of time during which events happen and things are rolled for (such as with Innovations).

Since when the hell is a season five months?

The Doom-Cave of the Crystal-Headed Children Oh boy. The Doom-Cave of the Crystal-Headed Children. Sounds likes a very deep, thoughtful roleplaying experience written to the highest standards. I'd just do "Earth, but myths are real" if you wanted a D&D Earth deal. No "secret preh...

Also I finally looked up Lamentations of the Flame Princess and it is crazy. Its a D20 retroclone filled with gore, Tomb of Horror style GM dickery/total party kills, and general grimdark weirdness. A few of the modules take place on 17th century earth, but there's also Alice in Wonderland and Willy...

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Anon_issue wrote:if your Dæmon dies you die as well.

Pretty sure this makes the problem less bad, you're expected to keep playing a penalized character but not a dead one.

Having to make another character in the middle of the campaign is a lot more annoying than an XP penalty.

Well, D&D Modern...is probably not what you mean. You are correct. Question, how “earthy” are you measuring a setting? REH’s Conan is set on Earth. His Dark Materials is on Earth as well, a setting that is begging for an RPG. I would say that the deciding factor of "earthiness" for me...

Besides Masque of the Red Death, does anyone know of any DnD settings that just take place on Earth? I ask because a huge stumbling block in fantasy worldbuilding is naming things. Every city and island and noble house has to have its own unique name and by convention the names can't be real-world n...