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- Fri Jul 29, 2022 1:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Credible Masquerades?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 22938
Re: Credible Masquerades?
Those sound like After Sundown Shallows to me. Creepy places that if you go into them you enter a place where the rules of your reality are replaced by those of the spooky plane you're entering
- Mon Apr 04, 2022 1:41 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 5E: Summons still suck
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11940
Re: 5E: Summons still suck
That's not really a solution, you're just probably a skilled DM. If things are getting cluttered down with lots of extra npcs to handle it probably won't improve the situation to hand all those npc's to the person who's already handling the most npcs. I'd say one of the most boring things in D&D...
- Mon Jan 10, 2022 3:51 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 4 - Starship Traveller
- Replies: 69
- Views: 5774
Re: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 4 - Starship Traveller
Yeah beam with Gizmoduck and Dewey
- Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:47 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Investigation in RPGs---Phonelobster just don't fucking bother.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4831
Re: Investigation in RPGs---Phonelobster just don't fucking bother.
The difficulty with mysteries and investigations is not the mechanical structure with which they are resolved but the immense difficulties in constructing satisfying mysteries to investigate. The rules of the combat minigame would be the least of your concerns if every time you wanted to fight a mon...
- Wed Oct 27, 2021 1:42 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: It's Personal...
- Replies: 4839
- Views: 629352
Re: It's Personal...
For years I've loved Jake and Amir, a comedy duo who originated on Collegehumor. They have a podcast (If I Were You) and yesterday's episode had a song me and my friend wrote open and close the show and they plugged our Insta handles and the episode was named after me, and they joked about my name a...
- Sun Oct 10, 2021 10:13 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why are kobolds?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14421
Re: Why are kobolds?
The magic gem based reproduction doesn't hit for me. It seems like an enormous weakness for a species to have, like if a ship of kobolds lands on an island then I guess they're all dead within a generation? The hella-spicy food works though. Maybe kobolds can just barely taste it, unusually for rept...
- Wed Jan 27, 2021 12:54 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What were Gygax & Arneson & pals looking at for early D&D?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4952
Also just plain gamist inventions like the Gelatinous Cube and company is the reason the stacks of corpses and their kit vanish between dungeon expeditions, and it's invisible because that's why you didn't see it on the way out. I absolutely love that. I never thought of that and think that's reall...
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:33 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Best Retroclones
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1218
Best Retroclones
Hey gang. If I wanted to play a game that is essentially AD&D with some updates and improvements what would be the names and games to check out for that? Something that does obvious things like getting rid of Thac0 or expedites the treasure rolling process so it doesn't take half the night. I ha...
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 7:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Dwarfs are hats, Elves are moods
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3975
Dwarves are played by people who don't have physical attractiveness as a part of their power fantasy. It's why dwarves are played by fat people. Women play halflings, chubby people play dwarves, gothkids play tieflings. These are things. Dwarves benefit is that they are a complete roleplaying packag...
- Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:56 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Doing some Mutants and Masterminds
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3080
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 6:51 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: What's changed since Ray Winniger replaced Mike Mearls?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3107
- Tue Nov 24, 2020 7:56 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Doing some Mutants and Masterminds
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3080
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 10:14 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Doing some Mutants and Masterminds
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3080
Doing some Mutants and Masterminds
So I'm gonna be running some Mutants and Masterminds soon for the first time in a decade. There's a third edition out now which I've looked through. It seems to be virtually identical to second edition but I guess that's good for me cause I don't really need to learn anything new. I was wondering if...
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 4:31 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Weis & Hickman sue Wizards of the Coast
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7939
Weiss and Hickman have always had pretty wild beliefs. They've basically always been 1 step away from writing those crazy christian propaganda cartoons you see. I would not be surprised if during the hard right wing christian shift in america of the last 12 years their writings have become TRULY buc...
- Sat Oct 10, 2020 6:03 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: DnD on Earth?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6199
- Fri Oct 09, 2020 7:35 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 952887
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 7:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Miscast risks as a balancing system for magic
- Replies: 59
- Views: 10399
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:48 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Starfinder Looks Like a Mixed Bag
- Replies: 71
- Views: 29906
You could honestly pick a sci fi rpg at random and you'd have a better time than Starfinder. Even Zin's negative assessment is too generous. Consider how much nerds are willing to bleed to defend their games even when they're dogshit and then, with that in mind, consider the fact that even on the ho...
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17274
I cannot imagine a more obvious demonstration of a failed social system than one where telling someone to kill themselves was as likely to work as getting someone to hold a briefcase if, and only if, that briefcase was the sign for an assassin for who to kill. And would switch from DC 39 to DC 3 dep...
- Fri Sep 04, 2020 1:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 952887
- Wed Sep 02, 2020 3:51 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 952887
- Wed Sep 02, 2020 3:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 952887
I'm trying to figure out the relative value of bonuses to re-rolls for 2d6. I can only make anydice give it to me for 1 re-roll before I don't know how to write it anymore. So 2d6 avg is 7. 2d6 with a re-roll avg is 8.37. So 1 re-roll is a bit better than a +1. How many 2d6 rolls to equal a +2 bonus...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 7:14 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the best game engine to hack? (No PL)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6874
Has anyone around here actually played Amber Diceless? I've loved the books, both RPG and original fiction, and they both receive glowing praise from people (rightfully imo). But I've never actually heard any firsthand reports from someone who's run a game Does anyone have any advice for someone run...
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 7:17 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Crafting, Encumbrance, and dealing with "Stuff" in game
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6766
Except there's no reason why adventurers can't simply rely on a loot caravan to carry all of their stuff in the first place. That's what real armies did in history, so why can't adventurers simply hire a caravan The explanation for that is in the games premise: that there are adventurers . The prem...
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 9:04 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Investigative RPGs (No PhoneLobster)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4266
Good RPG systems have both narrative rules and mechanical ones and for something as broad as investigating mysteries you're going to need have both sides locked down. If the players make someone reveal more than they intended you should be able to translate that narrative event (“alibi said more tha...