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So basically, for hackers to be able to be useful in combat, the setting either needs hackers to be able to hack people without cyberware, for everyone to have cyberware by default, or for bonuses you get by using hackable cyberware to be so uber that everyone wants it. Since Heisenberg hates the fi...

I didn't even connect the shitty mobile game with the giveaway. Nicely done GOG.

Nidhogg is amazing, but it probably works best at with a group like the one I was just with- a group of 8 people gathered round a projector with two control pads attached to the laptop. We were playing Nidhogg for hours- it's easy to pick up and I managed to go for about twenty games undefeated agai...

Wait, they are charging for it on Steam? I thought they were giving it away and asking for donations. What's different in the Steam version that they are charging $5?

The other books were pretty much shite. Ender's Shadow wasn't bad, but by the end I was reading them for the sake of completeness. Maybe I was too young to understand it, but I honestly had no idea why Ender got married. From what I recall they shared no interests, weren't attracted to each other or...

My first instinct is to tell you to read through this as some ideas on future humanity. Since you have magic and psionics, anything you come up with has to be better and more interesting than those. Is there a PDF or EPUB of that book or something that I can download? I don't know, but if you scrol...

My first instinct is to tell you to read through this as some ideas on future humanity. Since you have magic and psionics, anything you come up with has to be better and more interesting than those.

The reason they don't bring [guns] from Earth is because they don't get advance warning before being yoinked into the world. ... "go to middle of nowhere on Earth, cross over into the middle of nowhere on Notnia, use griffins to get to school dozens of miles away, avoid dragons en route."...

Need some context for this. Obviously shit's gone bad, but I have no idea what is going on.

Here is my thinking- having helicopters, cars, mobile phones and the internet in Notnia require several things- [*]Either the capability to transport helicopters and mobile phone towers pre-built into Notnia, or factories set up in Notnia to build them. If you limit the transportation to Notnia or h...

K is joking, right? That was an actual joke post, where he insists that all DMs should have years of experience and already made monsters hundreds of times and each power dozens of times. That beginner DMs don't exist. And he says it takes less than a minute to read 5 or 6 powers, each of which take...

I always wonder how Death Ward is expected to be mandatory. It's only 1 minute per level to a single character- how are you supposed to have Death Ward up for the whole party throughout a dungeon?

All of the ideas I put up involve the PCs going to a single location (train station, the far side of a magic mirror, a magic lake, an elf forest, a mountain) via safe and reliable means and then doing the challenging bit together . I still don't see what you'd get out of doing that. It's an interes...

First Year: There's a magic train in London to get on. If you live far away from the train, you get airplane tickets to London with your acceptance letter. Second Year: There's a magic mirror that you walk though. The school has the mirror on a rotating exhibit schedule every summer so that every s...

A couple of important thing- is the schooling limited to some inborn aspect like Harry Potter, or is it anyone who chances upon the magical world? If any child who goes to notNarnia can learn magic, what is stopping the BBEG from kidnapping a large number of children and training them up as an evil ...

Also in KotOR (which takes place before The Old Republic) Hey real quick, what is the name of Kotor all spelled out again? This whole discussion is stupid and Kaelik is being fucking retarded again. There is a game called Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. There is also a game called Star Wars...

One thing about Harry Potter magic is that there is no cost to magic and it is based on skill, not inherent ability (apart from the magic/muggle divide). Noone ever gets physically tired from casting spells, only mentally or emotionally tired from focusing on spells or the results of enemy attacks. ...

One more for Grandia 2 was brilliant with an excellent combat system.

As well as the first time I saw a game let you fight a huge monster by giving it separate parts that act separately with level appropriate abilities rather than one monster with stupid big numbers.

So I suppose PCs can roll to try to bump up their AC, movement speeds and hit points. I'm not sure what those rolls actually entail in his game, but according to him, it's a sin not to allow the PC not to do that if he demands it. Players already want to do those- there is a demand for a parry syst...

party cohesion is based on the goal at hand, not that everyone wants to buttfuck each other with a smile. does the assassin have the things needed by the party to fill some missing skills, role, duty that the other party members dont have? THAT is party cooperation. Did shadzar just say that the pe...

Spiderman has a really good selection of recognisable villains. What do you think- best in comics?

How about giving a swarm more abilities the greater the number in it? So, a single dog has the basic rules of a monster. But, a group of 3 dogs moves as one, can make a single slightly more powerful attack, and also can perform an attack that knocks an enemy prone and auto grapples with all three he...

The trap mechanic also needs to be expanded to allow for reactive creature behavior. For example, the pack of dogs will probably run away instead of staying until death. ... A lot of things in 3e like bat swarms could probably be abstracted down to that because no one wants to kill bats, and castin...

Sorry K, but that doesn't really explain anything further than what you've already said. I still have no idea what you consider to be a monster, or what an animal requires for you to call it a monster rather than a trap. And even the trap I have only a general gut feeling of what you mean. I think y...

K, can you please explain what you mean by a trap and a monster, and in what ways they differ? Because at this point it seems like you define a trap as anything which falls outside your definition of monster. And you haven't given a positive definition of what you mean by monster, only a negative on...