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- Fri Feb 03, 2017 5:05 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Interesting things to do with the solar system in scifantasy
- Replies: 64
- Views: 17388
- Mon Jan 30, 2017 8:48 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Secret Rolls
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8323
Secret rolls in a gaming context where you don't know the people you are playing with super well would be a red flag for me, particularly in a SoD-heavy system like 3.x. If you know and trust the people you are playing with, hidden rolls by the MC can often add to the suspense and tension of the gam...
- Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:42 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: How long until Trump kills a kid?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 18297
- Thu Jan 12, 2017 7:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 429756
- Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:09 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: The Dying Earth RPG
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13138
- Wed Dec 28, 2016 6:20 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Review: War of the Burning Sky Adenture Path (3.5E)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 21664
Could you go into a bit more detail on how the battle works? E.g., how much difference is there between the worst possible result and the best possible result? Would either have a noticeable effect on the rest of the campaign? Is gathering allies relatively easy, or is it something a group could pla...
- Wed Dec 28, 2016 6:12 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Video Games
- Replies: 8271
- Views: 1000658
I've been playing a lot of Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal. It's a tower defense game, except that it's actually pretty fun. You have to fight against this implacable purple blob called the Creeper. The Creeper's dynamics appear to run off some sort of cellular automata, which is neat. RPS did a recent...
- Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:53 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: The Dying Earth RPG
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13138
So character creation is going to be a nontrivial time investment for the most part? Is the intended play style something like Warhammer Fantasy or LotFP, where your character dies if someone breathes too heavily on them, or is it more cartoonish where, even though you fuck up all the time, you neve...
- Sun Dec 04, 2016 5:17 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Book Recommendations
- Replies: 74
- Views: 26194
I will be traveling on airplanes kind of a lot soon, because that is a thing I do around Christmas most years. As such I require things to be read. Generally speaking I like sci-fi/fantasy, but probably, if there's much of that I already have found it, I just bring it up as an aside. The main thing...
- Mon Nov 21, 2016 4:13 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Online card games other than Hearthstone
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5331
Quintin Smith really likes Duelyst:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGYWGcd_6uM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGYWGcd_6uM
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 8:52 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2016
- Replies: 3238
- Views: 367407
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/16/chuck-schumer-senate-democrats-elect-minority-leader For those of us who aren't up on our who's who, what kind of guy is Schumer and what does this portend for Democratic strategy going forward? To me it looks like they're moving left, appointing Sand...
- Sun Oct 23, 2016 10:35 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Returning to Skyrim
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6840
There was a recently released total conversion for Skyrim called Enderal. It brings the game's leveling systems more in line with a Gothic game and adds a new continent and storyline. It also boosts the graphics an appreciable amount. So it's basically a new free game running in the Skyrim engine. M...
- Fri Oct 21, 2016 3:29 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 527272
If you enjoy the music you can watch it in the background while doing something else like work, reading an RPG book, building an MtG deck, etc. The issue then is that you have to pay more attention to the dialog. The 'tone' of the series doesn't change as it goes on so if you don't really like it t...
- Mon Sep 26, 2016 4:06 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 429756
- Wed Sep 07, 2016 10:03 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Video Games
- Replies: 8271
- Views: 1000658
i have heard good things about the other paradox games, europa universalis and crusader kings, but i took one look at them and pretty much balked because that was just too much for me . . Neither EU4 nor CK2 takes place over thousands of years. Both are very much in the vein of real-world history, ...
- Tue Sep 06, 2016 1:56 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Birthright Boxed Set
- Replies: 93
- Views: 27053
I mean, King John of Bohemia took the field at Crecy despite being fucking blind - he strapped himself between two other dudes and road out into battle like a boss, because he thought the majesty of royalty would protect him or some shit. That didn't work and he was captured by the Black Prince, wh...
- Mon Sep 05, 2016 4:35 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Birthright Boxed Set
- Replies: 93
- Views: 27053
I mean, King John of Bohemia took the field at Crecy despite being fucking blind - he strapped himself between two other dudes and road out into battle like a boss, because he thought the majesty of royalty would protect him or some shit. That didn't work and he was captured by the Black Prince, wh...
- Fri Sep 02, 2016 10:35 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: GOG Giveaway: Hero of the Kingdom II 72 hours
- Replies: 233
- Views: 145431
- Fri Sep 02, 2016 6:04 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: GOG Giveaway: Hero of the Kingdom II 72 hours
- Replies: 233
- Views: 145431
- Tue Aug 30, 2016 6:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Crowdsourcing Game Design - Sons of Liberty
- Replies: 42
- Views: 8502
The venerable Jeff Rients.Neurosis wrote:where does pretentious, retro, stupid come from?
http://jrients.blogspot.com/2006/02/i-g ... e.html?m=1
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 2:42 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: CR Is Borken; I Will Prove
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8649
While the MM2 has a lot more of the crazy bullshit, I don't think that would even be true for the MM2. I suspect most people are confirmation biasing away the vast majority of the book (and/or a lot of those monsters people forget are also not that interesting, and the broken ones are at least inte...
- Fri Aug 26, 2016 1:07 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: CR Is Borken; I Will Prove
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8649
- Thu Aug 25, 2016 11:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: CR Is Borken; I Will Prove
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8649
- Mon Aug 22, 2016 2:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ideas that give boners to GMs
- Replies: 102
- Views: 27286
My ACKS games generally involve player-made maps. It slows progress down because I have to make sure that the maps are sufficiently accurate, but it allows the players to develop a sense of ownership over the environment. And it helps the group keep track of what sections of dungeons have already be...
- Sat Aug 20, 2016 8:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook
- Replies: 40
- Views: 24634