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Going back to the musketeers discussion; They do use muskets a few times in the novels. The 1973/1974 Micheal York movies have people pull out pistols a few times in a fashion that is in keeping with the stories. For instance Rochefort threatens a guy who spends their whole encounter trying to get h...

How's the game play? I've watched some videos, which immediately unlocked a lot BT rules gathering dust since the late 90's, but I hadn't got much of a feeling about the degree to which BT and MechWarrior combine over the course of the campaign. Battletech the video game is pretty good, but the wea...

Edit: Aand i just remembered that english is not my native tongue after going and checking and actually seeing no Battletech Novels written by either of those two Authors. Which means i completely misunderstood the whole meaning of your post -.- Sorry if there was confusion, what I mean is that muc...

I recently bought the battletech harebrained schemes video game. While learning the system I went back and read a lot of SARNA and battletech lore. I originally got into battletech in 93-94. I had the blue/purple "compendium rules of warfare" and the boxed set with the Atlas on the front. ...

That was quite a load of bullshit. The part that I find astounding is the "I don't believe Jesus was Jew." There is no reading of any version of the bible that would make sense with. If Jesus is not the promised messiah of the Hebrew people then the entirety of the gospels make no sense. T...

Dead; My question is what the fuck does the extra complexity get you? Hit points are not great at representing real world damage to people, but hey are very good for a game because they are simple. People can understand how close to defeated they are. As long as the number of hit points doesn’t get ...

Everybody's experience is going to be annecdotal. I found that that Kansas City area was not super engrossed in the living Greyhawk world building stuff. Then again it was not much better with living realms in 4E. The biggest difference to me is the video games. There is exactly 1 D&D video game...

I liked recharge magic conceptually but having payed a couple of adventures with it it is almost more hassle than it is worth. The advantage the system had in 3.x was that it meant that you got rid of the 15 minute workday by basically limiting a caster to 1 spell per spell level per combat. This wa...

Greyhawk is a perfectly serviceable world for a default D&D setting, except that the world has not had any real traction in almost 40 years. Nevermind that before it got canned by WotC, in 2007 for GenCon going by events Greyhawk was the most played setting, or ttprg at all, full stop. I say th...

Tussuck says a bunch of things all of which are incorrect Are you dense? WWI ended when the Germans ran out of food. The British blockade was working. They were getting ready to fucking starve the country to keep soldiers fed. Additionally, most of the rest of the central powers had exhausted their...

Greyhawk is a perfectly serviceable world for a default D&D setting, except that the world has not had any real traction in almost 40 years. 3rd edition making it the pseudo default didn't really work because FR had supplanted the setting so thoroughly in the 90s. Additionally, for the amount of...

I am not exactly sure what DrPraetor thinks I am wrong about. I think he is trying to argue that the words that constitute the 2 axis alignment have definitive meaning. My response is the image below: https://i.stack.imgur.com/dcUl4.jpg I have been discussing and debating the meaning of alignments s...

The thing is that picking a "worst" version of alignment is impossible because alignment, especially when there are lots of rules attached to it, is beyond terrible. Alignment is really just a short hand for how a character would act when faced with different stimuli. Unfortunately, the de...

So, lets say you were making a game where people played vampires who deal with supernatural politics. You would indeed want a vampire society and you might want to boil the major rules down to 3-5 really simple things. If I were setting the rules I think I might go with something basic like the foll...

5e's rules fucking suck for heroes who go into dungeons to fight dragons. The combat is boring and takes forever. It works , but most systems work. Even if players are taking their turns quickly (and they should, there isn't a whole lot to think about) the combats are grindy and boring. 5e is simil...

There is plenty to shit on with 5e. However, it also isn't worth anybody's time to be full of shit about the status of 5e. The game is not dying, it appears to be growing. The game has been introducing more people to rpgs than 4e for certain. It is doing a better job than pathfinder, OsR, Fantasy Fl...

Reading this and based on what little knowledge I have on libertarianism, I have to ask what the difference between Libertarianism and Objectivism, as the former keeps on sounding a lot like the latter, and that is not a compliment. Objectivism is nominally a specialized type of libertarianism that...

AC0 you have to be one of the densest people I have ever seen post here. Redlining is an example of REGULATORY CAPTURE, the builders and loan agencies wanted to exclude minority buyers and conspired to capture the portions of the government that could make their desires the law of the land. Nobody i...

So is the general consensus that D&D would be better with damage codes and hit boxes?

My experience tends to match FatR that anything with a duration longer than X rounds or rounds/level and shorter than 8 hours tends to be "lasts until the DM says it ends". Narrative time keeping does require a little different kind of trust than in world timekeeping. Franks Poetic magic d...

D&D (except 4e) and most retroclones (also shadowrun) use inworld time keeping. Durations are tracked in seconds/minutes/hours/days etc. However, because each of those durations pass at different rates of real time during play this is not easy to track. Some other games use narrative pacing trac...

So, as per the thread title, what are peoples thoughts on hit points as the damage tracking for pen and paper RPGs. Obviously, this system is not great at reflecting real wounds, it does not (typically) involve death spirals. Characters/creatures pretty much act at full capacity right up until they ...

Well, if you insist. The first thing is that I am not a DL expert or superfan. I read the original war of the lance novels for the first time in high school in the 90s. It was recommended to me by the same person who recommended the belgariad. I recommend him the dragonbone chair, the wheel of time,...

Nobody else has said it yet, but one of the biggest drawbacks to Dragonlance 3.5 is that all the shit that happened leading up to that point, nobody really fucking cares about unless they're already well-into the game. Like, Krynn's dragons were smaller than those in other settings which is why whe...

@Souran: Someone hasn't been paying attention. Said 9x that the only legit use of force is defense of liberty, property, etc. That means everyone (including minorities!) you dingus. Except you are on record in this thread as defending segregation. What about the minorities freedom to participate in...