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- Tue Jan 20, 2015 7:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5E Dragonborn Druid Social Justice Warrior
- Replies: 30
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- Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:29 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: need some design advice for a sci-fi wargame
- Replies: 5
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That's good advice, re: creating mechanical adjustment packages and then finding a narrative scope to suit. Creating independent conditions columns (economic, operational, planetary, etc) is also a really good idea. Thanks! I think that's enough to keep me going for a bit, but to answer the question...
- Mon Jan 19, 2015 2:35 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: need some design advice for a sci-fi wargame
- Replies: 5
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Red_Rob , there's a few things there that I hadn't considered, but I wasn't looking for mechanical descriptors as much as thematic/evocative tags. So far as I can tell, the game's greatest risk is that it ends up merely as a series of tactical exercises, which is a lot more dry than what I'm hoping...
- Fri Jan 16, 2015 6:12 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: need some design advice for a sci-fi wargame
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2305
need some design advice for a sci-fi wargame
One of the projects I'm working on is Houses of Hydraulics and Plasma , a sci-fi game where the characters are noble pilots of massive mecha who lead regimental military forces, engaged in an ongoing war against an opposing imperial power. The characters and their forces form a larger military force...
- Fri Jan 16, 2015 5:50 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 402662
- Wed Jan 14, 2015 2:47 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
- Views: 956274
- Tue Jan 13, 2015 3:44 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: With an Inner Light (Darkest Night expansion)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6050
I found with the Monk that the Chi empowerments - specifically the one that Activates when the Event is significantly-rated - were really useful. The ability to select (successful) search results and the free travel Chi abilities were the ones most-used. I felt like the Monk had the most tools in hi...
- Sun Jan 11, 2015 9:54 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: With an Inner Light (Darkest Night expansion)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6050
- Sat Dec 20, 2014 2:25 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
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Italics means you win! I can concede most every ounce of ground with a happy smile. Frank's example - smashing into a shield wall needs some random resolution mechanic - is, in retrospect, a great one. To me (I'll steal DSM's line here: NO ONE FUCKING CARES ) it still feels like a need to determine...
- Sat Dec 20, 2014 1:19 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32307
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 11:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32307
I'm arguing with six people at a time. If it's looking like a Gish Gallop it's because I'm trying to respond in good faith to everyone simultaneously. Articulated infantry IS rank and file. The only reason I brought it up, and others made a bibigass deal about explosives and what not was because som...
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 11:40 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32307
Y'all are right. I think a due roll for combat is fine. But it should be nearly irrelevant in the face of position, terrain, and tactics. A system wherein peasants can cut down wounded heavy infantry mired in muck by the thousands with a casualty ratio of something like 1:10 a la Agincourt needs to ...
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 11:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32307
If you think knights fought in rank-and-file, prove it. They didn't. There's a gap in the general use of articulated infantry from sometime in the post-Roman era to the Late Middle Ages. Right now the LOL EXPLOSIVES cannon that proves they were battlefield worthy is from the fucking what, 18th centu...
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 11:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32307
There's also the issue that fantasy mass combat assumes a level of armament and capability which carries with it the assumption that most infantry are probably unarticulated units and not organized into rank-and-file subject to the example you have up there. I don't see how any fantasy world with a...
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 10:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32307
I'm referencing the difference between cannon firing iron balls and cannon firing explosive shells. Not cannon and canon. You guys have gone full retard based on your echo chamber curiously devoid of historical examples. DSM's point about phalanxes is a good one, but the rest of you are so full of s...
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 10:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32307
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 10:30 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32307
You guys are welcome to believe what you want. For the record, early rocketry were incendiary devices, not KAboom FUCK YOU things unless you count static, non-launched weaponry. The use of explosive BLOW UP massed infantry artillery is way late. Fucking around on Wikipedia pretending you know what y...
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:04 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32307
Dude. Explosives aren't cannon. The ability to fire a solid projectile of mass into a wall at a great distance isn't equivalent to an explosion of man-killing fire with a 30ft radius, or shrapnel. Creating an explosive shell that can fired from a cannon but blow up later without blowing up in the ca...
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:37 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32307
I should also point out that a shield wall is a squad-level method of movement. They got cut down by being outmaneuvered... at least in a Roman testudo, which is different from the overlapping shields of a phalanx. You don't hit a shield wall with a triangle, you move to its sides or rear while dela...
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:27 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32307
Proving a negative is hard, Angel. Just find a positive example. It's a discussion. I'm saying I can't recall an example that supports your conclusions. You're saying you do, but lol fuck me for being dense you can't be bothered. Okay. As for Frank's point, I love that being conversant in the subjec...
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ars Magica & the Tormenting Master
- Replies: 2
- Views: 957
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:27 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32307
The ability of men to kill other men is much more predictable. No it is not. If you put a bunch of people in a tight formation, one person fucking up can in fact fuck up the functioning of the entire formation. And that can butterfly-effect/for-want-of-a-nail up to basically any level of organizati...
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 5:27 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear Warriors/Quadratic Wizards > LW/LW in D&D.
- Replies: 259
- Views: 32307
Morale should be a dieroll, but not the actual combat. I know dierolling is awesome in games and maybe that's reason enough, but if you've ever played Bonaparte at Marengo you know you don't need dice for mass combat, and when reading historical reports of battle unexpected slaughters just don't rea...
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 3:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lesser of Two Evils: Pathfinder or 5e?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 11166
- Fri Dec 19, 2014 3:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: GURPS Fantasy II
- Replies: 29
- Views: 20691