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Orson Scott Card's Empire (2006). I had gotten to expect not too much by then. Days of Speaker for the Dead and Pastwatch were long gone but most of his stuff was still readable. This is the worst piece of detritus I've sat through in a long time. Let me ruin it for you a George Soros clone funds a ...

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My only contribution to any Gygax discussion is as a result of his voice from a guest appearance as narrator in a DDO quest chain. he sounds like the worst stereotype of an ubergeek role player that you can ever imagine. Perhaps its just his bad voice acting but you can image his girlish cackles as ...

Based on my experience with M&M, it's easy to see how you could remove attributes from d20 entirely and only make the system better. GURPS 4e is rather more dependent on attributes: for defaults, as meta skills, for basic values such as Basic Speed or Basic Lift. How did you intend to remove th...

I absolutely agree that getting rid of attributes completely is a wonderful idea. I was planning to completely remove them from GURPS 4e a while back but the campaign never left the planning stages. Obviously though you will have different considerations for a leveled game and a levelless game. I wa...

The big complaints I've heard from former WoW players had been that the changes to the mechanics were so fundamental it was close to relearning the game, negating their system mastery. That's the complaint of anyone who plays a game to be eleet and then have to spend a time not being so. I play DDO...

So any reason not to just dust off my SWRPG d6 books instead of buying this thing to play a star wars game?

I've been playing DDO for a couple years now. I signed up for VIP to get all the content. My thoughts are thus: I like that most of the game is mission based rather than wilderness areas though it does have the consequence that you end up wasting hours sometimes if you have problems completing a que...

I'd take this group more seriously if the were called Moms Demand More Action. Its all about a good acronym

Or, Fuch, rather than answering Kaelik's standard asshole drivel and completely waste your time, how do you house rule your game to achieve a non-existent PC-death count? Do you have a set of specific rules that you let your players know about which produce your low lethality?

nockermensch, just so you are aware posting in a thread that has your name specified in the title is against forum rules. Now, personally I think LM is a terrible person for attempting to create an echo chamber like this, and all it has done is inspire me to add (Lord Mistborn stay out) to every th...

See any time I've played in a game that focuses on combat and logistics, I've found to be barely enjoyable whereas the best are the ones that are story driven. I've found just the opposite. The only D&D games I've ever had much fun in either focused on combat, or had equal combat and story. The...

Jagged Alliance 2 is still just as playable as it ever was, more so with all the mods that are available these days. Nothing that come out since has improved on it.

See I prefer female protagonists though for perfectly sexist reasons. If I'm going to spend dozens of hours watching someone traipsing around my screen, I'd prefer it to be something easy on the eyes. Plus I've always found the idea of girls kicking ass to be hot

You have said something interesting to me. Now explain yourself. What kind of game is D&D and why do you believe I have mischaracterized it? D&D is a game about as Stubbazuba said fantasy combat, fantasy logistics, and to a much smaller extent "puzzle solving". That doesn't mean t...

I'd just like to point out how stupid this thread is to be excluding the people who disagree while attacking their position. I was one thing to tell E to fuck off because he was derailing every conversation into his own pet peeves; but we might as well start a thread "Why LM is wrong about ever...

Maj wrote:Fire-breathing Dragon Bridge opens in Da Nang

Hmm, I'll have to check that out next time I'm in Danang.

Artifacts at level one are perfectly acceptable as a trope and easy enough to do mechanically. But rather than a hackmaster +12 you can do an item which levels along with the character to make sure it never becomes irrelevant yet not the smack hammer of doom. That being said, a lot of high level pow...

One of the reasons english is so stupid (as I explain to my students regularly) is that when grammar was being codified, there were competing codifiers who actually one upped each other to create the most complex rules possible. As it was only the upper classes that would study the codified grammar ...

Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue

I remember armored underwear excited the 13 year old in me but that's about it.

I would seem to me that such a system would work better where the amount of success is markedly higher based on the range of success. Like warp cults injuries where 1 success is 1 wound, but 2 is 3, 3 is 6 and so on. That way the working in concert to add to the number of success to one person (by e...

You could use "The Magic's Gone Away" theme that over-use of magic causes the mana to disappear. By nature of centuries of the population's needs being provided by magic, no one knows how to take care of even the simplest of mundane tasks.