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- Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:42 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How does your heartbreaker deal with noncombat challenges?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 9245
There's a lot of implementation work still to do, but this something that I think about a lot. As a broad framework for a range of challenges - trek across the desert, play cat and mouse with the hobgoblin patrol in the woods, etc. - I have a success meter system and an advantages/disadvantages syst...
- Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:42 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: I'm interviewing for a D&D job
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5821
- Fri Feb 28, 2020 1:20 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Role-differentiation for low-level mundanes
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11899
- Thu Feb 27, 2020 1:58 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Role-differentiation for low-level mundanes
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11899
- Mon Feb 24, 2020 5:56 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Current owner of Judges Guild is a Neo-Nazi
- Replies: 90
- Views: 24425
https://mobile.twitter.com/robdenbleyke ... 2063290368Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Mammaries on things that aren't mammals is one of my fetishes. Lizard boobs, bird boobs, bug boobs, robo-boobs, it's all good.
- Mon Feb 24, 2020 5:03 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Current owner of Judges Guild is a Neo-Nazi
- Replies: 90
- Views: 24425
Kobolds are culturally and politically dominated by hominins, right? So Kobolds associate mammalian traits with urbane sophistication - like French food in the US, Kobolds eroticize mammaries and mammalian reproductive organs as a status symbol. Likewise, Kobolds want the attention of high level, so...
- Sun Feb 23, 2020 9:47 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Role-differentiation for low-level mundanes
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11899
I'm coming back to this since I think the sibling hearbreaker-magic thread makes the conceptual issue clearer. DDM makes a valid point (although I disagree), and he's talking in the space I want to work in. A roleplaying game is a joint optimization problem - the shared story will have challenges in...
- Sat Feb 22, 2020 8:58 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How does your Heartbreaker... divide up magic?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 19382
Adjusting math in the nuclear forces is a good enough piece of psychobabble for why you shout words and draw diagrams to make magic fire happen, but the subatomic space doesn't inherently have any emotional resonance. It's sub atomic, it doesn't even have color. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_...
- Tue Feb 18, 2020 3:03 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.
- Replies: 2920
- Views: 524181
- Tue Feb 18, 2020 12:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The viability of a Castlevania TRPG?
- Replies: 110
- Views: 28715
- Mon Feb 17, 2020 7:47 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The viability of a Castlevania TRPG?
- Replies: 110
- Views: 28715
- Mon Feb 17, 2020 4:16 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.
- Replies: 2920
- Views: 524181
- Sun Feb 16, 2020 8:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Demon the Fallen
- Replies: 31
- Views: 16169
Are they not compatible with the Demons in V:tM? I'm not an expert in White-Wolf-ology, but I don't remember anything that conflicted with the Baali backstory from my brief perusal of Demon? I suppose there was some effort to have dark thaumaturgy come from banes? That never made sense: the banes in...
- Sun Feb 16, 2020 1:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Current owner of Judges Guild is a Neo-Nazi
- Replies: 90
- Views: 24425
- Sun Feb 16, 2020 5:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: GURPS CyberWorld
- Replies: 34
- Views: 12873
I totally forgot about:
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- Mon Feb 10, 2020 7:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Designing a Pokemon TTRPG
- Replies: 142
- Views: 20611
Huh. Scrolling through the reviews above fairly quickly - is all that art from the books themselves, or are you pulling it from the internet for illustration purposes? Because that's great production values, if it's all art from the book. More grist for the mill: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 6:51 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: The signature limit is too short!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7196
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:25 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How does your Heartbreaker... divide up magic?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 19382
If Ability X might come online at Level 5 and might come online at Level 8, it's definitely not going to be a balanced offering. Maybe it will be OP at level 5, maybe it will be underpowered at level 8. Maybe both, but it's literally impossible to thread the needle where it is neither because 8 > 5...
- Sat Feb 08, 2020 10:48 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How does your Heartbreaker... divide up magic?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 19382
I suppose I should answer the direct original question. For reasons related to Isaac Newton and linguistic mumbo jumbo about bible translations, my personal heartbreaker divides magic into SEVEN flavors, which is theme first and heavily inspired by magic the gathering, as well as a lot of similar &q...
- Sat Feb 08, 2020 9:55 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How does your Heartbreaker... divide up magic?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 19382
https://youtu.be/jXAcA_y3l6M?t=1576 his second law is actually a much bigger challenge in cooperative storytelling, and relates deeply to the need to divide magic into pie slices in order to protect some ability of the fighter to contribute. So - flaws are more interesting than powers. It tells you ...
- Sat Feb 08, 2020 5:51 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How does your Heartbreaker... divide up magic?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 19382
Rule #0 - RPGs are not fantasy novels . So in LOTR, when Gandalf does magic that you don't understand, it might provoke wonder in the right context, but in a cooperative storytelling game, especially where the players are driving the story, this is a non-starter. In stories, it is often better to ha...
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 11:35 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: What's Dark Matter, any new theories?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6552
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 10:46 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: What's Dark Matter, any new theories?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6552
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 5:31 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: What's Dark Matter, any new theories?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6552
There's a lot to not understand :). The evidence for dark matter comes from two sources - one of which is angular momentum (things are spinning too fast, for how much they appear to weigh), but the other - which is harder to explain away - is from gravitational lensing. Well, also the cosmic microwa...
- Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:42 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Illusions and Enchantments
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4800