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- Mon Nov 09, 2020 12:29 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 56728
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 8:21 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 56728
The idea that the world would have been safer with America in the hands of an authoritarian despot because he's inept and maybe less interested in directing international coups right now is super fucked. It's accelerationist bullshit that isn't even true on its own terms. Or. The idea that you were...
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:13 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 56728
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:47 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 56728
Well...yes...but is there anyone here that disagrees? With things other than that excessively shortened portion, possibly. With say, the last sentence of that very same paragraph, I somewhat suspect at least some. With the second paragraph, oh boy I suspect rather a lot. I'm not sure who, but give ...
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:33 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 56728
- Sat Nov 07, 2020 5:37 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 56728
- Fri Nov 06, 2020 9:58 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Presidential Pardon
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5253
I find it hard to believe anyone would even entertain the idea that Trump would be prosecuted for all the usual presidential crimes that are never prosecuted. I find it hard to believe anyone would entertain the idea that the USA would prosecute any ex-president for ANYTHING for fear of setting a pr...
- Fri Nov 06, 2020 9:18 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 56728
- Thu Nov 05, 2020 11:57 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 56728
You can call this election what you like, but the promised big wave win for the democrats it definitely isn't. It's almost like the incompetent democrat leadership that are the same people from 2016 using the same tactics as 2016 completely failed again in almost the exact same way but more so and t...
- Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:34 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Tabletop skirmish games with OK campaign map rules?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1931
I have never seen good campaign rules for those things. Mostly because the table top wargame designers from the limited systems I've seen trying to do this just fail on first principles when they come into contact with their first most basic obstacle. Which is usually snowballing. These things usual...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Spotlight is Not a Conserved Property (No Zinegata, thanks)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6991
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 11:34 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Spotlight is Not a Conserved Property (No Zinegata, thanks)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6991
That's not how you defined Bob originally. You defined him as this. I didn't define Bob at all. I defined the trap options. I defined some pretty appallingly obvious hyperbolic strawman level trap options at that. If you think the problem is the undefined Bob, and not the gigantic burning strawman ...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:53 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Spotlight is Not a Conserved Property (No Zinegata, thanks)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6991
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Spotlight is Not a Conserved Property (No Zinegata, thanks)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6991
Being open, simpler, and less opaque though doesn't solve the Alpha Player problem. It's ultimately a social issue. The point is it mostly works, like I said, pulling a number out of my ass thin air, 90% solvable. The player that will ALWAYS want to decide Bob's action no matter what cannot be fixe...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 6:56 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Spotlight is Not a Conserved Property (No Zinegata, thanks)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6991
I think there are a few designable defenses against this, although they're not exactly pretty. You can make each player's resource system complicated and different enough that the quarterbacking player can't really know what the other party members can do. You could make it so the players weren't a...
- Fri Oct 02, 2020 11:10 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What's the fun of having both Daily & Encounter recharges?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5699
Im trying to figure out what my plan for 'bullshit time' is, but most boss battles I've played through or read about in adventure paths have a fresh boss in their home and the PC's are on the offensive through multiple encounters to reach them. I'm not sure there is a solid solution to bullshit tim...
- Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:27 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What's the fun of having both Daily & Encounter recharges?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5699
Y'all ever played a game where the opposition party's use of dailies and encounters was taken into account when they fight the PC's? No. Not saying it's impossible, not saying I haven't like wow, barely ever, done something loosely like that as a GM. But thinking about it. No. No GM has ever in any...
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 2:33 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17291
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 11:09 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What's the fun of having both Daily & Encounter recharges?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5699
I think fundamentally the problem with these specific schedules and mixed schedules is a need fairly to acknowledge the real practical applications. What these rules really mean and what real groups really do with them. The idea that most resource renewal schedules that exceed the main formally mana...
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 11:31 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: (HB) Most Social Actions Should Not Target Characters.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9230
While I entirely agree that describing a success on a success, and describing a failure on a failure is a thing, and a thing you should do. When did it deserved this much description and discussion? This is bog standard RPG 101 and has been for decades. OK, so maybe some people need a reminder on it...
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 9:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17291
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 2:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: (HB) Most Social Actions Should Not Target Characters.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9230
Is this useful? Shall I continue? I don't know, how does it tie in with the not effecting PCs thing again? What about player intent, though? Well, I can't read the minds of players. Can you? If in the end if you are just kicking it all to player GM negotiations it ends up being real world manipulat...
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: (HB) Most Social Actions Should Not Target Characters.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9230
I can't begin to figure out what the precise scenario merxa is proposing, It's a question on whether character intent and knowledge meaningfully effects the action. There are questionable interactions if it does. So, for instance, your best liar suddenly becomes your most charismatic idiot while yo...
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 11:24 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: (HB) Most Social Actions Should Not Target Characters.
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9230
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 1:42 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 17291