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And the romans had a quite interesting siege doctrine: 1-Build a second castle around the enemy castle so they can't break out. 2-Build a third castle around your second castle to stop enemy reinforcements from coming in. 3-? 3 was usually to build a giant siege ramp that allow them to march a cent...

An encounter's difficulty also shifts when the entire town guard and higher level supporting players can get called out on your ass if you create a "scene".

Well, at least in this particular case (a card game). It appears you need to patent your mechanics to protect them from cloning. Exactly what this means for a traditional TT RPGs isn't obvious from the summary, though I suspect you better have a large litigation budget if you try it against Hasbro. ...

Most of the problems with Movement seem like they could've been solved by the KISS rule - have the power actually increase speed, with all accompanying consequences. There's already a (barely functional?) mini-game for vehicles and speed, so the Movement power would just piggyback off of those rule...

It's got a lot of interesting background material, but as a game its kind of meh.

Me and my Group have an very poor record of running away while still being able. Not shure how typical that is :cool: It depends on the group and the game. I know a GM who talked to the players about how just when they think it is all lost they will find a way to achieve a hard won victory. So the ...

It does typically make you easier to hit with anti-tank rockets...

The Masquerade succeeds or fails based on whether vampires are treated as real by people who have actual power. Not by how many thousands or millions of people know or think they know that they exist. -Username17 I'm reminded of the line from the grandfather in Lost Boys at the end of the movie: &q...

I wonder if Frank and AH have spent more thought and time reviewing this PoS book than the "writers" did creating this priceless work of art?

virgil wrote:Foci are also unable to be active unless they're touching the person they're bound to, which means the enchanted bullet automatically deactivates (and loses its ability to be dual-natured) the moment it leaves the barrel. So unless you wield the bullet as a melee weapon...

Spearguns.

I doubt I could get anyone to actually run such a game even if there's a good system for it and I'm not sure I'd have time for it if someone did, but if you know of a not-WoD system that could handle that game I'd be interested just to hear about it. You can do that in Hero. I did a jaguar in a sup...

Name them. I'll bet you I can point to a poster who enjoys whatever game you point at. I've enjoyed playing games with horrible rules because of the people and their attitude. If everyone wants to have fun, isn't a jerk, and is willing to play along, you are likely to have a good time despite the g...

Would there be a good chance of corporate runners on call with movement running on a high end aircraft to get somewhere within three minutes as a high threat response team? Would they be the right response to getting the alarm for 5-10 million nuyen in assets being threatened? There is a real time ...

Playing RQ2 was a lot more fun than AD&D, at least it was for me in ~1980. But it's certainly not perfect.

Glorantha is totally insane in a lot of ways, but it can also be a lot of fun if you ignore whatever parts you find too crazy to handle.

To be honest, I don't care how big and heavy the world book for the Dresden Files RPG, because that content is the main reason I bought it. The system you are supposed to use seems pretty awfully large and complex for a supposed rules-lite system, but I don't care. That isn't why I bought the game.

Avengers is a big budget Hollywood action movie series with lots of explosions and Robert Downey Jr., but the success of the movies doesn't mean squat for the geekier, niche hobby of buying comic books. If you google "NY Comic Con" you'll find a full page of movie, TV show announcements, ...

There was the old ability to rapidly obliterate low level opponents from AD&D 1st, if that is the kind of thing you are asking about.

Is there a reason? I didn't pay much attention to the thread as I hate the concept of technomancers and I think she essentially said she couldn't fix the actual underlying game reasons that they suck.

Any game will have variations based on edition. Some will be slightly better than others in these things, but even your cherry picked example just says "Humakt 'cultists' act the part of the stereotypical knight." And again, those aren't cults. The answer I got from Greg Stafford was that...

Yeah, it's like running a game in which the player is playing the world's greatest sniper and then asking the player how they take a shot at a guy 1500 meters away. Then after they roll a solidly successful hit you tell them "You miss by 6 inches, because you didn't say you accounted for the Co...

Foxwarrior wrote:When I realized that important characters almost never die in movies from that genre, I did not suddenly magically find the whole genre boring.

Though it did shock the hell out me in "To Live and Die in LA".

Essentially, if I'm role-playing a skilled detective I have skills involving finding clues, interrogating suspects etc and since it is a fucking game I want to USE the skills I have to find clues and interrogate suspects, not play 20 questions. I suppose if you wanted us to roleplay 1920s police int...

Silent Wayfarer wrote: I meant the rules for making free spirit PCs.

Well, yes. It was written by Aaron. You might notice that all the parts of SR 4&5 that are horribly broken are at least partially credited to him.

Other than GM approval? Which I would not be too confident about.

What's up with the Free Spirit chargen rules and is it possible to make something playable? I assume that step 1 is to take Possession and not Materialization. If playing an Free Spirit, you get the choice, either play something underpowered or do some rules lawering and play something overpowered....