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For a "dicepool" based game, you could try either Warp Cult, or After Sundown. With After Sundown, you could have the players first make an Extra, or Origin Story, character. Later on make an In Media Res character (possibly an "update" to the first character). Later still make a...

You're right Omegonthesane, I kept editing the post to get the tags working properly, then to get the special characters in the links working properly; then I had to leave, so I left the post in it's "empty" state until I could back to it. Mord, I think that it's done by counting different...

Eagle, are you being stupid? There weren't written traditions 10,000 years ago. That could be a factor. Except for one problem with such a highly limited idea as to what writing traditions are is that it forgets that humans have been recording data for later referral for as from as late as 18,000 y...

Do you have any specific examples of oral trumping written? Because then I must seriously ask why did people bother developing writing and paper and libraries and whatnot if oral is so super awesome. This is, why do so many smart people insist on making literacy mandatory for everybody if oral is s...

A parry mechanic was implemented in 3e by means of the "Fighting Defensively" and "Total Defence" actions; with Combat Expertise being a more powerful version of these. Race of War then made Combat Expertise available to all PCs; as well as doing the same for Power Attack. The pr...

The "closest" solution that I ever thought of for the "problem" of weapon reaches not really feeling authentic would be to have weapons have even more limited, or seperate reach entries, for different reach bands; and use quadriculated paper where 1" = 1', and the 5' square ...

Not as much as "better" than "people figured out how to speak much earlier than they figured out writing". The thing with oral tradition histories is that they are often collectively remembered; and maintain their accuracy due to mistakes & changes being corrected by other m...

I came across a mention of their "Fifth Head of Cerberus" novel, and began looking through their collected works. There's a very interesting similarity to Jack Vance's 'Dying Earth' setting (science fantasy; such as space/time travel); with elements that are reminiscent of Frank Herbert's ...

The only good that I see here is that I could see using these entries as a jumping off point for better thought out ones. Also, the more tech levels at the bottom-end assessment feels really important, as most RPG systems tend to use similar breakdowns (e.g. GURPS). Gobekli Tepe was built by pre-agr...

An other option; dice shrink as capabilities go up. I can't say if it's any good for anything though. So a Novice rolls a d20, and only generates a hit on a 11+ (with only a 19-20 {10%}allowing for an explosion/step/extra hit/whatever); and then they can upgrade to ->d12 (TN7; Ex@ 11-12 {~17%}) ->d1...

The final lesson in all of this: To best improve the rpg community; TGD posters should be shitposting on Stackexchange (and possible RPG.net &or ENworld) with better thought out questions & responses than those sites could ever devise on their own. Also, Eikre, did you actually stick your he...

Frank, do you think that modify a d6 hit-based dicepool (like After Sndown's the TN5; TN6 = x2 Hits) such that it's slightly more variable could bring anything to the narrative? What if the "modifier" dice didn't only care about a 1 or a [Max] result, but rather, each value on the modifier...

Which basically implies [Tome] D&D is still the most playable version of D&D anyone can play. That's understandable, and I think that I've seen more people come back to D&D after stopping in 2e specifically for [Tome] D&D than any other edition has accomplished. However, it's not rea...

The funnier thing about that observation: I wouldn't even be able to make that assessment if The Gaming Den wasn't the web site with the most consistently accurate depictions of the what is actually going on in the RPG industry. For being such an "outlier" site that "everyone ignores&...

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I think I'll have to look at Gene Wolfe's books; lots of science-fantasy stuff there that looks interesting.

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The really funny thing: the sheer dearth of official 5e content means that literally any remotely interesting fanbook can get articles written about it on a fairly popular website. Even then, I don't follow the website regularly at all. I only came across the article due to it's being linked in an r...

I'm still experimenting with 'em but LA Pangaea's Centuride Crossbows is pretty interesting. There's two ways that I could see these being used: [*]As the archery element in centaur-only armies that are leap-frogging to take weak looking indie provinces, xor dodging the bulk of enemy forces while r...

Anyone had experience with Traveller? I'm going to be running a game of it. One idea I was kicking around was having the PCs get stranded on the Zoldani side of the border after another Imperium-Zoldani conflict kicks off. It looks like they're going to be riding in a yacht, so they'll have 2x Jump...

The fact that they're 228 (or so) separate write-ups makes me feel like they're largely going to be garbage. Using the "ROW: Unusual Races" method that Frank & Kieth wrote up isn't cut-and-dried; because while a lot of creatures in the monster manuals are pretty straightforward to turn...

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Which is likely worse than:

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:rofl: Again, look at the actual cover of the books and the back blurbs. You won't find "Math works" there. If you want to insist that it was a "guerrilla" campaign, that's up to you -again just realize that WotC would have been incredibly stupid to use "Math Works" as...

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(Oh, and I think you are obliged to make a "Claus"/"Claws" joke) The most potent punchline is often a diverted one. Play up an aspect you think is funny, but confused with an other slightly similar aspect, as intensely as you can. Only after things have been mostly resolved (i.e...