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Encounters will end faster.

Since you're playing 4e, I would consider that unequivocally a good thing.

So a while back I started work on a fantasy heartbreaker that I've generated a reasonable amount of content for but never finished (and have not, IMO, actually written enough content to run a real game, just some combat playtests). I don't think I'm going to finish it, maybe not ever. It's just too ...

In fact, it ran for like 32 sessions. I should resume my chronicling of it at some point. Edit: 36, according to my earlier post. Highlights from later sessions, just off the top of my head, include Tobasuko threatening the Kirijo group to get better baseball equipment, Sumeragi becoming undead, a t...

Two things:

1) Tips on blood hunting and how it's changed from Dom3? You can't set tax to zero now. So...do you mitigate unrest with patrollers, or what? Just live with it? I'm LA Mictlan in a game right now and general blood economy pointers would be nice.

2) Anyone interested in a disciples game?

The term "Golem" is actually inaccurate for these constructs. Most assume them to be golems, but they are not mindless . Their manipulations of time evince, and possibly grant, them a keen intellect. Time Golems are master manipulators of time, able to steal time from one subject and use ...

What're good parameters for thrones in MP games? How many thrones/throne points per player?

This thread is bananas. Can we go back to talking about bananas? That was the most insightful discussion happening here.

The radius is Force meters for all such spells, IIRC.

I can't argue too heavily against the "find out what people in your area are playing," but I play and greatly enjoy Malifaux.

Ah, okay. So my explanation was wrong, but the idea that FE curves the RNG to reduce the probability of extreme high and low results stands. In any case, you don't have to do that for a TTRPG if you don't want to--in the video games it's more to reduce player frustration over "improbable" ...

FWIW, for FE I like: You hit NPC mooks 75% of the time or better. You are hit by NPC mooks 25% of the time or less. The average character (PC or NPC) takes 2-3 successful attacks to KO. So PC durability is about ~10 attempted enemy attacks. FE protagonists are almost always greatly outnumbered and s...

OK, I was using dice pools for 3 reasons: - I thought that could model a constant chance of dramatic success or failure, and 3% crits out of nowhere are memorable in FE - Counting the number of hits is pretty easy for me to explain even when everyone is drunk - Rolling fistfuls of dice is pretty fu...

All random discussion about which FE characters are good aside: Which elements exactly of FE games are trying to emulate? I'm not totally clear what your goals are. Small, squad-based combat? It sounds like you want to carry over some FE-sounding mechanics like names of stats, and you want players t...

codeGlaze wrote:As for the title of the thread, I still think OSRR works rather well for doing OSR reviews.

"FauxSSR" is excellent if you're pronouncing it the way I think you ought to be.

Session nine is all about mahjong. Team S.E.I.S. decides they want to investigate the kid who got hauled off to the hospital because his stomach was full of money after he broke open a vending machine to eat all of the change inside. That student is in mahjong club along with Kitamura. Legwork phase...

Session seven more or less opens with the results of S.E.I.S.'s research from the previous week's clues about the moon and the Butterfly and all that jazz--there's a sort of summoning ritual that calls forth a magical sword that's super-effective against Nyarlathotep. The ritual calls for: A white c...

Okay, so, I've left this thread on a really weird note about bugs crawling out of dogs and whatnot for a while. It's time to pick things back up. So the kids found a way to Mictlan and bailed after some preliminary exploring. The next day is Friday. Those attentive to local media note that a local h...

You actually do need those numbers to add somebody by handle instead of email address.

http://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/Arena

Also, I'm Archmage #1304. I think constructed is kind of eh but would still play if messaged for a game.

Anybody else playing Hearthstone?

It's Blizzard's attempt at an online CCG.

more to the point it had an editor, someone who would say "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS! Go back and rewrite it and organize it!" so for the most part you knew where to find rather than just having shit typed on a typewriter and just glued to pages in blocks where it fit. oh and chapter. Chapter...

3. the failure you always have is the ability to see how people will RULES LAWYER the default into being because it is "IN TEH BOOK". the simplest way to prevent this is to NOT put anything into the book. hell look at the morons in the "rules not rulings" thread that pretty much...

In case you were wondering, session one's "powers without combat" was resolved largely with improvised weapons. Tobasuko hurled a fastball at a shadow, edged the roll, and inflicted some hilarious amount of damage. The rest fought with whatever was at hand in the warehouse, but the first t...

Come out and punch things. That's pretty much how P4: The Animation and P4 Arena established it working, so I went with that. However, Persona manifestation only happens as part of using "obvious magic," so anything that is described in AS's rules as "covert" doesn't come with a ...

Can cosmology be used to munchkin something? No? So why bother? Shadzar pines (or at least pretends to pine) for some Platonic ideal of D&D where the game has literally no content except what you personally make up for your gaming table, but the game "D&D" still exists and you can...