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You're thinking in turn-based tactical positioning mode. But events can't just happen. One person dives for cover, another shoots. There's no need here to question whether anyone was reacting . Either that shot is dealing with cover or it's not, which is 100% an order of operations question. And if...

Order of operations has to be resolved when positioning matters. An example from the first round of the playtest:[*]Loonie: I declare that I step back 2m (AP 2), draw my wand (AP 0), and activate Open Gate (AP 3)[*]Martial Dragon, adjacent to Loonie: I declare that I attack (AP 4), and that's it, be...

Space Madness Playtest: Simple Combat Last night was the first time I managed to herd the cats into a large enough group to run a playtest fight, but only technically. One of them still needed to pick their equipment package and specialization, and after an hour and a half of waiting for him to fin...

Technically not mine, but a friend wanting to increase their action economy. TRIPLECAST (Enchantment; Mind-Affecting Level Psychic 5 Casting Time 1 swift action Components V, S Range personal You gain two extra standard actions, which must be used this same round. These actions are restricted to pur...

Personally, I love Diterlizzi's art. But another source that may help is much of the work from the Kill Six Billion Demons webcomic

Wild Magic varies across editions, but the basic gist of it is that you can invoke a wholly random effect (Rod of Wonder is a good sample). Many editions try to do a lesser version, where you just cast a regular spell that is randomly more or less powerful than normal (ideally in a manner to encoura...

Ad-space on gaming podcasts?

I mean, aside from edits due to playtest feedback, what I posted is the complete version. Biggest change is that I'm going over all of the actual public domain art used in it and giving them citations for the upcoming bibliography in the back; which is going to take a few weeks, as I just grabbed th...

Are we the grognards now?

Unless he meant this:

Josh_Kablack wrote:Let me echo deaddm's sentiments. If there is anything that I can do to help either of you over the vastness of the internet, please let me know.

Ditto; and if it helps, I'm still in the DFW area.

I've been skipping mention of grammatical & spelling errors and just updating them as necessary for the master document I've done layout for. Playtesting is certainly on the agenda...once I finish helping my wife prepare for vendoring out-of-state for an MLP convention. ADDENDUM: An actual plan ...

The setting section describes Cats from Saturn as having a kind of camouflage ability, but the Xenoguide section clearly grants only the Venusian Cat such an ability. Relatedly, both the Cats from Mars & Venus have Aptitude (Cosmic Force), but I can't seem to see any native ability to wield such...

Are there good guidelines for running a playtest for an RPG?

The costs look weird. Like, what what was the justification for chitin to be 106 or an arming sword to be 404, rather than something more round?

ADDENDUM: What the hell is toxicity?

As I said years ago when you started, that I was expecting something smaller in scope, so the fact you went ahead and went far above and beyond just means I'm going to do the same for the layout. I mean, it's obviously amateur hour for layout design, and is frankly the first actual attempt I've ever...

I'm still messing with cover design, but here's the interior layout of Space Madness! for physical printing and personal use. All of the art assets are public domain, largely from gutenberg.org

I keep running into RL restrictions for running it with my friends, but they've been straining on the equipment restrictions - despite my appreciation. Stuff like the personal headcannon weirdness of a dataport taking up as much space as a cat, the ease of switching out augmentations, and most impor...

DrPraetor wrote:One oddity, the art looks awesome but I can't see how any of it relates to the game. I guess that is supposed to be Mars in the background?

I'm kind of confused here. Where are you seeing this art?

I'm having trouble imagining the Saturnians using their mutations or even their wands, if most of their lives is within range of these anti-wandtech bubbles. Do visiting aliens/humans just find the 'deserts' of the planet that don't have any cacti nearby (since their engines will stop working) and w...

Definitely a joke to see him post "I believe women"

Zak's rebuttal

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I suspect nobody is particularly surprised, his ex posted a long letter stating that he's a long time abuser and an overall scumbag.

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What kind of guidelines would you give for designing new backgrounds? The numbers seem mostly consistent, in that except for Medical, they all give four skills at 2, and a bit over half of them give four skills at 1.

How much damage do you do in melee with, say, your fist (or whatever)?