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- Tue Sep 24, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Celestial Jaunt [PL stay out]
- Replies: 6
- Views: 545
Re: Celestial Jaunt [PL stay out]
How's this or a pitch on the Captain/Commander. It is not a class like Paladin or Wizard it is instead a role that one person on each crew must adopt. It's more like a template. The Commander can be a diplomat, scientist, tactician, or whatever else historically, but they are the Commander of this s...
- Sat Sep 21, 2024 3:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Celestial Jaunt [PL stay out]
- Replies: 6
- Views: 545
Re: Celestial Jaunt [PL stay out]
I think the techno babble is just what you do as the player when you succeed at a science check. Doing it might even give you an extra +1d6 to the roll or something if you want to go "exalted stunt" style. But the techno babble is definitely player side. You roll your Science check and if ...
- Thu Sep 19, 2024 11:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Celestial Jaunt [PL stay out]
- Replies: 6
- Views: 545
Re: Celestial Jaunt [PL stay out]
Star Trek has a very unique flavor to its adventures so I think the lions share of the work you'll need to do is on automating adventure creation. How robust your character creation is will be meaningless if you don't provide detailed guidance on how a Star Trek adventure is to be made and what it w...
- Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:42 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Domain TTRPG] Trust, Resource, Faith
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7224
Re: [Domain TTRPG] Trust, Resource, Faith
If one really wanted to track social status by realm I would recommend a series of tags ... And I would say. Sure take notes about these things. But taking reminder notes is not a mechanic ? Of course it is. Someone becoming Restrained who therefore "can't run" is a mechanic. Writing down...
- Thu Aug 22, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Domain TTRPG] Trust, Resource, Faith
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7224
Re: [Domain TTRPG] Trust, Resource, Faith
The critiques of sticky social systems so far have been that they might make princesses fall in love with good hearted princes who all the animals love even IF he's in a pauper costume (which is good). That it doesn't track racism and have us decide how racist everyone is (which is good). And questi...
- Wed Aug 21, 2024 6:52 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Domain TTRPG] Trust, Resource, Faith
- Replies: 51
- Views: 7224
Re: [Domain TTRPG] Trust, Resource, Faith
I'll pitch that trust mechanics, or most social mechanics for that part, don't need to go group by group. Trust, Leadership, Status, Favor: any stat you could use to track how much someone is given credence or held in disfavor by a community actually doesn't need to be measured by community. Humans ...
- Fri Jul 29, 2022 1:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Credible Masquerades?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 27615
Re: Credible Masquerades?
Those sound like After Sundown Shallows to me. Creepy places that if you go into them you enter a place where the rules of your reality are replaced by those of the spooky plane you're entering
- Mon Apr 04, 2022 1:41 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 5E: Summons still suck
- Replies: 70
- Views: 16106
Re: 5E: Summons still suck
That's not really a solution, you're just probably a skilled DM. If things are getting cluttered down with lots of extra npcs to handle it probably won't improve the situation to hand all those npc's to the person who's already handling the most npcs. I'd say one of the most boring things in D&D...
- Mon Jan 10, 2022 3:51 pm
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 4 - Starship Traveller
- Replies: 69
- Views: 6912
Re: [Let's Play] Fighting Fantasy 4 - Starship Traveller
Yeah beam with Gizmoduck and Dewey
- Mon Dec 20, 2021 8:47 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Investigation in RPGs---Phonelobster just don't fucking bother.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5986
Re: Investigation in RPGs---Phonelobster just don't fucking bother.
The difficulty with mysteries and investigations is not the mechanical structure with which they are resolved but the immense difficulties in constructing satisfying mysteries to investigate. The rules of the combat minigame would be the least of your concerns if every time you wanted to fight a mon...
- Wed Oct 27, 2021 1:42 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: It's Personal...
- Replies: 4839
- Views: 672171
Re: It's Personal...
For years I've loved Jake and Amir, a comedy duo who originated on Collegehumor. They have a podcast (If I Were You) and yesterday's episode had a song me and my friend wrote open and close the show and they plugged our Insta handles and the episode was named after me, and they joked about my name a...
- Sun Oct 10, 2021 10:13 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why are kobolds?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 17771
Re: Why are kobolds?
The magic gem based reproduction doesn't hit for me. It seems like an enormous weakness for a species to have, like if a ship of kobolds lands on an island then I guess they're all dead within a generation? The hella-spicy food works though. Maybe kobolds can just barely taste it, unusually for rept...
- Wed Jan 27, 2021 12:54 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What were Gygax & Arneson & pals looking at for early D&D?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6815
Also just plain gamist inventions like the Gelatinous Cube and company is the reason the stacks of corpses and their kit vanish between dungeon expeditions, and it's invisible because that's why you didn't see it on the way out. I absolutely love that. I never thought of that and think that's reall...
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:33 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Best Retroclones
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1474
Best Retroclones
Hey gang. If I wanted to play a game that is essentially AD&D with some updates and improvements what would be the names and games to check out for that? Something that does obvious things like getting rid of Thac0 or expedites the treasure rolling process so it doesn't take half the night. I ha...
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 7:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Dwarfs are hats, Elves are moods
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5344
Dwarves are played by people who don't have physical attractiveness as a part of their power fantasy. It's why dwarves are played by fat people. Women play halflings, chubby people play dwarves, gothkids play tieflings. These are things. Dwarves benefit is that they are a complete roleplaying packag...
- Tue Dec 22, 2020 5:56 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Doing some Mutants and Masterminds
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3897
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 6:51 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: What's changed since Ray Winniger replaced Mike Mearls?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3369
- Tue Nov 24, 2020 7:56 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Doing some Mutants and Masterminds
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3897
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 10:14 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Doing some Mutants and Masterminds
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3897
Doing some Mutants and Masterminds
So I'm gonna be running some Mutants and Masterminds soon for the first time in a decade. There's a third edition out now which I've looked through. It seems to be virtually identical to second edition but I guess that's good for me cause I don't really need to learn anything new. I was wondering if...
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 4:31 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Weis & Hickman sue Wizards of the Coast
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11162
Weiss and Hickman have always had pretty wild beliefs. They've basically always been 1 step away from writing those crazy christian propaganda cartoons you see. I would not be surprised if during the hard right wing christian shift in america of the last 12 years their writings have become TRULY buc...
- Sat Oct 10, 2020 6:03 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: DnD on Earth?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7605
- Fri Oct 09, 2020 7:35 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 6000
- Views: 1030721
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 7:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Miscast risks as a balancing system for magic
- Replies: 59
- Views: 13649
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:48 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Starfinder Looks Like a Mixed Bag
- Replies: 71
- Views: 31880
You could honestly pick a sci fi rpg at random and you'd have a better time than Starfinder. Even Zin's negative assessment is too generous. Consider how much nerds are willing to bleed to defend their games even when they're dogshit and then, with that in mind, consider the fact that even on the ho...
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 20892
I cannot imagine a more obvious demonstration of a failed social system than one where telling someone to kill themselves was as likely to work as getting someone to hold a briefcase if, and only if, that briefcase was the sign for an assassin for who to kill. And would switch from DC 39 to DC 3 dep...