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You could also have damage be [weapon die] + [Strength die]. Probably reduces the impact of Strength a bit compared to normal D&D. (still 1 point per step shift, but on a base of 2 dice rather than 1). Or Str could be the opposite of armor. Your weapon die improves by one step for each +1 Str, ...

What a load of utter crap. The racial stereotype is that they are wealthy, therefore privileged, and that stereotype means everyone has free reign to insult them? By that logic I can make fun of Mexicans all I want because the stereotype is that they have rather large, close-knit families and tend t...

Aside from the MMO, I don't see what makes the setting interesting. I look forward to the review of that part.

Foxwarrior wrote:SAANTBWTCI, Bihlbo.

(That stands for "Sometimes Acronyms Are Not The Best Way To Confer Information", if it wasn't obvious)

Yup, I regret doing it now.

Stop calling it fantasy. It's all SF. I think you have this exactly backwards. Most Sci works Fi have elements that as far as we know are pure fantasy (FTL travel, aliens, psionics, strong AIs with personalities, etc), with only the barest of technological dressings over them. SF = Speculative Fict...

Is there a specific century that would be best looked at, as an example of what a pseudo-medieval fantasy heartbreaker should look like? Seems the idea of a fantasy setting gets turned on its head about half as often as it is employed. One of my favorite challenges to it was Wolfe's "Book of t...

I just started playing this, which I found out about because I was looking at the wikipedia page for Robin Laws. It made me interested to learn more about Glorantha, and from what I've read I absolutely love it. I wish I were a fan of Runequest at all, so if I ever use Glorantha as a game setting I ...

Now I wanna go reading threads from 10 years ago just to find a gem and necro it. But that's annoying and stupid so instead I'll just get it out of my system by posting this.

Hehe, 8 years man.

I'm not sure as to why you care about the currency. It's a pretty unimportant and simple aspect of the setting that could literally be anything you want it to be and it's probably not going to bother your players one bit. Heck, you could decide it's sloth claws because they're extinct and the bones ...

Catch me up. In 18 pages has anyone found a purpose for this discussion at all? I mean, I read through FT's original posts and a couple of pages, but no one ever said why anyone should care. Is this just practice for later, more effective or necessary fault-finding? Is this to win an argument with s...

No one's mentioned Minecraft yet. Well, except for the person who mentioned Minecraft. Oops. That'll teach me to start a post in the morning and not get back to it until I'm done at work. Must post more while working. There was a mod called Massive Mod for Stranded 2. Mostly unfinished. I liked par...

RRAAAAWWWRR!! It's an immersive first-person dinosaur sim/MMO. One huge world, every player playing as a prehistoric (non-fantasy, non-myth) creature. There is no text box, no chat feature, and no language displayed on the screen of any kind. The controls for each type of dinosaur are intuitive eno...

If I play a game, I look for mods for it. No one's mentioned Minecraft yet, so I will. It's a boring game after a few hours, but modpacks like Feed the Beast make the game actually a lot of fun, if you enjoy engineering-like building projects. The Terrafirmacraft mod makes it actually kind of hard t...

downzorz wrote:My ideal game is a theoretical, balanced D&D 3.5/Tome with that strikes a balance between rocket launcher tag and padded sumo further away from the tag side of things than it is right now.

So, the holy grail then? Pretty sure no one would turn that down.

Mod your video games for fun and profit!

What mods have you most enjoyed? What games are better modded? Do you make mods?

Go!

I really enjoy Rebuild for the Android. You can play the free version online on a PC.

Dwarf Fortress still delivers on insane fun. It's free and ranges from impossibly hard to "I'm gonna need a better computer for this fort to keep going." I'm assuming this isn't new to you, as the game has been in development for 20 years and has had a fairly high profile for at least the...

Maxus wrote:I'm lost.

This seems like a non-sequitur from the rest of your cool idea about the manor (why next playthrough instead of this one?). What's this about? In what way are you lost?

I know you're full up, but I would LOVE to be in on this game. Put me in as a reserve maybe? I'll work up a character so I'm ready if the call to action comes.

Ishy nailed it, I wrote it last night. Mind you, I cut out a lot of it because it was just too long, and I'm not surprised that hurt its clarity. Edit: I just realized the confusion was probably caused by me writing "I just found this review." By that I meant I just found Archmage's review...

I got into D&D... reluctantly. From playing video games, reading comics and Conan and such, and the other things little boys do I got an interest in the idea of playing pretend while fighting things and getting cool gear. Honestly, I couldn't tell you what the biggest influence was there, but it...

Roleplay the characters planning things out, then zoom in on various small-scale fights using the NPCs that the PCs sent out to do war. The "mass" part of it happens off-screen, but the outcome depends largely on the focused-on fights. The PCs don't need to be a part of the focused-on fig...

(Sorry to necro the thread, but I just found this review) Thanks for doing this review, Archmage! When I saw this on the shelf it made me want to stab someone. A horribly misguided attempt to cash in on the new, popular thing, and it was bound to make both D&D and EQ look worse as a result. So I...

Kids these days, with their starting at 7th level, or where the game doesn't even have a proper 1st level to start at? Is that common? 1st level is handy if you're not pretty familiar with the game already, because it eases you into things. But even when the whole group are veterans to the game mos...

I notice that then discussions never seem to touch on player crafted items. If players have some ability to craft the items they absolutely need. It seems like you could totally have a system where you chose between using a stronger item that was randomly generated or crafting a weaker item that's ...