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- Sat Jun 06, 2020 12:25 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Kingdoms of Amalur - What did you think of the system?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2228
- Sat May 30, 2020 10:06 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: RPG systems that are actually fun as games.
- Replies: 71
- Views: 19163
Because the other option is to have them not open the door, which either means that they sit there trying again and again (which is quite boring), or just leave. If there was no urgency, no consequence to picking the lock slowly, why did you have them roll in the first place? Just narrate the Take ...
- Mon May 25, 2020 12:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 6th Edition Speculation Begins
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9915
And when they try, it looks like this.
- Sat May 23, 2020 11:26 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 6th Edition Speculation Begins
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9915
Amazon stats are extremely questionable and subject to a massive amount of both category manipulation, sponsorship, and other chicanery. Numbers of actual units sold would be meaningful, comparative Amazon rankings are extremely dubious. That's why I only cited the annual best seller list of all bo...
- Sat May 23, 2020 9:07 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: 6th Edition Speculation Begins
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9915
My understanding is that an edition's health is largely driven by core book sales. Supplements are gravy on top, but the potatoes is new core book sales. You'd expect a new edition when core book sales drop off. There's no evidence I can see that PHB sales are slowing significantly (coming in at 38,...
- Thu May 14, 2020 10:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: RPG systems that are actually fun as games.
- Replies: 71
- Views: 19163
- Thu May 14, 2020 8:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: RPG systems that are actually fun as games.
- Replies: 71
- Views: 19163
- Thu May 14, 2020 10:05 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: RPG systems that are actually fun as games.
- Replies: 71
- Views: 19163
- Tue May 12, 2020 9:58 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [High 5e] 5e: HARDCORE MODE
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12528
Admitting when I'm wrong: DungeonCraft's lazy Susan set-up is an abstract thing, he does not use the grid. That makes it a lot less terrible.
- Mon May 11, 2020 8:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [High 5e] 5e: HARDCORE MODE
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12528
Well, don't just tell us you like it. Explain what it is and why it's such a good idea. It's not. The idea is you keep your map to whatever you can fit on a lazy susan and just add a few evocative terrain pieces, ignoring walls entirely . So long as you're truly just fighting a monster in the middl...
- Fri May 08, 2020 12:40 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Musings
- Replies: 73
- Views: 15295
All I have to say is that there's a specific level of hell for GMs who allow their players to roll a sword dude only to troll them with post-modern Friendship Is Magic morality in the mud middle ages, thus making the only thing their character was built for useless. Eh, you can still have useful fi...
- Sun Apr 05, 2020 2:51 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]The One Ring
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13608
- Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]The One Ring
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13608
The combat rules are 16 pages long and ambitious. It's all narrative and die roll based, no miniatures. No hexes or squares. No move actions. No move actions? How does that work? The One Ring had an abstract positioning system where you were in one of four positions relative to the bad guys, which ...
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:38 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Turns abstract time, now for abstracting space (grid, zones)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2903
The One Ring had an abstract positioning system where you were in one of four positions relative to the bad guys, which it somewhat misleadingly called Stances: Forward, Open, Defensive, and Rearward. The first three were all melee stances, with Rearward being ranged. Stances determined the initiati...
- Sat Feb 29, 2020 8:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Rest Mechanics
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9943
There are ways to incentivize continuing instead of resting, instead of just limiting resources in a way players can't control to force a new resting rhythm. The most obvious would be XP: if an XP multiplier applied for more encounters between long rests, then your average group would push through a...
- Thu Feb 27, 2020 7:09 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Routine vs Reacting, fast/slow actions
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5535
The whole point of having actions with an extended activation time is to complicate the enemy's tactics. At best, it's good counterplay . Basically that means one of two things: it's an instantaneous thing that you can repeat, that the enemy just learns to avoid (probably a standard action), or the ...
- Sat Feb 08, 2020 10:40 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How does your Heartbreaker... divide up magic?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 21016
I like to devide the magic pie around what it feels like to use red magic vs. blue magic, for example. Maybe I'm wrong to favor this, but my best defense for this is that magic can have whatever game mechanics, and you're going to figure that out later anyway - but using magic needs to be a rolepla...
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:54 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [D&D 5E] Strongholds and Followers (MCDM)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1205
I backed it. It has some good things and some very incomplete things, and several of the options are wildly more beneficial than others, so it's not really ready for primetime plug-n-play experience, it'll take a watchful eye and a further tinkering to make it fully work. Then again, that's true of ...
- Sun Nov 10, 2019 6:11 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder 2e
- Replies: 666
- Views: 164711
- Thu Nov 07, 2019 6:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Nuts and Bolts Discussion: Hit Points or Something else?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6205
http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=57291Harshax wrote:I like condition tracking, personally. But, reading some replies, can someone point me to the definition of “LMSD”?
- Fri Oct 18, 2019 8:42 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder 2e
- Replies: 666
- Views: 164711
- Wed Sep 25, 2019 8:45 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "Rules as written" and the current state of RPG design
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10754
those youtube actors that play dnd5e, do they do a lot of fudging of the rules or are they actually pretty knowledgable and play it as is? Talking just about CR, there is a spectrum. Some of the players do not know how their class features/spells work until the DM walks through it with them on the ...
- Sat Sep 21, 2019 4:06 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Stormlight Archive is what Exalted Should have been?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 9364
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 7:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Tell me about your Heartbreaker
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6340
- Thu Jul 18, 2019 7:52 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 429753
They're starting to talk 6e, or 5.5 or 5th Essentials or something. But unless there is a negative correlation between Starter Kits sold and core books sold, they have no real commercial reason to do so except that this was the idea back in 2012 when they mapped out the timeline of the next edition....