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Not really. I'd argue that if you are not actively working towards that goal in where you live and how you live you are not really trying to make it in the entertainment industry. If you want to be a movie star and you haven't moved to LA and picked up every extra job, or want to be a country star ...

Traps are best when they delay, disarm or disable the victims - a crippled character is a liability. But is it fun or heroic ?

Justin's put the Polymorph spell is up. I think he's on the right track.

Like, seriously, is there anyone here who doesn't have at least one of these dreams on the backburner, despite the knowledge that the odds it'll ever replace our dayjob are basically zero? Now imagine you do not have and cannot find a dayjob for months at a time, and you're only going to find more ...

You want a situation where you can look for traps anytime you want, but doing so actually costs you something so you don't want to search everything. That way people get to choose whether they want to be in search mode or not and it's a meaningful choice. Being in search mode should mean that it's ...

As for the ammount of money needed: Dude, Frank . . that's gonna be mostly impossible to accomplish i am afraid x.x as much as i want this to succeed, i probably could not chime in with more than some hundred bucks, and most people probably will be hard pressed to chime in even with a single hundre...

How do you playtest a game that eschews attempts at balance ?

Good news for fans of rolling up random shit using a chart! Oh, that'll be me then. Hello. Given the spread of pages that the 1st Level spells take up, the amount of charts in the full version could be really offputting unless they condense or cut spells. From the convention playtest reports it see...