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- Thu Feb 11, 2021 11:41 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Worst Official DM NPCs In Published RPG Settings
- Replies: 113
- Views: 17565
If the status quo is kept by a single NPC, then it means that the status-quo falls out of the window as soon as that NPC dies. Since PCs often have the ability to kill people, you end up with these NPCs getting all kinds of ridiculous buffs and fuck-you powers just to make sure they aren't killed. S...
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 2:34 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 75906
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 2:55 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Dwarfs are hats, Elves are moods
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5272
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 10:03 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Vampire the Masquerade 5e- Actually a huge step up?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 11751
The rule changes sound good. My main problem with Vampire is that it was never clear what the game was about. It had all this edgelord presentation, went on about how it was about loss of humanity and how terrible it was, then it had pages and pages of superpowers and finally it had you play powerle...
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 9:37 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Chrono Cross is still one of the worst games ever.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15507
I haven't played Chrono Cross but I feel your pain. A bad work that could have been good (because it had talented people working on it, good foundations to build upon, good ideas/concepts, etc.) is worse than a plain bad work. And it's even worse when there's a cult around it. I still have a hard ti...
- Fri Nov 06, 2020 2:40 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 75906
- Fri Nov 06, 2020 8:58 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Election 2020
- Replies: 315
- Views: 75906
- Armed people threatening citizen trying to vote against the regime. - A few days after the elections both main candidates say they're winning. - International observers calling out fraud the behavior of the president. - Current leader barricading himself in the presidential palace. Well, after all...
- Mon Sep 28, 2020 8:29 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Miscast risks as a balancing system for magic
- Replies: 59
- Views: 13517
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:48 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 20785
There are a few other things I think can be useful for some social systems: - Social protection: just like the mage can often protect the party with counterspelling, or the hacker protect the team's network, the social character should be able to protect the team from persuasion attempts. And this s...
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 1:04 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Dark Age Redux, Roman Empire Revisionism, and Left Discourse
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4090
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:09 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 20785
Just two additional points for the discussion: 1. Persuasion is rarely something instantaneous. Influencing someone is something you do over a long period of time, which rarely fits your needs in a RPG. 2. Characters in RPG often have talents that go beyond human abilities. Even the dumb melee fight...
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:06 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another Thread About Social Combat
- Replies: 115
- Views: 20785
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:41 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Investigative RPGs (No PhoneLobster)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5030
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:34 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Low-level gaming that is E P I C
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3425
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 12:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5996
- Views: 1027414
Shadowrun 4e: Can you toggle adept powers? If yes, where is it explained? I don't think you can, though in some cases the adept can probably decide not to use them (I think that killing hands specifically mentions it, but it probably applies to other powers. I think that an adept with missile maste...
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 9:29 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Crafting, Encumbrance, and dealing with "Stuff" in game
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7837
One day you just glance over and realize they've been just casually carrying around a shipping container worth of heavy metal armaments and 12,000 balls of string and enough furniture for a small palace in their 3 pages of individual small print entry 3 column wide inventory list.... So what? What ...
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 8:45 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Crafting, Encumbrance, and dealing with "Stuff" in game
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7837
- Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:51 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Abstract Wealth
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8093
I outlined a kind of narrative system as well where players can spend meta points to make things they earn in game a permanent part of their character. NPC contacts, castles, etc. I think many games would benefit from having this handled by XP. After all, if gear/contacts/castles/etc. make your cha...
- Mon Jun 22, 2020 9:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Musings
- Replies: 73
- Views: 15201
- Mon Jun 01, 2020 12:29 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: RPG systems that are actually fun as games.
- Replies: 71
- Views: 19108
- Fri May 29, 2020 10:00 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: RPG systems that are actually fun as games.
- Replies: 71
- Views: 19108
- Fri May 29, 2020 8:50 am
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: My latest Doom mod
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12820
- Thu May 28, 2020 8:37 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: RPG systems that are actually fun as games.
- Replies: 71
- Views: 19108
- Mon May 25, 2020 9:19 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: RPG systems that are actually fun as games.
- Replies: 71
- Views: 19108
I've been thinking about that random narrative concept recently. I think there's a difficult trade-off between player agency, random narrative (and, less importantly GM agency). Having the story go in a completely unexpected way because of a failure can lead to something interesting. However, there ...
- Fri May 15, 2020 8:38 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 186204
Has the response from red commie European socialists been noticeably better than the USA's? Like the Viking countries, Germany, France, what are they up to In France we've had confirmation that we should have stayed red commie socialists instead of destroying our public services, especially public ...