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- Tue Jun 29, 2021 10:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Review: Relaunched Dragon Warriors
- Replies: 7
- Views: 797
Re: Review: Relaunched Dragon Warriors
Dragon Warriors occupied a niche at the time, but it was a narrow one. The setting can be described as 1) almost historical, but also 2) high fantasy, and 3) not very detailed. DW is a hack an experienced Gamemaster with a modicum of historical knowledge can put together over the week-end, with only...
- Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:55 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 162973
So the conspiracy goes that the first major city that got a 5G rollout on its mobile network was Wuhan. I think that might even be true, especially if you narrowly enough define 'major' (Wuhan has ten million people in it and is the size of London or Chicago). And... that's it. Just that correlatio...
- Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:53 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Cyberpunk 2020
- Replies: 83
- Views: 25571
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:49 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 162973
Overall, the official numbers that are currently available are not reliable, like, at all. Testing policy restricted test to people with symptoms AND either requiring hospitalization, returning from a foreign country deemed at risks, or confirmed to have spend at least one hour within one meter of ...
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 5:16 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 162973
The situation in France - basically the same than in the other western country - the disease, the dead, lockdown, people partying ahead of lockdown, people leaving the urban areas for the countryside just before the lockdown, lack of hospital beds and testing, no more toilet paper nor pasta in store...
- Sun Mar 08, 2020 11:33 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Fixing Cyberlimbs
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10234
So, to fix cyberlimbs, you need to fix their cost and the value of the Strength attribute, and to fix the value of Strength you need to fix melee combat, and to fix melee you need to fix the damage scale and the combat turn system... That being said, the combat turn breakdown into Simple and Complex...
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 9:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Another freelancer speaking out against Catalyst Game Labs
- Replies: 65
- Views: 19729
One of the main racist terrorist factions is based in Texas (Alamos 20K), but aside from a few disparaging remarks about racist slags in Bubba country, the game was pretty much uninterested in the goings on of the Confederacy. Which was probably for the best because it turns out that there's no tac...
- Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:42 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Review: Dragon Warriors Book 6: The Lands of Legend
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7427
I don't know about the original edition, but the French edition only has a map of Elleslande at the beginning of the chapter on page 14. There are maps of the rest of the world much later in the book, a physical map on pages 168-171 (in the chapter about travel), and landscape map on pages 266-269 (...
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 9:05 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Dump PC Tricks
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3195
Bargaining rules that set in stone the profit that can be made from a skill roll are usually bad. But with the rules in Cynabar's Fantastic Technologiy Droids , West End Games' Star Wars even removed to the need to have any Bargain skill. The bargain droid : Using the rules from Cynabar's Fantastic ...
- Thu Oct 10, 2019 11:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why is Shadowrun's magic so praised?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8671
A core idea the people who designed Shadowrun got right was to set rules that protect the setting itself from magical effects. Like, if you want to have the wealthy use private jets and limousines, limit or outright ban teleportation (which also leave some chances for paid criminals to reach valuabl...
- Tue Oct 01, 2019 7:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Cyberpirates!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9148
- Mon Sep 30, 2019 10:25 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Cyberpirates!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9148
The addition of Miami makes rather less sense. Basically I think Miami was originally included in the Caribbean League as a joke , because “It's basically Cuban” or something. This book suggests that the Southern states kicked Miami out because there were too many brown people and then it joined th...
- Wed Sep 25, 2019 8:09 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Cyberpirates!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9148
The final bit is about Dunkelzahn having left 36 million nuyen to the “head houngan of the Caribbean league.” Which is hilarious, because there is not and never has been a “head houngan.” So naturally there's a big dust up as various voodoo priests with real magic powers attempt to force all the ot...
- Mon Sep 23, 2019 9:07 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Cyberpirates!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9148
The book proper opens with an in media res event told through on-the-spot news reports where pirates captured a ship that was supposed to be carrying oil, but it turns out that it was a false manifest and actually it's carrying radioactive waste and everything goes to hell and the Aztec navy gets i...
- Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]CyberCthulhu
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8017
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: V5's Failure isn't surprising
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24716
- Mon Aug 12, 2019 6:24 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: V5's Failure isn't surprising
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24716
It depends whether you want to have the need for a masquerade or not.hyzmarca wrote:It's not even out of genre to have enemies on that level. High end Anne Rice vampires are basically invincible to anything that humans could throw up them, with only vampires of the same tier providing a challenge to them.
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:58 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: V5's Failure isn't surprising
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24716
Still as food for thought, I tried to make a more detailed list of vampiric powers, based on what I posted earlier. VtM-like discipline ranks appear to be a good solution to deal with powers that overlap with other while being obviously better, like Wallwalk versus Fly, or Bat Form versus Mist Form ...
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 3:33 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: V5's Failure isn't surprising
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24716
In regards to bat form, you could turn into a bat sized bat, turned into a human sized bat, or turn into a group of bat sized bats that together are human sized. Those seem equal valid choices, but would you want to have 3 different bat form abilities? My first thought was no, but you might want to...
- Wed Aug 07, 2019 9:29 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: V5's Failure isn't surprising
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24716
For the record, Vampire: the Masquerade has 17 Disciplines (leaving out the more exotic bloodlines). Auspex (Super-perception + Mind probe) Animalism (Animal mind control) Celerity (Super-speed) Chimerstry (Illusion magic) Dementation (Emotion control + Madness) Dominate (Human mind control) Fortitu...
- Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: V5's Failure isn't surprising
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24716
- Mon Aug 05, 2019 1:12 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: V5's Failure isn't surprising
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24716
McWoD was so terrible we did an OSSR of it. Technically, Monte Cook's World of Darkness came out in 2007, which makes it dubiously acceptable as an OSSR in 2015. But it's an unholy mashup of World of Darkness and WotC's Open Gaming License. And both of those things come from the Clinton Administrat...
- Sun Aug 04, 2019 10:25 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: V5's Failure isn't surprising
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24716
As food for thought (and because I'm on holidays with a lot of time on my hands), I started putting together a list of team roles and specializations for a vampire team. I build it on the premise that a typical adventure would involve searching a person/item/place, defeating opponents and suppress e...
- Sun Aug 04, 2019 8:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: V5's Failure isn't surprising
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24716
While each of those vampire archetype require a minimum set of powers to be spot on, I think there are very few powers whose addition would break the concept (by the virtue of being fantasy stoies). If, with enough investment at chargen/experience points, your Blade expy learns to practice magic or ...
- Sat Aug 03, 2019 9:50 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: V5's Failure isn't surprising
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24716
But Masquerade hadn't got nearly that far. Indeed, the abilities and relevancies for being a Ventrue - or any clan - were so bullshit that really no roles or concepts were supported. If our vampire aristocrat doesn't have the option of having a bat form, I have already lost interest. Because the va...