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- Tue Jun 07, 2016 11:16 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: A different kind of RNG for D&D 3.X
- Replies: 7
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- Mon Jun 06, 2016 11:20 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: A different kind of RNG for D&D 3.X
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4168
A different kind of RNG for D&D 3.X
Another RNG thread? Really? Yes. So, with the current RNG system (d20+bonuses vs DC), and the usual situation (the number that actually matters in most cases is not a probability of succeeding, but rather an average number of attempts between failures/successes), the +1 bonus can actually have a va...
- Wed Jun 01, 2016 3:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1674378
- Tue May 17, 2016 8:06 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
- Tue May 17, 2016 7:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1674378
It is indeed more usable to calculate it in number of rounds until failing a save; applying that to my previous example, the numbers are: - Easy save (75% chance to succeed) = 4 average rounds until failing a save, which increases to 6.67 rounds with cloak of resistance +2, a 66% increase. - Moderat...
- Mon May 16, 2016 4:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1674378
- Fri May 13, 2016 5:15 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
- Wed May 11, 2016 3:43 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
- Wed May 11, 2016 7:50 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
- Tue May 10, 2016 7:31 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
- Tue May 10, 2016 7:04 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
- Tue May 10, 2016 5:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
I think all of this is a waste of time in this thread. You are at best disagreeing with a specific implementation of Frank's point about iterative probability. Even if you were 100% right about the specific threat levels and death chances and XP gain of 3e, that still wouldn't have any effect on th...
- Mon May 09, 2016 6:43 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
- Mon May 09, 2016 9:12 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
No. The issue is that in such a situation the fail state is the only state, which means that the game either lacks tension or the MC shits all over the players with nothing in between. Roleplaying is slight of hand, with the goal being to present the levels of risk as being much higher than they ac...
- Sun May 08, 2016 10:03 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
- Thu May 05, 2016 6:45 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
Well, my take on the player agency and dice argument is that, while technically you can have a diceless game with players having lots of agency, it wouldn't be a game with a GM at all. A normal diceless table-top game, like chess or checkers, is like that, and they work pretty well. But a game with...
- Thu May 05, 2016 6:02 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
Well, my take on the player agency and dice argument is that, while technically you can have a diceless game with players having lots of agency, it wouldn't be a game with a GM at all. A normal diceless table-top game, like chess or checkers, is like that, and they work pretty well. But a game with ...
- Tue May 03, 2016 10:40 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
- Tue May 03, 2016 9:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
- Tue May 03, 2016 4:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Big Skills
- Replies: 372
- Views: 35853
Why have dice rolls in combat? You know the final outcome. What are you going to do, declare game over because they rolled poorly? What makes combat, a part of the game with less forgiveness of failure than finding love letters, acceptable to have random elements that Search should not have? Pretty...
- Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:41 pm
- Forum: I Gave the Mouse a Cookie...
- Topic: Video Games
- Replies: 8270
- Views: 928912
Stuff like DOTA2 is where someone figured out you could cut a whole bunch of stupid crap out of Warcraft 3 and make it a much better game (duh, War3 is full of stupid busywork crap), and then that mod got turned into a complete game which very carefully did not add anything to change the play in an...
- Sat Nov 28, 2015 8:08 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder Is Still Bad
- Replies: 8556
- Views: 1674378
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 10:20 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Logistics and Dragons [No Kaeliks]
- Replies: 227
- Views: 45692
Why, in just a few decades you could grow your city into a planar metropolis if you played your cards right. Global conquest or cities covering the world like Dis or Ravnica simply aren't going to be likely outputs of this system. The growth rates just aren't big enough for that kind of thing to ha...
- Sun Oct 11, 2015 8:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Logistics and Dragons [No Kaeliks]
- Replies: 227
- Views: 45692
The largest city in the world needs the largest set of controlled farms in the world, and may have to go to war in order to secure more land. Also, neighboring cities may decide that instead of joining The World's Largest City Development Race, they may want to invest heavily in armies and get some...
- Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:31 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Logistics and Dragons [No Kaeliks]
- Replies: 227
- Views: 45692
Gold is a measure of value, not pieces of precious metal. It's possible to increase value even if the metal increases slowly. Most paymental end up being notation on account, with only small transfers. That would still cause inflation, though. The largest city in the world needs the largest set of ...