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- Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:54 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: You ever met any Cataclysm/Wall of the Faithless defenders?
- Replies: 27
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I never went anywhere with all of that. But I wanted to do a Macross knockoff once and wanted to share. The massive galactic Zentraedi Maeltrandi space war with Earth being a seemingly insignificant spec but holding the power of culture is a neat angle for Performance skill characters Well, that, a...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 4:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: You ever met any Cataclysm/Wall of the Faithless defenders?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9970
The Wall of the Faithless is a cosmic injustice, but I did want to use it in a campaign. I think, though, that my idea sounds better in concept than it would have been in execution. Basically, the gods use the WotF as a defense against Pandorym - the god-slaying weapon from Elder Evils. But, in this...
- Sat May 23, 2020 6:41 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Shadowrun had Gibson, Battletech had Niven and Pournell
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5497
- Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:36 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Coronavirus thread
- Replies: 588
- Views: 157773
Sorry citizen, protesting is a threat to public health. Protests are cancelled until it's safer to go outside. I dunno, I think a protest that causes gridlock outside A HOSPITAL in the MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC should probably be considered an illegal gathering. On top of the idiocy of social distancing...
- Sat Oct 19, 2019 3:23 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: ACKS Heroic Fantasy Handbook
- Replies: 156
- Views: 26774
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Many Flaws of the 5e Crafting System
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7858
One of the hacks for 3e I've considered (and never implemented) was the [Magic] tag for weapons and armor. The idea is that a +1 sword is just not exciting, but a flaming sword or one that strikes true against elves is awesome. The [Magic] tag means that you get your +1 or +3 based on your characte...
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:23 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Many Flaws of the 5e Crafting System
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7858
One of the hacks for 3e I've considered (and never implemented) was the [Magic] tag for weapons and armor. The idea is that a +1 sword is just not exciting, but a flaming sword or one that strikes true against elves is awesome. The [Magic] tag means that you get your +1 or +3 based on your character...
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 3:54 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: ACKS Heroic Fantasy Handbook
- Replies: 156
- Views: 26774
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:28 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: ACKS Heroic Fantasy Handbook
- Replies: 156
- Views: 26774
So uhhh I guess to get this thread back onto a course I guess.... In the event Blicero from Gaming Hub reads this: ....Since you think that domains and mass combat is the game's killer app, I'd like to extend to you an offer to preview the revised Axioms issue 3, which has the most extensive and de...
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 10:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: ACKS Heroic Fantasy Handbook
- Replies: 156
- Views: 26774
I took a look over there. Just a quick look. And the amount of disingenuous nonsense is... yeah, wow. I think my favorite was the thing where the one guy poses Conservapedia and Wikipedia a) equal and opposite in their presentation, content and accuracy; and b) that only Progressives like Wikipedia,...
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 7:07 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: ACKS Heroic Fantasy Handbook
- Replies: 156
- Views: 26774
- Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: ACKS Heroic Fantasy Handbook
- Replies: 156
- Views: 26774
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: A thread about Binders (And maybe a fix to them)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5256
Someone on another forum actually did write up an alternate druid with binder-style mechanics, found here . Worth a look for refluffing ideas, if nothing else. I only gave that a cursory glance, but I did like two parts - one being the power breakdown (at-will, encounter, daily, passive) and the ot...
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: A thread about Binders (And maybe a fix to them)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5256
Just a tiny fluff bit from this corner: Binder flavor would definitely work better as a shaman, because your ability package from binding the spirit would be written on the wrapper. You get stealth, entangle, and wild empathy from a forest spirit; you get fire powers from a fire spirit. It's the sph...
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 3:40 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Why is Shadowrun's magic so praised?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8554
There are certainly things about Shadowrun Magic that I think are mistakes. The fact that you can't use a magic sword without Chosen One DNA means that a lot of things that could be checks on the power of big demon summoning actually isn't. But it's a system you can describe the edges and boundarie...
- Fri Sep 27, 2019 4:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
- Replies: 202
- Views: 82110
My MMO experience was exclusively in City of Heroes - which was notable only for coming out at about the same time as WoW, but having been developed separately, didn't follow the same 'holy trinity' concept. There are ways to make the concept work, I think, that just break from the concept. 1) No de...
- Fri Sep 06, 2019 3:39 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 488418
I am in a place of deep frustration when it comes to finding new fantasy books to read. In particular, when I go looking for recommendations, I get lists of things that are bad . Every list has The Name of the Wind on it, usually highly ranked. I have no fucking clue why anyone thinks that book is ...
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 3:20 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: So... Star Wars [Spoilers]
- Replies: 415
- Views: 106403
- Fri Aug 23, 2019 3:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]CyberCthulhu
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7949
As an aside, is there anything in the Mythos that is still someone's IP that people tend to care about? Lots of authors have added to it over the years, but I can't think of any additions off the top of my head that people would generally regret not being able to use. I think Lumley's still alive a...
- Mon Aug 19, 2019 3:58 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]CyberCthulhu
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7949
Fun fact: It sounds to me as though the Convergence scenario presented in 1992 is nearly identical to the one that was included in the 1997 Delta Green book. I mean, I don't remember the seduction tagline thing - but everything else is spot on. That's one way to up your page count, I suppose. If it ...
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 4:47 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Podcasts you follow?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16303
The Second Ethiopian-Italian War and the Abyssinian Crisis were the names of the events. The podcast that utterly failed to mention either was episode three of Hardcore History, subtitled The Organization of Peace. The episode with the 'encoded in DNA' thing was Episode Two, Guns and Horses. (I hop...
- Sat Aug 03, 2019 2:25 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Podcasts you follow?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16303
I'm not an authority on history. I took my degree in it, I taught it at the secondary level for a few years. :rofl: But I'm better equipped to examine sources and biases than Carlin is, apparently. Low bar. I have no relevant degree and (based on the limited information admitted above) also am. So,...
- Fri Aug 02, 2019 7:03 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Podcasts you follow?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 16303
I'm very surprised no one has mentioned Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. His stuff is more like miniature audiobooks than what you would normally think of as podcasts. His series on the Mongol Empire and World War I are fantastic, as is his single-episode analysis of the atomic bomb. Hardcore History...
- Thu Aug 01, 2019 6:41 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: V5's Failure isn't surprising
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24338
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:58 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: V5's Failure isn't surprising
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24338
WoD vampires' historical roots in the Fertile Crescent were merely a by-product of their Biblical origin story with Cain. On the other hand, the eurocentrism is really lazy writing by white people who never bothered with non-white History. They shifted their entire setting from the Biblical Middle ...