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Vim's an oldie but a goodie, stolen from everywhere. Chutzpah and a certain je ne sais quois i've seen used a few places. Dunno where they come from originally as rpg attribute concepts. Haven't seen Rhetoric, Cheerfulness, or Rhythm used as core stats though before. I like'em because you can see ho...

in my game mental attributes are

vim
rhetoric
cheerfulness
rhythm
chutzpah
and a certain je ne sais quoi

I've been playing Star Realms lately. Deckbuilding game like Dominion, but very tightly designed. Only online CCG to hold my interest.

The last bit has an obvious answer: don't. Or design the system around team battles and have a 'flying tax' on flying pokemon (especially the ones with longer-ranged attacks) that means groundbound pokemon are going to be straight up better except for the inviolability of the flyers. But the easy an...

wait, are people (well, kaelik) actually arguing that silent image will fool a creature with blindsight that can see that the image it is seeing with it's real eyes is not actually there You don't need a mind to program a if.doesn'tExist ->Target (Something Else) (if.noTargets -> walk (Spiral.patter...

PL, your argument is really that 'people can't help but endlessly optimize things endlessly with huge spreadsheets and then EVERYONE has to do that because NO-ONE is okay with anyone having more <imaginary dnd items> than them', and 'the only way to stop that happening is to make rules that don't al...

That last part is boggling. Who actually makes the argument that magic can go into the past due to speed of light delays, assuming magic ignores time (and speed of light) and also ignoring physics while trying to use physics to break the game? Well, significant numbers of people who play ttrpgs I gu...

PL, your problem is that you are assuming manually calculating and tracking individual unit food supply, harvest, and storage as just part of their giant kingdom administration spread sheet is the only possible way to manage a kingdom. In a game. 1. Why doesn't this kingdom have accountants who info...

Hrm, I now have a sneaking suspicion that all the bits of SR mechanics I liked were designed by Frank. As I specifically liked that writeup, and how it gave actual rules for stuff that weren't stupid, but were still scary.

I'd prefer to design games for good players that bad players 'abuse' or whatever rather than design bad games for bad players that 'stop them abusing' the mechanics so bad GMs can feel happy they 'challenged the party' by throwing numbers against other numbers in a relatively pointless fashion. For ...

Looks like they're dropping Summod from the Community Clash game. Did anyone actually want to do that? It's going to have like 11 teams with a custom single-age mod and map, looks interesting. Probably still a window to get a tgd team in if people wanted.

Matticus - Basically, thugs and SCs both got nerfed, hard. You can't damage-proof stuff anymore, both on the low or the high end. Thugs are mostly useful if they're cheap and stealthy and can kill low PD, or your national commanders require very little to get off the ground into being a thug. Only a...

Eeerrr, seraphs and Grigoris are on mid-low tier nations in Dom4. In particular because those super summons demand high research and Marignon/Hinnom aren't exactly known for their turbo research. I've never actually seen seraphs or Grigoris in my MP game, with the nations that could summon either b...

Bogus and his pals are a great feature of dominions and are based on the game designer's dnd group. When you kill them, you can recover some of their gear, and by charming or hellbinding them, you can copy their 'attack commander' orders (although this is considered a faux pas in online play). Killi...

The host, from the name style, stating how many games they've adminned etc, is from /domg/. Summod is seen as 'the only choice for competitive games' there. Overall, all it really does is make the game better for people with more experience with summod, as tracking all the minor changes is annoying,...

I'll join the community game as a tgd member, since I used to post here way fucking back, if people want. I'm sorta okay at dom4, have won some games of it etc.

I like how Kaelik is good enough at internet arguing to nearly silence all competition despite being provably wrong with less than a minute of looking at rules text to find the relevant examples. The argument of 'willing' = 'willingly forgoing a saving throw' when the two terms are defined separatel...

Their infantry are either slow and resource heavy for how well they hold the line, or poorly armoured for mm2 infantry. They also have to choose between a shield and ever doing damage at all. The composite bows aren't crossbows, they do a shortbow job a bit better for a lot more resources than a 4r ...

How they play is you find some way to weld your glamour heavy cavalry to your marverni heavy infantry and druids-lite, and use your vanadrott/ri-alike morgen sorceresses to drop fog warriors on the whole shemozzle. That said, someone was doing some theorycrafting, and it looks like they don't match ...

So yes, if orcs are your setting's mongols/huns/spartans, even their children and turnip farmers will want to stab you and take your stuff given a chance. Because their society taught them that's the best path to glory and status amongst their peers. /or any other group. Far more people were willin...

The point here is that you seem to be living in some sort of alternate universe where criticizing one specific story that treats racism as "not really that big a deal" and "kind of funny" which it totally does, and you totally even defended it for doing, counts as a claiming tha...

On the assumption Translation: You're not reading anything Kaelik says. Refutation: I'm reading everything Kaelik says, and most of it is bullshit designed to either back away from what he said earlier or paint me as the bad guy (and a rape apologist). "There should exist stories that handle r...

So just to be clear Rejakor, all D&D games should be explicitly racist against black people because they were in medieval history and games should reflect monstrous parts of medieval history and portray them as good even though there is no good reason for it at all, and they could just as easil...

Are you this dominicius?

http://www.myth-weavers.com/member.php?u=11063

Yes, 'storylines' = organized sport, tetris, movie posters, coasters, green beans, cheese, whatever allows you to strawman arguments. Your 'racism shouldn't be in stories' argument has been disproven - now you're resorting to retarded shit and ad hominem. Well, that's great Kaelik. You continue to m...