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Dwarves live meters under the earth, not miles. Tolkien didn't give hard numbers for Khazad-dûm, but considering they took multiple days to cross it, and Gandalf mentions needing to climb up thousands of steps to get out after falling in the chasm, it's not just some meters. And yet there's no magm...

But in terms of needing a special resource such as wind tunnels or magma jets in order to work metal and having a generally pretty shit farming capacity for hexes, it's pretty much just the Underdark but blue. That means your domain rules make it kinda impossible to represent the typical dwarf city...

Two reasons at least that underground metalworking needs to be viable: drow and dwarves. Dwarves don't go around with bone plate, drow don't go around with stone rapiers. They both figured out how to equip their troops, and the dwarves are actually renowed for their great metalworking. Plus you know...

Anyway, another issue in the Underdark that doesn't come up much on the surface is metal use and lack thereof. The Grimlocks, Troglodytes, Quaggoths, and Mindflayers are stone age people . They do not have iron axes, they do not have copper axes. They use bone and stone as tools and building materi...

North, why not.

Thanks, but isn't half the point of the Shire that most of the halflings are just goofing around? Bilbo didn't seem to have any job either before or after going on an adventure, just eat and sleep and smoke weed. Neither has he any visible servants besides eventually getting a gardener. Merry and P...

So far there's been a disturbing lack of actually fantastic options. That's fair. But I think that the game should be able to model the Shire before asking it model the Scouring of the Shire. That is, before you can answer what happens when you start tying Halflings to Bloodwheels, you have to answ...

Seems like it would solve both problems to just conscript the jobless dissidents. They get three hots and a cot, you get the patrols you need on the king’s highway. Yes, but that costs Gold and Koku. It means that if you don't militarize or develop your province and just take the taxes out and spen...

Weren't you saying some posts ago that puny bandits should only matter at low level and then they just turn to background noise that the party doesn't need to worry about anymore? On a personal level as someone threatening the PCs, yes, but once the PCs are running the country they have to worry ab...

It might be simpler if crime and banditry are things that "just happen" off the random event chart. But from a simulation standpoint it would be really cool if people turned to banditry literally because there weren't jobs for them. -Username17 Weren't you saying some posts ago that puny ...

I lived down the street from Prague Castle for several years. maglag very definitely doesn't know what he's talking about, and I don't understand why this part of the conversation is still going. I've been in Emperor Charles' throne room. It's a closet. I've seen his crown up close... it's not actu...

Wizards are Int-based, they can do the math. There's plenty of spells to buff skill checks too. Being smart enough to be an architect doesn't necessarily make someone an architect though. But you might just want to abstract that away, I guess, in the interest of not having to go to magic architect ...

Wizards are Int-based, they can do the math. There's plenty of spells to buff skill checks too. Prague castle officially took over a millenium to build with peasants and gold, from 870 to 1929 No. Prague Castle was built and rebuilt many times over a thousand year period, and various additions and r...

West is best.

In 3rd, 4th and 5th the wizard can still recover every spell slot every day and go around mass-producing zombies/walls of stone/scrying/mending and whatnot But doing that isn't a big deal. Your limit of zombies is fixed, being able to cast the spell every day doesn't change your zombie limit. You c...

That's only one edition where the party can't just spam rituals all month long. In 3rd, 4th and 5th the wizard can still recover every spell slot every day and go around mass-producing zombies/walls of stone/scrying/mending and whatnot And in 3rd edition there's cheap stuff like the Dedicated Wright...

Waves and Motion would be where lasers are on display so that.

I see a fundamental difference, in fact the fundamental difference as one of scale rather than development level. A D&D edition should have a robust Harvest Moon minigame, but that is ultimate a completely separate question as to whether regional society is advanced enough to have a mature econ...

The reason was that at the Medium they had the SOMP (Sex Offender Management Program) and apparently some of the inmates in that program were using D&D to do… inappropriate role playing. The people that ran the program also didn’t feel D&D was healthy for those people in treatment because o...

Blizzard looking so bad that Nintendo's dropped all the marketing for the new Overwatch release and even offering full refunds for that title.

Riot's making a new version of LoL for mobiles. And a digital card game. And a class-based shooter (based on new IP). And some sort of diablo rpg. And a cartoon. And their own line of breakfast cereals, mobile phones, console, video-streaming service, and political party. The digital card game seems...

<r><QUOTE author="Dean"><s>[quote="Dean"]</s>I disagree. Once firefights break out you move a lot searching out sight lines. You always move from cover to cover and never from better cover to worse cover but you still move around a lot until very high levels when snipers and heavy plasma's can reach...

For XCOM in particular (and also probably X-Com, idk) it also helps that you have range bonuses/penalties to shooting, so you're specifically incentivised to actually move. In most XCOM the players move as little as possible while overwatching all the time. It's only when there's some time limit th...

From the outset everything is fucked from the ground up because magic items aren't supposed to be integral to the game until they are, and they're supposed to be powerful rare items until they're not. And they're not supposed to be number boosters until they are. Consumables are just as rare as per...

Uh, I don't remember any of that shit. Did Erfworld go kinda nuts since the last time I read it? Not sure what was the last update you read but shit just kept getting crazier and not exactly in the good sense. Charlie got revealed plus a lot of his secrets while more and more magic shenigans being ...