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- Sat Feb 08, 2020 1:41 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The viability of a Castlevania TRPG?
- Replies: 110
- Views: 28727
Chainsaws are heavy, poorly balanced, and... And vampires don't exist so what's your point? Okay, so remember when you said this? If you want melee weapons that much, just introduce melee weapons you would actually use in this day and age: See, that's what you said in the post immediately preceding...
- Sat Feb 08, 2020 1:24 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The viability of a Castlevania TRPG?
- Replies: 110
- Views: 28727
Chainsaws are heavy, poorly balanced, and in order to kill someone with it, you have to hold the rotating edge against them long enough for it to chew through enough flesh to hit something debilitating. If you take that over a properly balanced sword with a decent edge, you are not very bright. Ther...
- Thu Feb 06, 2020 3:07 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: GURPS CyberWorld
- Replies: 34
- Views: 12878
- Sun Jan 19, 2020 3:22 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Frostburn
- Replies: 125
- Views: 34173
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 7:28 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 956004
It's well known in video game design circles that players will seek the optimal path over the fun one, and it is therefore important that the optimal path actually be fun. I have definitely run games where players overplanned to the point where the pace of the game was harmed if I didn't push them t...
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:30 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What if your PHB had actions instead of spells?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6340
- Thu Jan 16, 2020 11:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR Call of Cthulhu d20
- Replies: 48
- Views: 9415
I haven't actually gone back and counted, but my impression from actually reading a bunch of Lovecraft stories is that the two most common outcomes for the protagonist are to be condemned as insane because of a perfectly accurate recollection of an alien encounter, or else for someone else to go ins...
- Sat Jan 04, 2020 11:21 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: So... Star Wars [Spoilers]
- Replies: 415
- Views: 107778
Emerald is doing Move #2 of people justifying shitty Star Wars plot points: bring out the EU. No? Like, Inside Star Wars is EU content, and the exact text from the AotC novelization is EU content, but the same scene appears in the movie with basically the same dialogue . The minor differences in ph...
- Mon Dec 23, 2019 9:21 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely lost you.
- Replies: 3789
- Views: 495488
- Wed Dec 11, 2019 7:26 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 956004
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 6:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR] Dragonlance: Legends of the Twins
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5934
I'm not surprised Age of Dragons was most popular amongst the most diehard Dragonlance fans. It allows for politicking and intrigue without just leaving the setting for another one that's better suited to that, something which will naturally appeal to people with a heavy investment in the setting, a...
- Fri Nov 29, 2019 7:56 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 59957
- Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The role of a GM
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4444
Wait. I'm arguing with Grek aka Silva I'm out Dude what ? What the Hell is this accusation? Grek joined in 2009, Silva joined four years later and was defined by his relentless shilling for the works of Vincent Baker, someone whom Grek derided in this very thread. This accusation doesn't line up at...
- Wed Nov 27, 2019 4:35 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Wizards of the Coast publishes Rick & Morty Dnd Adventure
- Replies: 64
- Views: 9525
Yeah, but I thought it was a joke on consumerism and the modern tendency to pay for something you can get for free. I didn't realize it was legit! You can't get reliability for free. And also I probably put in more effort than most GMs, but I'm pretty sure my main selling point is that two months i...
- Wed Nov 27, 2019 3:47 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Wizards of the Coast publishes Rick & Morty Dnd Adventure
- Replies: 64
- Views: 9525
- Wed Nov 27, 2019 3:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 59957
Also Hades is supposed to be mostly nice. It’s much closer to heaven than hell. It’s a judeo-Christian anachronism to make Hades hell-like. Achilles doesn't seem too thrilled with the place in the Odyssey: O shining Odysseus, never try to console me for dying. I would rather follow the plow as thra...
- Wed Nov 27, 2019 3:09 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Wizards of the Coast publishes Rick & Morty Dnd Adventure
- Replies: 64
- Views: 9525
- Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:29 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 59957
Players want to have skill improvements be a thing that they can achieve, but that is in no way the same as wanting things to improve with level . Like, in the strictly logical sense that it is theoretically possible for players to want one thing and not the other, sure. In practice players don't w...
- Tue Nov 26, 2019 10:01 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 59957
The entire point is that the measure of scaling from apprentice weaver to master weaver should not be character level . There are two kinds of players: Players who want their skills to rise with level and players who don't care about skills at all. You can make NPC classes that advance nothing but ...
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 3:23 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 59957
But there are no fixes for 3e's skill system that don't overhaul it on a fundamental level. Ranks and Bonuses doesn't work. It doesn't scale the way people want it to. Whatever amount of scaling you want, you could obviously achieve by adjusting the rate at which the amount of ranks you have and th...
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 5:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 59957
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 11:45 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 59957
The skill system of 3e is hot garbage and produces bad results across the board. This is apparently something you don't actually want to argue about considering that you didn't, so rather than derail the thread with that barely related subject, I'll note that you implicitly agree with the broad poi...
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 7:58 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 59957
Simple argument - if player #2 wants to stay home and be a rune fang merchant, then he's going to do that and players #1, 3 and 4 are going adventuring in the jungles of Hythloth without him? That's bad, so you design the game around preventing that from happening. No, you don't, and I don't know w...
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 3:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 59957
If you want to run an inn, you need like a +10 bonus to a relevant profession skill in order to hit DC 20 on a take 10, at which point you are a good enough innkeeper that the average schmoe can only match your routine performance on their best day. If you max out the skill, take skill focus at leve...
- Sat Nov 23, 2019 11:30 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.
- Replies: 2920
- Views: 524511