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Anyway I WOULD now demand 15 people ask me nicely before I continue. But I'm not sure there even ARE 15 people here... much less oddly polite and overly eagerly submissive ones. I'd like you to continue, even if your enthusiastic rambling style means that sometimes I can hardly understand what you'...

Is it classical music? Do the aliens' heads explode? In the same vein of tooting one's own horn, gempunks has a setting with portal cities and medieval train stations and undead politics where priests compete to resurrect whichever famous ancient leader they like best. Wait... System agnostic settin...

Nooooo! Getting hit is supposed to be the other party members' roles!

"Fighter! Boy! Open the door and introduce me! I'M BLIND OR SOMETHING!" "But you are legally required to let my Barbarian into the restaurant because she's my emotional support animal! I HAVE DRUIDISM!" Quality stuff that. That is what the concept of party roles boils down to, r...

The regular old fit and broadly competent Marvel heroes do start feeling kinda samey after a while despite having unique power sets and sometimes the fun happens when the psion gets strength drained to 0 and has to repeatedly fling himself back to town with telekinesis. Having a weakness like not be...

Ah yes, herbivores

At level 11, you have at least four Tome feats which each give four abilities, many of them stacking passives that you may have to go back and double check at random if you want to play your character correctly. Maybe if Tome feats had chosen to each be about one thing that just gets better to stay ...

It's been ten years
You have to let go

It will be all these things, and more! A true glory to behold! Alas, with ten years of secret development without outside contact, the devs will have lost all connection to reality. The game mechanics will be written with ten years of theory nobody outside of its development was privy to, so people ...

Roll 1d6 for minutes? Do you expect someone to try to craft an item when there's only 4 minutes until disaster and hope they roll low?

Also. While this is happening. The Barbarian PC, that was for no reason never in play for getting the werewolf substitution power, suddenly at the beginning of, hell maybe in the middle of, the same session has at the Players demand or because of a last minute Player switch, been substituted with a...

What is the value then? Hmm, somewhere in between I guess... But you can make the balancing easier if you can make the werewolves you turn into super gimmicky. Like if werewolves are only good at leaping 500 feet and then doing some damage to a whole bunch of enemies in an area, turning into a were...

And also. Pop quiz. How much is it worth for a paladin or a rogue or wizard to be able to turn into a werewolf of equal character value? Cool question. Hmm, in a game where roles are very significant and you like, sometimes need a rogue to do rogue things or a paladin to do paladin things, being ab...

In 3.5e, because carrying capacity is exponential (at this point some people might wonder if this is actually my favorite rule in the whole game), then increasing in strength by +15 represents an appropriate amount for someone who has scaled up in every dimension by a factor of 2. Except that size c...

I like the Tactical Dreadnoughts. Did you 3D print them at 50% size? Is that something that 3D printers can do? So the way a 3D resin printer works is, there's an LCD tablet screen (mine uses an off the shelf screen, newer ones have monochrome screens instead of RGB) with an ultraviolet backlight. ...

What if you look at it in the other direction, roleplaying in your investigation game. Imagine you have an investigation game, where the players try to work together to pick apart a mystery, trying to find out what happened and who did it. I think there are a couple such games in existence, actually...

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Sun Dec 19, 2021 12:24 am

While I am not fond of the protagonist's hackneyed name,

Destina sounds like a perfectly good name for a spoiled brat who selfishly accidentally resurrects an ancient evil to me.

If you don't require the lieutenants to be able to deputize more people, then I think this trope gets plenty of use in old fashioned fiction on the good side, that's what a Chosen Hero is after all.

Isn't this more of a play/imagine dichotomy? You don't run the things you imagine wanting to run, either, right? Yeah I think the "single author fiction" idea Frank used to harp on a bunch was dancing around this issue... TTRPGs are so close to emulating TV shows or other such story format...

Are there any people here who play 9e enough to have any idea whether your ideas are good or bad? These look like fiddly balance decisions you'd need to have a fair few 9e battles under your belt to properly evaluate.

Where's the Denner who's making a Hello Kitty RPG?

Tangentially related: in 3.5e some enemy types are immune to sneak attack. If you're not an advanced player you may not know of any of the ways to bypass this immunity. But as a DM there are times when you want to use a lot of undead enemies, they're a potentially super diverse faction you could be ...

See, this is why I moved away from game design and towards art.

Units could be tired, and some formations were better or worse in some situations. Right here, it felt like you were about to explain the circumstances where the game doesn't devolve into basic rock paper scissors... And then you immediately moved on to something else instead. Does an extremely poo...

Oh no, you've become a codger