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"A [dangerous force] is [taking a shit] on [your local territory]; stop them adventurers"

Is honestly an adventure type that I've seen far too often in larps; and I've always hated it b/c there's no incentive to engage that sort of content instead of letting it move on.

Would it make sense to just have Deity/Pretender scale creatures to fill out the higher tiers? Norse god Thor is ~10, maybe 15 at most; since they face Ice/Fire giants and slay them; but can't singlehandedly invade Muspelheim or Nifelheim. So to Horus, Susanoo, Toutias, Quetzelcoatl, Rainbow Serpent...

Totally unrelated to my last question, but how would be the best way to handle truly immense creatures such as "a kaiju's kaiju", "an Khemetian polisanddroid" or "an poltergeist-floated skiápolis". The idea of "moving cities" in the various non-Earth correspon...

Is there any concern among others that characters who have always on size powers, would also get temporarily on size powers? I know that there's a good chance that at least one player per group who wouldn't be just satisfied with "being a wolf the size of a charter bus", if they could be e...

Frank, have you looked at Riggsby's various low-tech economy articles for GURPS? He's a pro scholar writing for a gaming perspective. I've been taking a look at GURPS Low-Tech over at the rem.uz website, and it's an interesting read to be sure. I wish I had read it before the "Tech Levels"...

I never quite understood why RPGs of licensed properties don't feature what-if campaigns in a more upfront way at all. Like, it's the motherfucking Star Wars Galaxy, BUT instead of Luke Skywalker, the hero is _____________ and she meets the smugglers __________ and ________ at Mos Eisley cantina an...

... What you can't have is magic that obviates high level contributions of the other characters, but the ability to take an action and kill some dudes does not do that. ... Problematic spells are things that in some way obviate entire armies of tiny men. High flying. Incorporeality. Weapon Immunity...

Ahhhh. Ok, that makes a lot more sense now. I was sure that I wasn't grokking the error mechanic properly.

Regarding Warp Cult Ammunition "ratings". The "Errors" section of the rules say that you have to roll as many (or more) successes as a firearms Ammunition rating in order to not run out of ammunition (or have your Plasma gun vent plasma on the user). Basic Mechanics When you perf...

When WoTC's publishing schedule is so scant, that a Deodorant company can release 5e D&D Classes and it becomes noteworthy among social media gaming groups. The real irony is that the class is meant for an earlier edition, it's more of a 3e class than a 5e class. Old Spice's "The Gentleman&...

I'm intrigued at how "gunmagic" precludes "gunplay". Also, why people who signed up for "gunplay" don't pick an other form of magic that synergizes better than "gunmagic" doesn't.

I've found the easiest way to play a "Shapeshifting" creature in D&D, use a Phasm in [Tome]; and once you can, start taking levels in Warshaper. Once it was an in-game transformation reward for a Ogre barbarian I was playing, an other time it was for a player whose character concept wa...

It varies. Survival actions like Block and Posture help defensive PCs; whereas most antagonists and aggressive PCs don't bother. It also helps to break up having to Feint in order to actually hit a creature on-par/better than your attack pool. It also makes combat feel like it's a bit more cinematic...

I've been toying with the idea of expanding AS's combat by introducing elements from martial arts for its melee-range game. This was from my attempts to develop "complications" for a potential fantasy heartbreaker modification to AS. Specifically, the RPS mechanic is based off of the four ...

In Seven Samurai (arguably the MOST FAMOUS SAMURAI DEPICTION EVER), not a single one of the titular characters wears armor. In the last battle a bunch of them do; and it's a source of concern for the commander that they don't have: bows, arrows, swords, spears, & armour. The pretender samurai b...

Elven bladesong (sing while fighting) Damn, that reminds me of one of the most annoying, yet powerful, magic items I've ever got to use in a larp. I knew a powergamer who had created a magic item weapon that gave "Assassinate" skill ranks if the wielder was singing (the skill was a damage...

Even Soulless get skills and they're fucking zombies. Zombies that can open doors, use guns, and drive vehicles.... as long as they're controlled, or don't see a human . Even the relatively stupid, animalistic, Mirror-Goblin has some skills. While actually animalistic Chimera have a bunch of skills.

You need to pick better powers to make a Khaibit truly terrifying. I suggest: -Empty Body (wear silver mesh glove to touch things, but basically be invulnerable) -Frozen Note (" Let's see you soak that damage with Willpower bitch! ") [note: I forget if it's actually Frozen Note, but I do k...

I'm surprised that the drinking rules are somewhat how how blood alcohol levels accumulate. I'm not surprised that the mechanics for intoxication don't correlate well with servings size however. I'd like to know more about how recovery from intoxication works though; is it anything close to the roug...

Using this as a means to develop closer ties with the NPCs makes a lot of sense, being on good terms with one's neighbours never hurts; and if your players develop relationships with NPCs they'll have them as potential resources to call upon between/during adventures. This also reminds me of a "...

I'm sort of flabbergasted at how complicated this homebrew class is. Ten pages of text for a non-spellcaster. Few of the abilities matter, or require tons of juggling of little things; like a level-scaling Max HP debuff with barely-scaling damage buff; or deciding if you want to be sort of a ghost, ...

I saw this in my FB feed today; the art production values aren't bad, but I'm unsure of the mechanics. Even if they don't have an art director, the artists seem to be really tight on their use of colour to evoke the late 80's/early 90's aesthetic. Only one of the "game designers" on the pr...

In the d20 engine; granting bonus AC for movement around/out of opponents threatened squares; and larger bonuses than currently exist for charging. Might encourage creatures to charge, fall back, and repeat. I could see bonuses scaling with BAB or Iterative attacks; so that a higher level martialist...

Someone was asking how much noir should be in CP, and I felt that Cyberpunk is an intersection between noir & science fiction. The Maltese Phalcoin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_(1941_film) Sam Spade, hardboiled bladerunner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spade Kowloontown h...

As far as magical implements go, you have to ask yourself how many doohickeys you want casters to carry around in their golf bags. Lots of wizards in various media just have their one cool trick that they spam over and over again. And you can also find media where mages pull a thing off the shelf e...