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- Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 59965
If prestige is your control radius, then it is your domain size limit from a certain perspective, so I'm not sure if what you're saying is that different from what jt suggested in that respect. I can see where he's coming from in tying domain size to challenges, or at least total military might, sin...
- Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:27 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 59965
The basic motive for magia – quite apart from any philosophic consideration of how it would work – is immediacy: speed, reduction of labour, and reduction also to a minimum (or vanishing point) of the gap between the idea or desire and the result or effect. But the magia may not be easy to come by,...
- Wed Oct 23, 2019 10:18 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: 3.5 Dragonlance Campaign Setting
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7754
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonlance_Adventures was an interesting book for 1987; I had a copy, but by Shango's mercy I never tried to play it, so I have no awful memories of being given the bad touch by Kender. I also played the SSI Gold Box games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champions_of_Kr...
- Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:23 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: ACKS Heroic Fantasy Handbook
- Replies: 156
- Views: 27055
Spoilage is obviously an issue, but yeah, that's off by an order of magnitude. https://jref.com/articles/kokudaka.284/ Has 11-15 koku (which is 1430 calories/day for a person, so you can eat but not well) per acre. I'm not sure if that is pre or post spoilage or what, but 20 acres would get you... I...
- Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:08 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Cyberpirates!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9143
Shadowrun's lack of Africa content is a disgrace. It's not a unique disgrace in the sense that I legitimately cannot think of a major low fantasy title that how non-disgraceful treatment of any part of Africa other than perhaps Egypt. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying I have an OSSR request: ...
- Sun Sep 29, 2019 1:17 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ars Magica/FFT heartbreaker - time-management is fun
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2374
For gimmicky reasons, unrelated to the practical questions, the setting has: [*] A pantheon of not-Olympians, who have a priestly caste and a not-Platonic/not-Buddhist theology. The not-Olympians definitely exist are are ascended humans, even if they claim descent from not-titans. The general societ...
- Sat Sep 28, 2019 9:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ars Magica/FFT heartbreaker - time-management is fun
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2374
Ars Magica/FFT heartbreaker - time-management is fun
Odd question - I'm a respectable programmer, but obviously I don't want to write a game-engine from scratch. I'm looking for something that works rather like master of orion or dominions - you have strategic turns where you give all your units orders, and then the orders all resolve simultaneously. ...
- Wed Sep 25, 2019 3:03 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: "Rules as written" and the current state of RPG design
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9646
- Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Cyberpirates!
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9143
I dunno, if you posit the breakup of the United States, it's hard to see it not falling along the lines of http://www.bluescreenmusic.com/Gifs/blog/redscare/jesusland.jpg (I can't find a version of this pic that will embed!). Now the CAS would probably not call itself the Confederacy (or Gilead,) bu...
- Mon Sep 23, 2019 6:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Is magic always overpowered?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 9460
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 4:24 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder 2e
- Replies: 666
- Views: 150433
- Thu Jul 25, 2019 11:23 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 6614
- Views: 710909
The size changing physics of Ant Man are in no way consistent. Sure they are. https://thetrove.net/Books/_Collections/Super%20Hero%20Games/Hero%20Games/Hero%20System%206E/DOJHERO%201003%20-%20Hero%20System%206th%20-%20Basic%20Rulebook.pdf Shrinking increases his DCV and increases the amount of knoc...
- Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:20 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Not an OSSR: Space Madness
- Replies: 53
- Views: 13428
I've been super-negligent in contributing review material (work has been crazy), but even if it ends up being a collaboration, I would let Usamimi pick. P.S. if you make him do World of Darkness: Gypsies, I bet I can get Frank to team up on it. Cheaper, locally produced mild beers were especially pr...
- Thu Jul 18, 2019 3:56 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: V5's Failure isn't surprising
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24697
You want to write your book of challenges before you write your PHB. So Nosferatu might be the character generation equivalent of a 3rd-edition race, or class, or meaningless nationality, but the answer could be different in a game of flower-arranging and vote-buying than in a game of night-duels wi...
- Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:45 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: V5's Failure isn't surprising
- Replies: 173
- Views: 24697
A core group of fans want VtM to be Seinfeld - an RPG about nothing. So, yes, a group of vampires come together and vampire, that's the whole thing. The thing is, you can take any game and setting, chuck the missions and the metaplot and just hang out. Shadowrun campaigns would often follow the Will...
- Sun Jul 07, 2019 10:48 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Fixing racism in D&D (/rpgs in general)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 17006
- Sun Jul 07, 2019 6:48 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Fixing racism in D&D (/rpgs in general)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 17006
All of this talk about attribute bonuses is completely besides the point. First, it's narrow and unambitious even as far as hacks on 3rd edition go , and second it doesn't deal with the needed reforms. Elves and Orcs are just different cultures of people which are super- and sub-human respectively. ...
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 12:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: european fantasy cultures and how to fit them
- Replies: 125
- Views: 15593
In a kitchen sink setting, you want at least enough flavors of white people to have all the PHB classes in your fantasy Europe. Combining the Wizard and Cleric, but that's another thread, at the minimum: [*] Assassins and Thieves need to be from decadent city-states. These are preferably not-Italian...
- Tue Jun 25, 2019 12:26 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Medical Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 962
- Views: 185339
- Sun Jun 02, 2019 8:17 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Religion is use
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7655
Religions should... https://pics.me.me/yeah-well-thats-just-like-you-know-your-opinion-man-28805006.png why should religions work that way? Are you claiming this provides verisimilitude? Are you claiming this is good for running a game? Are you claiming this provides a somehow intrinsically more sa...
- Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:40 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Religion is use
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7655
There is a lot of talking at cross-purposes due to muddy thinking. There is no objective answer to what should be a different class. In a villain RPG, where everyone plays an evil spellcaster, you might want a Necromancer and a Death Priest to be different classes, with synergistic abilities to anim...
- Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:24 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Orientalist Fantasy Settings
- Replies: 272
- Views: 30731
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship[1] and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clan members may be organized around a founding member or apical ancestor. Clans, in indigenous societies, tend to be exogamous, meaning that their members cannot marry one another...
- Tue May 28, 2019 11:42 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Religion is use
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7655
Y'all are engaging in a logical fallacy that I shall call: presuming Oerth . Your setting does not have to be a high-fantasy Europe with an Olympian pantheon, or otherwise carry the tropes of Greyhawk. essential points: [*] Is there an organized church of some sort? (An established laity and a pries...
- Tue May 28, 2019 12:41 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Supernatural Wild West Fictional Settings
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6398
This thread has become so sophomoric that I have no choice but to profess at the lot of you. Lessee... [*] Indentured servants were not treated near as bad as slaves. I'm 100% in favor of solidarity between the descendants of slaves and the white working class; and, there are mixed race populations ...
- Tue May 28, 2019 12:06 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ryuutama
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2842
This has a devoted community - does that mean people actually play it ? I'd assumed it was just a clever deconstruction of the genre, but seemingly they're serious. The core conceit is that all of the player characters are under some kind of wanderlust geas (something something seasonal dragons), wh...