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- Sun Dec 01, 2019 11:42 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Mandatory Movement in a D20 Game?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 21435
OK. So. I think this is the basics that can work. NB: Very pro-melee, because I'm very pro-melee. -- What's this doing? Bloodbowl is a game of manipulating tackle zones. Pushing, tripping, or harming opponents enough, and placing yourself as you do it so you're not in the way of team-mates, or are s...
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 6:17 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 6614
- Views: 708794
TV and movie studios are owned by billionaires. They are almost always extremely in favour of every aspect of the real world status-quo. Even when the status-quo became that the state tortures people in gulags due to guilt by association, that just means the next hero will torture people in gulags d...
- Wed Nov 27, 2019 3:46 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Mandatory Movement in a D20 Game?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 21435
- Sun Nov 24, 2019 7:13 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 935686
Yeah, I mean obviously, like, he was gunna nationalise the Lithium mines, and uh, the US has pretences about making batteries out of that stuff to do basically everything with, so no, there has been a fascist coup. Term limits, lol. Too many y'all are supporting a fascist coup. Don't do that. You kn...
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:12 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 953145
If you were designing a 3e classplosion hack with tiered classes, what would be the ideal levels to divide the playspace into? (Throwing out all the old classes) I was thinking probably 1-6, 6-12, and then 13-20. That way it lines up with vancian casting. But would 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20 be better...
- Mon Sep 09, 2019 5:31 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 935686
Dunedin for the hotel, there's a couple groups keep turning up and offering to build the city a massive 5-star hotel, if only the city would fund most of it. But, the only place you can really build one is on a row of blocks just under the green belt that runs across the surrounding hills, and that ...
- Fri Aug 30, 2019 9:23 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 935686
There's China, they've done lots about climate change, but they're sadly rather passive on the international scene. Or, you know, not sadly, but unfortunately? There's a word there somewhere for when someone's doing the right thing for complicated reasons and it's not helping. -- Meanwhile, my local...
- Fri Aug 30, 2019 8:37 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder 2e
- Replies: 666
- Views: 150194
- Fri Aug 30, 2019 5:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: How was Tomb of horrors run in 1975? Intended to be beaten?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5053
From what I've read of Gygax running oldschool things during the 3e era, it was easy enough to beat his adventure material if you had enough 3e experience. Basically, he'd describe a scene and as long as you understood which skill to use in the 3e play of that scene, you could just say your characte...
- Tue Aug 20, 2019 7:15 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder 2e
- Replies: 666
- Views: 150194
Being able to do more than one thing in a round is good. It is for instance super important that you can move and attack in a game involving melee combat, because you might want to do melee at some point instead of just always chasing things. Being able to do three things on your turn is however not...
- Mon Aug 05, 2019 10:18 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Quotes 2019
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7627
- Sat Aug 03, 2019 11:36 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder 2e
- Replies: 666
- Views: 150194
I recall people used to complain about 3.0's giant table of things that provoke an AoO, not because it wasn't also listed in the relevant parts of the text, just that it was huge and people neither like nor expect to take AoO when they try to do interesting things beyond constantly face-stabbing the...
- Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Failure of Modern RPG Design
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6033
- Tue Jul 23, 2019 1:13 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 935686
There was a history to Afghanistan before the Russians went in. Like, at some point that many thousands of years of history and events and wars and dying empires drew in the Soviet Union and it became a proxy war between the United States and the Soviet Union. And there is a much shorter history to ...
- Mon Jul 22, 2019 3:38 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 935686
How do you think proxy wars work, other than by one big country militarily supporting one side and another big country militarily supporting the other? Like, In Afghanistan in the 80's, that was a proxy war between the Soviet Union and the United States, because the US gave some weapons to the rebel...
- Mon Jul 22, 2019 3:31 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cyberpunk Fantasy Asymmetric Threat summary
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7667
You can't use relativistic physics in a game, because relativistic physics is a graduate course at university. Bollocks, fucking trauma medicine's a longer course at university and beyond, and we face-stab people in almost every game that exists. Because you make a game-approximation that sort of w...
- Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:50 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Non-US] News That Makes You laugh/cry/neither...
- Replies: 3796
- Views: 935686
The Saudis are opposed to Iran, Yemen is a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. It's also very close to Saudi Arabia, and so they are dropping a lot of bombs on it, with refuelling and targeting support from the United States of America, which congress and senate voted to stop, and Trump vetoed,...
- Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:38 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 6614
- Views: 708794
Inflation is directly controlled by the central bank's interest rates, because that largely controls how much money is rolling around in society at any particular time. There's limits on that simple process because the rate can get to zero and there are other factors pushing it, but there's ways aro...
- Fri Jul 19, 2019 6:31 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cyberpunk Fantasy Asymmetric Threat summary
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7667
- Mon Jul 15, 2019 6:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 406530
So, that's mostly new player groups exploring the game, or something for your kid that's cheaper than the set if they're interested. What's the buy-though on that, what proportion of the $20 people get into the game enough for something like the $200 core rules giftset or expansion books beyond that...
- Mon Jul 15, 2019 5:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 953145
- Sun Jul 14, 2019 11:48 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Medical Questions I'd Like Answered...
- Replies: 962
- Views: 184556
Oh, and too late for this, but there's a lot of recommendations around endurance exercise now that probably anti-inflammatory drugs are hurting the healing process. The studies I've found are actually from taking them during events, but the recovery times there are longer, as there's more damage don...
- Mon Jul 08, 2019 9:50 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: It's Personal...
- Replies: 4839
- Views: 629888
Cheers, Maj. Internet too. What an amazing thing. I been reading a Canadian woman write about her experiences with ADHD on twitter. @ErynnBrook She's a writer so it's packed with info, she links medical folk and lots of other people talking about their experience, gets hundreds of people sometimes t...
- Mon Jul 08, 2019 8:24 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Are the 90s the "lost age" rules-wise ?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2910
- Sat Jul 06, 2019 10:06 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Fixing racism in D&D (/rpgs in general)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 16984