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- Mon Jun 12, 2017 5:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 407617
- Mon Jun 05, 2017 10:41 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Mechanics of mystery and uncertainty
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2331
You need to encourage the players/characters to make decisions based not on real world conjecture, but on dream logic. If you can fit into the logic of the moment, you can have agency in the dream. This means that it's incredibly easy to take tangential spinoffs within the dreamscape, and as long a...
- Sun Jun 04, 2017 1:14 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Mechanics of mystery and uncertainty
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2331
Players are human beings, human beings look for patterns. When they're confronted with an unknown environment, their initial reactions are generally panic (try everything), observe (try nothing), or experiment (try something, see what happens). In a normal setting, these actions generally all have ...
- Thu Jun 01, 2017 5:14 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Play-By-Post Autopsy
- Replies: 73
- Views: 27246
- Tue May 30, 2017 10:25 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Paradox Buys White Wolf from CCP
- Replies: 316
- Views: 68212
So apparently WW's new Swedish overlords hired Ken Hite to help design VtM 5e (with V20 being the 4th). He talks about it on his podcast. There's also hearsay that Shitmuffin's involved, but it's low veracity even for TTRPG hearsay. Considering that he partially wrote the choose your own adventure ...
- Fri May 05, 2017 6:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 956789
- Fri May 05, 2017 5:43 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Worldbuilding: Is creating languages beneficial/necessary
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6684
- Fri May 05, 2017 4:53 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Worldbuilding: Is creating languages beneficial/necessary
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6684
Creating language for your world is like creating music for your world. It's beneficial (though still unnecessary) if you have the relevant skill, but will be anti-immersive if you try to just learn enough of the skill to worldbuild with it. The lack of genuine ability will show, and your world wil...
- Wed May 03, 2017 9:58 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5278
- Wed May 03, 2017 5:25 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: it's... d&d adventure card game?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3432
Re: it's... d&d adventure card game?
Link doesn't work.shlominus wrote:http://dragonfirethegame.com/
seems reasonable. the only question is why did they wait 4 years to copy paizo in doing something like this?
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 4:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: Vampire
- Replies: 601
- Views: 145589
Long story short, you can sustain about a gross of vampires that don't keep Renfields, for about a century before they're exposed. The allostasis of the Masquerade requires supernatural elements of frightening efficiency to maintain even the lower-bound populations being suggested here. Therefore, ...
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 4:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Request] Anatomy of Failed Design: The Werewolf Triat
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8683
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 4:13 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: Vampire
- Replies: 601
- Views: 145589
If there are 10 million Vampires, and 4.4% of them live in the United States (because 4.4% of the world population lives there) you end up with 440,000. Or 3,375 in Chicago. Those are numbers you could work with and still have meaningful clans and things. And there are 12k police in Chicago, so I d...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 7:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: Vampire
- Replies: 601
- Views: 145589
A better example would probably be the NSA, which has at best estimates 30-60,000 people working directly for them, not counting the contractors. This is an organization paranoid over secrecy. Seriously, their newsletter discusses how to go out to lunch in order to not leak national secrets. They ha...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 2:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Request] Anatomy of Failed Design: The Werewolf Triat
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8683
I wonder how Werewolf would have gone down if they treated the Triad as a myth creation story. Like... One of the scenarios in Apocalypse was literally you went into the Umbra and saw the Wyrm flying around wrecking shit. The triad was literally something that the Garou *knew* existed. But what if ...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 2:32 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Request] Anatomy of Failed Design: The Werewolf Triat
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8683
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 4:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Request] Anatomy of Failed Design: The Werewolf Triat
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8683
I wonder how Werewolf would have gone down if they treated the Triad as a myth creation story. Like... One of the scenarios in Apocalypse was literally you went into the Umbra and saw the Wyrm flying around wrecking shit. The triad was literally something that the Garou *knew* existed. But what if i...
- Thu Apr 20, 2017 6:11 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [Request] Anatomy of Failed Design: The Werewolf Triat
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8683
- Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: oMage v. nMage
- Replies: 255
- Views: 83696
- Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:04 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Warhammer 40k RPGs, what's wrong with them?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6368
- Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:55 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Warhammer 40k RPGs, what's wrong with them?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6368
I ran a massive dark heresy campaign for 2 years. The system is way, way, way too fiddly for combat. Assemble a metric assload of modifiers of plus this and minus that, add to your BS (snicker) score, roll under. If you hit, reverse the number to look up damage location. Blah blah blah. 2 years of p...
- Thu Apr 06, 2017 10:34 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]In Soviet Russia, Cthulhu Eats You
- Replies: 34
- Views: 18558
http://www.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/thing-02.jpg Seriously, we're going full John Carpenter already? The amount of meta ignorance here from the original authors is truly impressive. See, The Thing From Another World, in it's 1951 glory, was quite fuck...
- Tue Mar 28, 2017 10:51 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 956789
- Wed Mar 15, 2017 10:55 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Paradox Buys White Wolf from CCP
- Replies: 316
- Views: 68212
- Tue Feb 21, 2017 5:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: TTRPGs designed to be used with virtual tabletops
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2275
Re: TTRPGs designed to be used with virtual tabletops
I'm curious, do you think as things like tablets and airbooks become more commonplace, do you think there will be more rpgs with systems that take advantage of the fact that players will likely be using digital dice? I mean most of my players already use digital character sheets rather than paper o...