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- Thu Jul 19, 2012 4:20 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: When should you say "Roll initiative"?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 9044
- Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:08 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: When should you say "Roll initiative"?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 9044
Characters should have the agency to start acting in 'combat time' (rounds) at any point they like. It's usually just a formality that can be ignored, but it makes a few game elements just work better, without any real downside. That's not the same as rolling initiative. If the incoming dragon does...
- Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:28 pm
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: [Tome] Icewright
- Replies: 40
- Views: 23852
- Sat Jun 30, 2012 10:04 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Did Bo9S's popularity doom 4th Edition D&D?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 22886
I would assume this is due to Book of 9 Swords having at least some moves that aren't total shit, combined with having much less to live up to as a mere sourcebook rather than an entire edition. Sort of like how Pathfinder is less well received than 3.5 despite not being a whole lot worse as a produ...
- Fri Jun 29, 2012 1:21 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: TTRPGs and Anti-Hero Fail.
- Replies: 76
- Views: 13267
Re: TTRPGs and Anti-Hero Fail.
But if they're supposed to enjoy the anti-heroes exploits, they pretty much have to believe that there is something redeeming about him that makes him 'winning' a better option than 'losing'. Because if he's the BBEG and he's slaughtering virtuous heroes, it gets old after a while, and not very man...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Modern day gritty system
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3309
Speaking as a wilfully ignorant fanboy, beyond the mechanics not actually giving much help for social combat, the fact that reading d100 as 2d10 is even more potentially confusing than it sounds, and the limits of d100 roll under, have I missed any gaping holes in Unknown Armies? Well, that and the...
- Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:55 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Modern day gritty system
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3309
Speaking as a wilfully ignorant fanboy, beyond the mechanics not actually giving much help for social combat, the fact that reading d100 as 2d10 is even more potentially confusing than it sounds, and the limits of d100 roll under, have I missed any gaping holes in Unknown Armies? Well, that and the ...
- Sat Apr 28, 2012 1:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Most D&D Clerics are polytheists
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1783
- Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:48 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Getting around the obsolete ability clogging problem.
- Replies: 257
- Views: 21742
O...K. you realize that every single thing that takes a long time by definition has been segregated into non combat, right? And that by conceding that anything in the game takes a long time, that you have in fact abandoned the pretense that we don't have to segregate the non-combat powers. No Frank...
- Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:06 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: An RPG Significantly Worse Than FATAL
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10629
- Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:14 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What people want and what makes them happy rarely coincide.
- Replies: 975
- Views: 82566
- Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:29 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is with the entitlement? (shadzar stay out)
- Replies: 774
- Views: 66807
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 1:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Are metagame abilities good?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2115
- Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:56 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Goetic Physics
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1795
- Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Goetic Physics
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1795
- Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:34 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Intentionally giving people metagame abilities.
- Replies: 126
- Views: 23031
The enemy cleric is an NPC. Maybe I'm speaking from the point of view of the fucking God he worships. How is a cleric's god able to do a damn thing about meta game abilities possessed by the player as opposed to the player character ? It doesn't matter, Fighter abilities do not get to change what t...
- Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:27 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What are the main mechanical problems of Werewolf the Apoc.?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 5378
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:50 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Making D&D morality less repulsive.
- Replies: 459
- Views: 44317
Fixed that for ya. Go play any super-hero RPG, even if you're using lethal weapons, the guys are assumed to be alive even after you win, and you have to do something differently in order to kill them off. Ever wonder why Leonardo never cut through Shredder's mid-section and spilled out his guts? Th...
- Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:49 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Making D&D morality less repulsive.
- Replies: 459
- Views: 44317
- Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:38 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cyberpunk Fantasy Heartbreaker
- Replies: 970
- Views: 151322
Insect Spirits, Imps , Shedim, the Scourge, and the Blood Mage Gestalt are Shadowrun IP and have to be dropped. Emphasis mine. There must be something about the Shadowrun setting I'm missing here. How the death do you copyright Imps? Not actually a Shadowrun player, but worth mentioning the name Sh...
- Sun May 29, 2011 6:36 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Constructing a D&D cartoon.
- Replies: 278
- Views: 50106
- Sat May 28, 2011 3:06 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Constructing a D&D cartoon.
- Replies: 278
- Views: 50106
- Thu May 19, 2011 10:54 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The definitive notion of Magical Tea Party
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6553
every game is MTP which is why the use of it as a negative is so amusing coming from you people As a negative? How so? MTP is the default for all RPGs. We fall back on it again and again. But, as has been pointed out numerous times, MTP sucks at resolving player conflicts and at being fair. The who...
- Thu May 19, 2011 8:53 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Redoing the level of blasting spells
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7733
EL 1 force being the enemy or the party? Given that a level 0 wand costs more at market price than starting wealth for a 1st level character, the players shouldn't be starting with that shit. Offhand, worst case plausible scenario is someone point-buying up to 18 then playing a +2 Charisma race for ...
- Tue May 03, 2011 10:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: If all you want to do is dungeon crawl, stay mid-level.
- Replies: 94
- Views: 10917
...Never seen a damn thing in 3.5, or in 4E, that states any sort of assumption that your levelling up requires anything more or less than that you go out and kill things. And if you do need to train to get the XP working, then so what? You just add that to the training regime of the NPCs, they are ...