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Gary Gygax wrote:The player’s path to role-playing mastery begins with a thorough understanding of the rules of the game
Bigode wrote:I wouldn't normally make that blanket of a suggestion, but you seem to deserve it: scroll through the entire forum, read anything that looks interesting in term of design experience, then come back.
FrankTrollman wrote: Halfling women, as I'm sure you are aware, combine all the "fun" parts of pedophilia without any of the disturbing, illegal, or immoral parts.
K wrote:That being said, the usefulness of airships for society is still transporting cargo because it's an option that doesn't require a powerful wizard to show up for work on time instead of blowing the day in his harem of extraplanar sex demons/angels.
Chamomile wrote: See, it's because K's belief in leaving generation of individual monsters to GMs makes him Chaotic, whereas Frank's belief in the easier usability of monsters pre-generated by game designers makes him Lawful, and clearly these philosophies are so irreconcilable as to be best represented as fundamentally opposed metaphysical forces.
Whipstitch wrote:You're on a mad quest, dude. I'd sooner bet on Zeus getting bored and letting Sisyphus put down the fucking rock.
Yeah, my experience matches this pretty closely.Red_Rob wrote:Honestly, when it comes to a good OSSR the most important thing for me is the reviewer having a good knowledge and interest in the material - being able to tell interesting stories about events surrounding the book, or it's effect on the in-game universe, or behind-the-scenes talk about the creators and how that affected what went on the page all make for fascinating reading. The subject is honestly pretty secondary, I've never read half the books OSSR'd here and probably never will. But an interesting take on the material makes it worth reading anyway.
virgil wrote:Lovecraft didn't later add a love triangle between Dagon, Chtulhu, & the Colour-Out-of-Space; only to have it broken up through cyber-bullying by the King in Yellow.
FrankTrollman wrote:If your enemy is fucking Gravity, are you helping or hindering it by putting things on high shelves? I don't fucking know! That's not even a thing. Your enemy can't be Gravity, because that's stupid.
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
You're being a little generous. I've never met two people who think that Spontaneous casting works the same way. The guidelines aren't much use when we get away from simple shit like inflicting damage. Even simple bullshit like "I want to grow a horn out of his head." Is that "Muto" or "Rego?" Keep in mind that horns are made of the same material as fingernails, and it is biologically possible for keratin to start growing in a different place than the ends of your fingers.Laertes wrote:I'd be interested to see that too. I have a massive amount of respect for Ars Magica's system (it actually... wait for it... works) and would be interested to see what people here make of it.
Because the different methods determine what your bonus is on the die roll to do it, and you're doing it "spontaneously," so you have to convince your "storyguide" that your preferred (that is, best bonus) method of pulling off an effect is valid in the middle of the action.Meikle641 wrote:Why shouldn't an effect be reproducible with different methods, though?
But that's completely wrong. FATE's basics allow a lot of player freedom and it's generally well received here.silva wrote:Laertes, word of advice:
Frank (and a bunch of other Denners) abhominates the kind of "creativity-promoting" rules seen in games like Ars Magika, Mage, Amber, Over the Edge, etc. If a rule gives any amount of creativity freedom to players regarding game effects, its considered shit around these parts. Its a stylistic preference as any other, but he will try to convince you this opinion of his is some objective truth or something.
Be advised.
FrankTrollman wrote: Halfling women, as I'm sure you are aware, combine all the "fun" parts of pedophilia without any of the disturbing, illegal, or immoral parts.
K wrote:That being said, the usefulness of airships for society is still transporting cargo because it's an option that doesn't require a powerful wizard to show up for work on time instead of blowing the day in his harem of extraplanar sex demons/angels.
Chamomile wrote: See, it's because K's belief in leaving generation of individual monsters to GMs makes him Chaotic, whereas Frank's belief in the easier usability of monsters pre-generated by game designers makes him Lawful, and clearly these philosophies are so irreconcilable as to be best represented as fundamentally opposed metaphysical forces.
Whipstitch wrote:You're on a mad quest, dude. I'd sooner bet on Zeus getting bored and letting Sisyphus put down the fucking rock.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.
