Recent content by aramis erak

Most games with metacurrency have multiple... Then again, XP/AP are metacurrency, even tho' most don't think of it as such. HP also are on the border of metacurrency, especially when defined as AD&D did. 2d20 has momentum (PC)/Threat(GM), and a third, which varies by setting...

over 11,000 last time I checked the RPGGeek.com database of RPGs, and I'm knocking a thousand plus off for being new editions.

Classic Traveller is a common example of early RPG styles. The thing is, I've seen how Marc intended play to go, and it doesn't support "The answer isn't on your sheet"... nor "The answer is always on your sheet." But lots of people, quite erroneously, think it's one extreme or the other...

No, not "Oops!"... more like "Bazinga!" it's gotten egagment and discussion. To a very small segment, at that. Some of the most creative play I've seen was "How do I make this work for us here?" based upon an ability. e.g.: D&D 5e's Out of the Abyss, I had a player with an elemental monk...

I don't like dragons as kaiju, myself, but they'd be doable. My preferred dragons are Pterodraconis sapiens, from Castle Falkenstein, second choice being the Earthsea ones. But my players seem to prefer The Hobbit's Smaug. And I'll note that Earthsea's dragons are frightfully dangerous...

The commentary implied that it was a weapon of last resort, and the Deutches Polezei (sp?) typically shot in the face, rather than center of mass. A one shot kill is often a one-shot stop. And the thinnest parts of the skull are the eye sockets...

Dragonlance is a series of novels, supposedly initially based upon the authors' campaign, which was then ported to be AD&D1 adventures (DL series), then an AD&D1 worldbook. Then, there's the Dragonlance Fifth Age (DL5A) - which is a card driven game, player facing mechanics. It came out in the...

My local officemax has 1/4" and 1" as routine in-stock items.

While true, I was referring to non-computer classroom role play...

As an FYI, there are both presentation pads and desk blotters with squaregrids, in 1", 1/2", and 1/4", commonly available. alternate terms for presentation pads: chart pads, easel pads, flip chart paper

I generally use PDF, so I print the page to measure accurately, then poster-print them at a suitable scale to be table use size - that said, I use 1/2" squares, and most maps in adventures I've used are 1/5", 1/4", 1/2", 5mm, or 10mm... and I'm aiming for 12.7mm. 1/5 is 250%, 1/4 is 200%, 1/2...

I started with AD&D 1e... A lot of claims about the old school playstyles are wrong about the late 70's on... starting with Frank Chadwick's 1975 En Garde! (Sold off around 1980, and currently owned by Margam-Evans.) Tho' EG! is often considered to be a non-RPG... it's part of Traveller's...

The shooting last month was at 4-5m based upon the reporting. I forget how they grouped the ranges, but yeah, 1/6 at the 10m mark is ringing as familiar. Real life shooting is low hit rates. The one-shot stop and one-shot kill data by round size are also interesting. A .32 ACP being the...

There are a few hundred concepts shared across most languages in smaller or greater part; since English lures other languages into dark alleys and mugs them for vocabulary... The Dolch word lists are a great start point for English users to focus on common concepts...

Didn't encounter that in play until the 90's; I started playing in 81.