Recent content by aramis erak

All roleplay is fantasy, not all settings are purely fantasy, but the moment you add PCs, it moves into being fantasy. Remember fantasy has two meanings within literary use: one is a technical term for anything that doesn't exist, the other for settings build around that conceit for the major...

Without looking at the list again, I can't be more specific, but the list is EXTREMELY board and computer focused... for example, RPGs have almost no 4X games, but do have romances, and 2X and 3X games (which 2 of the 4 X's vary; D&D tends to be explore and exterminate.)

Sometimes, the fiction demands failure. Sometimes, it allows for complicated success. Sometimes, it allows for non-blocking failures. Sometimes, it's just important to give the clue. Sometimes failure means, "Pick a different method to get the clue"... All of which are part of an investigation...

In my experience, almost always leads that way. It was explicitly for that No; it appeals to me, and resolution speed definitely isn't on my priority list. Ease of resolution, however, is, and in D&D 5, that was the single most attracktive element to me, with bounded accuracy being second. But...

I've met over a dozen Hmong named Chubaka/Chewbacca ... always in large families. It's apparently not gender specific.

To me, it means the GM doesn't want one abstracting. In my experience, it's been a cognate for "Shut down the mechanics thinking and roleplay, you «bleep»!" I've never seen it lead to good RP nor a good time. Not even the few times I've used it. I have seen it lead to player frustration...

tlingon-Hol, Sindarin, and Quenya. Sparingly, at that. There are a lot. One of the largest conlangs, and arguably the most successful, is Church Slavonic, which was created by averaging the Balto-Slavic languages. I have much exposure to it from Church.

There's a reason I have a 20 page names book (digest sized) for L5R... most of which are well documented as actual japanese names. I have a similar (but smaller) one each for Pendragon and for LotR.

That worked. I'll note that the genre list is pretty weak.

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Not entirely; there's the "PDFs are software" element, too. That's where a large part of the Disney restrictions were blamed on. (PostScript is a turing complete programming language, which just happens to be optimized for drawing on paper... and PDF is a container for post-script and a variety...

Magical Land of Yeld draws a lot of elements from Narnia; it then applies a good dose of Final Fantasy to it.

No, it's not super weird. Unusual, yes. See, Star Wars is also so restricted... and it's arguably the largest licensed property in the industry. Lots of pirate PDFs... including all editions. It's a lack of understanding of the changing marketplace. The transformation in the last 20 years has...

The things I think typify neotrad are Fully build characters by choices, not fortune. Provisions for cheating death of a PC. GM centric play formalized mechanics intended to be used Things I see concomitant but not at all definitive (but are definitive for not being Trad): metacurrency fine...

Wed Dragonbane Party mostly dead. What's next?