Recent content by Nobby-W

It's certainly not impossible, although I feel this sort of thing gets into diminishing returns fairly quickly and (IMO) matters less than a lot of folks might think. To take Traveller as an example, you could set a sandbox game somewhere in the Third Imperium or generate a sandbox using the...

I think that's pretty much the best way to do this sort of thing. You also end up with something that feels lived in. Quite often lore written in isolation has a sterile feel to it.

I feel a lot of world builders fall into the trap of making too much mid-level canon, for example, detailed histories or setting notes about cultures. It might feel like fleshing out a world but in practice a lot of that sort of work never really informs actual play, sitting a couple of degrees...

But what if the high elves get the munchies?

Are you running games through Roll20 or some such?

They did the production and publication work for Blades In The Dark and Scum and Villainy - there's no intrinsic reason why they should be tied to FATE, and the terms of the PbtA IP certainly don't preclude its use in this way. More power to them.

I dream of that.

World building is useful if it produces things your players will interact with. I've seen plenty of settings - including some famous ones you've probably heard of - that have a whole load of lore, history, military dispositions and other background that's several degrees of separation removed...

Hiking in Europe is quite a different experience from hiking in (say) New Zealand. If you go on a hike in much of Europe you're mostly walking between settled areas. A lot of Western Europe doesn't have much in the way of tracts of wilderness big enough to take more than a day to cross - at...

Something like that. Smart, funny and completely sociopathic.

You missed the best parts about the Kea, also known as the South Island Alpine Psycho Parrot - Kea eating sheep alive - kea eating sheep - Google Search Kea eating police car - Kea setting up road blocks - WATCH: Hilarious moment clever parrots set up road blocks to get fed Kea gangs...

FATE with the D6-D6 dice mechanic variant?

I think this one is my favourite.

Currently my resolution is 2560x1600 and I may stick with this for a while as I have a couple of older thinkpads that won't support 4k. I'm thinking of getting an ultra-wide 3840x1600 screen, though, but this will have to wait a little while as it will require turning over my laptops to get...

Cats love to play with their food, it's really quite cruel. Back when I were a wee lad, we got lots of half-eaten baby rabbits presented to us by our darling moggies, many still alive but with their ears partially chewed off. We loved our cats to bits, but the rabbits were strictly outside...