Recent content by Paul Farquhar

You have to make it psychological if you want the players to care. If players cared about their character death Super Mario would have an R rating.

Plenty of magitech in Baldur’s Gate 3. And lots of setting-agnostic WotC adventures.

True, but since we aren’t medieval, it’s not so glaringly obvious.

That’s why WotC use magitech in all their settings. They avoid the complexity of the real world.

All of them. You create a world, the players are going to want to interact with it.

That’s why superhero rulesets are so useful. They cover all the bases. But this is about D&D, so it has rules for magic. What it would need is rules for all the real world stuff.

Games that are set in the real world have rules for that stuff. They colour to the edges.

It’s all edges and very little middle.

Magitech works well in D&D and doesn’t need extra rules. And you can still tell stories that are culturally modern. The first adventure in Keys from the Golden Vault features a heist from a modern looking museum (complete with animatronic dinosaur) during a swanky American-style fundraising...

It doesn’t matter if it’s likely to succeed or not. Players are going to try it, because it’s the sort of thing that happens in stories set in the real world. And if the players want to do something, you are going to want to have rules to determine if it works or not. You might be able to wing...

If I remember, she traveled to Eternia by spaceship, and Adam is born and raised on Eternia.

The original movie? Orko was too deemed expensive to do the FX for in 1987. He isn't separate from the rest of the IP. Budget was also the reason for using mostly real world settings plus one interior Castle Greyskull set.

Yep, when I temporally moved an AD&D party into the real world back in 1st edition days, I converted the party to a superhero ruleset (Golden Heroes) rather than try to use AD&D rules in the real world. And it worked really well, I was pretty accurately able to reproduce the PC's abilities...

Half em vee squared. A pickup has many times the the kinetic energy of a wooden cart - around 50 times at a rough estimate. And it’s higher speed makes it harder to avoid. Because the real modern world is familiar in a way that a fantasy setting is not, the players will be familiar with the...

How fast is the pickup? How much damage does it do if I ram it into the dragon?