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one of my biggest inspirations for writing an car based rpg isn't an rpg, but rather a silly video game. Death Road to Canada I think this modified version of oregon trail is a near perfect model for something that has never been done well in rpgs: The Road Trip. You travel across the...

What are the best rpgs that can be used to play car wars on the market, besides, well car wars? I want to bone up and see what works and what doesn't. also anything to keep in mind when balence the person and the car so neither feels extraneous?

For all their prominence in traditional history, Monasteries/Nunneries seem to be completely regulated to at best mock kung fu temples and often ignored. The fact that these locations were wealth generators and religious sites of potential magics, how would you use them in your game? also how...

Watching the Flintstones and what do they mean by atomic arrow and why does it worry me?

https://breadthofpopsanity.blogspot.com/2024/04/left-4-ape-apes-vs-zombies.html This is a fairly small setting, but think it would be fun to show off. Not sure what to do with it, open to suggestions.

Would fallout76 make a better tabletop rpg sandbox? I think the map is fantastic and there are some great stories that would be fun to interact with, but when you get there, they have already played out. I think it would be a much better world to set your game during the scorch ascendency era...

Ooh the Juggernaut <Censored>. I wonder if there is a 5e version of them? I wonder how their navy would work. Would they be able to float stone boats, wood, or do that ice with sawdust trick during ww2? Also which aquatic creatures would be trainable?

Ha I could also see a tank being essentially plates on a triceratops and with a catapult. :D

yet another brainstorming thread for my gneiss city world I started watching the flintstones and well ... how would modern warfare look like in such a world? Infantry? Cavalry? Artillery? Air Force? and anything else you can think of.

This has always been a problem with heroes with flaws. I love GURPS I love Champions I love Savage worlds. but it always feels like the metagame is to take disadvantages to maximize points and not have them actually come up. seen too many optimization in these systems that just suck the wind...

yeah, I just did some cross comparison and I'll post a few here, but I'm not seeing any patterns what so ever: I'll start with the Baslisk: Here's a comparison of the basilisk from "Flee Mortals" to the 5e Monster Manual version: Armor Class: "Flee Mortals": 15 (natural armor) 5e Monster...

okay whose used Flee Mortals! and how? I keep looking at it to redesign my monsters, but feels like a serious can of worms. Is there a coles notes version for converting or building? It might be in the book, but I keep bouncing off it.

let me tweak that. my original goal for this universe was that most superpowers are genetic are in nature and have happened throughout history, but the gene mapping project allowed it to be done consistently, with the first of this in 2005 essentially creating a meta "baby boom." My headcannon...

agreed. I'm a sucker for a bit of randomness in superpowers, but it has to be balanced so you don't roll up a character that is unplayable. I'm thinking archetypes (ex. Brick, Blaster, Mentalist) with a random mutation table for flavor?

Cheap genomes https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/spark-239-1.2848083/cheap-genomes-1.2848084 Marine scientists collect genetic material in the Salish Sea to study whales https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1.7160433 Quirks and Quarks has long been my inspiration for all things science. edit: ooh just...

Okay can i get any and all gene editing extrapolations that, with a little tweaking, could be used for superpowers? Mostly looking for real news stories that could be exaggerated, but also your own musings of the limit of the genome for abilities? Ex. I am thinking a superhero that draws on...

yeah it hit every one of my nostalgic buttons and agree with the methodology, but trying to figure out a quick and dirty way to convert my monsters over to using this model (because, whoa Nelly, I have done a stupid amount of monsters and even starting the process is a daunting task). I really...