Recent content by aramis erak

Sun L5R 5e... Oxen, Falcons, Merchants, travel... Fun!

I've replicated his dice stacking with armory vs GS dice... the height difference for d10's was interesting - not as dramatic as his d20's, but they aren't truly fair. But then, I did the stats on many of my dice just for S&Gs...

And yet, non-casino dice are notoriously uneven. Gamings most even dice still have minor flaws. (See Lou Zocchi's diatribe on it)... most commercial gaming dice are uneven and unfair; there was a big row about 2006 about GW's d6's being notably unfair using a chi² test of fit. Every box of d6...

Most of the big name companies' space opera games... including Traveller (GDW/IG/Mongoose), Space Opera (FGU), Star Wars (WEG — in GG6 — and FFG — EotE core rules), Alternity (TSR), Web of Stars (Web Games), ALIENS RPG (Leading Edge), ALIEN (Free League), Coriolis: The Third Horizon (Free...

There are a handful that are not intended for play, but can be played anyway. Apparently HōL was not intended for play — it's barely legible, and only marginally playable — it's intent was parody first, playability second, or so I've read. And trying to read it, my impression was play was...

L5R 5e moved rings to being narrative approaches... but 5 different sets; one per category of skills: artisan approaches, martial approaches, Scholarly approaches, social approaches, and trade approaches. Makes the choice of ring easier to make. So Air Ring is defensive movement in martial...

I catalogue ordered from Gamescience several times. Always a good experience.

The Temp/Potential is realistic to a point, and kind of assumes a younger start than we think of today... but it's cumbersome. I found averageing three stats realistic but cumbersome - hence the spreadsheet. Automatic calculations makes RM so much more playable. Especially with modern, "Blank...

Front-loaded complexity. I made it playable in the 90's by using spreadsheets on my Apple II. (And no, I don't still have them.)

In FKR, it depends upon the agreed conventions. And the GM's honesty. In most RPGs, largely, tho' I've had players using lore I didn't know a whit about to shape their decisions in D&DAL...

Rolemaster plays pretty damned well - two tables for 90% or more of non-combat actions (Moving Maneuver and Static Maneuver tables)... and if the GM is well organized, even combat snaps along.

On board a target ship, trying to recover the logs. "I blow the airlock to suck the Xenomorph out" Xenomorph easily passes the roll to not be blown out. tries again a few minutes later... after a chestburster joins the scene... "I blow the airlock and let go" - the Xenomoph Drone stays pat, the...

Being the first to drop a nuke renders it no longer meaningful. But, generally, the solution is a joint blitzkrieg against the homeland by all the other players. If you win, you get to argue over the supply center and its nuke; if you lose, they're going to drop it.

It's a large difference in degree. Adding touchpoints seriously trims the outcome tree.

Wizards are straightforward in DH. Druids and Rangers are the most complex. And neither is very complex.