Recent content by aramis erak

Rolling them on a foam surface gets the smaller sized ones rolling well enough... My dice trays are lined with 2mm foam.

In dungeons, you have carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide buildup - Towns can use gas lamps because the gas dissapates into the atmosphere. Dungeons are notoriously low airflow... well, except many of my homebrewed ones, where I do actively consider airflow. So, CO and CO2 buildup, Oxygen...

I understand just fine, and I think you've taken the analogy all wrong. Most play is primarily consumption. Most players are NOT doing high improv drama. (If they were, there'd be ZIP-ALL demand for Critical Role and other such.)

rejected as silliness, Maxperson.

Two Little Mice dropped the Twilight Sword beta on backers yesterday... Cooking rules are pretty cool. Yeah, I've read most of it and skimmed the rest already.

Cooking is not eating in the same way prep is not playing.

Wed Shadowdark Gryx Died, Long Live Zippy?

I am using chessex small glass beads... Black for fear in my pool and for player activation count (we use the limited actions sidebar)... and orange tiger-eyes for hits, blue tiger-eyes for stress. White frosted for Hope.

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.