Recent content by GMMichael

So, you're the luckiest GM ever? Congratulations! Yeah, sounds like an ideal market. They show up right on time, with paper and pencil, at least one rule book, and slightly betrunken. At least, that's how I show up.

Alternate title: medieval infantry training. I should link this to the "immersion" thread . . . And here I thought I had maximum respect for Sean Bean. It just went up. Oh, a throwing spear? Javelin, perhaps? If my troupe leader told me I have to carry two dexter weapons, I'd start...

Immersion is when the players say, "remember when you shoved your polearm up the rot-wampster's butt," instead of saying "remember when we were playing D&D and you rolled that nat 20?" Or it's whenever this guy starts talking: It occurs to me that one reason I don't like the typical actual...

It's a tradeoff. You can have 100% chance of detecting traps, but then you move slowly and don't detect enemies. The other end of the spectrum is 0% chance of detecting traps, and just hoping you don't walk into one, while being ready for battle and avoiding pursuers. A realistic system would...

I'll bid against Nimble given that its homepage has at least two typos and three of my least favorite RPG terms. However, it has great art, a tiny character sheet, and nice 5e streamlining that probably warrant a one-off trial when you have a Shadowdark session that's short on players.

Don't forget about zombie parents! Or demonic ones. Anyone remember these?

Prior post was an April Fool's joke, BTW. Not the funniest, I guess. It's actually a cheat sheet for the RPG Maker combat system. I took a step back and realized that I was missing the writing mark: make the game play as simple as possible, but more readable than the rules. I posted some...

Is the new goal to be the first one out? Seems more achievable . . . But yeah, I've heard it several times PRIOR to December. I even watched "Last Christmas." So hopefully the die pre-rolls will pay off.

What about when the game steps in to cover for player lack of skill? (Maybe the answer to the OP is, "what the designers say is strictly for the players.") I.e. D&D increases wizard hit dice and allows them to spontaneously choose spells. Opportunity attacks are the designer's way of saying...

The same thing we do every year, Pinky . . . It's a little early to resolve, but I should probably get a CRPG demo out. Full game is wishful thinking.

It's a trap! I think this thread is trying to catch people from the "We Don't Need Thieves" thread contradicting themselves. So I'll just step on the panel . . . Bad idea. That's what the trap maker wants you to do. How about failing within a margin of one's competence bonuses? Or hearing...

My big takeaway was that each person doesn't get younger/older, relative to each other. Alice ages more. But yes, I guess Alice had the longer proper time path, which is why she aged more. A "true rest" isn't needed to objectively determine who did more aging/whose clock ticked longer. In...

Sabine Hossenfelder says they're not actually paradoxes. And that the faster moving/accelerating person is the one who takes the longer path through "proper time." "Tom," coincidentally. What I won't be figuring out tonight is whether each of MoonSong's car occupants can watch each other's...

I knew ENWorld was cool, but I didn't know that Facebook is that bad. I guess I could have assumed as much about Xwitter. Thanks for participating, and for helping me appreciate ENworld even more!