Recent content by Oryzarius

I do acting and directing in community theatre productions, with a local specialty in Shakespeare. I enjoy the aspects of creating a character and filling in the details of a plot, which obviously resemble many of the core activities in some RPGs. I'm a fan of early music (which, yes, links to...

Are you saying that the idea of dwarven cavalry is unbearable...?

Found this while digging through my library the other day....

No, you don't. Fourth edition did away with third edition's age-related cap on skill points and increased the cost of attributes, both of which changes would, if anything, encourage spending more points on skills. If the materials you have deal with high-point-level, cinematic settings, then...

I'm an experienced GURPS 4e player and referee, and that sentence sounds like gibberish to me. Are you sure you know what you're talking about?

How do your fantasy farmers grow crops without a sun? Do you basically just have a surface Underdark, where fantastic mushrooms make up the basis of every diet?

Dare I ask why? They continue to produce new titles: both reprints of older games and fresh newcomers. And GURPS still has regular new releases and a devoted (albeit small) fan base.

Why would it? You might as well ask whether it would change to The Fantasy Trip, or rules from Munchkin cards, or the mechanics of Ninja Burger.

Gygax had some vile attitudes by modern standards, undoubtedly. But level-limits could also be seen as a game-balance mechanic, to give humans an edge since they lacked the special abilities of the other races. Later designers did it much better, but that doesn't mean Gygax, in this specific...

Heck, Gygax put in level limits just to keep the demi-humans in check and encourage human PCs.

Demography is dangerous, because it leads straight into economics, and that way madness lies. In the classical period, 90% of the population were farmers: so, to balance your fantasy-Rome of a million inhabitants, now you need nine million peasants involved in feeding it. If you have an orc...

I'd agree with a Libram of Expansion or something of the sort, offering an assortment of genre guides, practical advice, rules tweaks, and a few campaign options or monster variants for various different kinds of campaigns that people might want to try. How do you expand on Bastions to do...

That'd be tenet. A four-tenant oath would be a four-plex. Or a double-occupancy duplex.

GURPS WWII: Prep infiltrating a grand party.