Recent content by practicalm

Did your DM say no to your completely reasonable homebrew character class? Are you trapped in a dungeon and unable to take a long rest? Have you experienced being hit by a critical attack? You may be entitled to compensation.

I think using an outdated hierarchy of state progression isn't helpful in world building. I prefer to think about it as how a state is governed (monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, etc), how the economy is structured (apprenticeship, guilds, factories, etc), and how society is stratified (hereditary...

Seems like it would be better to invest in a 3D food printer (link to Food Printer Reviews) and use existing models to make your own than to use molds. Now I want to build chocolate dungeon tiles with gummy miniatures.

You might want to grab GURPS War Against the Cthorr for some handy apocalypse themes. Reign of Steel might help too.

I've tried a couple of different approaches and either I don't have a large enough pool of players or they don't realize I'm serious about the style of game I'm trying to create. I create summary descriptions of the games I'm willing to run. I discuss what the player goals should be and I try...

Try this https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/planet-names.php Probably isn't completely what you are looking for but there are a lot of other options on the site

The tone of the AI companion from The Culture novel "The Player of Games" is nicely sarcastic. If the AI is trying to stay hidden, then it should turn its core into a honey pot and convince the players there is something they want on it and they need to get it to their ship. It would be...

I don't get this at all. The 80s had a wide variety of games published and some of those systems are still running today. Then the late 90s and early 2000s had a large number of independent games targeting different styles of play. I think it's always been bad having one company dominate the...

The other trick is you could have traveling encumbrance and then fighting encumbrance where you drop your treasure while fighting. That makes it even harder for players to retreat but it does give something for the enemy to do, run and steal the player's packs.

The tricky thing about GURPS combat between skilled sword fighters is they can last many rounds as they each try to get past their parry skills. Which isn't really fun. Feints, situational terrain, or teaming up is needed to fight a skilled enemy. I like the situation of having weapons where...

If you are going to twist the language to abuse this disadvantage then there won't be a way to stop you from abusing anything written down. Cash on hand doesn't have to mean in their physical possession. Should count savings, bank accounts.

My great uncle lives in a town called Mountain Top in PA The whole area is lower elevation than the california state university east bay where I was at school. East coast people have a different definition of mountain.

While I think Netflix is still good for most people, I recently canceled my subscription because of my experience in trying to add my son as an extra user on my account. Add in that I actually was using their DVD service for shows that I couldn't get through the other services I have access to...

This is misinterpreting the Greed disadvantage significantly. The text says when riches are offered. Not when money is offered for anything. And it's relative to your wealth level so there is clear room on the amount of money that would indicate riches to someone. And it specifically calls...

I've had my online handle for a long time and in many discords in voice that's how I'm referred because we don't dox people with their real names unless everyone in the group agrees. When our discord server had a physical meet up people would still refer to me by my online handle because that's...