Recent content by Raloc

I love the setting and book for Mage: The Dark Ages.

This may be slightly off topic, but you mentioned the gamey-ness of 4th ed a bit, so I thought I'd mention it anyway. I always felt it was really strange how 4e kind of abandoned the idea of abilities and especially spells that did things that were not 100% mechanical: damage or a condition...

Whoosh.

What I find amusing about the push to bring PC culture to new heights of restrictiveness is that the people buying into it seemingly don't even realize they're being manipulated...

I like the idea of making arcane spellcasting incur madness for this setting. I'd probably combine that with making ritual attempts modified by environment, as well as reducing the effectiveness of survival-enhancing spells in general. You could also throw in random conditions for the survival...

sabrinathecat - I think your ship could use some more geometric detail in the planking and such, and that would help bring it to the next level along with some of the texture scruffing you mentioned. Awesome work btw :)

Crafting in D&D not being fun always seemed to me to be a problem of approach. Most ways to do it were "Follow This Procedure, Instantaneously Gain Item". It should probably be more like a general outline than a series of rules follow. The way I did it when running a campaign that involved...

It might also be useful to give the OP tips on running an FR campaign in general. A lot of new DMs might find FR a bit intimidating for all the reasons that it can be a challenge to run - namely the huge amount of high powered NPCs and organizations. And while an easy way to get around that is...

Honestly that sounds like marketing speak to me - "terabytes of data" for a 30x17.5 FOV low resolution panel is a stretch to say the least. I seriously doubt it pushes even as many pixels as the older Oculus Rift dev kits - it's not some sort of mysterious "holographic processor" (that's...

How do you think that stuff is going to be rendered? By wizards? Hololens is basically a monitor, and all VR/AR applications require GPU due to having to render two viewports into the (VTT in your case) world - one for each eye. Here's where you're going off track :) The Hololens has zero...

Don't forget, that's just the device itself - you'd still need a decently hefty gaming PC to run it. Also, I have to say, having worked on VR for all of this past year, you're probably underestimating how annoying the tiny FOV window is. Supremely. It actually kind of ruins the entire point of...

Yeah, it's way smaller than you'd imagine. Personally I think it would be insanely distracting to have stuff disappearing out of the FOV constantly. Also, the Hololens, IIRC, is going to cost ~$1500. You'd be better off just buying a GearVR and slapping some cameras on it for passthrough.

Hate to burst the bubble on Hololens, but it has an unusably low FOV - 30x17.5. So only a tiny little window of your normal vision would have any 3D objects displayed, and they'd be cut off on a hard edge. Also, it's confirmed by MS to be a hard physical limit - FOV won't be improving for a...

And you don't think it's nefarious to treat citizens as little more than disposable resources to be marketed to, rather than performing their actual role, which is to provide services for said citizens. Psychological manipulation is not a useful service, except to fascists, and should not be...

Well it wasn't directed at you - more so at the perpetually-offended types that bandy around "cultural appropriation" as a serious problem, when it's largely them creating the problem in the first place. Not to mention how ridiculous it is that these people feel the need to "white knight" for...