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rmcoen reacted to Jeffzilla's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with
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Fair point-- not arguing against you-- but my take is that The Expanse's fantasy elements don't negate its attention to real-world... -
rmcoen reacted to Von Ether's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
The answer is the same as it always has been, navies and armies conduct their missions with the technology they have at hand. On that...
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rmcoen reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Sooo much of this. In a world with guns, we still have knife fights. In a world with airplanes, we still have submarines. In a world...
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rmcoen reacted to practicalm's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Carriers go back to Traveller's Battle Riders. Which makes the tenders strategic targets. Biologicals really shouldn't be in space...
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rmcoen reacted to Sossij's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
In fact, the range of any spaceborne weapon is effectively "infinite" barring detection ranges and evasive maneuvers. The book...
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rmcoen reacted to lewpuls's post in the thread Worlds of Design: The Problem with Space Navies, Part 1 with Like.
Picture courtesy of Pixabay. A Change of Space When I write a Worlds of Design column about worldbuilding I usually think in terms of...
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rmcoen replied to the thread What makes a successful superhero game?.I've played in four "SH" campaigns. one V&V, two Champions, and one M&M. (don't know the editions of any of them, sorry). The V&V...
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Well, if i was citizen of Gotham, i would be pretty pissed at Batman not snuffing out Joker ( and couple of others) once and for all...
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rmcoen reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread What makes a successful superhero game? with Like.
For a more Watsonian explanation, its also extremely questionable that the tolerance for superheroic vigilantism would continue if they...
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rmcoen reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread What makes a successful superhero game? with Like.
I'm not convinced that a successful superhero game has to represent all power levels, from Hawkeye to Galactus. A lot of painful...
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Though that's one way to do it, it's not the only way and not an absolute. One of my favorite games doesn't follow that paradigm and...
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rmcoen reacted to Theory of Games's post in the thread What makes a successful superhero game? with Like.
People throw around Superman but let's be real: most ttrpgs don't let you create anyone as powerful as Kal-El. He can literally move...
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Designer of Simple Superheroes #0 here. I'm currently running sessions of the in-development variant Supervillains Unleashed. As many...
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I think the two most important are lots of choices for creating a character, and balance. For any TTRPG, balance seems like an obvious...
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rmcoen reacted to Gorgon Zee's post in the thread What makes a successful superhero game? with Like.
Well, you can always mechanically balance a system by introducing a meta-currency. Example: Take any system and add a currency "story...
