Recent content by Staffan

I always thought man-eating halflings were just an extension of the "normal" halfling fondness for food. "Normal" dwarves love work, so Dark Sun dwarves are bonded to their work to the point where they can become undead if they abandon it unfinished. Elves are a bit flighty, so Dark Sun elves...

She's also Australian IIRC, and I don't see why anyone would voluntarily move from AU to the US. She has done some promo work for MCDM (mostly in the forms of Q&As with staff but she was also a player in their playthrough of the Delian Tomb) though.

IIRC, Star Trek Adventures specifically calls out that most adventures would start with the PCs approaching a planet or weird phenomenon, and they should have the opportunity for some easy scanning rolls (Reason + Science, assisted by the ship's Sensors + Science) specifically to build Momentum...

Hmm, that lunatic comment reminds me of something. In the Path to Carcosa campaign for Arkham Horror LCG, one of the themes of the campaign revolves around whether the things you experience are real or not, and in particular one of the scenarios takes place in an asylum. In the original version...

PF2 has lots of monsters who lose a lot of power if they lose one action. Many have two-action attacks, or a one-action attack with a rider that uses up another action. Removing one action means the monster can't move and also do one of these. Some even have three-action attacks, like a...

GM metacurrency is both a limit and an enabler for the GM: You're allowed and encouraged to screw the PCs over this much, but no more. It can also be useful as a limiter on various NPC abilities – in D&D something like a dragon's breath has a random recharge, but in 2d20 it would instead require...

The original printing of the 5e PHB had some rather unflattering descriptions of half-orcs, and under the heading "The Mark of Gruumsh" said, among other things: "Half-orcs are not evil by nature, but evil does lurk within them, whether they embrace it or rebel against it." There was also this...

Not with that attitude you can't!

I expect Tigris is talking about RPG progress clocks as popularized by Blades in the Dark and described at this link, not mechanical clocks.

I think a lot of people enjoy crafting aspects of various video games and try to translate those things into RPGs. But they work very differently on a fundamental level. Primarily, video game crafting is often about finding crafting materials. In many cases, this is something done semi-passively...

One should not need protective gear to step outside one's domicile.

I'm sure it is. Selling lottery tickets is usually a good way of making money, moreso when you can outsource the payouts to the customers themselves.

I'm pretty sure I've posted it here before, but Matt Colville has a pretty good video on the topic: Basically, the secret sauce seems to be: Create a community. This can either be done from scratch or by being part of a larger community and budding off from that one. Cultivate the community...

See, that's the kind of thing I dislike. I mean, I'm happy you got a honeymoon off a Black Lotus, but to me speculative trading is inherently a bad thing and particularly so with things that are supposed to be for fun. I would love if Wizards switched over to an LCG model with Magic instead –...