Recent content by Umbran

As I understand it, that's not necessary in the case I'm talking about. IIRC, the Nook app on Android stores ebooks in normal, DRM-free epub format. It just stores them in a directory that is hidden from standard Android users. Indeed, even if I needed Caliber to convert the book, I couldn't...

Folks, I get the point, but making it personal is apt to lead to this discussion degrading.

Well, we are pretty close, honestly. Right now, with one bog-standard android tablet I can have a Kindle app, a Nook app, a Kobo app, and Libby. Functionally, I pay different people, but it is one device for all my reading needs. That's agnostic enough. This falls apart for e-ink screen...

I will come back to this in a moment.... It isn't entirely clear to me what you mean by "functional roleplay", but I'll try to work with this, regardless.... This seems highly inconsistent. A moment ago, you said that folks over-rate how impactful systems are, and you don't put the system...

The problem with that assertion is that the GM's "whim" is present, regardless. I am pointing out that whether that whim is exerted at the time of making up a table of outcomes, or in the moment, is not relevant. It is still "whim". That you externalize the model onto paper, or run it...

I think you'll notice that nobody had to ask anything.

That's not an accurate description of what happens. What happens is that the player rolls well enough, and grabs the cup that others didn't particularly notice and wasn't explicitly described before. We, as GMs do NOT generally describe scenes in excruciating detail. We give rough sketches...

Right. Because I couldn't possibly have been making a direct reference to those current events myself. :/

Reviews for books that were never written would be easier...

This thread is not about WotC. Please keep it on topic. If you want to complain about WotC, make your own thread for the purpose. Thanks.

I think there is something... maybe not "wrong"... but not exactly accurate, in saying that, "I, who am not a human behaviorist, made up a random behavior chart, and rolled dice on it" is significantly different from just choosing a result. The thing we sometimes fail to recognize is that...

For my less-flippant answer, I am in a similar boat. Like, I don't need specific characteristics I'm my task resolution system because I don't necessarily require taks resolution at all! I have fun with conflict-resolutiin games too... And similarly for most other games-bits. It is like...

I mean, unless you start from the Big Bang and evolve a model dr om that point on, you have any number of fiat choices - those are not driven by logic of the setting, because the setting doesn't exist yet to have logic! Problem- much of what happens as consequence are the reactions of...

What do i need a system to do for me? Right now, yard work. Like, that lawn needs mowing something fierce...

Our planet needs better humans. So get in line.