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Makes sense. I think it would turn me off the game entirely, unless it was very carefully presented. Especially if there's no world presented to help avoid the "dwarfs and elves hate each other" cliche.

It would have been programmed by humans. Whether it was programmed to be sapient or it develops sapience over time, or only became sapient because, I dunno, a bolt of lightning struck the computer, Short Circuit style, that human programming would still cause it to have a degree of...

If this is the basis for a short adventure that's deliberately based around a specific idea, it's fine. If this is intended to be the start of a longer campaign, I'd say it's quite railroad-y. Of course, having pre-gen characters built entirely around competition for the same object doesn't help.

Yeah, I know. I was just amused that they used the old name.

I've actually only played one of those games so far--FF2, since I bought the pixel remastered version on sale. I was amused to note that displacer beasts were called coeurls there and, well, had nothing to do with D&D displacer beasts (they shoot magic lasers or something). I'm gonna start FF4...

There's a third option here: Prep DM wrote an overview of her city in advance. She knows there's a busy port. She doesn't bother to list what ships are there unless a ship is actually important to the events in some way, and then looks up how much ship's passage costs when and if the PCs...

Actually, what would happen to the things not in the OGL/SRD, like displacer beasts and Melf? Do they get lost to time because they're forever forbidden, or can anyone grab them now because nobody owns the copyright?

I agree about the former. However, the latter depends on how important the wall actually. If there's pressure of some sort--a time crunch (and each failed roll means lost time), enemies after them, bad or no equipment--then yes, a roll should be made. There's actual consequences to be had. f the...

A must: A good index and table of contents, and good headers. While there may be a tl;dr problem, that problem can be significantly reduced, even in a really big book, by making sure sections and topics are clearly labeled. With this, you can have a really big book, even if people don't read it...

Even though we like to think that robots and digital beings are immortal, in reality, they're still going to degrade (and depending on the circumstances, they may have been built by the lowest bidder so degradation might happen quickly). Their parts are going to degrade and their programming is...

There are so many GURPS settings that seriously need to be updated. Fantasy 2 and Technomancer come to mind. Reign of Steel did get a quasi-update in that its robots were updated to 4e rules, but the setting itself wasn't touched.

Well, in this particular case, it is "is it realistic (and/or insulting) for a fantasy religion to do this thing that a person might consider to be absolutely ridiculous?" But since that would involving delving into actual religious beliefs and doctrine, it's a discussion that will have to...

I think we all know that when it comes to gaming, there's realistic and there's realistic. Almost nothing in a typical fantasy setting is actually realistic in any way, shape, or form, but they usually have enough verisimilitude that only an actual medieval scholar would be upset at them. As I...

OK, so a god like Lloth, Gruumsh, Bane, Loviatar (the D&D version, not the real version), Erythnul, Hextor--are they OK? They're all extremely evil, predatory, monstrous gods in D&Dlandia. But again, this is a thing that could be demonstrably true in a D&D world. Not just a matter of someone's...

Where is this taking place that you can't go around or above, wait it out, build a barrier that they can't push through and that you can use to move through it?

I felt the 4e pantheon was exceedingly dull and far too limited, and I care nothing for the soap opera lives of the gods; I'm interested in how the mortal religions work and influence people, since to me, that's what is actually important. (Maybe, like many interesting things in 4e, the other...

Is it particularly realistic to the real world? Not really, no. In the real world, throughout modern religion and older mythology, there have been very few gods that are listed as being capital-e Evil. And most of those that exist are usually associated with disease, natural disaster, or...

If anything, the rules may help the GM realize what they can do. First time running PbtA, I was like "Wait, I can just inflict harm as long as it's from an established source? I don't need to have the PC roll to avoid it or anything?"

I have a sneaking suspicion they might go up in price to help make up for the loss of sales of physical books, unless a company chooses to ditch physical books altogether. I don't know if that counts as indirectly, though.

Sometimes it's teenage girls getting superpowers! I'm joking. You're 100% right. The manga most commonly (officially) translated into English is of the super-powered variety, but there's a tremendous variety out there.