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Is there a magical demarcation line between the Old World and the New? Will spells and magic work of MesoAmericans, Aztecs and North American Indians if they go to Europe? What about other European countries besides Spain? I believe Portugal is settling what will be Brazil. What about pirates of...

Actually it isn't my map, I found it on the internet, am working on a map of Europe, basically the map I got has hex numbers that aren't very clear, so I'm redoing that one. First I'm copying the hexes, then I will overlay the rivers, and from that I can do several versions of the Europe map...

It was made so complex already that the added complexity of having three armor classes would have been lost within. Alternity had three armor classes, but Alternity wasn't as complex as Starfinder. Alternity had High Impact (HI), Low Impact, (LI), and Energy Weapons (En) The only difference is...

It also encourages building a fief and commanding armies at higher level, Generally the higher level you are the richer you are. I'll give you a counter-example, one of the most famous Forgotten Realms characters is Drizzt Do'Urden, Drizzt has been adventuring for quite some time, by now he...

Yes, but the Banks Orbital could have been built after the black hole finished swallowing the Earth. An Earth mass black hole has a Schwarzschild radius of 9 millimeters, after it finished swallowing the Earth, it would be quite cool, as there would be no more mass within reach falling into it...

I think a lot of D&D, especially at higher levels is player characters preparing for combat, for example buying equipment for one's army and building a castle, there is a lot of detail involved in this. I used to sit down with my players and we'd talk about how much its going to cost to hire and...

This Julian Date converter has the range of dates this Time Portal Campaign has access to. http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/JulianDate.php The earliest possible date is at noon Universal Time on Monday, 4713 B.C. Jan 1 12:00:00.0 (on the Julian calendar), the latest date is on Saturday, A.D...

Well why then the demarcation between energy rifles and guns firing bullets, we don't actually know how much more effective an energy rifle would be over a gun firing bullets. We do know that we could easily mow down a knight in shining armor with a machine gun, but under Starfinder, those...

Why do you care what they do, your the DM, your not there to teach your players right from wrong, you not playing a game to teach your players a morality lesson, or are you? Sometimes players get into interesting adventures you had not even planned for them. Some players are natural born trouble...

With Starfinder there are two armor classes KAC and EAC, I think there should be three. I would have KAC, EAC, and just AC. AC takes care of every weapon that is not a firearm which is in the D&D player's Handbook or the Pathfinder Core Rulebook if you prefer. EAC is for Energy weapons such as...

The more rules there are for everything, the harder the game is to play! You ever try to play GURPs? The Generic Universal Role Playing System has a lot of volumes and a lot of rules for every little thing. There is a Core rulebook in fact, but if you want to have a fantasy game with any depth...

You can make your own encounter tables, 2nd edition is very helpful in that, each monster entry has a terrain type and a frequency and that tells you where on the encounter table to put the monster. You roll encounters with a d12 and a d8 and that gives you a range of numbers from 2 to 20 and...

How about comparing Pathfinder with D20 Modern and Future? D20 Future is much more compatible with Pathfinder than Starfinder is. You can play Pathfinder creatures as is without major surgery in D20 Modern/Future. the main difference between D20 Modern and the D&D its derived from is the Defense...

Whether there is combat or not is up to the individual DM, the Game designers can't control what sort of DM he is going to be, using abstract die rolls as a substitute for social interactions is not every DM's style. Lots of DMs simply use common sense, for example the store proprietor is there...

Let me explain a little more about what's going on here. I wanted to create a World on Venus where dinosaurs exist, and Mars with canals, there is magic as well, this is not our Solar System. Not yet. Next task is to get the people of our modern World into this setting. That is where the time...

The powers of the future made a time machine, this is not a portable time machine, it uses wormholes or time portals. On the way towards building this time machine, a terrible accident occurred, the time machine turned into a black hole and swallowed the Earth, it was a very tiny black hole...

Okay, lets get a little ridiculous, lets say the player characters are in a shop trying to buy weapons, and one of them asks, "How much is that weapon?" The DM informs the player that he must roll a D20 to decide the outcome of this encounter. So the player rolls a D20 and the result is a...

I don't think die roles should ever substitute for players using their brains to figure out a situation.

Well the fact that magic-users are born rather than trained may be used to keep them rare, but not too rare. if there is a PC magic user, then he or she will need a challenge. I think a Sorcerer would fit more into this setting than a Wizard, and the lesser magic users, bards, rangers, and...

I was reading your blog on the history and Geography of Homeworld a few questions spring to mind. Since this is d20 Pirates are there gunpowder weapons in this setting?, typically in our world, the golden age of pirates was in the 1600s, does this setting have similar weapons and equipment to...