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  1. GMMichael

    Worlds of Design: Playing Favorites

    The one I wrote, obviously! 🤓 It changes each time I write a new module for it, which is annually, to estimate. But the base game gets the most play, since that's easiest for casual/new players to grasp. Hear, hear! It was my favorite for a long time, until I got sick of "you miss: turn...
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    Trailer Spaceballs 2: Not the Quest for More Money

    Well, I know who will be the brunt of the next Spaceballs: the Flamethrower joke.
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    What Do You Call This Popular Beverage?

    I also call it sugar water. Coke isn't evil, unless diabetes, ulcers, and overpaying for sugar water are too.
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    RPG Evolution: Craft Everything

    Not to mention the broken skill curve. Agrar spent her whole life training to be an armorsmith, and the forge is basically everything she owns. Then a party of "adventurers" breezes into town, rents her forge for 8 gold, brings its own "tools," and crafts 2,000 gp worth of gear, and heads out...
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    RPG Evolution: Craft Everything

    "When downtime existed . . ." If I recall, 5e's rules have been "revised," not removed. Or maybe Alphastream also doesn't buy that story. I think you're touching on the interesting crafting rules that D&D could have implemented, but didn't. The Alphastream video shows D&D's time, material...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Do you allow flighted Player characters to carry other Player characters?

    Of course! The carried PC must be no larger than the typical prey of the flighted PC, though. Oh god, I hope not. Sounds like an auto-fail to me, what with the lack of mobility, and chance of stabbing your carrier accidentally. But if these questions are really, "what should I do," then it...
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    Blood or Spaghetti Sauce?

    I don't intentionally hold back unless there are non-adults in the group. I also don't spend more than 10 seconds describing viscera. Usually. This is not the Matt Mercer I know. But then, I haven't watched an entire seaso... session of Critical Role.
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    D&D 5E (2024) It Is 2025 And Save Or Suck Spells Still Suck (the fun out of the game)

    So, Dragonbane? Again, Rule Zero saves the day here. In a world where a Suggestion spell can make your driver go truffle hunting for eight hours straight, leaving you stranded in your finest silks (?), it's pretty reasonable to have a Dispel Magic trap placed here and there. Which doesn't...
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    D&D 5E (2024) It Is 2025 And Save Or Suck Spells Still Suck (the fun out of the game)

    Rule zero can save you from bad dice. I wonder if the player-characters would say the same thing. "Remember when we stomped that dragon that kept tripping over itself?"
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    Oath Hammer - new d6 dice pool fantasy rpg

    Does this mean that a successful attack can do no damage? It looks like the Damage Dice need to succeed, or they don't do damage. And they're reduced by Armor Dice (successes) as well? What is it about hex-maps that is so mysterious and inviting? More seriously, how do the rules for...
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    D&D 5E (2024) It Is 2025 And Save Or Suck Spells Still Suck (the fun out of the game)

    Maybe take a look at this thread: https://www.enworld.org/threads/rant-the-conservatism-of-d-d-fans-is-exhausting.712674/ Or, for comparison, look at a power from Modos 2 (edited): Fear 1 Maintainable: yes Effect: if the target is in a non-defensive posture, it can use actions only for defense...
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    Chaosium Names New CEO, Mike Mearls Departs Company

    I mean, it is called "Chaosium."
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    Wizards of the Coast Hiring New Lead Designer and Head of Game Ecosystem for D&D

    I'm guessing it starts at about 50% of the salaries of those who "willingly moved on."
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    Minimalist and One Page RPGs

    It's not really a role-playing game if the point isn't . . . Something something fiction.
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    Minimalist and One Page RPGs

    I'd include "game that seeks to use the minimum amount of rules necessary." It was one of my design goals for Modos RPG, which you can start playing with just one module: 13 rules. Sounds minimalist to me. Unless when you look at some of the rules, you're saying "why does that need to be in...
  16. GMMichael

    The Oblivion Remaster Is Releasing Today. This Is Not A Drill.

    Two (Nexus) mods for two of the issues mentioned in this thread: Poor scaling of difficulty slider: Difficulty Slider Fixed (I use x2.0) Annoying compass and step count: HideUI
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    What Does a "Successful" RPG Look Like?

    It's ironic, but a successful RPG addresses the problematic success/failure mechanism. Successful has no successes. Or, successful is a game 1) without grammatical flaws that 2) is a smooth role-playing experience from beginning to end of session.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Tyranny of Dragons - mechanising the Scorecard

    XP for effort. I hope it was fun.
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    D&D General Resolution Games and Wizards of the Coast Announce the First Official D&D Virtual Reality Game

    Please tell me you can order the miniatures directly through the game.
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