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  1. BigJackBrass

    Zorro the fox, a mix of Might/Morale and Stealth ?

    When you're asking about classes, which RPG are you talking about? Most RPGs don't even have them.
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    Physicists in RPGs

    Hey, maybe not your god…
  3. BigJackBrass

    Historical price help

    Around £15,000 is the number I noted down from somewhere when I was reading up on the period for a Colonial Gothic adventure. I think that might have included cannon, however.
  4. BigJackBrass

    Podcast #233: Top 20 Favorite RPG Podcasts of 2022

    Any update on the list being published? or have I just overlooked it?
  5. BigJackBrass

    Player Engagement Outside of Session Time

    That depends on the individual. For some people it can be a major issue having to read and comprehend material like that, especially on demand. In most cases that's not the problem, of course, but it's important to consider that not everyone might be letting you down because they're busy or lazy.
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    How do you pronunce "grognard"?

    Considering that most people voting think they stress the second syllable it's odd that everyone I've heard (talking about the gamers, not the historical troops) stresses the first, regardless of their nationality.
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    What do you NOT want to use tech for in you TTRPG?

    To a degree it depends on the game: Hero Designer is very useful indeed for creating characters if we're playing Champions, but for something like Fudge a character generator is largely superfluous. For a long time now my scattered group has been gaming via video call (Jitsi these days, since...
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    other literary RPGs?

    And one using Fudge.
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    other literary RPGs?

    Forgotten Futures - The Scientific Romance Roleplaying Game is not only based on various (mainly Victorian and Edwardian) works of fiction, it also includes the novels and short stories themselves. There's even a worldbook for Victorian melodrama. Each of the eleven worldbooks adapts the...
  10. BigJackBrass

    Blade Runner rpg - having trouble getting sucked in

    A lot of people don't agree that he is. One argument against the idea is that, compared to known replicates, he's weak and outclassed. The only reason he makes it to the end of the film is because Roy let him live.
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    Deadly combat systems

    Can't recall where I found this or who was responsible for it, I'm afraid, but this handy chart compares the lethality of MSPE, Top Secret and Espionage (later revised as Danger International):
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    Deadly combat systems

    The main thing DramaSystem killed for me was any desire to play DramaSystem ever again.
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    Deadly combat systems

    Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes: Guns will seriously mess you up. So deadly that the game introduced the "Megadeath Luck Saving Roll" in an attempt to not just murder everyone.
  15. BigJackBrass

    Dungeon! the boardgame that presaged Dungeons and Dragons is 50 years old!

    There was very nearly a Tékumel version of Dungeon! called Quest. Half a dozen prototypes were apparently made, but TSR eventually decided not to publish it.
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    A Beautiful Frankenstein's Monster RPG

    Do you mean the 2d6 Saving Roll? Offhand I can’t recall an exploding 3d6 mechanic in MSPE.
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    CoC 7e?

    They switched the characteristics to the percentage scale, which doesn’t make much of a difference since it’s effectively what you get if you multiply the old score by five. Whether there was any good reason to do so depends on who you ask. The various tweaks and changes have certainly made the...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Nobody expected Doctor Fu Manchu. (Cthulhu Eternal)
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    There's An Official Monty Python RPG Coming

    It was in The Space Gamer issue 41. PDF available from Steve Jackson Games.
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