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The Baba Yaga adventure is inventive in some ways but shows its age. It's probably at best half complete, as is typical with many early adventures it hand waves away even important features of the dungeon like the nature of traps and treasures and sometimes even occupants of the rooms (to say...

I started lurking on EnWorld in like 2001 (I think in January, because I'd gotten the 3e PH for Christmas), but it took me more than a year to write my first post - on small dungeon design if I remember correctly.

Almost invariably to keep PC's from dying. Whether that's good DMing or not is a matter of opinion.

Becomes scary when it's a thermal detonator.

Yes, but AC models this by just by treating hits that don't cross the tissue damage thresholds as being another type of non-hit. In other words, we're modeling the end results and not the process. Yes, this is highly simplistic and abstract, but it doesn't necessarily result in something all...

Armor as DR works only on one of two assumptions. Either the DR is fixed but range of damage is random and large like Pendragons typical damage rolls of 4d6 or 5d6. Or else if the range of damage is low like 1d8, then the armor needs to provide a random reduction - say 1d4 maybe. Note that...

By using a more reasonable representation of the interaction between armor and a firearm. Firearms don't ignore AC. They reduce the bonus to AC from armor. You give firearms as "penetration" score. Early firearms might only have a penetration of 1. They effectively get no bonus to hit...

This isn't going to be an answer that most people like, but most games are by design not designed to do this, but it is pretty easy to remove the safety on most games and make this happen. It's just, you probably don't want to do it. Star Wars for example is a setting where weapons more...

Hunters meet with Separatist Admiral

And by "somebody" I meant a group that could include Greg Stafford.

I can't imagine Disc World as a functional RPG setting, but then again Toon was a thing. But then again, I never played Toon. But then again, if you are going to go this route, it seems to me that Toon is perfectly functional here. Certainly, "If it is funny, then it happens", should be a...

The point is that I don't want to spend 2000 hours making a Tortall setting. I'm not saying I couldn't. I certainly could smith out my own Tortall setting and game, but its equivalent to doing most of the work of creating a new edition of Pendragon. Actually, in some ways it might be harder...

Someone get the license for Tortall and make me a Pendragon game in that setting. I'll pay $69.99 for good content.

I rarely get to be a player, but when I do I'm not sure I've ever passed a saving throw in my life.

It's when they go like 12 or 15 rolls in a row with no roll under a 15 that they give themselves away. Or even just 12 or 15 rolls in a row with no roll under a 5.

Every table I've ever ran since I was a kid always has one player that can't resist cheating. And, because they can't actually control themselves, it's really easy to pick up on. I'm pretty sure everyone else at the table knows they are cheating but I've never wanted to call them out on it...

My experience with Pulp Cthulhu is it more or less just accepts Cthulhu as it is actually played and tries to provide a framework in which the story conventions of HPL make more sense than in traditional play. I've got threads on EnWorld where I discuss some of my frustrations with running long...

Sure, but I can get a cool story without an RPG at all.

Yes, I'm aware of that. Again, what does that have to do with the passage you quoted? I've heard that, but haven't read it. I have also heard that it was a CoC tourism adventure and almost a walking simulator where you see the sights but where there were relatively few choices to make just a...

Oh good grief. Let me explain Hillfolk by way of illustration. Back in high school me and some art nerd friends set up a creative exercise where we would write a few pages of a story in a notebook, and then pass the notebook to another member of the group and have them add to the story. We...