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I would have either all the gods visibly walking the Earth (or regularly tangible) or none. Otherwise you have a mixed economy in faith and deployable divine power, the consequences of which need careful consideration. I think there's a difference between "making your presence known" [i.e. a...

Yes, I am aware of that. I have lived in several cities bombed in The Blitz. Again a reason why WWII is similar to Vietnam and the Iraq War.

Again, you seem woefully misinformed on fundamental historical points. The English are predominatly defined - culturally if not entirely genetically - from Germanic tribes that invaded Britain. The Brits are Germans - within your Roman definitions...

I think it is dangerous to think that WWII was some different kind of war. I don't see it as being in a league of its own. For the British, WWI certainly had profounder consequences and a greater psychic shock. For the US, the Civil War was a bloodier conflict and I suggest still has greater...

My point was that Christianity certainly did play an important role in the creation of Germany. It also affected the emergence of pan-Germanism. To wish that the Germans had remembered their Christiamity in WW11 seems a needlessly specific case to make and suggests that WWII is in some way...

That's an interesting combination of ill-informed and offensive. You might want to take a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War

Forbidden Lands is out to backers as PDFs. It looks good. It has the most entertaining description of a species [kin in Forbidden Lands] that I've seen. I guess this might be related to the Swedish view of the English ... (?)

Now - what you need here is some Monkey Magic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-SUoHmpRdM

I quite like this take on the issue "accountable environment" - I hope it's not too tangential but this is the training being looked to by my university in ensuring we have safe spaces on campus. "However, there are many steps that festivals can take in advance to create an accountable...

I didn't know what "bathroom policing" was and so googled it. I agree that's harassment but it was stated as jargon (to me) rather than being entirely transparent in meaning from the words as the rest is. I am also unaware of the difference between following and stalking - and haven't googled...

They're very good points. You are right.

But if you are the fighter, you've just been made more important as the spellcasters rapidly attrit their resources. That may a desirable outcome for the non casters and the game.

[Sorry - duplicate post] It allows me to give an addenda that I seem to remember that the esteemed and humble author of the article wrote a very nice little magic system for Fudge back in the day. Recommended.

Originally Freeform Universal Donated Gaming Engine when being worked on quite communally in the rec.games.design usenet newsgroup IIRC. I remember it being a very insightful discussion about game design. Good crunchy design notes for SOS here...

Perhaps this is a recollection of the Advanced Education Table accessible if the character has Educ 8+ ?

Then explain it to them, along with irony?

This is a really interesting point that I hadn't considered before looking at RAW. From a quick browse through CoC /5e, the bison/elephant question would be cured by significantly reducing the armour for these large animals. I'd guess that the original rules were written assuming that size...

For me, Mission Impossible (TV series) is an important reference from my youth. (I know not Sci-Fi) A party feel with tension about whether the plot works - will they be discovered? The characters are definitely vulnerable in a way that, say, the A-team never were (not that I watched it much).

As an extension or tangent to my previous comment on gods and religion. The consequence of that - in Sci-Fi that I like and Traveller as I've played it - is that there are no moral absolutes and no monsters. In game terms, no alignments, no detect alignment and no creatures or races that it's...

I've realised recently that gods and religion is a big difference for me. Sci-fi, to me, doesn't do religion and certainly doesn't have gods. Traveller in its general setting has no mention of overarching religion IIRC - although individual planets can have their own local beliefs and potential...