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  1. Achan hiArusa

    News Digest: Star Wars Reprint, John Carter Quickstart, Industry Hires, Clue Movie, CMON Goofs, and

    They're releasing a $60 pair of books that will allow characters to play the range of options that now requires three $60 books and two $15 set of dice (when they are available). Much more economical.
  2. Achan hiArusa

    Fantasy Grounds Game Stats for 2017: D&D 5E Up By 6%, Pathfinder Holds Steady!

    Okay, I can see that now. It is just natural log is denoted ln (number of games) or ln(game rank) in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology which is what confused me.
  3. Achan hiArusa

    Fantasy Grounds Game Stats for 2017: D&D 5E Up By 6%, Pathfinder Holds Steady!

    Math errors I don't know what those numbers are supposed to be. On the X-axis Antilog 2 = 10^2 =100 and there are not quite 100 game systems or let alone Antilog 3 = 10^3 = 1000 game systems there. On the Y-axis Anti-log 14 = 10^14 = 10,000,000,000,000 or 10 trillion games played and since...
  4. Achan hiArusa

    Who You Gonna Call? Looking At West End Games' Ghostbusters RPG

    Not only is it the first die pool game, but members of this team would go on to create the Star Wars d6 game, and later to go onto other companies to make Shadowrun and then Vampire the Masquerade (which of course lead to WtA, MtA, WtO, and CtD and much, much later the nWoD/CoD).
  5. Achan hiArusa

    Journey To...East Africa

    And Forgotten Realms/Zakhara: The Akotan island chain to the west of Zakhara.
  6. Achan hiArusa

    ESPN Calls Role-playing "Bad Fantasy"

    Apparently there is fantasy soccer (football to the rest of the world): https://fantasy.mlssoccer.com
  7. Achan hiArusa

    Want to Playtest Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (V5)?

    A few nitpicks: 1) The characters are not balanced against each other. The number of skill and temper (Composure, Willpower, and Humanity) dots seem to have been done at random. 2) The Health levels of the playtest characters don't follow the rules, all but one have too few health levels...
  8. Achan hiArusa

    MSRD and RSRD down

    I don't know if anyone has pointed this out, but even though the Revised System Reference Document (3.5) and the Modern System Reference Document pages are still on Wizards.com, all of the download links are dead. You will have to use the Wayback Machine to get them. I'm not sure if they'll...
  9. Achan hiArusa

    Take Your First Look At The Upcoming ALTERNITY RPG!

    Hopefully, if they keep the s/w/m system they will fix tables G14: Acid Damage, G15: Electrical Damage, and G16: Fire Damage. I call these the tables where they got tired of the s/w/m system and just kept adding dice. And G15 and G16 had too few tiers for damage. It created problems with...
  10. Achan hiArusa

    Take Your First Look At The Upcoming ALTERNITY RPG!

    The task resolution system was pulled whole cloth from Ars Magica. Go find a copy of the third edition and read the Berserk Virtue on page 76 ("While Berserk you gain a +2 bonus on Damage, Soak, and Fatigue Scores while suffering a -2 penalty on Defense"). The attributes went from -4 to +4 (so...
  11. Achan hiArusa

    Who's Playing What On Fantasy Grounds? Final Stats For 2016!

    Can't read the World of Darkness numbers because they overlap with the AD&D numbers.
  12. Achan hiArusa

    A First Printing Woodgrain D&D Set... If You Can Afford It!

    I have a 4th edition white box with a 6th edition Men & Magic and an Eldritch Wizardry.
  13. Achan hiArusa

    Starfinder STARFINDER: Here's What We Know

    Rocking the Twilight Imperium pieces.
  14. Achan hiArusa

    The End of a D&D Campaign Was the Beginning of Doom

    The red indented quotes really take away from my ability to read this article.
  15. Achan hiArusa

    What Did Medieval Items Really Cost? And How Much Did An Archer Make?

    The first edition DMG didn't use decimalized currency it was 200 cp = 20 sp = 2 ep = 1 gp = 1/5 pp.
  16. Achan hiArusa

    ZENDIKAR -- Where Magic: The Gathering and D&D Collide!

    I thought I saw James Wyatt's hand in this when I saw the Merfolk race and then I read the author. He's a pretty cool guy (even beyond the fact that he sent me the text for the Diabolism–Hex spell for Alternity and linked my Masque of the Red Death conversion for 3e). Now if he would only put...
  17. Achan hiArusa

    Exploring Original D&D Boxed Sets With Jon Peterson

    Thank you. So I have a 4th printing box with the second and third booklets with the errata and tables. And my Men & Magic is a 6th printing.
  18. Achan hiArusa

    Unearthed Arcana New Year Unearthed Arcana Brings Back Those Old 2E Kits

    Yes! College of Swords! Now I can remake Priscilla Pyrimestes from my 2e game (could never find a decent conversion to 3e) as a Half-elf Bard (College of Swords)/Fighter (Battlemaster). Now hopefully they do Psionics and make a Psychokineticist Order (Order of the Knife?) so I can remake her...
  19. Achan hiArusa

    RPG Design & Arduous Research

    I definitely know how you feel. I just haven't done it for something professional. I've been working on using the Support Vehicle rules to turn WWII and Modern combat vehicles into stat blocks for Battletech. And I've been trying to find statistics for weapon systems for Harpoon. If you...
  20. Achan hiArusa

    TABLETOP GAMING Magazine

    Why don't you try W. H. Smith's? Ah did, They sent me here. DID they.
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