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As someone quite accustomed to gaming diversity with all kinds of mixes of religions, sexual preferences, ableness, nearly every ethnic backgrounds imaginable, "isms" were rarely a large issue. They did happen occasionally, people are people but it was always manageable and tolerance was the...

I feel this way too. Back in the 70's and 80's when this was a big thing, management sims were not common and if you wanted that experience D&D and Traveller both provided good robust rule sets. Otherwise its was Hammurabi or Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio if you were lucky enough to have a...

OK I see what you mean. Still while I am far too much of a Philistine to judge art, I do see what you mean in that truly good art or writing is rare.

I agree with you. its just we are as they say separated by a common language. Being paid by a company or a person implies that the material is good. The fact that many people like me have done this and few have been paid for maps and they get paid more though there is plenty of demand for...

I've written published RPG material and countless reviews back in the D20 days. Its far easier than making a good map and far more people have the talent. This is why there are hundreds of publishers of 5E material and why back when the D20 print book fad ended there were so many I could and did...

Apologies. I thought I answered in my last post. I was too oblique I guess. :oops: PC's are of course more heroic than average as all the SRD the methods used (standard array, 4d6 drop lowest and point buy) end up well above an average member of the same species. The monster stats are a bit...

I assume the average in a given species is 10 plus whatever add that species gets. This is 12 points in point buy whereas PC's are 27 and are tougher than normal people. A civilian Orc for example is 12 ST, 8 Int, 10 Wis, 10 Dex, 11 Con, 10 Cha The monster manual common orcs and most of the...

Edited as per request on politics. This is much harder than you might think and building up from what was once Eric Noah World (yes I was here near the start) to what is today and being able to give one person or so at least a bit of living took quite a few decades and a lot of talent. Most...

Understandable. The political situation in the US is very unstable and has lead to violence some of it armed against people thought to be racist and massive amounts of property damage. Call it protest or insurrection or whatever but this is not appropriate behavior. If you want laws...

Very true. In order to make a precarious basic living you need to create a decently selling (take home of $300 US) RPG supplement every two days or so after year and even than you can afford an apartment and food and that is about it. Better not get sick unless you have health insurance...

Its a PPCOC business for the most part (that is pretty poor clean out of cash or something a little saltier if you don't know) with a low barrier of entry, a lot of outcasts and these days huge cultural and political divisions. Its made for unhappiness. The easiest thing to help navigate the...

The tragedy and triumph of free in many ways was an inevitable reflection of changes in technology. As soon as it became possible to scan and upload game books and download them at a reasonable speed , the value of game books to casual users declined and less scrupulous people could just take...

All All great points but as GM or a writer I don't want to play techno roshambo with my setting and as such I prefer to do with less tech even though its a bit dissonant with SF Now most crime is very basic and very personal and drug related, its not adventurer lifestyle stuff although...

It was more common in the recent past to forget to charge device. Like you I am an inveterate charger or top-up guy when I go out but many people are not and that was even more common to mess up with 2001's much lower battery capacity and less familiarity with cell phones. Google Glass was the...

I'm mind of Old Fashioned and while my player's are younger than I am, we as a group are old fashioned enough to expect some combat in almost every session. This is why I voted 26-40%. This is somewhat setting and system specific though. Some games and premises are more talky , Monster of the...

The other alternative is what GURPS calls the "Safe Tech" where regulation and social abhorrence of certain technologies keep them from general use. Keep in mind too we are a few decades out from where real world tech makes conventional adventures quite difficult. Smart cameras, bionometric and...

SF scenarios are actually fairly plentiful however they are extremely setting specific. For example there isn't much use for a typical Starfinder scenario for Traveller or Star Trek Adventures players and conversion is often not worth the work. Also most gamers play D&D and a hotchpotch of...

These are decent feats but I don't think I would allow players to swap maneuvers or metamagic abilities.

Under certain circumstances anything with any cultural connotations can be problematic to someone. If this is a concern if you are doing class level its best to roll way back to 0E and just use Fighter and Magic User as even Rogue and Cleric have issues with some people. The odds of your...

Absolutely. PC's in D&D at least when its not 3d6 in order tend to be exceptional people in a very magical world so I tend to err on the side of woah over realism in D&D games.