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In making my own game I attempted to use a method that increased skill level based in game usage. That proved to be extremely complicated, so I still use xp. In my game xp represents the things we don't actually care to roleplay. It is that time spent practicing and training to maintain and/or...

I've never seen one, but I think a related and more important question is: has anyone ever played a serious immortal campaign?

I haven't actually used 2e psionics, but from what I understand its a completely new magic system. So you should be able to import the whole thing without any issue. Most things from AD&D can be used in becmi easily. Only big differences come with proficiencies and race as class.

They always show up in the game at some point. Sometimes they are intelligent, sometimes they are actually giant sized, sometimes they are just a pet or just eating bamboo in the forest. It's become a running joke in my games.

GIANT PANDAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

This 10th, plus levelsthatwereletters. who needs to play past 10th anyway?

I agree, but then there is the debate of is that actually a map? which definition of map are you using? could that simply be a painting of san francisco from a viewpoint across the bay? I believe I mentioned earlier that a profile view of the village would be just as effective at seeing the...

This answers the question of: is the map useful? For you it conveys information at a faster rate than descriptive text.

I wasn't trying to claim they did, only that they were used for navigation primarily(excluding weird pseudo religious world maps).

ok, what specifically? Is it just that it is shown as a village more than a town, is it the place names, is it the shrine of luck, is it the ruined manor? The images of the buildings and artwork certainly can't help because the buildings can't all be of repeating colors and shapes. For that...

ok, this does seem to be true, but after looking up what sense of place signifies on several sites, I don't see any map contributing to sense of place. Sense of place seems more to result from a person's specific knowledge of history, geography, legends, combined with the feelings about each...

Which map gives more of a sense of the place of san francisco among the world and which is only useful for navigation? All maps have a purpose, the first map allow a user to navigate the SF railway system, and the second map shows the geographical relationship of cities and landmarks to each...

How is a visual representation not artistic? I was talking about the map providing a "sense of place" If I am in a city, say San Francisco, and I want a "sense" of the place, meaning where it is and where I am, I don't look at a street map, because that is clearly a navigational map and...

true, but then how do they get lost? in the real world it is easy to get lost when following directions, whether those include street names or land marks. in an rpg someone gives you directions and then you are there, there is no actually following of those directions usually.

it is not what the village actually looks like, it is an artist's rendering, else why are there colorful rooftops, why is it so easy to differentiate the road and non road, why is the grass so green/of a uniform color? if you want something that looks like the village from the perspective of the...

the point that buildings were labeled, but roads were not was to illustrate the inefficacy of the map. you are right in that it is easy to locate the buildings without a road map, which brings us to the question of what is the purpose of this map? is it to analyze a specific feature or how they...

from a cartographic point of view: pros - leader lines to locations is more useful than numbers and a legend - title is easily noticeable, but doesn't hog space - aesthetically pleasing, nice artwork - scale bar present cons - north arrow...

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