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Perhaps, but Alien, Blade Runner, the Thing etc. were among the most successful and famous films in the sci fi genre, I don't think by coincidence. So your reaction is not necessarily the norm - to the contrary Maybe you should give an example of a film in the sci-fi or fantasy realm you...

Why does cinematics and realism have to be mutually exclusive? Was The Thing realistic? Was Alien? Aliens? Blade Runner? I'm a little exasperated by the idea that reality is boring or mundane... :erm: When playing an RPG, if it's meant to be a relatively serious game (a rather big iF)...

This almost seems like a classic example of talking past each other in these kinds of discussions. I don't recall anyone advocating realism in this thread who seriously suggested playing FRPG in an entirely mundane world - a world with no magic tricks. In fact, the idea we have been...

The difference between realism and versimilitude vis a vis gaming is that internal consistency within a genre is all you need as long as you are familiar with that genre. Like say, Toon if you have ever seen a Buggs Bunny cartoon in your life, which most people have. Realism is the expectation...

The problem is, if you see lava, and it behaves in a manner differently than you expect, i.e. more like lukewarm marmelade (it doesn't burn you unless you touch it.. you can relatively safely crawl over it etc.) and everything else in the room does as well, you really don't know where to stand...

Really good points. One issue with the Micro realism is that people always assume a particular level of abstraction I think another reason people tend to reject "Macro" realistic settings is due to a really distorted, simplified view of history, and the conflation in some cases of their own...

"Realism" is one of those lightning rod terms which cause very angry debates in the RPG world. This is because it's broad enough and subjective enough that it can be percieved in different ways, it's important to many if not most RPGs (depending on how you define it of course:) ), and due to...

No hit locations, but the Codex has a very different type of Critical Hit system you might like which also lets you go around armor and etc.. If you want a look at it PM I'll send you a comp copy. G.

How and when did medieval soldiers train Hey haven't been around in a while, I thought I was overdue for a post on this thread. On another forum a guy asked this question: This is something which comes up a lot, and I think a lot of people really wonder about. So I'm taking a crack at it...

Not familiar with Cadwallon or exactly how they did it, but if you did something "open source" style I would assume that would include testing it at every stage for smoothness, playability, elegance etc. Certainly the process seems to work very well for a lot of open source software I have to...

That is the actual goal of real Martial Arts :) We just usually get to seee either McDojo or the silly Hollywood Hong Kung Fu stuff... I'd recommend taking a look at some South Asian MA techniques, Escrima, Kali, Arnis, Silat that sort of thing. It's one of the most effective two-weapon...

Yes and No. If you just gave them free 5' steps they would be going out of range, i.e. disengaging. The idea is that you if you matain contact, but remain in Onset range, you get a free dice for voids, (defending without parrying) and with the Advanced MF, you get a free dice for all Active...

I made the Codex in the hope of bringing something back to DnD that no longer seemed to be there. I loved the innovation of the Indy RPG scene but I saw some groupthink in there too and I felt their abhorrance of all things DnD was a kind of religious fanaticsm. The core of the RPG world is...

Awesome stuff. This brings some of the fun of Call of Cthulhu to your DnD game.

Yeah what did you base that on Filipino or some other South Asian MA? I liked that it wasn't the usual hong kung fu you usually see. Would love to see some HEMA in any followup effort. I thnk you should ditch the cartoonish style approach to the barbarian though, even if thats how it is in the...

Wow thanks for posting that it's is really interesting, I have to contact that guy he seems on a very similar wavelength about this. G.

If you do get it come onto our forum and maybe you can help us figure out how to True20 G.

I honestly don't know anything about True20, other than a lot of people seem to like it. It was mentioned in one of the reviews of the Codex as potentially compatible. I'll probably take a look at it at some point and see how they could be integrated, I've been looking for an OGL "home base"...

Good effort overall, I agree with whoever said it already looks better than the DnD movie and probably the Dragonlance too though I've never seen that. The guy playing the Drow wasn't bad, the dwarf and the girl were ok, though the Dwarfs axe was ridiculous. Drrzts outfit was reasonably good...

Not on my account I'm done debating that particular issue in this thread. He can have the last word on it. G.