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Even Luke isn't a complete N00b. Biggs, who has been to the Imperial Academy and thus been formally trained, and who is competent enough to throw into Red Squadron, testifies "Luke is the best pilot in the outer rim." While there might be some bias talking, there is good reason to believe that...

In any system I like the PC to be slightly above average to begin the game. In D&D in particular, with its Bildungsroman and Heroes' Journey dynamics ("zero to hero"), I like the PC to start out as a comparative youth who by virtue of expectational native talent and the blessings of the gods...

Start generally with 3.0e as superior to 3.5e 1) All characters get bonus hit points based on their current size class, with small characters gaining 4 and medium characters gaining 8. Colossal monsters gain 128 bonus hit points. This mitigates against the need for insanely high HD or CON...

And I will note I finished the 69th session of my current Star Wars D6 campaign on Tuesday, which ended at the beginning of a fire fight between the PCs and some stormtrooper allies, and some separatist holdouts riding giant agricultural combine droids, and a bunch of probe droids exploding and...

I would say Orkworld was successful as a business venture and probably provided people hours of lonely fun, but it was probably never successful as a game. And I wonder at this point, how many people are actually happy with their purchase? Or was Orkworld successful as a scam, the RPG as...

It's such a general question that I don't know that I can answer. "Non-profit" here is vaguely defined. I hold that profit is a close synonym of the word "sustainability". Things that continue do continue because they are profitable and things that aren't profitable will inevitably cease...

Yes. That's what I am saying. I'm saying that a game that is only successful for a brief time, isn't successful. I'm saying that "God of War" is obviously a different kind of success than "Tales of the Abyss". I think you agree with this we're just quibbling over the time frame. I think...

I think whether they are dead or not, it's clear that they are not successful. WEG D6 still gets a ton of play both at home and at cons, but I don't think you can list it as successful. I wish Gallant Knight Games the best of luck, but I'm not sure 2e D6 is making big waves in the community.

No. No. I think they are designed to play once and that you'd need the right group of people even for that.

I definitely should have mentioned Savage Worlds.

It's still relevant 10 years after launch. The company that published it provides steady employment for its employees (even if just a one man publishing house) producing content for it without big boom and bust swings. In other words, it is to paper what Stardew Valley or Skyrim is to video...

Gosh I don't even know... Let's go with the metaplot... Session #69: Ministry for Redesign gets excuses

What do you mean by "people"? If you mean "human", then definitely not. They don't really seem to have human motivations or personalities. Yes, they have a personality, and decision making, and the ability to operate somewhat independently, and they have a sense of self and yes definitely a...

You are creating a distinction here that I don't believe is necessary. They are both programmed and sentient free-thinking creatures. They are both property and sentient free-thinking creatures. That's not ambiguity. That's a failure to recognize the possibility of categories that exist...

So, like one thing in common suddenly doesn't make the gulf vast? Did the Clones have their ability to feel pain rewired? Did the Clones have their sociality and desire for communion rewired? Did the Clones not experience childhood? Did the clones not have to practice things to learn them...

They were definitely slaves and the difference between them and a sentient droid is still obviously vast. For one thing, the modifications to the Clones were minor, too minor to consider the work to be significantly different from a human. They weren't made from scratch as an independent...

I very much do differentiate by the mode of creation. To simplify here, in the US Declaration of Independence, Jefferson writes a line about "All men being endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights...". Whether you read that as a personified creator or as Jefferson probably did...

So, in Chopper's case it is probably a response to the droid's programmed desire to serve its owner and prioritize their needs and happiness, as filtered through his experience as a droid whose owner is a rebel soldier. It's owner needs to have a droid that is a killer, and so it becomes the...

I think Star Wars has by far the best and most thoughtful depiction of AI in all of entertainment media. I think Star Wars shows that reaching for easy classifications when the thing itself is something novel and with qualities nothing else possesses is a mistake. Is K2-S04 complicit in the...

The irony is that Obi Wan was in ANH dressed like a farmer, not very differently than Owen Lars. This is fitting because he's presumed to be in disguise. But for some reason in the prequel trilogy, Lucas decided that those robes were now so associated with the Jedi that it would be good visual...