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To be fair, it's dead simple to make monsters in Fabula Ultima. I get it, but it's super easy to do yourself.

A few hours in and already close to $1/2 million. Good for them. Absolutely fantastic for that JRPG feel.

Just thought it relevant to mention considering your post about all tech being regulated, when...you know...that's not true and all.

Not really. It carried forward for quite awhile. It's in 81, the Traveller Book, the Starter Set, etc. I'm not sure when it disappeared, but it lasted longer than just the original.

Well, not really. Depends on the tech, depends on the place, and depends on how we define tech. Even if we broadly define tech to include things like agriculture, there are some aspects that are regulated and others that are not. As long as you have access to soil, rain, and seeds you can...

Yeah. All that. For me Traveller works best when it’s the ultimate sandbox. I find the trying to pay off ship-debt angle boring. I don’t want to RP having a job. I think of it like Frederick Pobl’s Gateway books. Anything is possible out there. So go out there. I also view the bones of the...

Most people don’t care until it directly effects them. The people cheering loudest about “AI” advancements now will be out of work and out of luck like the rest of us.

Exploring new worlds. Trying new things. Interacting with the environment in weird ways. Seeing how creative people can be. The limitless potential of the medium that's weirdly hemmed in on all sides.

Yeah. Roll things ahead of time or make a spreadsheet to do it for you. You can also just not play it as a space trucker game. Lots of other ways to go. If you're going to dig into Classic Traveller, I'd suggest the original 1977 version. It's much better and more streamlined than anything that...

Though that would be a sweet monster ability.

He's not wrong. This is a post about tabletop RPGs.

Why would they? If the point of having a unique timer for each torch is because it's more "realistic" it then breaks that sense of "realism" if you have a monster attack one torch and somehow they all go out together.

It’s not speculation. I played in a game run with multiple timers and it lacked tension because of that. The players just had timers on their phones. Every X minutes someone would mark a torch and restart the timer. The light got attacked, that player would mark a torch and restart the timer. No...

Sure. And it’s 1/X as vulnerable with X torches burning. But I’m talking specifically about the timer running out and having multiple overlapping timers. It goes from tension inducing to busywork.

It messes with my sense of the world as a real place, but it’s explicitly a game element and the purpose is to push those “oh hell” moments of panic when the torch goes out. If you run multiple timers you effectively remove that, so might as well not both. It just becomes busywork with no teeth.

I'm sure someone's already done a parody of that as an adventure by now.

First. To arms! To arms! Someone has blasphemed against the Holy Game. To arms! Second. I should write a module about a dice game sweeping the land that’s really a front for a cult.

I keep meaning to listen to that. I wish it were one of his reviews. He knocks those out of the park.

Tell me you've never played or read either game without telling me you've never played or read either game. Woof.